... and move to some alternative that would presumably pop up roughly 20 minutes into the internet going total DRM.
Coming to think of it that would probably be exactly what the world needs to finally move to some namecoin driven namecoin driven mesh network alternative to the intarweb.
Most people I wouldn't trust to maintain mission critical security on a productive workstation. They click on FunnyCatsVideo.exe and could tell a client from a server if their life depended on it. For these such a thing as a chromebook truely *is* the more secure solution.
Google watches over you.
That's not just a disadvantage. Which is why I recommend it to all ordinaries with no money and no grasp of computers. The ones with money I tell to get the apple stuff.
That's the simple truth. In our time academia is a few useful physicists, chemists, medical researchers and a few other folks surrounded by armies and armies of regular people who have only a very faint graps of what science actually means and got themselves a PhD for the social value an academic title has.
Meanwhile the avantgarde has long since left academia. That goes for technology (preaching to the choir here), that goes for measurable amounts of applicable science and that sure as hell goes for philosophy and art. If you find an artist who's an academic you can rest assured that his/her stuff is shite and that any second-grade graffiti sprayer or street-dancer will produce better art than they.
Apart from fundamental effing hard science such as the basic nature sciences and some engineering basics academia is a farce for people doing "sociology" or "gender studies" and expecting to earn truckloads of money once they graduate.
This all goes especially for the U.S. where universities often are businesses and not official institutions. But it isn't that much better in Europe, I can tell you that much.
... and never was. Anyone who thinks that doesn't know what he's talking about. The simplest type of frontend you could do was with Flash and even for that you really had to know what you were doing, otherwise you'd end up producing shit.
If someone tells you that front-end is simple, you know right away that he's a douche and his judgement shouldn't be relied on to heavily.
Full Stack means you know your way around correct front-end, correct back-end, correct software architecture and a solid setup that can stand on it's own once the project moves from development into maintenance/"dev-ops". This usually means that you focus on a specific set of technologies, and don't get too much into others in detail.
Here's a nice example: By chance and circumstance I happen to be doing quite a bit of PHP for a living. I started before Node and kinda got stuck with it. I haven't gotten round to building mission critical Node stuff yet, but there also are some things about Node and some about PHP that actually have be favour PHP, despite it being a language developed by monkeys on crack. I also know my way around JS, Ajax, DB Design, OOAD, Linux CLI, Tooling, Load-balancing and some other stuff. Ask me about intrinsict details on JS or PHP I might be out of my depth or jump straight to stackoverflow, but therefore I don't make a fool of myself when I need to pick a font or a color palette or design a basic pageflow and layout. I can also tell with quite some certainty wether someone at any tier of the stack knows what he is doing or not.
Hence: I'm pretty much what you would call a senior full-stack web-developer.
... just like WordPress, only with worse usability and barrier to entry for developers. And unlike WordPress it's army of users and developers isn't even close in size. I have professionally developed for both WP and Drupal and given the choice I'd chose WordPress any time.
Cook is actually right about this. If more and more people become concerned about privacy, Apple could be at an advantage over Google and Facebook, if they play their cards right and make the transition to modestly priced online services. Selling new gadgets will only take them so far. Despite currently being way to expensive for my taste and being quite an annoyance when it comes to that, Apple still has the reputation of protecting its users privacy. More or less that is.
... sued for a bazillion dollars once the EU GDPR goes live on May 25th 2018.
FTFY.
Facebook could probably just wait for the Cambridge Analytics thing to blow over - which it probably will. The CA thing and FBs encroachment on privacy arent't exactly news even though most of the world seems to think so today. Most will probably have forgotten again in 2 weeks time. FB however can not afford to get pissy with the EU GDPR, as it's clearly designed to bar off some of the worst privacy issues with FB, Google and the likes. Including fines that *really* hurt - unlike the laughable stuff courts have fined to date.
The prime reason to run a specific OS is because some piece of software runs on it. I know of no situation where there is a specific need to run two or more pieces of software that only are available for different OSes.
Running dual boot is an annoying mess anyway.... Being able to boot or run a lightweight system to use some features like a music player or something used to be feasible - the Olivetti Quaderno had an audio player and a calculator that would run in a minimal mode - but those days have long since passed, because if you need a seperate music player you can get a really neat one for under 10$. Or have one built into your headphones. Besides, smartphones.
Bottom line: Quit dual-booting. Use a VM or Docker or something and be done with it.
... paragraph 213/b-N of civil of conduct in traffic. 4 points have been subtracted from your citizen performance measure. You are now -72 of average at a level of 968. Have a profitable day Sir and please comply with the law and the codes of conduct. - Big Ching is watching you.
Levels and Punishment 950 - 50 hours of social work 900 - 100 hours of social work, public shaming and +30% on your rates for public transport 750 - 500 hours of social work 400 - permanent containment until debt of 300 points is recovered (20pt / Quarter) 300 and below: Inmediate recycling of all your personal biomaterial at the nearest biorecycling facility
I've held this opinion ever since social networks became a thing, and Facebook is no different:
The problem a social network solves is basically a protocol problem. Facebook by and large is nothing other than the world latest replacement for Usenet, Mailinglists and IRC. If email weren't so shitty, Facebook wouldn't stand a chance.
Diaspora is some awkward attempt at solving the problem, but it thought Facebook was a website, so it started copying a website. But FB isn't a website, it's a social network. It just uses the web as it's universal platform.
What we need to do is design a portocol/service, then build low level tools to handle it and *then* the UIs. Diaspora is a hack by the web camp. It's the WordPress of solutions. A badly designed stopgap, that sort of kinda works but could be done better.
We should get to it and replace email along the way while we're at it. That thing is from the steam age of computing and it shows at all corners.
This is *EXACTLY* how the internet we all want should work.
Don't like the commercial forum? Quit whining and set up your own with likeminded people. This guys actually deserves some credit for not whining around but actually doing something..... Wow, check it out, I'm a continental Eurohippster actually siding with a working-class gun-enthusiast on this one.... *mindflash*
This is what was so cool about the iNet back in 2001 and why we all love slashdot.
From the study:".... An especially striking and unexpected finding in these studies is that the association between lead and disease is proportionately greater at lower levels of exposureâ"a so-called supralinear dose-response relation...."
So what they're basically saying is that homeopathy might be right to a certain degree?
... some blowhard douche. Nice. Like it. Sadly the fight is so short there's no point in getting popcorn.... Ok, so it *was* some kretin looking for attention. I have that suspicion when I saw the report on some tech blog yesterday.
Slashdot Mirror
... and move to some alternative that would presumably pop up roughly 20 minutes into the internet going total DRM.
Coming to think of it that would probably be exactly what the world needs to finally move to some namecoin driven namecoin driven mesh network alternative to the intarweb.
Most people I wouldn't trust to maintain mission critical security on a productive workstation. They click on FunnyCatsVideo.exe and could tell a client from a server if their life depended on it. For these such a thing as a chromebook truely *is* the more secure solution.
Google watches over you.
That's not just a disadvantage. Which is why I recommend it to all ordinaries with no money and no grasp of computers. The ones with money I tell to get the apple stuff.
That's the simple truth. In our time academia is a few useful physicists, chemists, medical researchers and a few other folks surrounded by armies and armies of regular people who have only a very faint graps of what science actually means and got themselves a PhD for the social value an academic title has.
Meanwhile the avantgarde has long since left academia. That goes for technology (preaching to the choir here), that goes for measurable amounts of applicable science and that sure as hell goes for philosophy and art. If you find an artist who's an academic you can rest assured that his/her stuff is shite and that any second-grade graffiti sprayer or street-dancer will produce better art than they.
Apart from fundamental effing hard science such as the basic nature sciences and some engineering basics academia is a farce for people doing "sociology" or "gender studies" and expecting to earn truckloads of money once they graduate.
This all goes especially for the U.S. where universities often are businesses and not official institutions. But it isn't that much better in Europe, I can tell you that much.
... and never was. Anyone who thinks that doesn't know what he's talking about. The simplest type of frontend you could do was with Flash and even for that you really had to know what you were doing, otherwise you'd end up producing shit.
If someone tells you that front-end is simple, you know right away that he's a douche and his judgement shouldn't be relied on to heavily.
Full Stack means you know your way around correct front-end, correct back-end, correct software architecture and a solid setup that can stand on it's own once the project moves from development into maintenance/"dev-ops". This usually means that you focus on a specific set of technologies, and don't get too much into others in detail.
Here's a nice example:
By chance and circumstance I happen to be doing quite a bit of PHP for a living. I started before Node and kinda got stuck with it. I haven't gotten round to building mission critical Node stuff yet, but there also are some things about Node and some about PHP that actually have be favour PHP, despite it being a language developed by monkeys on crack. I also know my way around JS, Ajax, DB Design, OOAD, Linux CLI, Tooling, Load-balancing and some other stuff. Ask me about intrinsict details on JS or PHP I might be out of my depth or jump straight to stackoverflow, but therefore I don't make a fool of myself when I need to pick a font or a color palette or design a basic pageflow and layout. I can also tell with quite some certainty wether someone at any tier of the stack knows what he is doing or not.
Hence: I'm pretty much what you would call a senior full-stack web-developer.
... I call it.
It will pass sooner than we expect.
... it's corporate socialism. It is however sold to us as capitalism by the Ayn Rand fans. She'd be appaled.
... just like WordPress, only with worse usability and barrier to entry for developers. And unlike WordPress it's army of users and developers isn't even close in size. I have professionally developed for both WP and Drupal and given the choice I'd chose WordPress any time.
*Tadum* *Crash* *Thud* ...
Thank you, thank you, I'm here all week. Tip your waitor and try the fish.
Cook is actually right about this. If more and more people become concerned about privacy, Apple could be at an advantage over Google and Facebook, if they play their cards right and make the transition to modestly priced online services. Selling new gadgets will only take them so far. Despite currently being way to expensive for my taste and being quite an annoyance when it comes to that, Apple still has the reputation of protecting its users privacy. More or less that is.
... sued for a bazillion dollars once the EU GDPR goes live on May 25th 2018.
FTFY.
Facebook could probably just wait for the Cambridge Analytics thing to blow over - which it probably will. The CA thing and FBs encroachment on privacy arent't exactly news even though most of the world seems to think so today. Most will probably have forgotten again in 2 weeks time. FB however can not afford to get pissy with the EU GDPR, as it's clearly designed to bar off some of the worst privacy issues with FB, Google and the likes. Including fines that *really* hurt - unlike the laughable stuff courts have fined to date.
The prime reason to run a specific OS is because some piece of software runs on it. I know of no situation where there is a specific need to run two or more pieces of software that only are available for different OSes.
Running dual boot is an annoying mess anyway. ... Being able to boot or run a lightweight system to use some features like a music player or something used to be feasible - the Olivetti Quaderno had an audio player and a calculator that would run in a minimal mode - but those days have long since passed, because if you need a seperate music player you can get a really neat one for under 10$. Or have one built into your headphones. Besides, smartphones.
Bottom line: Quit dual-booting. Use a VM or Docker or something and be done with it.
... paragraph 213/b-N of civil of conduct in traffic. 4 points have been subtracted from your citizen performance measure. You are now -72 of average at a level of 968. Have a profitable day Sir and please comply with the law and the codes of conduct. - Big Ching is watching you.
Levels and Punishment
950 - 50 hours of social work
900 - 100 hours of social work, public shaming and +30% on your rates for public transport
750 - 500 hours of social work
400 - permanent containment until debt of 300 points is recovered (20pt / Quarter)
300 and below: Inmediate recycling of all your personal biomaterial at the nearest biorecycling facility
I've held this opinion ever since social networks became a thing, and Facebook is no different:
The problem a social network solves is basically a protocol problem. Facebook by and large is nothing other than the world latest replacement for Usenet, Mailinglists and IRC. If email weren't so shitty, Facebook wouldn't stand a chance.
Diaspora is some awkward attempt at solving the problem, but it thought Facebook was a website, so it started copying a website. But FB isn't a website, it's a social network. It just uses the web as it's universal platform.
What we need to do is design a portocol/service, then build low level tools to handle it and *then* the UIs. Diaspora is a hack by the web camp. It's the WordPress of solutions. A badly designed stopgap, that sort of kinda works but could be done better.
We should get to it and replace email along the way while we're at it. That thing is from the steam age of computing and it shows at all corners.
My 2 eurocents.
It's a TV series, not reality. And in this series it works. So no, it's not a death sentence, it's a means of transportation.
Captain Obvious was glad to help.
This is *EXACTLY* how the internet we all want should work.
Don't like the commercial forum? Quit whining and set up your own with likeminded people. .... Wow, check it out, I'm a continental Eurohippster actually siding with a working-class gun-enthusiast on this one. ... *mindflash*
This guys actually deserves some credit for not whining around but actually doing something.
This is what was so cool about the iNet back in 2001 and why we all love slashdot.
Robots will lead to on-shoring. This isn't really news. Both Afrika and Asia will be selling way less finished goods to the first world.
Ban Cryptocurrency! ...
I guess some academic nobody needed attention.
Well, he did get his 5 minutes.
From the study:" .... An especially striking and unexpected finding in these studies is that the association between lead and disease is proportionately greater at lower levels of exposureâ"a so-called supralinear dose-response relation. ..."
So what they're basically saying is that homeopathy might be right to a certain degree?
Interesting. Interesting indeed.
They're Facebook and Google. The are surveilling everybody.
They make a living off surveilling people.
... gets modern monoculture problems.
No news here.
Curiously enough, this is only due to both Google and Amazon being the only big players in their respective fields.
... That way I can finally catch up on my Fidonet Echoes.
... some blowhard douche. Nice. Like it. ...
Sadly the fight is so short there's no point in getting popcorn.
Ok, so it *was* some kretin looking for attention. I have that suspicion when I saw the report on some tech blog yesterday.
Always a good idea that solves the problem.
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Looks like some progress on the equality front - now we got large-type women frauds too. ... I'm not even joking.