WordPress has north of 100 Million active installations on the web (100 000 000+). Again, in words: thats more than one-hundred-million in active, running installations on the web. The last critical exploit was about half a year ago and had infected roughly 8000 installations by the time it was patched
I don't know about you, but I'd say that's a pretty impressive security track record for a piece of software written on Crack, in PHP, by people who didn't have the slightest idea about software architecture back in 2001, mostly running on LAMP and that gets installed and run by n00bs 99.99 % of the time and is constantly exposed to the open intarweb and an onslaught of permanent attacks.
Try that with any OOAD-buzzword-compliant 'cleanroom designed' Java or Ruby thingie. Good luck.
Can anyone who know both Fedora and Ubuntu say how they compare to each other? Unity aside, is there a solid reason to use Fedora over Ubuntu? What do you like about Fedora - if you are a Fedora user?
The very nature and absolutely empowering thing about software is that it is flexible. It's purpose abstracted from the machine that fulfills the purpose. It doesn't get any more awesome than that. That's why we are gods in our own little world of the systems we work on and that's why we love tinkering with and building software. That's the whole point of it.
So when I dig up my old EDI connector/serial processing ERP software I wrote 14 years ago in Python I don't think "OMG! What was I thinking? This abstaction is non-existant and if it is it's abysmal!". I think about the other things: How I wrote the filters for Amazon Marketplace before they even had an open API. How chains of regexes filtered the competitors pricing and how another script adjusted ours one cent cheaper than the cheapest offering of our competitors. How orders went from 15 to 120 the day we started using those scripts. How we were adjusting to changes in amazons websites on a daily basis, and how we built a billing system with Python, RTF Templates and an cli-automated Open Office.
If you look at that code today without context you'd think it's some bizar experiment or something. But it pushed our revenue back then from 20 000 Euros to 480 000 Euros.
Same goes for the very first Flash video and multimedia streaming client that I built. The code looks a mess and the player works very strangely. But we had to find out the hard way that you have to render your objects off screen in order to force the flashplayer from back then to actually load them. Likewise, if you call an XML object in Flash 4 / ActionScript 2 without instancing it, the Internet Explorer would reference the file on the far server, reloading it every time and causing traffic to skyrocket from 40kb to 3MB (Note: This was before DSL and when 68kbit ISDN was avantgarde for internet access.)... That's why that piece of code makes an 'unnecessary' copy of that XML object and deletes the old one.
Likewise today, using WordPress, I see abysmal software architecture in the whole way WP is built. But not for a moment do I delude myself and think this could've been done from the very beginning. WP is historically grown and design decisions made back then might have had very good reasons, even from a software architects perspective.
So, long story short, I'm not really ashamed of my code. At all. I know where it came from and what it did and why.
I have to say it, folks. Looking across the pond and seeing what's going on in the US right now is so patently absurd, words fail me. I'm seriously worried. You're having a Type A autocrat in charge soon and clear and present dangers encroaching on basic foundational structures, social contracts and rights in the US.
I acutally have a serious question regarding the most recent developments: What are you doing about this? Personally, I mean. What are you thinking about doing? Anybody of you guys going all-out prepper, stocking up on water-filters, assault-rifles, ammo, gear, tools and checking to buy some land in the flyovers? Anybody else considering migrating to Canada, South America, Europe or something?
I enjoy folding my clothes and putting them away. Especially the ones I carefully selected and thus like very much. It's one of those many simple household tasks that have a deep zen-like vibe to it if you put yourself it in the right mood and attempt to keep a household leaning towards minimalism. Pure bliss. And no, I'm not joking.
Same with manual dishwashing. I have a set of small wooden japanee soup bowls I use for tea, soup, cereal and everything else that requires small bowls. Washing them by hand is a pure pleasure. Something some rich dude who can afford a massive, complex, space-wasting laundry folding bot would actually pay money for to do on some relaxing zen-retreat or some non-sense the super-rich need to chill out from chasing all that money. I would cringe if anyone would put a bowl like that into a dishwasher. And I'd then probably hit him.
This bot is something straight of of that "Brasil" movie. I only see a place for something like this in a hotel or so - where massive amounts of laundry have to be folded by a certain standard. And fast. For private households this is utter non-sense and a waste of resources and a burden on the environment. If you are so freakin rich and have tons of linen for your 30-bedroom villa then get personell to do your laundry just like any other self-respecting super-rich person.
As a computer expert I avoid social media for anything mission critical, as I suppose many here do. I also use fake names, just as in the days of old on IRC and Usenet.
Personally, I see 3-4 big dangers in social media:
1) The first is the obvious one: Total surveillance. Brave New World meets 1984 meets Neuromancer meets Snow Crash. And all in bad ways. Not for me. And I tell everyone I meet what FarceBook and WhatsCrap mean for their privacy.
2) Social Media is very short lived and eats up time at the same time.
3) The negative impact social media has on the human psyche is, in my opinion, quite significant. FOMO, self-esteem issues and F4ceb00k depression are real things and they exist with a measurable amount of people who live through mass social media. Social media emulates belonging to a community whilst at the same time causing us to drift further and further apart.
A point in case: My fiancé is an online PR / SMM worker and loves her job although she's being paid pretty crappy. Just watching her being sucked up into some online thing going on that she has to attend to for private or work reasons at just about any possible occasion makes me look like a super-relaxed shepherd in comparsion.... It's a bit scary to be honest. I don't want to know what people will be like 30 years from now.
4) Addiction and behavioral imacpt: I see this issue with younger generations who live through social media and I think it's turning a large portion of those using social media into an ADHD-driven OCD candidates.
... and to Windows, I suggest getting a surface pro book... or whatever they are called.
Seriously, nothing can replace a Mac when it comes to integration of hard and software, consistency and quality, but current gen MS hardware actually looks pretty impressive. Just don't expect MS to continue the line for decades, like Apple does. Or for their hradware to hold value for so long.
... to reduce paper to the absolute minimum. If that is the case, being mostly paperless is a piece of cake.
Bills, contracts, offers, tax-reports and other legal documents, the occasional fridge-note and perhaps Scrum tickets are worthwhile printing and - most imporantly - worthwhile printing well. With good professionally preconfectioned typography and layout. That probably will never change or only in a few decades.
Everything else is utterly pointless to have lying around in paper and a huge waste on top of that.
However, just seeing my collegues printing stacks of powerpoint slides, single sided, to take 3 notes on 50 pages and throw them out 3 weeks later after they have been lying around tells me that 99.999% of the population is just too freakin' dumb to manage a proper transition to a mostly paperless office. When I had a printer, I would go on a stack for years, mostly printing offers and bills and not much more. The ink would dry out three times over before the stack was gone. I would get the inkset out more often than fill up the paper.
Also, MS 0ffice, for some bizar reason the standard today - doesn't really support or encourage paperless working.
But it's also a management thing.
If I had a company I would give everyone printing out stuff by the stack with no second thought an unpleasant verbal asskick. And I'd establish proper digital document management and train my workerbees to use digital documents, versioning and some elaborate search setup. But today managers are often still from the dawn of the web, and not so much into paperless as us computer experts might be.
The worst thing that could conceivably happen to Earth, at least until the sun becomes a red giant billions of years in the future, is something like the above catastrophes would render it a barren wasteland utterly inhospitable to life.
Wrong. The worst thing that could conceivably happen to earth is a meteor blasting it and all the things on it to chunky kibbles. Phaeton style. And that could happen in 3 months if destiny wanted it so. It could even happen without us ever knowing what hit us. Literally.
Eastern Europe, Erdogan, Putin, Le Pen, Frauke Petry, Donald Trump... these are special effects, smoke & mirrors. The real action happens when laws like this get passed or Tim Cook and his Silicon Valley Bros push for everything-as-a-service / 'ecosystem' and proprietary payment systems instead of cash.
You can read it in Aldous Huxleys work, and in William Gibsons and Neal Stephensons.
We are moving into an all-out full-blown cyperpunk society where anyone halfway free from 'the system' is a potential suspect or locked out of essential basics , only able to acquire them by semi-legal / grey-market means. A world where *everything* has a price-tag and you can't move without Big Brother watching you.
Tamper-free FOSS IT systems are becoming more and more exotic a concept while the brainwashed masses think Fakebook or Twotter is some sort of innovation over other services we've had for decades.
Basically we're smack in the middle of a cyberpunk society already.
My US Grandpa worked at Grumman Aircraft and helped building the Lunar Lander. My US Great Grand Aunt was a Secretary of President Roosevelt. My dad worked with NASA. As a kid and teenager I was a very very proud american citizen, even though I lived abroad most of my life (I'm German now, for reasons unrelated to this post)
When my mom and my dad were in the US in Texas in the early '70ies , my mom worked the night-shift at a diner near Houston. During the day she would work part-time protocolling the radio transmitions of the Apollo missions, a job she had gotten through the contact of my dad, who was working at NASA at the time. We had a house in Clear-Lake-City, the engineers city Houston had build for the NASA employees.
There were two incidents she told me about a few times: Once she was working the late shift at the Diner again and a bunch of men came in, and started asked my mom if she knew of some German lady working somewhere in a Diner not wearing a bra. It was a shock to my mom that some unknow group of men had gone out for a ride to come look for her because someone had spread the work *that she wasn't wearing a bra*. My mom speaks accent free english and said she'd never heard of anything like that. Please note: Not wearing a bra was perfectly normal in most parts of the western world in the 60ies and 70ies, but in totally backwards rural Texas it was considered a sensation/scandal.
Another time she was tending to african-american guests and talking and joking with them when an older cowboy got up in the middle of his meal, slammed money on the table and left without a word. My mom was bedazzled about what had gone wrong and the black people told her that white people don't talk to black people in these parts and that her behaviour was very unusual by rural Texas standards. Medieval standards, no less.
Fastforward into the early 80ies, smack in the middle of the cold war and nuclear exchange always looming we lived near Bonn in western Germany and my mom used to say that the Russians weren't the problem. But a USA turning fascist - that should be the thing to be afraid of. Very afraid.
My mom is a smart woman.
And I have to say, heaven help us all if it's the USAs turn to try out fascism.
And I know perfectly 'normal' nice people can turn into something far beyond anything one might call 'savage'. If you come to Germany today, you wouldn't think for a moment that our ancestors are responsible for the most extreme atrocities ever commited by and to humanity.
I'm actually staying paranoid and have been for the past 2.5 decades, ready to move out of Europe and to Patagonia or something, should fascism and xenophobia start to spread out in Europe and other parts of the western world again. And my buddies are starting to understand.
... 1.) offer an open and flexible FOSS mobile OS. 2.) offer an open and flexible mobile development FOSS toolchain. 3.) offer a range of non-locked, battery replacable, non-artificially memory/performance castrated handsets and tablets on which to install said OS and apps.
Provide that and I'm switching to Samsung and Tizen inmediately.
Until that happens though, I'm sticking with Android and affordable Motorola Handsets, thank you.
This sounds like some smart software architect to the abstraction of the persistance/storage layer of the Spotify stack too far whilst at the same time storing to much of miniscule datapoints in Spotifys objects. Because once abstracted properly, adding attributes to your objects and the entire stack is trivial.
Think of it: If your stacks ORM neatly abstracts everything concerning persistance and on the backside syncs on neatly whenever it has the opportunity, all you need is app-side developers and software designers storing every little piece of data they can find and that changes evers millisecond and then you have your bandwidth/load disaster as described.
If something like this is the case with Spotify, which I do strongly suspect, it is a good example that goes to show that you can take clean-room design too far. And that a haphazard duct-tape and chickenwire approach to product development can have significant advantages, as you build around unforseen roadblocks on a daily basis and only add the features really needed.
I see an example of this every day, as I am currently doing WordPress development and building a WordPress pipeline for an agency. Large parts of the WP legacy architecture are an abysmally convoluted mess built by people who shouldn't have been let near a keyboard 15 years ago. But having a non-developer build a production capable demo of a website in WP is significantly faster than starting with an actual UX prototype, which quickly leads our team into real-world problems that we often haven't suspected. And suddenly a proper ORM and cleanroom design would cause hassle at one end or the other.
The SS are way off the charts even when if comes to evil fanatic fascist organisations. ISIS is a friendly debate club in comparsion. If there were an organisation like the SS in authority power in the US, you wouldn't be posting this on the intarweb. Or you'd be doing it exactly once and then be hauled off to forced labour and then recycled in the Zyklon-B showers.
Operationalizing the Strategy Pied Piper Candidates... but this is exactly the way Hitler came to power.
I'm not saying Trump is like Hitler - in terms of evil & fascist Hitler, Himmler and Co. are completely off the charts - but what I'm saying is, that this is the strategy that failed in the Weimar Republic and brought Hitler to power. The fat-cats thought they could use his mouth and controll him. They were wrong.
I hope Trump turns halfway normal after passing this racket they call US elections. I have to admit, it *is* impressive the way he pulled it off against quite a few odds and our intellectual delusions about how things should be.
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WordPress has north of 100 Million active installations on the web (100 000 000+).
Again, in words: thats more than one-hundred-million in active, running installations on the web.
The last critical exploit was about half a year ago and had infected roughly 8000 installations by the time it was patched
I don't know about you, but I'd say that's a pretty impressive security track record for a piece of software written on Crack, in PHP, by people who didn't have the slightest idea about software architecture back in 2001, mostly running on LAMP and that gets installed and run by n00bs 99.99 % of the time and is constantly exposed to the open intarweb and an onslaught of permanent attacks.
Try that with any OOAD-buzzword-compliant 'cleanroom designed' Java or Ruby thingie. Good luck.
My 2 cents.
Can anyone who know both Fedora and Ubuntu say how they compare to each other?
Unity aside, is there a solid reason to use Fedora over Ubuntu?
What do you like about Fedora - if you are a Fedora user?
... with tons of other non-sense to take it's place.
The very nature and absolutely empowering thing about software is that it is flexible. It's purpose abstracted from the machine that fulfills the purpose. It doesn't get any more awesome than that. That's why we are gods in our own little world of the systems we work on and that's why we love tinkering with and building software.
That's the whole point of it.
So when I dig up my old EDI connector/serial processing ERP software I wrote 14 years ago in Python I don't think "OMG! What was I thinking? This abstaction is non-existant and if it is it's abysmal!". I think about the other things: How I wrote the filters for Amazon Marketplace before they even had an open API. How chains of regexes filtered the competitors pricing and how another script adjusted ours one cent cheaper than the cheapest offering of our competitors. How orders went from 15 to 120 the day we started using those scripts. How we were adjusting to changes in amazons websites on a daily basis, and how we built a billing system with Python, RTF Templates and an cli-automated Open Office.
If you look at that code today without context you'd think it's some bizar experiment or something. But it pushed our revenue back then from 20 000 Euros to 480 000 Euros.
Same goes for the very first Flash video and multimedia streaming client that I built. The code looks a mess and the player works very strangely. But we had to find out the hard way that you have to render your objects off screen in order to force the flashplayer from back then to actually load them. Likewise, if you call an XML object in Flash 4 / ActionScript 2 without instancing it, the Internet Explorer would reference the file on the far server, reloading it every time and causing traffic to skyrocket from 40kb to 3MB (Note: This was before DSL and when 68kbit ISDN was avantgarde for internet access.) ... That's why that piece of code makes an 'unnecessary' copy of that XML object and deletes the old one.
Likewise today, using WordPress, I see abysmal software architecture in the whole way WP is built. But not for a moment do I delude myself and think this could've been done from the very beginning. WP is historically grown and design decisions made back then might have had very good reasons, even from a software architects perspective.
So, long story short, I'm not really ashamed of my code. At all.
I know where it came from and what it did and why.
I have to say it, folks. Looking across the pond and seeing what's going on in the US right now is so patently absurd, words fail me. I'm seriously worried. You're having a Type A autocrat in charge soon and clear and present dangers encroaching on basic foundational structures, social contracts and rights in the US.
I acutally have a serious question regarding the most recent developments:
What are you doing about this? Personally, I mean. What are you thinking about doing?
Anybody of you guys going all-out prepper, stocking up on water-filters, assault-rifles, ammo, gear, tools and checking to buy some land in the flyovers?
Anybody else considering migrating to Canada, South America, Europe or something?
Please reply in this thread.
I enjoy folding my clothes and putting them away. Especially the ones I carefully selected and thus like very much.
It's one of those many simple household tasks that have a deep zen-like vibe to it if you put yourself it in the right mood and attempt to keep a household leaning towards minimalism. Pure bliss. And no, I'm not joking.
Same with manual dishwashing. I have a set of small wooden japanee soup bowls I use for tea, soup, cereal and everything else that requires small bowls. Washing them by hand is a pure pleasure. Something some rich dude who can afford a massive, complex, space-wasting laundry folding bot would actually pay money for to do on some relaxing zen-retreat or some non-sense the super-rich need to chill out from chasing all that money. I would cringe if anyone would put a bowl like that into a dishwasher. And I'd then probably hit him.
This bot is something straight of of that "Brasil" movie. I only see a place for something like this in a hotel or so - where massive amounts of laundry have to be folded by a certain standard. And fast. For private households this is utter non-sense and a waste of resources and a burden on the environment. If you are so freakin rich and have tons of linen for your 30-bedroom villa then get personell to do your laundry just like any other self-respecting super-rich person.
My 2 cents.
As a computer expert I avoid social media for anything mission critical, as I suppose many here do.
I also use fake names, just as in the days of old on IRC and Usenet.
Personally, I see 3-4 big dangers in social media:
1) The first is the obvious one: Total surveillance. Brave New World meets 1984 meets Neuromancer meets Snow Crash. And all in bad ways. Not for me. And I tell everyone I meet what FarceBook and WhatsCrap mean for their privacy.
2) Social Media is very short lived and eats up time at the same time.
3) The negative impact social media has on the human psyche is, in my opinion, quite significant. FOMO, self-esteem issues and F4ceb00k depression are real things and they exist with a measurable amount of people who live through mass social media. Social media emulates belonging to a community whilst at the same time causing us to drift further and further apart.
A point in case: My fiancé is an online PR / SMM worker and loves her job although she's being paid pretty crappy. ... It's a bit scary to be honest. I don't want to know what people will be like 30 years from now.
Just watching her being sucked up into some online thing going on that she has to attend to for private or work reasons at just about any possible occasion makes me look like a super-relaxed shepherd in comparsion.
4) Addiction and behavioral imacpt: I see this issue with younger generations who live through social media and I think it's turning a large portion of those using social media into an ADHD-driven OCD candidates.
... and to Windows, I suggest getting a surface pro book ... or whatever they are called.
Seriously, nothing can replace a Mac when it comes to integration of hard and software, consistency and quality, but current gen MS hardware actually looks pretty impressive. Just don't expect MS to continue the line for decades, like Apple does. Or for their hradware to hold value for so long.
My 2 cents.
... to reduce paper to the absolute minimum. If that is the case, being mostly paperless is a piece of cake.
Bills, contracts, offers, tax-reports and other legal documents, the occasional fridge-note and perhaps Scrum tickets are worthwhile printing and - most imporantly - worthwhile printing well. With good professionally preconfectioned typography and layout. That probably will never change or only in a few decades.
Everything else is utterly pointless to have lying around in paper and a huge waste on top of that.
However, just seeing my collegues printing stacks of powerpoint slides, single sided, to take 3 notes on 50 pages and throw them out 3 weeks later after they have been lying around tells me that 99.999% of the population is just too freakin' dumb to manage a proper transition to a mostly paperless office. When I had a printer, I would go on a stack for years, mostly printing offers and bills and not much more. The ink would dry out three times over before the stack was gone. I would get the inkset out more often than fill up the paper.
Also, MS 0ffice, for some bizar reason the standard today - doesn't really support or encourage paperless working.
But it's also a management thing.
If I had a company I would give everyone printing out stuff by the stack with no second thought an unpleasant verbal asskick. And I'd establish proper digital document management and train my workerbees to use digital documents, versioning and some elaborate search setup. But today managers are often still from the dawn of the web, and not so much into paperless as us computer experts might be.
Hopefully that will change in a decade or two.
My 2 cents.
The worst thing that could conceivably happen to Earth, at least until the sun becomes a red giant billions of years in the future, is something like the above catastrophes would render it a barren wasteland utterly inhospitable to life.
Wrong.
The worst thing that could conceivably happen to earth is a meteor blasting it and all the things on it to chunky kibbles. Phaeton style.
And that could happen in 3 months if destiny wanted it so.
It could even happen without us ever knowing what hit us. Literally.
Seriously, we all know it's coming.
Eastern Europe, Erdogan, Putin, Le Pen, Frauke Petry, Donald Trump ... these are special effects, smoke & mirrors.
The real action happens when laws like this get passed or Tim Cook and his Silicon Valley Bros push for everything-as-a-service / 'ecosystem' and proprietary payment systems instead of cash.
You can read it in Aldous Huxleys work, and in William Gibsons and Neal Stephensons.
We are moving into an all-out full-blown cyperpunk society where anyone halfway free from 'the system' is a potential suspect or locked out of essential basics , only able to acquire them by semi-legal / grey-market means. A world where *everything* has a price-tag and you can't move without Big Brother watching you.
Tamper-free FOSS IT systems are becoming more and more exotic a concept while the brainwashed masses think Fakebook or Twotter is some sort of innovation over other services we've had for decades.
Basically we're smack in the middle of a cyberpunk society already.
My US Grandpa worked at Grumman Aircraft and helped building the Lunar Lander.
My US Great Grand Aunt was a Secretary of President Roosevelt.
My dad worked with NASA.
As a kid and teenager I was a very very proud american citizen, even though I lived abroad most of my life (I'm German now, for reasons unrelated to this post)
When my mom and my dad were in the US in Texas in the early '70ies , my mom worked the night-shift at a diner near Houston. During the day she would work part-time protocolling the radio transmitions of the Apollo missions, a job she had gotten through the contact of my dad, who was working at NASA at the time. We had a house in Clear-Lake-City, the engineers city Houston had build for the NASA employees.
There were two incidents she told me about a few times:
Once she was working the late shift at the Diner again and a bunch of men came in, and started asked my mom if she knew of some German lady working somewhere in a Diner not wearing a bra. It was a shock to my mom that some unknow group of men had gone out for a ride to come look for her because someone had spread the work *that she wasn't wearing a bra*. My mom speaks accent free english and said she'd never heard of anything like that. Please note: Not wearing a bra was perfectly normal in most parts of the western world in the 60ies and 70ies, but in totally backwards rural Texas it was considered a sensation/scandal.
Another time she was tending to african-american guests and talking and joking with them when an older cowboy got up in the middle of his meal, slammed money on the table and left without a word. My mom was bedazzled about what had gone wrong and the black people told her that white people don't talk to black people in these parts and that her behaviour was very unusual by rural Texas standards. Medieval standards, no less.
Fastforward into the early 80ies, smack in the middle of the cold war and nuclear exchange always looming we lived near Bonn in western Germany and my mom used to say that the Russians weren't the problem. But a USA turning fascist - that should be the thing to be afraid of. Very afraid.
My mom is a smart woman.
And I have to say, heaven help us all if it's the USAs turn to try out fascism.
And I know perfectly 'normal' nice people can turn into something far beyond anything one might call 'savage'. If you come to Germany today, you wouldn't think for a moment that our ancestors are responsible for the most extreme atrocities ever commited by and to humanity.
I'm actually staying paranoid and have been for the past 2.5 decades, ready to move out of Europe and to Patagonia or something, should fascism and xenophobia start to spread out in Europe and other parts of the western world again. And my buddies are starting to understand.
My 2 cents.
... I'll just go on a little shooting rampage.
No? Well, you lost me then.
Of course they joined. Since systemd Linux is pratically part of the family. ...
FLAMEWAR in 3 .. 2 .. 1 ..
People will actually buy it. :-)
...
1.) offer an open and flexible FOSS mobile OS.
2.) offer an open and flexible mobile development FOSS toolchain.
3.) offer a range of non-locked, battery replacable, non-artificially memory/performance castrated handsets and tablets on which to install said OS and apps.
Provide that and I'm switching to Samsung and Tizen inmediately.
Until that happens though, I'm sticking with Android and affordable Motorola Handsets, thank you.
No point in getting all excited about it.
The general speaks with Bill Gates.
But if you look at this poor guy's later life, you'll see it for what it really is. Mental illness.
He apparently was a meth head.
Meth can turn the most sober and normal person into a unrecoverable basket case in record time.
Meth - Not even once.
*Tadum* *Crash* *Thud*
Thank you, thank you, I'm here all week.
This sounds like some smart software architect to the abstraction of the persistance/storage layer of the Spotify stack too far whilst at the same time storing to much of miniscule datapoints in Spotifys objects. Because once abstracted properly, adding attributes to your objects and the entire stack is trivial.
Think of it:
If your stacks ORM neatly abstracts everything concerning persistance and on the backside syncs on neatly whenever it has the opportunity, all you need is app-side developers and software designers storing every little piece of data they can find and that changes evers millisecond and then you have your bandwidth/load disaster as described.
If something like this is the case with Spotify, which I do strongly suspect, it is a good example that goes to show that you can take clean-room design too far. And that a haphazard duct-tape and chickenwire approach to product development can have significant advantages, as you build around unforseen roadblocks on a daily basis and only add the features really needed.
I see an example of this every day, as I am currently doing WordPress development and building a WordPress pipeline for an agency. Large parts of the WP legacy architecture are an abysmally convoluted mess built by people who shouldn't have been let near a keyboard 15 years ago. But having a non-developer build a production capable demo of a website in WP is significantly faster than starting with an actual UX prototype, which quickly leads our team into real-world problems that we often haven't suspected. And suddenly a proper ORM and cleanroom design would cause hassle at one end or the other.
My to eurocents.
FBI = SS
Sorry pal, but that is a bit of a stretch.
The SS are way off the charts even when if comes to evil fanatic fascist organisations. ISIS is a friendly debate club in comparsion. If there were an organisation like the SS in authority power in the US, you wouldn't be posting this on the intarweb. Or you'd be doing it exactly once and then be hauled off to forced labour and then recycled in the Zyklon-B showers.
Operationalizing the Strategy Pied Piper Candidates ... but this is exactly the way Hitler came to power.
I'm not saying Trump is like Hitler - in terms of evil & fascist Hitler, Himmler and Co. are completely off the charts - but what I'm saying is, that this is the strategy that failed in the Weimar Republic and brought Hitler to power. The fat-cats thought they could use his mouth and controll him. They were wrong.
I hope Trump turns halfway normal after passing this racket they call US elections. I have to admit, it *is* impressive the way he pulled it off against quite a few odds and our intellectual delusions about how things should be.
I'm sorry, but fact checking is what your brain is for.
Use it.
Glad I could help.
Errrm, ... and this is news why exactly?