... and then, if he's proven to be resonably right with his accusations, be let of the hook. It should be very easy to check the WPML codebase and the security holes he speaks of. And if they exist in the ways he says and are easyly exploited as he says I'd be willing to believe him more than I would believe the WPML team. When it comes to WP Plugins WPML is one of the better ones but I've seen so much shit in the WP world that it wouldn't surprise me if WPML were borked in some amateurish manner as the man accuses them to be.
Being thorough on a subject makes you preoccupied. Especially if you're smart that way. Being thorough on the scientific method makes you discover things and are truly proven to be new. Which makes details you had the wrong assumptions about ever more surprising.
Also: calling a discovery surprising makes a report about it more interesting.
... is to hold a printout of it's Datamodell in front of your webcam when logged in to the Dashboard. WordPress then usually just blushes ashamed, wordlessly crawls into a corner and doesn't bug you for the rest of the day.
... about wether a game is catering to diversity or social justice or not. Absolutely positively no one at all. People do care if it's a good game or not. And my assumption, knowing EA, is that it's probably a shitty and utterly pointless game. For all I care EA along with today's ActiJizz can go die in a fire and I figure most games think the same of today's triple A industry.
I have thought a lot about Multitouch touchscreens and tablet computers, ever since the early eighties and I have to say we are basically there. Which is amazing, as what we have today for dirt cheap would be magic back in the eighties.
However, the problem of powerful Tools in untrained hands still remains. People by and large don't know yet how to deal with technology. That's why we have the problems in social networks and still have people using word to send images.
Other than that I personally am pretty happy with the technical state of things. Really can't compatible. A repairable smartphone with replaceable battery would be nice though.
They don't have a soul. They are - you're not going to believe this - bots. Designed and run to shout and speak random stuff into a massive social space to achieve a desired effect of some sort. Sort of like yelling "Fire"in a building where there is none. So no, bots aren't protected by free speech, just like my screwdriver isn't protected by free speech. Of course not.
No tuition at all and taxpayers pay for colleges. Since college grads usually earn more, they automatically finance there share of what brought them ahead in society.... But that wouldn't work, wouldn't it? Because then we'd all be in some downtrodden communist third-world state like Germany.... Oh, wait, that sounds weird... errrm... Nevermind.
That's just about a no-brainer. Unless she is an expert and knows what she wants and how to handle it and/or she needs to run special software that requires a certain OS, Chromebook is the way to go. Dirt-cheap, fast, zero-fuss and you won't lose any data.
If anyone uses social media for 5 hours a day or more regularly, they already are depressed to begin with I'd say. Maybe boys just hide it better? There's a very plausible explanation right there.
Tim Cook and crew should read it once again. I never owned an iPhone and never considered buying one. Yet until this years lineup I always knew what the newest and best iphone was.
Now I don't anymore.
It's a total disaster in brand and lineup bloat. If they carry on, the iPhone will lose it's brand value in 2 years or less.
Apples value proposition has been degrading sharply in the last few years and now they've reached a tipping point. If I were in charge I'd weed 2 thirds out of their product lineup, reduce iPhones to 3 models in varying screen size and focus on quality and minimalism again.
Apple is also a fashion brand, so they can pivot on a dime, offer less features and battery for a sky high price, but not if their catalogue is as confusing and broad as Ikeas.
... the way the Chinese are taking the concept of an orwellian state further to unseen depths on a biweekly basis, is it not?
Folks we're going to be in some super-bizarre global Cyberpunk society in 2 decades from now if this catches on globally and it ain't going to be half as cool as in a roleplaying game, a Stevenson/Gibson novel or some bladerunner movie sequel - it will just plain suck, big time. I don't want this and neither do you. Talk to you folks about this, we are the opinion leaders when it comes to IT and we need to wake up as many as possible before it's too late.
When companies have the power to disrupt societies, one manager thinking and taking bullshit can do a lot of damage. It always has been that way but these days or highly optimised society has become more fragile which makes bullshit more likely to cause damage.
... compared to Estonia. What they're doing in terms of digital government is groundbreaking and has been going on for a few years now. All digital zero-fuss bureaucracy. Very nice and an example I'd wish some German authorities would follow more eagerly.
... for using your real name on a generally anonymous internet.
Besides: I know of no one who know the basics about computers and the internet that uses Twitter for anything other than the occasional tip on some programmer meeting or a technical subject or problem they are currently working on. Which is just about exactly what Twitter was built for. Use it for anything else and the average IQ in the Twitter pseudo conversation drops sharply. See POTUS Trump for a good example.
Fiction - Walkaway (Cory Doctorow)... reading this right now. Lightweight near-future post-scarcity cyberpunk. Nice. Recommended.
- The Windup Girl (Paolo Bacigalupi)... fresh generation cyber/biopunk, got the print edition but started listening to the audibile audiobook. Recommended.
- Foundation Cycle (Isaac Asimov) - never read it, planning to finally catch up as per recommendation by Elon Musk and due to my desire to up my general education, on my list, just got the first one in paperback
Non-Fiction - The 6th Extinction (Elizabeth Kolbert) - on my list
- The Messy Middle (Scott Belsky) - Heard about it in a Tim Ferriss show with Belsky. Got curious. Bought it. Up in 2019, I presume.
- The Lean Startup (Eric Ries) - On my shelf. Might finally get to it in 2019.
- War is a Racket (Butler Smedley) - an anti-war classic from roughly 100 years ago. Apparently still 100% spot on about the reasons and mechanisms of war in general, apparently a must-read - on my list
- The Ethical Slut (Janet W. Hardy) - Zero-bullshit non-contemporary feminism and womanhood. I.e. feminism for women who can handle the fact than women and men are actually different in a way or two. A very fresh and welcoming distraction from current-day whiny "MeToo MeToo" pseudo-feminism. - On my list.
- Guns, Germs and Steel: The fate of human societies (Jared Diamond) - How and why "western" society came to rule the world, for reasons that were mostly accident and sheer luck more than anything else. - On my list.
... stop dumping plastic into the ocean in the first place and then worry about getting the plastic that's already there out? If we all decide we want to do this than we can move beyond bullshit feel-good projects and throw another few billion at plastic vacuums or something to fix things.
Whenever I need to fix a broken or out of control sequence on a bloated POS website, catching the Backbutton is one of the quick and dirty hacks that sort of solve the problem. It doesn't feel right though.
PWAs are borderline, IMHO, because they interfere with the network and Adress bar. However there seems to be sort of a standard on how to do it and you can expect a good site to follow suit. Service Worker is to cool a concept to leave out, it's a good hack that makes the web offline capable - on of the huge missing things of the web.
However, messing with the Backbutton should be a last resort. Or it should be so well integrated into an SPA That it makes no difference to the user.
I for one never feel quite ok with doing it when circumstances demand it.
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... and then, if he's proven to be resonably right with his accusations, be let of the hook. It should be very easy to check the WPML codebase and the security holes he speaks of. And if they exist in the ways he says and are easyly exploited as he says I'd be willing to believe him more than I would believe the WPML team.
When it comes to WP Plugins WPML is one of the better ones but I've seen so much shit in the WP world that it wouldn't surprise me if WPML were borked in some amateurish manner as the man accuses them to be.
My 2 cents.
Being thorough on a subject makes you preoccupied. Especially if you're smart that way. Being thorough on the scientific method makes you discover things and are truly proven to be new. Which makes details you had the wrong assumptions about ever more surprising.
Also: calling a discovery surprising makes a report about it more interesting.
... anonymously harass cute female online columnist.
Next up: Water wet! Pope Catholic!
Lady, unless you're writing about beauty tips and have to rely on being a public figure yourself, use a friggin pseudonym when writing online.
... is to hold a printout of it's Datamodell in front of your webcam when logged in to the Dashboard. WordPress then usually just blushes ashamed, wordlessly crawls into a corner and doesn't bug you for the rest of the day.
Works every time.
... about wether a game is catering to diversity or social justice or not. Absolutely positively no one at all. People do care if it's a good game or not. And my assumption, knowing EA, is that it's probably a shitty and utterly pointless game. For all I care EA along with today's ActiJizz can go die in a fire and I figure most games think the same of today's triple A industry.
I have thought a lot about Multitouch touchscreens and tablet computers, ever since the early eighties and I have to say we are basically there. Which is amazing, as what we have today for dirt cheap would be magic back in the eighties.
However, the problem of powerful Tools in untrained hands still remains. People by and large don't know yet how to deal with technology. That's why we have the problems in social networks and still have people using word to send images.
Other than that I personally am pretty happy with the technical state of things. Really can't compatible. A repairable smartphone with replaceable battery would be nice though.
... and practices are coming back at them."
FTFY
They don't have a soul. They are - you're not going to believe this - bots. Designed and run to shout and speak random stuff into a massive social space to achieve a desired effect of some sort. Sort of like yelling "Fire"in a building where there is none.
So no, bots aren't protected by free speech, just like my screwdriver isn't protected by free speech. Of course not.
No tuition at all and taxpayers pay for colleges. Since college grads usually earn more, they automatically finance there share of what brought them ahead in society. ... But that wouldn't work, wouldn't it? Because then we'd all be in some downtrodden communist third-world state like Germany. ... Oh, wait, that sounds weird ... errrm ... Nevermind.
That's just about a no-brainer. Unless she is an expert and knows what she wants and how to handle it and/or she needs to run special software that requires a certain OS, Chromebook is the way to go. Dirt-cheap, fast, zero-fuss and you won't lose any data.
If anyone uses social media for 5 hours a day or more regularly, they already are depressed to begin with I'd say. Maybe boys just hide it better? There's a very plausible explanation right there.
The 22 immutable laws of marketing.
Tim Cook and crew should read it once again. I never owned an iPhone and never considered buying one. Yet until this years lineup I always knew what the newest and best iphone was.
Now I don't anymore.
It's a total disaster in brand and lineup bloat. If they carry on, the iPhone will lose it's brand value in 2 years or less.
Apples value proposition has been degrading sharply in the last few years and now they've reached a tipping point. If I were in charge I'd weed 2 thirds out of their product lineup, reduce iPhones to 3 models in varying screen size and focus on quality and minimalism again.
Apple is also a fashion brand, so they can pivot on a dime, offer less features and battery for a sky high price, but not if their catalogue is as confusing and broad as Ikeas.
My 2 cents.
... the way the Chinese are taking the concept of an orwellian state further to unseen depths on a biweekly basis, is it not?
Folks we're going to be in some super-bizarre global Cyberpunk society in 2 decades from now if this catches on globally and it ain't going to be half as cool as in a roleplaying game, a Stevenson/Gibson novel or some bladerunner movie sequel - it will just plain suck, big time. I don't want this and neither do you. Talk to you folks about this, we are the opinion leaders when it comes to IT and we need to wake up as many as possible before it's too late.
My 2 eurocents.
When companies have the power to disrupt societies, one manager thinking and taking bullshit can do a lot of damage. It always has been that way but these days or highly optimised society has become more fragile which makes bullshit more likely to cause damage.
... compared to Estonia. What they're doing in terms of digital government is groundbreaking and has been going on for a few years now. All digital zero-fuss bureaucracy. Very nice and an example I'd wish some German authorities would follow more eagerly.
Because I don't buy phones that don't have one.
Genius, isn't it?
... for using your real name on a generally anonymous internet.
Besides: I know of no one who know the basics about computers and the internet that uses Twitter for anything other than the occasional tip on some programmer meeting or a technical subject or problem they are currently working on. Which is just about exactly what Twitter was built for. Use it for anything else and the average IQ in the Twitter pseudo conversation drops sharply. See POTUS Trump for a good example.
Society closing in on post-scarcity economy! Stores turning into walk-in storage and distribution warehouses with token pricing!
Next up:
Water wet!
Fiction ... reading this right now. Lightweight near-future post-scarcity cyberpunk. Nice. Recommended.
- Walkaway (Cory Doctorow)
- The Windup Girl (Paolo Bacigalupi) ... fresh generation cyber/biopunk, got the print edition but started listening to the audibile audiobook. Recommended.
- Foundation Cycle (Isaac Asimov) - never read it, planning to finally catch up as per recommendation by Elon Musk and due to my desire to up my general education, on my list, just got the first one in paperback
Non-Fiction
- The 6th Extinction (Elizabeth Kolbert) - on my list
- The Messy Middle (Scott Belsky) - Heard about it in a Tim Ferriss show with Belsky. Got curious. Bought it. Up in 2019, I presume.
- The Lean Startup (Eric Ries) - On my shelf. Might finally get to it in 2019.
- War is a Racket (Butler Smedley) - an anti-war classic from roughly 100 years ago. Apparently still 100% spot on about the reasons and mechanisms of war in general, apparently a must-read - on my list
- The Ethical Slut (Janet W. Hardy) - Zero-bullshit non-contemporary feminism and womanhood. I.e. feminism for women who can handle the fact than women and men are actually different in a way or two. A very fresh and welcoming distraction from current-day whiny "MeToo MeToo" pseudo-feminism. - On my list.
- Guns, Germs and Steel: The fate of human societies (Jared Diamond) - How and why "western" society came to rule the world, for reasons that were mostly accident and sheer luck more than anything else. - On my list.
Right?
1.) Don't use FB.
2.) Unless you're obscenely rich, stay away from silicon valley and the Bay area.
Any other questions?
... stop dumping plastic into the ocean in the first place and then worry about getting the plastic that's already there out?
If we all decide we want to do this than we can move beyond bullshit feel-good projects and throw another few billion at plastic vacuums or something to fix things.
That sounds more like a plan, doesn't it?
Just saying ...
... Captain Obvious just awoke from 17 years of hibernation.
Disclaimer: Web developer here.
Whenever I need to fix a broken or out of control sequence on a bloated POS website, catching the Backbutton is one of the quick and dirty hacks that sort of solve the problem. It doesn't feel right though.
PWAs are borderline, IMHO, because they interfere with the network and Adress bar. However there seems to be sort of a standard on how to do it and you can expect a good site to follow suit. Service Worker is to cool a concept to leave out, it's a good hack that makes the web offline capable - on of the huge missing things of the web.
However, messing with the Backbutton should be a last resort. Or it should be so well integrated into an SPA That it makes no difference to the user.
I for one never feel quite ok with doing it when circumstances demand it.
My 2 cents.
I'd never move to AWS. Not in my right mind. From Oracle I'd always move to Maria DB or Postgres.