And then the self-appointed owner can revert the change again. That's a pretty high barrier to entry for someone who just wants to fix a typo and doesn't have the time or motivation to monitor those talk pages.
What's the point - tricking new editors into thinking that their contributions are welcome and accepted? That's cruel. It's like offering an ice cream cone to a little kid and yanking it away at the last moment. It'd be a lot kinder to write a bot to revert a new editor's first 10 contributions with messages like "you are wrong and your grammer sucsk lol". At least that way they know what they're getting themselves into.
In other cases this has been because microsoft wrote the tools and designed them to be hostile to Linux, e.g. ACPI. is there any of that here?
This is what he's talking about. You don't have to be a conspiracy theorist to think that Microsoft could have deliberately made ACPI difficult for Linux to implement.
In fairness, I'd love to see Soul Asylum. And while it may be sacrilege, I had more fun seeing 311 than George Clinton. Oh, did I mention that REO is touring with Skynyrd?
The standard response at this point is to say that the bandwidth saturation problem is the carrier's problem because they are just being greedy, won't improve their network blah blah blah.
I guess I'd be more sympathetic if I hadn't signed a damned "unlimited plan" contract with them. I couldn't give two shits how or why they can't or won't uphold their end of the contract. If I stopped paying my full owed price each month, they'd cancel my account and bill me for early termination. What's my (viable) recourse when they cry that they're not able to deliver on their word?
I'm not asking for fully uncapped gigabit transfers 24x7x365. That's not a reasonable expectation. I'm just asking for what I contracted for: the ability to do all the stuff their advertising told me I could do back before I signed on the dotted line.
The cognitive dissonance between this story and the countless (pro-)piracy stories is astounding.
Only if you fail at logic. The pro-Free-Software stance is "it's good to share, and to those ends, we're going to share our stuff with you (as long as you share it with others in turn)." Given that "sharing is good" is a bedrock principle of that opinion, it's unsurprising that a somewhat overlapping set of people also believes that it's OK to share other things.
About the only case that can be made is that modified routers can't be sold, but routers could be sold along with the means to modify them.
Not really, because if they're placing additional restrictions on the redistribution of someone else's GPLed code, they lose the right to distribute that code under the terms of the GPL.
Yeah seriously, I don't know why people even bother to learn languages that are 11 times as slow on fairly routine tasks.
Because I'm way more expensive than adding a second rackmount server. Because the few hundred thousand lines of Python in production in my company are either event-driven (waiting for web requests), IO bound (waiting on remote websites to answer), or scheduled (nightly batch processes). Because our "busy" server currently has a 15 minute load average of 0.13 and 99.2% free CPU. Tell me again why I'd want to write CPU-efficient code over programmer-efficient applications?
Yeah, I'm being snarky. I don't see anything inherently different between C#, Java, and Python, other than that Python is dynamically (but still strongly) typed. It's my opinion that duck typing makes for easier maintenance - the point being that both of our positions devolve to personal preference and not objective truth.
Java or C# (depending on target platform(s)) for large but otherwise-modest programs, and scripting languages (mostly Python) for one-off programs or little tools that don't justify the involvement of a more heavyweight language.
I could see why you'd prefer feature-rich languages that compile into bytecode that runs on a VM to a feature-rich language that compiles into bytecode that runs on a VM. That's smart planning.
Because of the seemingly endless stream of stories exactly like the one you're reading right now. Flash doesn't remove any of the vulnerabilities you describe; it adds to them. What's less secure: Firefox with "javascript html exploits? XSS, dirty-cookie? [...] Sencha/JQuery Bugs", or Firefox with all that plus Flash's exploit du jour?
I'm glad you've found a way to make a living off it. Good for you! But I honestly couldn't care less if that ended tomorrow. My system's integrity is much more interesting to me than any Flash-heavy website I've ever seen, and I won't miss it for a moment when it finally goes away.
My dad just collapsed one day. A week earlier, I visited him with the grandkids in tow and we all had a great time. And then... I got a call one day that he was gone. It hurt like hell, but my last memories of Dad were of him laughing and vibrant and happy and himself. I hated losing him, but wow, what a blessing to end on a high note.
Oh, I don't know. Dreamweaver used to have a built-in VCS - it just kept adding nested tags without removing old ones. You could track the designer's thinking over time:
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And then the self-appointed owner can revert the change again. That's a pretty high barrier to entry for someone who just wants to fix a typo and doesn't have the time or motivation to monitor those talk pages.
What's the point - tricking new editors into thinking that their contributions are welcome and accepted? That's cruel. It's like offering an ice cream cone to a little kid and yanking it away at the last moment. It'd be a lot kinder to write a bot to revert a new editor's first 10 contributions with messages like "you are wrong and your grammer sucsk lol". At least that way they know what they're getting themselves into.
Because it's like saying "the sun will come up tomorrow [citation needed]". The citation is that damn near everyone has experienced it first-hand.
In other cases this has been because microsoft wrote the tools and designed them to be hostile to Linux, e.g. ACPI. is there any of that here?
This is what he's talking about. You don't have to be a conspiracy theorist to think that Microsoft could have deliberately made ACPI difficult for Linux to implement.
I'm in Norfolk, upwind and upstream from the reactor. As such, I see no need to panic whatsoever.
we kind of fudged the underage
That's illegal in most venues.
In fairness, I'd love to see Soul Asylum. And while it may be sacrilege, I had more fun seeing 311 than George Clinton. Oh, did I mention that REO is touring with Skynyrd?
A little above you in Norfolk, our summer concert highlight is REO Speedwagon. Please forgive me for being unsympathetic. :-)
Go ahead and try it, genius. I look forward to seeing the video on Tosh.0.
The standard response at this point is to say that the bandwidth saturation problem is the carrier's problem because they are just being greedy, won't improve their network blah blah blah.
I guess I'd be more sympathetic if I hadn't signed a damned "unlimited plan" contract with them. I couldn't give two shits how or why they can't or won't uphold their end of the contract. If I stopped paying my full owed price each month, they'd cancel my account and bill me for early termination. What's my (viable) recourse when they cry that they're not able to deliver on their word?
I'm not asking for fully uncapped gigabit transfers 24x7x365. That's not a reasonable expectation. I'm just asking for what I contracted for: the ability to do all the stuff their advertising told me I could do back before I signed on the dotted line.
If often comes to the point where I might as well "friend" them, since it saves me hassle and stress in the long run.
"Friend", followed by "Hide all by [...]", is what you're looking for.
If I ever opened a C++ file and saw std\string, I'd have to throatstab someone.
Somewhere, an APL hacker is giggling.
At that point, what's the advantage over a #define? I do some C, but not enough to appreciate that level of subtlety.
The cognitive dissonance between this story and the countless (pro-)piracy stories is astounding.
Only if you fail at logic. The pro-Free-Software stance is "it's good to share, and to those ends, we're going to share our stuff with you (as long as you share it with others in turn)." Given that "sharing is good" is a bedrock principle of that opinion, it's unsurprising that a somewhat overlapping set of people also believes that it's OK to share other things.
About the only case that can be made is that modified routers can't be sold, but routers could be sold along with the means to modify them.
Not really, because if they're placing additional restrictions on the redistribution of someone else's GPLed code, they lose the right to distribute that code under the terms of the GPL.
Yeah seriously, I don't know why people even bother to learn languages that are 11 times as slow on fairly routine tasks.
Because I'm way more expensive than adding a second rackmount server. Because the few hundred thousand lines of Python in production in my company are either event-driven (waiting for web requests), IO bound (waiting on remote websites to answer), or scheduled (nightly batch processes). Because our "busy" server currently has a 15 minute load average of 0.13 and 99.2% free CPU. Tell me again why I'd want to write CPU-efficient code over programmer-efficient applications?
(Python is strongly typed. :-) )
Yeah, I'm being snarky. I don't see anything inherently different between C#, Java, and Python, other than that Python is dynamically (but still strongly) typed. It's my opinion that duck typing makes for easier maintenance - the point being that both of our positions devolve to personal preference and not objective truth.
Java or C# (depending on target platform(s)) for large but otherwise-modest programs, and scripting languages (mostly Python) for one-off programs or little tools that don't justify the involvement of a more heavyweight language.
I could see why you'd prefer feature-rich languages that compile into bytecode that runs on a VM to a feature-rich language that compiles into bytecode that runs on a VM. That's smart planning.
Good God, why all the hate on Flash?
Because of the seemingly endless stream of stories exactly like the one you're reading right now. Flash doesn't remove any of the vulnerabilities you describe; it adds to them. What's less secure: Firefox with "javascript html exploits? XSS, dirty-cookie? [...] Sencha/JQuery Bugs", or Firefox with all that plus Flash's exploit du jour?
I'm glad you've found a way to make a living off it. Good for you! But I honestly couldn't care less if that ended tomorrow. My system's integrity is much more interesting to me than any Flash-heavy website I've ever seen, and I won't miss it for a moment when it finally goes away.
My dad just collapsed one day. A week earlier, I visited him with the grandkids in tow and we all had a great time. And then... I got a call one day that he was gone. It hurt like hell, but my last memories of Dad were of him laughing and vibrant and happy and himself. I hated losing him, but wow, what a blessing to end on a high note.
This jibes with "common sense" and the computer-language shoot-out
The one that ignores faster implementations of languages, just... because?
Oh, I don't know. Dreamweaver used to have a built-in VCS - it just kept adding nested tags without removing old ones. You could track the designer's thinking over time:
It was kind of like Web 0.5 archaeology.
You've convinced me.