Remember those ads from the 80s and 90s about how sleeping with one person is like sleeping with all the people they slept with? Node and NPM are like that, if you slept with Charlie Sheen. It's like everybody is having a contest to see how many dependencies they can require. Who knew it takes 3 dependencies to figure out if a number is positive?
Since the waterflow around the shark is designed to flow smoothly, as the shark approached the surfer would be deflected into the waterstream and flow with it
There's plenty of legal justification (and more importantly, case law) that the All Writs Act doesn't extend as far as the FBI is trying to push it. And it really doesn't matter what the SCOTUS might think because that would be years off. Far more relevant is the 9th circuit court of appeals. (With a 4-4 SCOTUS, it would remain as they left it).
Where it gets really funny is... rust uses libc's dns resolver. Which is usually (always?) the buggy version from glibc.
Remember that when people ask why "we" don't rewrite all of libc in rust. I mean, if you want to, that's great. But maybe you should start in your own house. Meanwhile, musl and freebsd have much nicer libc implementations.
Personally, I'm not interested in rust. Not because of the language but because of the developers. I'm not sure if it's a programming language or an experiment in social justice gone wrong.
It is official; Netcraft now confirms: FireFox is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered FireFox community when IDC confirmed that FireFox market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all browsers. Coming close on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that FireFox has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Firefox is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing first in the recent Pwn2Own security challenge.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict FireFox's future. The hand writing is on the wall: FireFox faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for FireFox because FireFox is dying. Things are looking very bad for FireFox. As many of us are already aware, FireFox continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Mozilla FireFox is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departure of long time Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FireFox is dying.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FireFox OS went out of business and was taken over by PalmOS who sell another troubled OS. Now ThunderBird is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that FireFox has steadily declined in market share. FireFox is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If FireFox is to survive at all it will be among retro browser dilettante dabblers. FireFox continues to decay. Nothing short of a cockeyed miracle could save FireFix from its fate at this point in time. For all practical purposes, FireFox is dead.
Fact: FireFox is dying
You're entirely correct that no new projects and very few *active* old projects use it. But there are lots of old and inactive projects that use it. And that source code isn't available anywhere else. SourceForge is like a museum for 90s era source code. At least make it look nice!
Thank you. I'm sure you're aware that GitHub has gone full SJW and has started alienating developers. Source Forge may now have an opportunity to regain some market share.
HOWEVER.. Jesus Christ, the SF UI is a train wreck. It sucked in the 90s and sucks today. People put up with it then because there were no other options.
Look, it's about source, right? That is the first word in SourceForge. Open a GitHub project page and *bang* the source is right there. SourceForge? You have to click half a dozen times to find the source. And it's probably that shitty CVS source code viewer. Most people use SourceForge because they like CVS. At least drop that abomination ViewCSV and re-write it so it looks pretty.
And there's the problem. For many people, that means "hello". But along comes a SJW that's offended by that. Why does someone with a twitter account and a dildo up his (and/or her) ass trump the culture and language off a few million people?
1. get rid of the lameness filter. As they say, a lameness filter on slashdot is like a shit filter on my ass.
2. better tor support. as it is, many tor exit sites are banned (pink banned page). Either remove the bans -or- better yet, create a dedicated, slashdot.onion address.
Every once in a while, I open up the slashdot front page, scan the headlines, then close it. Because there's little or nothing I care about. I don't even care enough to first post. Maybe it's just me. But I used to spend a lot of time here.
1. Fire Nerval's Lobster.
2. Get rid of the video section. Actually, the last video should be a video of nerval being fired.
3. Undo everything dice did.
4. More ESR / RMS flamewars
5. More VI / Emacs flamewars
I figure you guys have no idea what slashdot is about. Let me give you a brief history:
2.5 million B.C.: OOG the Open Source Caveman develops the axe and releases it under the GPL. The axe quickly gains popularity as a means of crushing moderators' heads.
100,000 B.C.: Man domesticates the AIBO.
10,000 B.C.: Civilization begins when early farmers first learn to cultivate hot grits.
3000 B.C.: Sumerians develop a primitive cuneiform perl script.
2920 B.C.: A legendary flood sweeps Slashdot, filling up a Borland / Inprise story with hundreds of offtopic posts.
1750 B.C.: Hammurabi, a Mesopotamian king, codifies the first EULA.
490 B.C.: Greek city-states unite to defeat the Persians. ESR triumphantly proclaims that the Greeks "get it".
399 B.C.: Socrates is convicted of impiety. Despite the efforts of freesocrates.com, he is forced to kill himself by drinking hemlock.
336 B.C.: Fat-Time Charlie becomes King of Macedonia and conquers Persia.
4 B.C.: Following the Star (as in hot young actress) of Bethelem, wise men travel from far away to troll for baby Jesus.
A.D. 476: The Roman Empire BSODs.
A.D. 610: The Glorious MEEPT!! founds Islam after receiving a revelation from God. Following his disappearance from Slashdot in 632, a succession dispute results in the emergence of two troll factions: the Pythonni and the Perliites.
A.D. 800: Charlemagne conquers nearly all of Germany, only to be acquired by andover.net.
A.D. 874: Linus the Red discovers Iceland.
A.D. 1000: The epic of the Beowulf Cluster is written down. It is the first English epic poem.
A.D. 1095: Pope Bruce II calls for a crusade against the Turks when it is revealed they are violating the GPL. Later investigation reveals that Pope Bruce II had not yet contacted the Turks before calling for the crusade.
A.D. 1215: Bowing to pressure to open-source the British government, King John signs the Magna Carta, limiting the British monarchy's power. ESR triumphantly proclaims that the British monarchy "gets it".
A.D. 1348: The ILOVEYOU virus kills over half the population of Europe. (The other half was not using Outlook.)
A.D. 1420: Johann Gutenberg invents the printing press. He is immediately sued by monks claiming that the technology will promote the copying of hand-transcribed books, thus violating the church's intellectual property.
A.D. 1429: Natalie Portman of Arc gathers an army of Slashdot trolls to do battle with the moderators. She is eventually tried as a heretic and stoned (as in petrified).
A.D. 1478: The Catholic Church partners with doubleclick.net to launch the Spanish Inquisition.
A.D. 1492: Christopher Columbus arrives in what he believes to be "India", but which RMS informs him is actually "GNU/India".
A.D. 1508-12: Michaelengelo attempts to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling with ASCII art, only to have his plan thwarted by the "Lameness Filter."
A.D. 1517: Martin Luther nails his 95 Theses to the church door and is promptly moderated down to (-1, Flamebait).
A.D. 1553: "Bloody" Mary ascends the throne of England and begins an infamous crusade against Protestants. ESR eats his words.
A.D. 1588: The "IF I EVER MEET YOU, I WILL KICK YOUR ASS" guy meets the Spanish Armada.
A.D. 1603: Tokugawa Ieyasu unites the feuding pancake-eating ninjas of Japan.
A.D. 1611: Mattel adds Galileo Galilei to its CyberPatrol block list for proposing that the Earth revolves around the sun.
A.D. 1688: In the so-called "Glorious Revolution", King James II is bloodlessly forced out of power and flees to France. ESR again triumphantly proclaims that the British monarchy "gets it".
A.D. 1692: Anti-GIF hysteria in the New World comes to a head in the infamous "Salem GIF Trials", in which 20 alleged GIFs are burned at the stake. Later investigation reveals that mayn of the supposed GIFs were actually PNGs.
node.js doesn't block so it's faster than c. And since it's javascript, you can find programmers anywhere. Like that homeless guy holding a "callback(){ return food; }" sign. Underneath the stench is a 10x webscale javascript ninja that can rewrite your code in es6 javascript.
Slashdot Mirror
Node.js is for people too stupid to learn PHP.
Remember those ads from the 80s and 90s about how sleeping with one person is like sleeping with all the people they slept with? Node and NPM are like that, if you slept with Charlie Sheen. It's like everybody is having a contest to see how many dependencies they can require. Who knew it takes 3 dependencies to figure out if a number is positive?
Has Warren Buffet also explained why he's giving his money to charity and not letting any of it go to the government? Oh yeah, he has.
PS - that's not a bucket, it's a crock of shit.
Sure, and you can stick your thumb up your ass and jack off for less than it costs to take a girl out for dinner.
That's not how it works.
.
Yeah, your black hole is right here.
There's plenty of legal justification (and more importantly, case law) that the All Writs Act doesn't extend as far as the FBI is trying to push it. And it really doesn't matter what the SCOTUS might think because that would be years off. Far more relevant is the 9th circuit court of appeals. (With a 4-4 SCOTUS, it would remain as they left it).
even better would be if all the Endor scenes were damaged beyond repair!
Where it gets really funny is... rust uses libc's dns resolver. Which is usually (always?) the buggy version from glibc.
Remember that when people ask why "we" don't rewrite all of libc in rust. I mean, if you want to, that's great. But maybe you should start in your own house. Meanwhile, musl and freebsd have much nicer libc implementations.
Personally, I'm not interested in rust. Not because of the language but because of the developers. I'm not sure if it's a programming language or an experiment in social justice gone wrong.
If Christians can wait 2000+ years for Jesus to come back, I can wait a couple months for dice to return!
heh, anyone else remember when GIF meant pr0n?
And you didn't tweet them, you skeeted on them.
10 print hello
20 end
It is official; Netcraft now confirms: FireFox is dying One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered FireFox community when IDC confirmed that FireFox market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all browsers. Coming close on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that FireFox has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Firefox is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing first in the recent Pwn2Own security challenge. You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict FireFox's future. The hand writing is on the wall: FireFox faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for FireFox because FireFox is dying. Things are looking very bad for FireFox. As many of us are already aware, FireFox continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. Mozilla FireFox is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departure of long time Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FireFox is dying. Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FireFox OS went out of business and was taken over by PalmOS who sell another troubled OS. Now ThunderBird is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house. All major surveys show that FireFox has steadily declined in market share. FireFox is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If FireFox is to survive at all it will be among retro browser dilettante dabblers. FireFox continues to decay. Nothing short of a cockeyed miracle could save FireFix from its fate at this point in time. For all practical purposes, FireFox is dead. Fact: FireFox is dying
Javascript exists so you can punch the monkey. 15 years later, they're still spanking that monkey!
You're entirely correct that no new projects and very few *active* old projects use it. But there are lots of old and inactive projects that use it. And that source code isn't available anywhere else. SourceForge is like a museum for 90s era source code. At least make it look nice!
Thank you. I'm sure you're aware that GitHub has gone full SJW and has started alienating developers. Source Forge may now have an opportunity to regain some market share.
HOWEVER.. Jesus Christ, the SF UI is a train wreck. It sucked in the 90s and sucks today. People put up with it then because there were no other options.
Look, it's about source, right? That is the first word in SourceForge. Open a GitHub project page and *bang* the source is right there. SourceForge? You have to click half a dozen times to find the source. And it's probably that shitty CVS source code viewer. Most people use SourceForge because they like CVS. At least drop that abomination ViewCSV and re-write it so it looks pretty.
Thank you and fuck beta.
I kiss you!
And there's the problem. For many people, that means "hello". But along comes a SJW that's offended by that. Why does someone with a twitter account and a dildo up his (and/or her) ass trump the culture and language off a few million people?
1. get rid of the lameness filter. As they say, a lameness filter on slashdot is like a shit filter on my ass.
2. better tor support. as it is, many tor exit sites are banned (pink banned page). Either remove the bans -or- better yet, create a dedicated, slashdot.onion address.
Hey whiplash -- it's 2016. How about fixing the text encoding?
Every once in a while, I open up the slashdot front page, scan the headlines, then close it. Because there's little or nothing I care about. I don't even care enough to first post. Maybe it's just me. But I used to spend a lot of time here. 1. Fire Nerval's Lobster. 2. Get rid of the video section. Actually, the last video should be a video of nerval being fired. 3. Undo everything dice did. 4. More ESR / RMS flamewars 5. More VI / Emacs flamewars
I figure you guys have no idea what slashdot is about. Let me give you a brief history:
2.5 million B.C.: OOG the Open Source Caveman develops the axe and releases it under the GPL. The axe quickly gains popularity as a means of crushing moderators' heads.
100,000 B.C.: Man domesticates the AIBO.
10,000 B.C.: Civilization begins when early farmers first learn to cultivate hot grits.
3000 B.C.: Sumerians develop a primitive cuneiform perl script.
2920 B.C.: A legendary flood sweeps Slashdot, filling up a Borland / Inprise story with hundreds of offtopic posts.
1750 B.C.: Hammurabi, a Mesopotamian king, codifies the first EULA.
490 B.C.: Greek city-states unite to defeat the Persians. ESR triumphantly proclaims that the Greeks "get it".
399 B.C.: Socrates is convicted of impiety. Despite the efforts of freesocrates.com, he is forced to kill himself by drinking hemlock.
336 B.C.: Fat-Time Charlie becomes King of Macedonia and conquers Persia.
4 B.C.: Following the Star (as in hot young actress) of Bethelem, wise men travel from far away to troll for baby Jesus.
A.D. 476: The Roman Empire BSODs.
A.D. 610: The Glorious MEEPT!! founds Islam after receiving a revelation from God. Following his disappearance from Slashdot in 632, a succession dispute results in the emergence of two troll factions: the Pythonni and the Perliites.
A.D. 800: Charlemagne conquers nearly all of Germany, only to be acquired by andover.net.
A.D. 874: Linus the Red discovers Iceland.
A.D. 1000: The epic of the Beowulf Cluster is written down. It is the first English epic poem.
A.D. 1095: Pope Bruce II calls for a crusade against the Turks when it is revealed they are violating the GPL. Later investigation reveals that Pope Bruce II had not yet contacted the Turks before calling for the crusade.
A.D. 1215: Bowing to pressure to open-source the British government, King John signs the Magna Carta, limiting the British monarchy's power. ESR triumphantly proclaims that the British monarchy "gets it".
A.D. 1348: The ILOVEYOU virus kills over half the population of Europe. (The other half was not using Outlook.)
A.D. 1420: Johann Gutenberg invents the printing press. He is immediately sued by monks claiming that the technology will promote the copying of hand-transcribed books, thus violating the church's intellectual property.
A.D. 1429: Natalie Portman of Arc gathers an army of Slashdot trolls to do battle with the moderators. She is eventually tried as a heretic and stoned (as in petrified).
A.D. 1478: The Catholic Church partners with doubleclick.net to launch the Spanish Inquisition.
A.D. 1492: Christopher Columbus arrives in what he believes to be "India", but which RMS informs him is actually "GNU/India".
A.D. 1508-12: Michaelengelo attempts to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling with ASCII art, only to have his plan thwarted by the "Lameness Filter."
A.D. 1517: Martin Luther nails his 95 Theses to the church door and is promptly moderated down to (-1, Flamebait).
A.D. 1553: "Bloody" Mary ascends the throne of England and begins an infamous crusade against Protestants. ESR eats his words.
A.D. 1588: The "IF I EVER MEET YOU, I WILL KICK YOUR ASS" guy meets the Spanish Armada.
A.D. 1603: Tokugawa Ieyasu unites the feuding pancake-eating ninjas of Japan.
A.D. 1611: Mattel adds Galileo Galilei to its CyberPatrol block list for proposing that the Earth revolves around the sun.
A.D. 1688: In the so-called "Glorious Revolution", King James II is bloodlessly forced out of power and flees to France. ESR again triumphantly proclaims that the British monarchy "gets it".
A.D. 1692: Anti-GIF hysteria in the New World comes to a head in the infamous "Salem GIF Trials", in which 20 alleged GIFs are burned at the stake. Later investigation reveals that mayn of the supposed GIFs were actually PNGs.
A.D. 1769: James Watt pate
What were the terms of the sale? I mean, digg sold for like $5 a couple years ago. I figure Dice must have paid you guys 3 or 4 figures.
Pro tip: rewrite your press release. Remove words like "synergies". Add the phrase "naked and petrified". Dump a bowl of hot grits down your pants.
That's how you can restore ./ to it's former glory (hole).
node.js doesn't block so it's faster than c. And since it's javascript, you can find programmers anywhere. Like that homeless guy holding a "callback(){ return food; }" sign. Underneath the stench is a 10x webscale javascript ninja that can rewrite your code in es6 javascript.
Try using grindr instead.