The problem with a signed build system, is what happens when malware is developed within Sourceforge? Upload the software, build it. Generate signed malware for installation. Sure Filezilla might have a l. But then what about the cert for SF.net/calculator?
Back in the early day of the Microsoft/Novell/Unix wars Microsoft liked to tout that there were used for mission critical purposes in most (all? can't remember for sure) Fortune 500 companies. When asked what that meant: At least one group was using them for file serving, which MS viewed as mission critical.
Everyone who has used a computer in the last 30 years knows software has bugs.
I was creating prototype software for a company. Near the end of that phase, one of the higher ups was surprised when I said there were probably still bugs in that code. Reality distortion fields abound.
Since these are reported, but not necessarily fixed bugs, if someone is interesting in attacking one of your customers, you are giving them a gold mine of potential attack information. I believe in responsible disclosure, but it is one thing to tell your customers. Something else to tell the world, especially before it is fixed.
So true. I wonder what the ratio business/consumer is. For a business user who needs internet, mail, phone, and maybe a few additional apps, 16 will be completely appropriate. I think this is part of the reason for the jump to 64. You either need very little additional space, or you need significantly more.
Ok. I am confused. You don't have the time to have someone on staff, helping with 50-70% of the job, but you do have time to search for 8-10+ months with no one filling the job?
One ended fine. As long as you can teach the system the only way to win is not to play.
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One of the points I found the most insightful is that the geeks don't like to take the time to make things work anymore. I remember a colleague saying that there was no better way to kill a hobby than to get it as a job.
The days of tweaking the OS and hardware as a common practice among the majority of geeks is gone. The field is too broad now. You have to pick which stack, and where on it, you want to hack.
The file system app has security uses. If you see a sudden change in behavior in file system access it can alert you to the fact that you have been compromised, or that an internal employee is doing something they shouldn't.
Take a look at his biography. His experience starts mid-90s in large corporations. Maybe he thinks computing started then?
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I remember building a crane "by the numbers" using a lego building set. In 1980 or so (I know for a fact is was before 1984, since I moved out of the house that I did it in then. For some reason I still have the box, but the instructions/legos have all gone.
Yes, some sets are more specialized. Minecraft gives you a huge range of blocks that isn't possible in the physical world, but dealing with the way that they fit together in "meat space" has its own value.
That is nice in theory, but I have found all to often in practice, when people see what they ask for, they realize that they didn't really want that. When you have a multi-year process, requirements change (heck I've seen it in multi-week!). Even ignoring the issues of human nature which induce this type of event, there are so many external forces that can drive a change that being able to re-evaluate is key.
My take on agile, and the "developer rebellion" is that developers got fed up with 18 different "Number 1" priorities, and wanted to force management to actually do their job and prioritize.
Does that include the Universal Musical Group who have broken contracts, put up hundreds of MP3s on download services without consent of the artists and then have gone out of their way to obfuscate the revenue collected?
To take your excellent idea on profiling and expand it. Maybe Amazon found that dealing with government requests about those books was too expensive, and thus chose to stop selling them so they would have fewer government requests to deal with?
My understanding is that the cost for delivery/handling of single movie is on order of 80 cents. With a customer base of tens of millions, cutting one movie a month out of the delivery cycle could have a significant impact on the bottom line.
If there are fewer delivery days in a month, then you get fewer movies per month if you turn them around every other day. This would help Netflix's bottom line to cut delivery down to 5 days a week.
I agree that you want to have your team working together. But what about the idea of "come up with you you think this should work". By coming at it from different perspectives there are more possibilities to come up with something interesting.
Ideally you could blend the best ideas from both. That said, in many ways this isn't practical from today's business perspective, where resources are so thin, that you can barely get one fully staffed team.
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There was a minority of households having landlines from 1876-19xx. Sorry, couldn't find the number.
I had heard that as an Coca-Cola executive's response to someone asking if having Diet Coke take away from Coke sales was a problem.
The problem with a signed build system, is what happens when malware is developed within Sourceforge? Upload the software, build it. Generate signed malware for installation. Sure Filezilla might have a l. But then what about the cert for SF.net/calculator?
Back in the early day of the Microsoft/Novell/Unix wars Microsoft liked to tout that there were used for mission critical purposes in most (all? can't remember for sure) Fortune 500 companies. When asked what that meant: At least one group was using them for file serving, which MS viewed as mission critical.
Everyone who has used a computer in the last 30 years knows software has bugs.
I was creating prototype software for a company. Near the end of that phase, one of the higher ups was surprised when I said there were probably still bugs in that code. Reality distortion fields abound.
Since these are reported, but not necessarily fixed bugs, if someone is interesting in attacking one of your customers, you are giving them a gold mine of potential attack information. I believe in responsible disclosure, but it is one thing to tell your customers. Something else to tell the world, especially before it is fixed.
So true. I wonder what the ratio business/consumer is. For a business user who needs internet, mail, phone, and maybe a few additional apps, 16 will be completely appropriate. I think this is part of the reason for the jump to 64. You either need very little additional space, or you need significantly more.
Ok. I am confused. You don't have the time to have someone on staff, helping with 50-70% of the job, but you do have time to search for 8-10+ months with no one filling the job?
Did I read that correctly?
Charter tried this in the US. It didn't last long. When someone's kids were targeted for ads based on dad's browsing things get ugly.
Not all sites use their own code. Malicious JavaScript through advertisements would provide an attack vector. (As described in the article.)
One ended fine. As long as you can teach the system the only way to win is not to play.
One of the points I found the most insightful is that the geeks don't like to take the time to make things work anymore. I remember a colleague saying that there was no better way to kill a hobby than to get it as a job.
The days of tweaking the OS and hardware as a common practice among the majority of geeks is gone. The field is too broad now. You have to pick which stack, and where on it, you want to hack.
The file system app has security uses. If you see a sudden change in behavior in file system access it can alert you to the fact that you have been compromised, or that an internal employee is doing something they shouldn't.
Take a look at his biography. His experience starts mid-90s in large corporations. Maybe he thinks computing started then?
I remember building a crane "by the numbers" using a lego building set. In 1980 or so (I know for a fact is was before 1984, since I moved out of the house that I did it in then. For some reason I still have the box, but the instructions/legos have all gone.
Yes, some sets are more specialized. Minecraft gives you a huge range of blocks that isn't possible in the physical world, but dealing with the way that they fit together in "meat space" has its own value.
That is nice in theory, but I have found all to often in practice, when people see what they ask for, they realize that they didn't really want that. When you have a multi-year process, requirements change (heck I've seen it in multi-week!). Even ignoring the issues of human nature which induce this type of event, there are so many external forces that can drive a change that being able to re-evaluate is key.
My take on agile, and the "developer rebellion" is that developers got fed up with 18 different "Number 1" priorities, and wanted to force management to actually do their job and prioritize.
I remember being allowed to bring notes with me to class. Would just making this open book/open notes accomplish the same thing?
Does that include the Universal Musical Group who have broken contracts, put up hundreds of MP3s on download services without consent of the artists and then have gone out of their way to obfuscate the revenue collected?
Sure.
These are both good. I'd mod up if I could.
If they created a site where people could donate $3 to them, I wonder how many people would contribute?
Echoing that this everything else is irrelevant until this is known.
To take your excellent idea on profiling and expand it. Maybe Amazon found that dealing with government requests about those books was too expensive, and thus chose to stop selling them so they would have fewer government requests to deal with?
My understanding is that the cost for delivery/handling of single movie is on order of 80 cents. With a customer base of tens of millions, cutting one movie a month out of the delivery cycle could have a significant impact on the bottom line.
If there are fewer delivery days in a month, then you get fewer movies per month if you turn them around every other day. This would help Netflix's bottom line to cut delivery down to 5 days a week.
I agree that you want to have your team working together. But what about the idea of "come up with you you think this should work". By coming at it from different perspectives there are more possibilities to come up with something interesting.
Ideally you could blend the best ideas from both. That said, in many ways this isn't practical from today's business perspective, where resources are so thin, that you can barely get one fully staffed team.