The biggest threat which cannot be managed by a business anymore is the threat posed by a rogue foreign government such as the United States. Though I am hardly singling them out -- the UK, China, Iran, North Korea, India, Iraq, France, Germany and Egypt join them on the list of foreign governments who have attempted to destroy businesses extrajudicially.
The really sad bit is that list only touches upon those governments guilty of this, and the various MafiAA organs are working on the rest, pushing SOPA/PIPA/TPP/ACTA & etc.
You've really got to hand it to the MafiAA, they really figured out how to bend politicos to their will, and have been pressing that insight with all their might.
Libertarians with their extreme capitalist views would do anything to protect MPIAA and RIAA. Dog eat dog capitalism. When they talk about 'liberty', it's liberty of abusing others, protecting everything you own (with weapons if necessary) and pure freedom to do anything.
Not one of those describes libertarian theory in reality. You're making stuff up because you want to believe them. Shame on you. McCarthyism was better done than this.
Do some research before you make yourself look this ignorant next time.
I'm tempted to say, "Save your breath" (or typing). For most that I've read on/., "libertarian" is parsed as "Tea Party", and that's as deep as they go into it. They can't begin to concieve of a gov't that's not beholden to some sort of special interests. Still, thanks for writing it. I concur on pretty much all of it based on my understanding of the subject.
*I wish* people would do some reading and research into it before condemning it, but I doubt I'll see that trend happening in my lifetime. Cf. all the vitriol sent Ron Paul's way these days.
It's okay, these computer thingamajigs understand these things called variables. A variable is something that can contain any one of shit, piss, motherfucker, cocksucker, or tits, or all of them and more.
Any community large enough to need significant amounts of these would be much better served by desal plants though. I find it hard to imagine a case where vast quantities of these things would have to be built...
Really? How about the Sahara, Chad, Ethiopia, Sudan, Mongolia, Australia, Chile, and a few tens of thousands of small islands that subsist on rainfall?
Hell, if we could drag the Sahara back from desert, we could feed the world.
At the very least, these companies have benefited from the U.S Legal and industrial infrastructure.... The U.S. (Feds, state and private) is a BIG customer and As such, I think a reasonable person can say that IBM and other large U.S. companies "owe" something to the U.S. and its workers.
I think it would be better to just add them to your list of companies to boycott until they come around. Getting the Feds involved isn't going to fix anything, and will likely just make it hurt more.
... assuming there's any truth to the story in the first place. Someone mentioned this story is from 2007.
If more people turned to terrorism against the powerful, instead of harassing their neighbors, we might be able to do something about the power structure of our society.
Are you volunteering to show us how it's done? Pics or it didn't happen.
Weak government serves powerful companies. Strong government would serve people if for no other reason [than] out of pointlessness of serving anyone else.
Read that again, think about it a few seconds, then compare it to our present reality. You're deluded if you still believe it. Yes, deluded.
You're making things up because they're what you want to believe. The US gov't is about the most powerful one on the planet. So powerful in fact, it isn't even bothering to care about public opinions held by its electorate. It serves powerful companies now and has done so for a long time, and it ignores dissenting voices.
China has a strong gov't too, but even the PRC is afraid of small protests over corruption and land distribution. Not so the USA.
Perl Golf is an interesting intellectual exercise, but you shouldn't be playing it when writing production code.
I have no desire to write code that I'll not be able to understand when a client calls about it in a year, or five years, from now. I do want those who inherit my code to not want to throw it out because they can't understand it enough to maintain it. Yeah, that means my code may be more verbose than wizardly YAPHs would prefer. I don't care.
Adopting the mandatory use of perlcritic is a good first step towards managing Perl development. Perl Best Practices should be required reading for any modern Perl programmer.
My first thought was, "A perl style guide?!? Ah, $excrement!" I'll have to read it before I pass judgement:
$barf = bar() if $foo; #Violates 'ProhibitPostfixControls'
Crap, that's just wrong. I'll admit, I'm still trying to wring my money's worth out of my blue copies of the O'Really perl series. For those listening in, Debian Linux offers:
p libperl-critic-perl - Perl module to critique code for best practices p libtest-perl-critic-perl - module to use Perl::Critic in test scripts
in both stable and testing, so no need to futz around with CPAN (which can be a pita).
Now that you have conceded that "conservatives" are in the majority, and one of the objectives of the left is to increase "democracy", then you recognize that conservative views are the ones that should be emphasized.
I wish both conservatives and progressives would take a moment to step back and look at what they're espousing. I'm not in the US, so I don't have any sticks in your fire. Take this as merely an observation.
Conservative means preferring the status quo, or even going back to some previous state when things were (presumably) better. I have the utmost respect for your Founding Fathers, or at least some of them. They were revolutionary for their time; progressive even.
Progressives want to go forward, assuming forward means leaving behind ignorance or naive ways. Huxley's "Brave New World" was progressive. Was it better? I wouldn't say so./. is lousy with people who wish NASA was still trying to get us to the stars somehow. That's progressive. Those people back in the Apollo days who got you to the Moon were conservative Cold Warriors who were trying to teach those bastard Soviets "we" were right, not "them."
How to sum this up,... You're not that different from each other as you might think, if you stop to think about it. I wish you could stop hating each other over minutia, and agree to disagree and get on with the job. Fundamentally, you both want the same things, and generally speaking despise the same things.
Find common ground. You just might regain that precious liberty you both say you hold so dear.
The job of the legal system is not to solve riddles or problems of society, but to enforce the laws.
Holy circular reasoning, Batman! So, if we get rid of all the laws, we won't need a legal/justice system? How do you suppose that's going to work out?
I suspect it would devolve back into the way Sicillians handled it. If you hurt someone, that someone's family will swear out a blood oath and come after you, or you and your family. Yeah, that'd be an improvement.
Is it easier to write good code than bad code in this language? I've seen no evidence that it ever answers yes to [this].
You can write perl that looks like modem line noise, but you don't have to. Feature! It's not dependent upon the language. It is dependent upon the programmer that's using it. My perl is damned gorgeous just to look at in a text editor (screenshots and samples if you ask). You don't have to make it hard to read or maintain, though some programmers do.
"Guns don't kill people, people do." perl doesn't naturally have to look like modem line noise, but some programmers do use it that way; not perl's fault. "An idea is not responsible for the people who hold it."
But to say that anything is inferior to Perl seems wrong. Even JavaScript with its type inconsistencies feels less of a patchwork than Perl. I hope I'll never have to work with Perl again in my life.
Me too, that you'll never work with perl again. I've never heard anyone not get perl this viscerally. Wow, you really didn't get it.
Hint: poor programmers can write bad code in any language. I'll assume you inherited some really bad perl written by a lousy programmer that you were expected to maintain? Bite the bullet and fix their crap, or run off to easier pastures.
perl is not the problem, and it often is the solution.
It just isn't wired into females to want to learn about engineering, computers, etc. It has nothing to do with how they are brought up, people just can't understand that. Men and women are wired different.
Bollocks. My nephews see nothing in it too. It's not a male, female thing. It's a "some people are, some aren't" thing. How many people do you know, male or female, who are passionate about STEM? I can count the number I know on the fingers of one hand without using all of them.
It has a lot to do with upbringing. STEM is not "sexy" or idolized by the average prole today so it's not recommended seriously to their precious snowflakes.
FWIW, my favorite geeks (in my experience) have been women.
And on top of that, the industry is using more Java which is as slow as snot. The attitude seems to be that if it runs slow, then throw some more iron at it.
Java programmers are taught to ignore the hardware, and to concentrate on the virtual machine. It's no surprise that "lack of iron" is their nemesis. They don't even know what "iron" is, nor what are its "ways", anymore. "What's an interrupt?"
Tomorrows/. article will probably be titled "Forget wasting money on IT, jump into the cloud-wagon". Guys... come on... make up your mind.
Yeah, that's a problem. Bull!@#$ floats, and rock solid sinks (is hard to sell). There's no helping that. All I can suggest is go slow, design, prototype, test, and iterate. If it works, extend/scale up your prototype. If not, try something else and do the same. Basic project management?
Someone up above says they throw away Gb ethernet, 8 GB RAM boxes. I'm pretty sure I could build a serious compute farm out of a few hundred of those if done right. This is now proven and previously implemented tech., so no rocket science involved; just sweat equity.
It would be peanuts to do if you can avoid commercial software doing it.
The reason things are slow is that we allow bloat to continue. We should be *demanding* efficiency in code.
I think I heard an Assembly programmer say the same thing the first time he heard about DMR's C. We lost that war decades ago. "Who cares about how bloated the code is if next week's processor will run it twice as fast anyway?!?"
Despite technological advancements, it takes forever for Slashdot to load on my phone.
It's close to instantaneous on my laptop. I don't believe surfing the web on a cellphone qualifies as a "technological advancement." More like, "Hey look. I can stick my left big toe in my right ear!"
"Yeah, but who wants to?" Thx to "BC" (Johnny Hart?).
Slashdot Mirror
What they want is the power to censor negative comment about themselves...
"Plus ca change, ..."
Even the Soviets couldn't do that, with threats of bullets in the back of heads. See what they couldn't stop no matter how hard they tried.
The biggest threat which cannot be managed by a business anymore is the threat posed by a rogue foreign government such as the United States. Though I am hardly singling them out -- the UK, China, Iran, North Korea, India, Iraq, France, Germany and Egypt join them on the list of foreign governments who have attempted to destroy businesses extrajudicially.
The really sad bit is that list only touches upon those governments guilty of this, and the various MafiAA organs are working on the rest, pushing SOPA/PIPA/TPP/ACTA & etc.
You've really got to hand it to the MafiAA, they really figured out how to bend politicos to their will, and have been pressing that insight with all their might.
Libertarians with their extreme capitalist views would do anything to protect MPIAA and RIAA. Dog eat dog capitalism. When they talk about 'liberty', it's liberty of abusing others, protecting everything you own (with weapons if necessary) and pure freedom to do anything.
Not one of those describes libertarian theory in reality. You're making stuff up because you want to believe them. Shame on you. McCarthyism was better done than this.
Do some research before you make yourself look this ignorant next time.
I'm tempted to say, "Save your breath" (or typing). For most that I've read on /., "libertarian" is parsed as "Tea Party", and that's as deep as they go into it. They can't begin to concieve of a gov't that's not beholden to some sort of special interests. Still, thanks for writing it. I concur on pretty much all of it based on my understanding of the subject.
*I wish* people would do some reading and research into it before condemning it, but I doubt I'll see that trend happening in my lifetime. Cf. all the vitriol sent Ron Paul's way these days.
Laissez nous faire. :-)
Reading "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" leads me to believe that we who care need to make things much worse for those who don't, so they _will_ care.
Mmm ... Multiple boxcars full of rocks raining down on MafiAA offices, ... Mmm ...
A boxcar full of rocks falling at terminal velocity would probably surpass anything in the US arsenal short of a nuke. Mmm ...
German government was stupid enough to give these thugs power over all music streaming over the Internet in Germany.
That's what needs to change. Blitz (sorry) lobby your politicians to revoke that power, or at least fix how it's used.
Does Germany do class action lawsuits? Why has Gema a monopoly? Surely not every artist in Germany approves of Gema representing them.
... pedestrian typos ...
Walking typos?!? I didn't think that would happen for quite a while from now.
It's OK, this is the internet. We can swear here.
It's okay, these computer thingamajigs understand these things called variables. A variable is something that can contain any one of shit, piss, motherfucker, cocksucker, or tits, or all of them and more.
Have a very nice day. :-)
!@#$ you. No Really. !@#$ you.
Shift 1234 you?
It was mostly symbolic
That's the funniest thing I've seen in a while, bravo. Yeah, I don't get out much.
Any community large enough to need significant amounts of these would be much better served by desal plants though. I find it hard to imagine a case where vast quantities of these things would have to be built ...
Really? How about the Sahara, Chad, Ethiopia, Sudan, Mongolia, Australia, Chile, and a few tens of thousands of small islands that subsist on rainfall?
Hell, if we could drag the Sahara back from desert, we could feed the world.
At the very least, these companies have benefited from the U.S Legal and industrial infrastructure. ... The U.S. (Feds, state and private) is a BIG customer and As such, I think a reasonable person can say that IBM and other large U.S. companies "owe" something to the U.S. and its workers.
I think it would be better to just add them to your list of companies to boycott until they come around. Getting the Feds involved isn't going to fix anything, and will likely just make it hurt more.
... assuming there's any truth to the story in the first place. Someone mentioned this story is from 2007.
If more people turned to terrorism against the powerful, instead of harassing their neighbors, we might be able to do something about the power structure of our society.
Are you volunteering to show us how it's done? Pics or it didn't happen.
Weak government serves powerful companies.
Strong government would serve people if for no other reason [than] out of pointlessness of serving anyone else.
Read that again, think about it a few seconds, then compare it to our present reality. You're deluded if you still believe it. Yes, deluded.
You're making things up because they're what you want to believe. The US gov't is about the most powerful one on the planet. So powerful in fact, it isn't even bothering to care about public opinions held by its electorate. It serves powerful companies now and has done so for a long time, and it ignores dissenting voices.
China has a strong gov't too, but even the PRC is afraid of small protests over corruption and land distribution. Not so the USA.
Open your damned eyes.
Perl Golf is an interesting intellectual exercise, but you shouldn't be playing it when writing production code.
I have no desire to write code that I'll not be able to understand when a client calls about it in a year, or five years, from now. I do want those who inherit my code to not want to throw it out because they can't understand it enough to maintain it. Yeah, that means my code may be more verbose than wizardly YAPHs would prefer. I don't care.
Adopting the mandatory use of perlcritic is a good first step towards managing Perl development. Perl Best Practices should be required reading for any modern Perl programmer.
My first thought was, "A perl style guide?!? Ah, $excrement!" I'll have to read it before I pass judgement:
$barf = bar() if $foo; #Violates 'ProhibitPostfixControls'
Crap, that's just wrong. I'll admit, I'm still trying to wring my money's worth out of my blue copies of the O'Really perl series. For those listening in, Debian Linux offers:
p libperl-critic-perl - Perl module to critique code for best practices
p libtest-perl-critic-perl - module to use Perl::Critic in test scripts
in both stable and testing, so no need to futz around with CPAN (which can be a pita).
Thx mon. I didn't know this.
Now that you have conceded that "conservatives" are in the majority, and one of the objectives of the left is to increase "democracy", then you recognize that conservative views are the ones that should be emphasized.
I wish both conservatives and progressives would take a moment to step back and look at what they're espousing. I'm not in the US, so I don't have any sticks in your fire. Take this as merely an observation.
Conservative means preferring the status quo, or even going back to some previous state when things were (presumably) better. I have the utmost respect for your Founding Fathers, or at least some of them. They were revolutionary for their time; progressive even.
Progressives want to go forward, assuming forward means leaving behind ignorance or naive ways. Huxley's "Brave New World" was progressive. Was it better? I wouldn't say so. /. is lousy with people who wish NASA was still trying to get us to the stars somehow. That's progressive. Those people back in the Apollo days who got you to the Moon were conservative Cold Warriors who were trying to teach those bastard Soviets "we" were right, not "them."
How to sum this up, ... You're not that different from each other as you might think, if you stop to think about it. I wish you could stop hating each other over minutia, and agree to disagree and get on with the job. Fundamentally, you both want the same things, and generally speaking despise the same things.
Find common ground. You just might regain that precious liberty you both say you hold so dear.
The job of the legal system is not to solve riddles or problems of society, but to enforce the laws.
Holy circular reasoning, Batman! So, if we get rid of all the laws, we won't need a legal/justice system? How do you suppose that's going to work out?
I suspect it would devolve back into the way Sicillians handled it. If you hurt someone, that someone's family will swear out a blood oath and come after you, or you and your family. Yeah, that'd be an improvement.
Is it easier to write good code than bad code in this language? I've seen no evidence that it ever answers yes to [this].
You can write perl that looks like modem line noise, but you don't have to. Feature! It's not dependent upon the language. It is dependent upon the programmer that's using it. My perl is damned gorgeous just to look at in a text editor (screenshots and samples if you ask). You don't have to make it hard to read or maintain, though some programmers do.
"Guns don't kill people, people do." perl doesn't naturally have to look like modem line noise, but some programmers do use it that way; not perl's fault. "An idea is not responsible for the people who hold it."
But to say that anything is inferior to Perl seems wrong. Even JavaScript with its type inconsistencies feels less of a patchwork than Perl. I hope I'll never have to work with Perl again in my life.
Me too, that you'll never work with perl again. I've never heard anyone not get perl this viscerally. Wow, you really didn't get it.
Hint: poor programmers can write bad code in any language. I'll assume you inherited some really bad perl written by a lousy programmer that you were expected to maintain? Bite the bullet and fix their crap, or run off to easier pastures.
perl is not the problem, and it often is the solution.
It just isn't wired into females to want to learn about engineering, computers, etc. It has nothing to do with how they are brought up, people just can't understand that. Men and women are wired different.
Bollocks. My nephews see nothing in it too. It's not a male, female thing. It's a "some people are, some aren't" thing. How many people do you know, male or female, who are passionate about STEM? I can count the number I know on the fingers of one hand without using all of them.
It has a lot to do with upbringing. STEM is not "sexy" or idolized by the average prole today so it's not recommended seriously to their precious snowflakes.
FWIW, my favorite geeks (in my experience) have been women.
If you stop and reflect of course you know its nonsense, but I bet you sometimes have those thoughts anyway.
No, and it's pretty insulting that you would think that of me. Chutzpah.
Don't project your prejudices on the rest of us. Deal with your faults on your own. Your goofiness has nothing to do with me or the way I think.
And on top of that, the industry is using more Java which is as slow as snot. The attitude seems to be that if it runs slow, then throw some more iron at it.
Java programmers are taught to ignore the hardware, and to concentrate on the virtual machine. It's no surprise that "lack of iron" is their nemesis. They don't even know what "iron" is, nor what are its "ways", anymore. "What's an interrupt?"
Tomorrows /. article will probably be titled "Forget wasting money on IT, jump into the cloud-wagon". Guys... come on... make up your mind.
Yeah, that's a problem. Bull!@#$ floats, and rock solid sinks (is hard to sell). There's no helping that. All I can suggest is go slow, design, prototype, test, and iterate. If it works, extend/scale up your prototype. If not, try something else and do the same. Basic project management?
Someone up above says they throw away Gb ethernet, 8 GB RAM boxes. I'm pretty sure I could build a serious compute farm out of a few hundred of those if done right. This is now proven and previously implemented tech., so no rocket science involved; just sweat equity.
It would be peanuts to do if you can avoid commercial software doing it.
The reason things are slow is that we allow bloat to continue. We should be *demanding* efficiency in code.
I think I heard an Assembly programmer say the same thing the first time he heard about DMR's C. We lost that war decades ago. "Who cares about how bloated the code is if next week's processor will run it twice as fast anyway?!?"
We throw away machines with gig-e and 8 gigs ram. Want one?
Sure. Or I could show you what you're doing wrong.
Despite technological advancements, it takes forever for Slashdot to load on my phone.
It's close to instantaneous on my laptop. I don't believe surfing the web on a cellphone qualifies as a "technological advancement." More like, "Hey look. I can stick my left big toe in my right ear!"
"Yeah, but who wants to?" Thx to "BC" (Johnny Hart?).