I agree- unless we're talking a huge drop, just suck it up. I mean, you were willing to pay for it then, but you're going to have a meltdown and your kids will starve because now it's 50 cents cheaper?
What on earth is wrong with two factor authentication? I can't see these being more secure.
Exactly.
What happened was that someone at Google decided two factor authentication wasn't complicated or cool enough, and came up with a "better" *cough* way to solve a problem that's already been solved. Plus it'll give them an excuse to gather even more data on you.
The winners write the history books, and they're often inclined to cast their opponents/enemies in the worst possible light whilst making themselves out to be selfless heroes fighting the good fight.
Except that nobody in this article is a senior member of his administration, in fact none of them are or were members of his administration at all. These events all occurred during the Bush years and these were senior members of Dubya's administration, not Obama's. We are talking about events that happened circa 2006, ten years ago, long before Obama under Bush and Cheney.
Shhhhhhhhh, stop using facts to fuck up his "Blame Obama" narrative.
That is true. What is also true is that sentence is badly written.
Yes, but that's a long way from being incomprehensible, as the original AC seemed to think, with his "Clarify your terrible editing" comment. Believe me, if you're looking for truly terrible editing you can find lots of more egregious examples in many of the other story summaries.
Poorly written? Yes. Still comprehensible? Yes.
One doesn't make up for the other, but it's not something that'll keep me awake at night.
The only issue is, node.js is really designed to be used on a cluster of machines on the server side.
I didn't realize that...is it not suitable for use a single server setup, or is it preferred to use a cluster? I'm not familiar with it so that's why I'm asking.
I don't think Javascript is as dreadful as many people here seem to consider it, but I would be a little leery of writing a huge application in it (although, at the same time I am quite fond of jQuery and what it can do on the client side).
Do you clean your house? Or are you living in a garbage belt?
I clean my house, but I don't tear out the walls and replace them each time.
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as demonstrated by you needing to add "whatever that means".
"Clean code" means different things to different people, hence my comment. Now you're just being an ass and a bit of a pedant. If it didn't mean different things to different people we wouldn't be having this conversation, would we?
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Funny that, I maintain a 20 year old system... Is it still running on the same development environment as 20 years ago? Of course not.
Exactly: your development environment isn't the same as it was 20 years ago. Thank you for making my point for me, I appreciate it.
" if [Crane's] allegations are confirmed in court, they could put current and former senior Pentagon officials in jail. (Official investigations are quietly under way.)"
And the official investigations will be quietly covered up.
Unfortunately, it was a bit out of my price range.
Yep. For the price of a Segway I could probably hire someone to push me across the entire United States in a wheelchair.:)
They're cool, but coolness wasn't enough to make them practical. You couldn't really commute to work on one in most places, nor could you go grocery shopping with one. I'm not sure what you can do with one, frankly, other than Mall Patrol.
Or look at some other CMSs. Node.JS is nto a replacement for Wordpress.
Yep. A modern CMS may last for quite a while, especially if they're committed to managing in house over the long haul. But it also sounds as though they have some custom dev tools that are going to be time-consuming to replace, so it might be better to fix what they can while transitioning to something that's already available rather than coding the whole thing new from the ground up.
just that using the web (internally) seems to be a longer lasting solution then a platform dependant one (say windows app).
Agreed...although browsers may come and go and change, the underlying stuff will probably stand the test of time. There's no reason you couldn't build a web app that would (*SHOULD*) still work 5 or 10 years from now. But his idea of keeping everything the same for a decade is probably unrealistic.
Ah yes, the Segway. It was supposed to "revolutionize the world", and was a huge flop that practically no one wanted. Seeing a Segway in the wild is akin to spotting a unicorn galloping down the street.
I can count on one hand the number of Segways I've seen in actual use, mostly cops patrolling aimlessly inside of airports and shopping malls. They're not much use in the real world where just rolling over a stick or rock throws you off and makes you a candidate for a head injury.
The real question is why, and what would be gained from doing so?
This would be a major project, is the return really going to be worth the investment of time and energy?
I think there is often a desire, rational or not, among programmers to want to redo things and make them "clean" (whatever that means) and more efficient. It's a laudable notion, but it's often outweighed by the amount of work required to re-code everything from scratch. I've rarely found it to be worth the time and effort, frankly.
My guess is that he'd be better off optimizing some of the choke points, or perhaps implementing one of the many existing development platforms. That may require some modification, but it would still probably be a better way to go about it. It's unlikely that his needs are so out-of-band or unusual that a standardized solution wouldn't work (again, even if it required some customization).
Wanting "Something potentially scalable and perhaps even ready for zero-fuss migration to an entirely cloud-based platform" sounds very buzz-wordy to me, and that's a red flag in my book.
Finally, the statement that "it's about correctly building a pipeline that won't be completely outdated in 10 years" seems to be pure wishful thinking.
Good luck with that- I doubt ANY development environment is going to survive for ten years. That's an eternity in the world of coding and development. Tools get outdated as capabilities and needs expand and mature. Hell, I doubt I'll even be using the same text editor in 10 years, let alone an entire development environment.
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Why would anyone want to replace a perfectly good free/opensource kernel with a Microsoft one?
My guess is because of a head injury.
Watch.
What the fuck did I just watch??
Hipsters will fight each other to the death for the honor of carrying one.
"This? It's a Windows phone...you probably never heard of it."
If you bought before a price drop, deal with it.
I agree- unless we're talking a huge drop, just suck it up. I mean, you were willing to pay for it then, but you're going to have a meltdown and your kids will starve because now it's 50 cents cheaper?
"...to conclude that breakfast isn't as important after all."
Breakfast isn't as important as what? Lunch? Dinner? Oxygen? Jack Daniels?
What on earth is wrong with two factor authentication? I can't see these being more secure.
Exactly.
What happened was that someone at Google decided two factor authentication wasn't complicated or cool enough, and came up with a "better" *cough* way to solve a problem that's already been solved. Plus it'll give them an excuse to gather even more data on you.
They would be recorded as rebels.
Well...maybe and maybe not.
The winners write the history books, and they're often inclined to cast their opponents/enemies in the worst possible light whilst making themselves out to be selfless heroes fighting the good fight.
Except that nobody in this article is a senior member of his administration, in fact none of them are or were members of his administration at all. These events all occurred during the Bush years and these were senior members of Dubya's administration, not Obama's.
We are talking about events that happened circa 2006, ten years ago, long before Obama under Bush and Cheney.
Shhhhhhhhh, stop using facts to fuck up his "Blame Obama" narrative.
That is true. What is also true is that sentence is badly written.
Yes, but that's a long way from being incomprehensible, as the original AC seemed to think, with his "Clarify your terrible editing" comment. Believe me, if you're looking for truly terrible editing you can find lots of more egregious examples in many of the other story summaries.
Poorly written? Yes.
Still comprehensible? Yes.
One doesn't make up for the other, but it's not something that'll keep me awake at night.
The only issue is, node.js is really designed to be used on a cluster of machines on the server side.
I didn't realize that...is it not suitable for use a single server setup, or is it preferred to use a cluster? I'm not familiar with it so that's why I'm asking.
I don't think Javascript is as dreadful as many people here seem to consider it, but I would be a little leery of writing a huge application in it (although, at the same time I am quite fond of jQuery and what it can do on the client side).
Do you clean your house? Or are you living in a garbage belt?
I clean my house, but I don't tear out the walls and replace them each time.
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as demonstrated by you needing to add "whatever that means".
"Clean code" means different things to different people, hence my comment. Now you're just being an ass and a bit of a pedant. If it didn't mean different things to different people we wouldn't be having this conversation, would we?
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Funny that, I maintain a 20 year old system... Is it still running on the same development environment as 20 years ago? Of course not.
Exactly: your development environment isn't the same as it was 20 years ago. Thank you for making my point for me, I appreciate it.
Only if you've read the previous summary "Over the two hours attackers withdrew the equivalent of $907 in 14,000 different transactions."
It was a 5-sentence summary. Who reads the last line without reading the first few sentences?
The last line may have been a little clumsy on its own but if that's all a person can be bothered to read then they deserve to be confused.
" if [Crane's] allegations are confirmed in court, they could put current and former senior Pentagon officials in jail. (Official investigations are quietly under way.)"
And the official investigations will be quietly covered up.
Its entirely possible classic VB contains code that Microsoft stole from 3rd parties and is unable to open source.
Fixed that for ya.
... and how many unicorns have you seen lately?
Almost as many as the number of Segways I've seen.
"even the worst Web hosting service provides automatic backups from where they could retrieve a clean version of their site."
This is so wrong it gave me brain cancer.
NESFLASH: Lots of hosts don't provide backups, automatic or otherwise. Ask me how I know.
How about an Etch-A-Sketch movie? That sounds just about as exciting.
Unfortunately, it was a bit out of my price range.
Yep. For the price of a Segway I could probably hire someone to push me across the entire United States in a wheelchair. :)
They're cool, but coolness wasn't enough to make them practical. You couldn't really commute to work on one in most places, nor could you go grocery shopping with one. I'm not sure what you can do with one, frankly, other than Mall Patrol.
Or look at some other CMSs.
Node.JS is nto a replacement for Wordpress.
Yep. A modern CMS may last for quite a while, especially if they're committed to managing in house over the long haul. But it also sounds as though they have some custom dev tools that are going to be time-consuming to replace, so it might be better to fix what they can while transitioning to something that's already available rather than coding the whole thing new from the ground up.
just that using the web (internally) seems to be a longer lasting solution then a platform dependant one (say windows app).
Agreed...although browsers may come and go and change, the underlying stuff will probably stand the test of time. There's no reason you couldn't build a web app that would (*SHOULD*) still work 5 or 10 years from now. But his idea of keeping everything the same for a decade is probably unrealistic.
Ah yes, the Segway. It was supposed to "revolutionize the world", and was a huge flop that practically no one wanted. Seeing a Segway in the wild is akin to spotting a unicorn galloping down the street.
I can count on one hand the number of Segways I've seen in actual use, mostly cops patrolling aimlessly inside of airports and shopping malls. They're not much use in the real world where just rolling over a stick or rock throws you off and makes you a candidate for a head injury.
The real question is why, and what would be gained from doing so?
This would be a major project, is the return really going to be worth the investment of time and energy?
I think there is often a desire, rational or not, among programmers to want to redo things and make them "clean" (whatever that means) and more efficient. It's a laudable notion, but it's often outweighed by the amount of work required to re-code everything from scratch. I've rarely found it to be worth the time and effort, frankly.
My guess is that he'd be better off optimizing some of the choke points, or perhaps implementing one of the many existing development platforms. That may require some modification, but it would still probably be a better way to go about it. It's unlikely that his needs are so out-of-band or unusual that a standardized solution wouldn't work (again, even if it required some customization).
Wanting "Something potentially scalable and perhaps even ready for zero-fuss migration to an entirely cloud-based platform" sounds very buzz-wordy to me, and that's a red flag in my book.
Finally, the statement that "it's about correctly building a pipeline that won't be completely outdated in 10 years" seems to be pure wishful thinking.
Good luck with that- I doubt ANY development environment is going to survive for ten years. That's an eternity in the world of coding and development. Tools get outdated as capabilities and needs expand and mature. Hell, I doubt I'll even be using the same text editor in 10 years, let alone an entire development environment.
To be fair, the sentence probably should have contained the word "each".
Perhaps, but I think it would be pretty obvious to anyone who thought about it for a moment.
What the hell does that even mean?
It means he is unable to comprehend simple sentences or basic mathematics.
And they say crime doesn't pay.