It is now official. Netcraft has confirmed: Objective-C is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Objective-C community when IDC confirmed that Objective-C market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all developers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Objective-C has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Objective-C is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Trendy Code Languages comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be the Amazing Kreskin to predict Objective-C's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Objective-C faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Objective-C because Objective-C is dying. Things are looking very bad for Objective-C. As many of us are already aware, Objective-C continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Objective-C++++ is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Objective-C developers Joe Whathisname Hubbard and Mike Theotherguy only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Objective-C is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Due to the troubles of Cupertino, abysmal sales and so on, Objective-C went out of business and was taken over by Apple who sell another troubled OS. Now Objective-C is dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Objective-C has steadily declined in market share. Objective-C is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Objective-C is to survive at all it will be among dilettante code dabblers. Objective-C continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Objective-C is dead.
On the same theme, why does eBay constantly show me examples of goods for sale that I've already bought? I'm not likely to buy another oscilloscope, go-kart, steam iron or whatever - I already bought one.
Maybe it's wishful thinking, lol.
As an aside, there was a time when I owned two oscilloscopes, one was for the bench and the other was a little portable unit for use in the field. But still, I take your point and I agree.
You have far too many guns in circulation and that is the root cause of all of your domestic suffering
I'm no social scientist, but I think that might be just a wee bit simplistic. There are numerous problems in the US and many of them contribute to domestic suffering, but it's not all the fault of firearms. I mean seriously, get a grip dude.
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they are not tools for defence of your home.
Actually, they are. And they're a pretty decent option in a lot of cases.
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They day that you stop packing them is the day that criminals don't need to
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight...because criminals will respect that now ALL of their victims are unarmed. That's just brilliant! After all, no criminal would ever want to have an unfair advantage when victimizing people, would he? Of course not, that would just be silly.
And now, dear readers, we take you back to planet Earth, already in progress.
Apk's shows/. that shills-trolls can't prove him validly technically wrong using tools that do less + use more.
That sentence should be taken out and shot.
If he wants to show his product is better he should do it without spamming. That's never going to make me decide to try it, and if he's willing to relentlessly spam slashdot, what other scummy behavior is he likely to engage in? Backdoors in his APK shitware? Selling my user data to anyone who wants it?
If you have to spam your product, my response will be "FUCK YOU".
But the ad companies don't know you've bought the widget. They only know you searched for one.
Oh, I know. And this is where a lot of it breaks down. Most things I buy online I only buy one of, and if I do buy another one it's usually not for years.
If they were a little smarter they'd notice I was searching for widgets and then immediately start showing me ads for deeply-discounted widgets.
For most of the consumable items I buy online I already have a preferred source that I've done business with before. I suppose the could somehow track the periodicity of those repeat purchases and then target me a week or two before I'm predicted to buy again.
Unfortunately, none of those things would work because I use an ad blocker. So I guess they're screwed.
I feel no remorse. If ads hadn't become so intrusive, so bloated, and so potentially malignant, I never would have bothered to install an ad blocker. They're simply reaping what they've sowed.
Yep, you'll be sitting in that chair for weeks or months while they're still trying to sell you one.
Personally I find it hilarious. I sometimes go to Amazon and browse the infant stuff (formula, highchairs, strollers, cribs, etc) and then sit back and watch as the ads for that stuff follows me around the web for a month or two. Lol, it must really confound their metrics and ad data. And I've never even bought a child!:)
To be honest, I think it has more to do with page load times for most. The ads might be intrusive, but now with adblocking on my iPad pages load quickly, even with spotty Internet.
The tracking does have its "creepy" factor, with ads following you from site to site... Despite having already made whatever purchase was under consideration.
Exactly.
The speed-up in load time is incredible with an ad-blocker. That alone justifies using one in my mind. The protection against malware is another 100% stand-alone justification to me.
And finally, yes, the creepy tracking that is utterly worthless. I want to buy a widget, so I go to Amazon and buy one. And then for months every site I visit is filled to the gills with fucking widget ads. HELLO- I already bought my widget, I'm not going to buy another one. I'm already done and yet there's no feedback to the advertisers- they're too dumb to know that I bought my widget already.
He was also a civil war veteran and helped raise money to build the Statue of Liberty.
Yeah but he was also a door-gunner on the Space Shuttle in the Pan Galactic War of 2152, and he served with distinction. He's the recipient of the Nebula Cross with not just one but two Binary Star Meritorious Service clusters.
Yep, most police today act like every contact with person or every situation is "do or die".
They show very little restraint, and equipping them with "less than lethal" weapons (tasers, pepper spray, etc) has resulted in them being MORE likely to use them than less.
You see people tased for all sorts of ridiculous crap nowadays, when 90% of the time the situation could have been deescalated with no force or violence.
But cops ain't got time for that shit these days, now it's comply immediately or risk a tasing or pepper spray to the face. They also feel compelled to arrest or ticket someone for anything, no matter how minor. It's no wonder that the police have such a poor image these days, but the fact is that for the most part, they've earned it.
Shooting a guy in the back while he's running away? No biggie. Kill a guy by throwing him around in the back of a paddy wagon? That's okay. Choking a guy to death for selling single cigarettes? Sure, why not. Shoot a 12-year old kid with a toy gun (Tamir Rice) on sight? That's fine too. Shoot a guy in the head for a broken tail light? Go for it, no problem.
And for the most part they keep getting away with it, over and over and over.
Really, is it any wonder the public in general hates and fears the police?
That doesn't really help, my experience says they look for any user name that contains the text "admin" not simply the name admin
Yep, although you can prevent the discovery of usernames with plugins like Wordfence. This prevents anyone (or a bot) from iterating over the user list and seeing if there even is a user with "admin" in the name.
Later versions of WP allow you to pick something other than "admin" for the administrative user, but I still have fully upgraded versions that don't allow changing the name once it's set (which seems kind of silly/stupid to me).
I'd like a plugin that reserves the name "admin" and allows logging into that (fake) account with any password, whereupon that IP or hostname is instantly banned for however long you want.
I frequently see login attempts with names like "{no_matches}" or completely oddball names that don't and never have existed on the system. I've no idea what that's all about.
Or stop a person from making transactions. What do you do if there is no cash anymore and your bank accounts just got frozen?
Exactly. What happens is you're screwed. It's the first (and possibly last) step to becoming an unperson or "undesirable". I doubt an underground economy or barter system would be a practical alternative (and that would likely be made illegal).
It would be so easy to control the population and I have no doubt that 99% of politicians would love this idea. No more pesky dissenters and no organized resistance. It would be a wet dream come true for them.
Isn't that what a party does? They set the narrative (platform), you're on it or you're on your own?
Absolutely, but don't you think it crosses a line when a party (either party) actively tries to suppress opposing points of view in ways that are blatantly unfair?
I don't mean by countering the opposing point of view with better ideas or debate, but by stuff like gerrymandering, voter disenfranchisement and suppression, dirty tricks and under-the-table deals?
In the marketplace of ideas, if your ideas are really superior to the other proposals (or you believe them to be), shouldn't you be happy to have them put them head to head with the other (presumably) inferior ideas?
Cheating and playing dirty should be evidence that your ideas aren't better and that they cannot "win" on their own. Yet this seems to be standard operating procedure, not just these days but for most of recent history.
Lessig has raised a million dollars, which is nothing to sneeze at
A million dollars is nothing. Sorry to break this to you but that's not even enough to be a serious contender in a lot of state level elections. A million dollars is a rounding error in current day presidential elections.
This is sad, but completely true. A million dollars is nothing in modern day politics. I've heard estimates that close to a billion will be spent in the next election cycle, and I suspect that's not far off the mark. A lot of this is due to Super Pacs who have virtually unlimited amounts of money to spend to get their pet politician elected.
Super Pacs should be illegal (and were up until recently). There was a reason for that, and we're seeing it play out now. It's all just a matter of cold cash now, even more so than it has ever been.
Slashdot Mirror
..........another excellent reason to use AdBlock and NoScript.
Flash not allowed to run? No Flash exploit, simple as that.
It is now official. Netcraft has confirmed: Objective-C is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Objective-C community when IDC confirmed that Objective-C market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all developers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Objective-C has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Objective-C is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Trendy Code Languages comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be the Amazing Kreskin to predict Objective-C's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Objective-C faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Objective-C because Objective-C is dying. Things are looking very bad for Objective-C. As many of us are already aware, Objective-C continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Objective-C++++ is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Objective-C developers Joe Whathisname Hubbard and Mike Theotherguy only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Objective-C is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Due to the troubles of Cupertino, abysmal sales and so on, Objective-C went out of business and was taken over by Apple who sell another troubled OS. Now Objective-C is dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Objective-C has steadily declined in market share. Objective-C is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Objective-C is to survive at all it will be among dilettante code dabblers. Objective-C continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Objective-C is dead.
On the same theme, why does eBay constantly show me examples of goods for sale that I've already bought? I'm not likely to buy another oscilloscope, go-kart, steam iron or whatever - I already bought one.
Maybe it's wishful thinking, lol.
As an aside, there was a time when I owned two oscilloscopes, one was for the bench and the other was a little portable unit for use in the field. But still, I take your point and I agree.
You have far too many guns in circulation and that is the root cause of all of your domestic suffering
I'm no social scientist, but I think that might be just a wee bit simplistic. There are numerous problems in the US and many of them contribute to domestic suffering, but it's not all the fault of firearms. I mean seriously, get a grip dude.
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they are not tools for defence of your home.
Actually, they are. And they're a pretty decent option in a lot of cases.
-
They day that you stop packing them is the day that criminals don't need to
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight...because criminals will respect that now ALL of their victims are unarmed. That's just brilliant! After all, no criminal would ever want to have an unfair advantage when victimizing people, would he? Of course not, that would just be silly.
And now, dear readers, we take you back to planet Earth, already in progress.
I agree with pretty much everything you said. You nailed it, spot-on.
Cheers!
Apk's shows /. that shills-trolls can't prove him validly technically wrong using tools that do less + use more.
That sentence should be taken out and shot.
If he wants to show his product is better he should do it without spamming. That's never going to make me decide to try it, and if he's willing to relentlessly spam slashdot, what other scummy behavior is he likely to engage in? Backdoors in his APK shitware? Selling my user data to anyone who wants it?
If you have to spam your product, my response will be "FUCK YOU".
But the ad companies don't know you've bought the widget. They only know you searched for one.
Oh, I know. And this is where a lot of it breaks down. Most things I buy online I only buy one of, and if I do buy another one it's usually not for years.
If they were a little smarter they'd notice I was searching for widgets and then immediately start showing me ads for deeply-discounted widgets.
For most of the consumable items I buy online I already have a preferred source that I've done business with before. I suppose the could somehow track the periodicity of those repeat purchases and then target me a week or two before I'm predicted to buy again.
Unfortunately, none of those things would work because I use an ad blocker. So I guess they're screwed.
I feel no remorse. If ads hadn't become so intrusive, so bloated, and so potentially malignant, I never would have bothered to install an ad blocker. They're simply reaping what they've sowed.
All you're doing is making sure that I NEVER EVER use APK.
NEVER.
Yep, you'll be sitting in that chair for weeks or months while they're still trying to sell you one.
Personally I find it hilarious. I sometimes go to Amazon and browse the infant stuff (formula, highchairs, strollers, cribs, etc) and then sit back and watch as the ads for that stuff follows me around the web for a month or two. Lol, it must really confound their metrics and ad data. And I've never even bought a child! :)
To be honest, I think it has more to do with page load times for most. The ads might be intrusive, but now with adblocking on my iPad pages load quickly, even with spotty Internet.
The tracking does have its "creepy" factor, with ads following you from site to site... Despite having already made whatever purchase was under consideration.
Exactly.
The speed-up in load time is incredible with an ad-blocker. That alone justifies using one in my mind.
The protection against malware is another 100% stand-alone justification to me.
And finally, yes, the creepy tracking that is utterly worthless. I want to buy a widget, so I go to Amazon and buy one. And then for months every site I visit is filled to the gills with fucking widget ads. HELLO- I already bought my widget, I'm not going to buy another one. I'm already done and yet there's no feedback to the advertisers- they're too dumb to know that I bought my widget already.
I went there with AdBlock on and could read as much as I wanted to, view all the articles, everything.
Whatever they're doing, they're doing it wrong.
He was also a civil war veteran and helped raise money to build the Statue of Liberty.
Yeah but he was also a door-gunner on the Space Shuttle in the Pan Galactic War of 2152, and he served with distinction. He's the recipient of the Nebula Cross with not just one but two Binary Star Meritorious Service clusters.
Gotta hand it to the guy, he's been around.
Yep, there are a hundred or more on Amazon for under $200
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr...
Why do they bother to try so hard? Beats me....
It's nothing personal, it's bots just mindlessly attacking or probing whatever they find.
Just curious, what was your prediction on that one?
Ahem, well, lets just say I didn't think it would be as bad as it was.
I'm surprised the EPA didn't show up to cordon off my house. But the Food Police did show up and arrest me for vandalism, though.
Yep, most police today act like every contact with person or every situation is "do or die".
They show very little restraint, and equipping them with "less than lethal" weapons (tasers, pepper spray, etc) has resulted in them being MORE likely to use them than less.
You see people tased for all sorts of ridiculous crap nowadays, when 90% of the time the situation could have been deescalated with no force or violence.
But cops ain't got time for that shit these days, now it's comply immediately or risk a tasing or pepper spray to the face. They also feel compelled to arrest or ticket someone for anything, no matter how minor. It's no wonder that the police have such a poor image these days, but the fact is that for the most part, they've earned it.
Shooting a guy in the back while he's running away? No biggie.
Kill a guy by throwing him around in the back of a paddy wagon? That's okay.
Choking a guy to death for selling single cigarettes? Sure, why not.
Shoot a 12-year old kid with a toy gun (Tamir Rice) on sight? That's fine too.
Shoot a guy in the head for a broken tail light? Go for it, no problem.
And for the most part they keep getting away with it, over and over and over.
Really, is it any wonder the public in general hates and fears the police?
It's a fuzzy science, similar to cooking.
Sometimes you try stuff, make predictions, and it turns out great.
Sometimes you try stuff, make predictions, and it's dreadful. Like my famous "Peanut Butter & Haggis" recipe, or pickle-flavored ice cream.
"Taking the money of of politics" doesn't change the fact that the election is for sale, it just makes the election cheaper and more random.
I agree, but at the same time it does open it up to wider participation (not always a good thing, but still...).
Sometimes there are no good solutions, only solutions that aren't as bad as the alternatives. Perhaps this problem falls into that category.
That doesn't really help, my experience says they look for any user name that contains the text "admin" not simply the name admin
Yep, although you can prevent the discovery of usernames with plugins like Wordfence. This prevents anyone (or a bot) from iterating over the user list and seeing if there even is a user with "admin" in the name.
Later versions of WP allow you to pick something other than "admin" for the administrative user, but I still have fully upgraded versions that don't allow changing the name once it's set (which seems kind of silly/stupid to me).
I'd like a plugin that reserves the name "admin" and allows logging into that (fake) account with any password, whereupon that IP or hostname is instantly banned for however long you want.
I frequently see login attempts with names like "{no_matches}" or completely oddball names that don't and never have existed on the system. I've no idea what that's all about.
Or stop a person from making transactions. What do you do if there is no cash anymore and your bank accounts just got frozen?
Exactly. What happens is you're screwed. It's the first (and possibly last) step to becoming an unperson or "undesirable". I doubt an underground economy or barter system would be a practical alternative (and that would likely be made illegal).
It would be so easy to control the population and I have no doubt that 99% of politicians would love this idea. No more pesky dissenters and no organized resistance. It would be a wet dream come true for them.
There was always money in politics. I don't even think it's that much worse now. It's just visible rather than hidden.
Maybe, but I don't think anyone spent $500 million to win an election in the 60's or 70's or 80's.
Yes, I agree, there has always been money in politics, but it seems have reached epic (and unhealthy) proportions.
Isn't that what a party does? They set the narrative (platform), you're on it or you're on your own?
Absolutely, but don't you think it crosses a line when a party (either party) actively tries to suppress opposing points of view in ways that are blatantly unfair?
I don't mean by countering the opposing point of view with better ideas or debate, but by stuff like gerrymandering, voter disenfranchisement and suppression, dirty tricks and under-the-table deals?
In the marketplace of ideas, if your ideas are really superior to the other proposals (or you believe them to be), shouldn't you be happy to have them put them head to head with the other (presumably) inferior ideas?
Cheating and playing dirty should be evidence that your ideas aren't better and that they cannot "win" on their own. Yet this seems to be standard operating procedure, not just these days but for most of recent history.
Lessig has raised a million dollars, which is nothing to sneeze at
A million dollars is nothing. Sorry to break this to you but that's not even enough to be a serious contender in a lot of state level elections. A million dollars is a rounding error in current day presidential elections.
This is sad, but completely true. A million dollars is nothing in modern day politics. I've heard estimates that close to a billion will be spent in the next election cycle, and I suspect that's not far off the mark. A lot of this is due to Super Pacs who have virtually unlimited amounts of money to spend to get their pet politician elected.
Super Pacs should be illegal (and were up until recently). There was a reason for that, and we're seeing it play out now. It's all just a matter of cold cash now, even more so than it has ever been.
Some would say that she could have avoided Obama exposing her corruption by not being corrupt in the first place.
Lol, stop with the crazy talk!!
Yep. Anyone that doesn't support the narrative will never get within a mile of the debate stage, let alone the election.