This.. I actually believe that finding a solution to give people a purpose will be a much bigger challenge than implementing basic income. The stakes are high, this is stuff that leads to unrest which leads to wars....
Which is exactly the point. Those 'improvements' are to many just an unnecessary complication. The UI of W2K was fine, WinXp could be set to look like it it.
I've put some family members on Ubuntu Mate. They love, they just use the computer for internet. The UI is more familiar than Windows 10, it doesn't get slower over time and there is a lot less worry for them for malware.
Zarafa , Open-Xchange to name a few. Not that I'm against Outllook. It is quite useful, except for the fact that the search functionality leaves a lot to be desired and the pst files really must go.
It's worse. They see you as an 'upsell' opportunity. My previous none Nexus phone got quite a number of updates. Nearly all contained more crap to sell their own 'services'.
The EU shouldn't take any punitive measures. Those will only give the leavers an excuse for why things are going badly. "we were right, but we're being boycotted by the nasty EU".
Although in the end it doesn't matter much since we've seen how little facts matter anyway. It'll be the EU's fault anyway...
In many organisations for whatever reason the choice is often limited to MS-SQL and Oracle. Also many applications you can buy support MS SQL or Oracle. In corporate dollars, running it on Linux can be a lot cheaper. The license costs are not so much the issue. If you have a good Unix team, maintenance costs per server can be a lot cheaper. And if OS is not a factor, MS SQL vs Oracle can be very tempting. Technically Oracle may be ahead, but their license schemes would make Tony Soprana blush. If you don't need the extra Oracles features, MS SQL can be a very tempting proposition. Lot's of companies would love to leave Oracle because of their license thuggery. Lot's of them don't even run Oracle on virtualised servers due to the stupid licenses.
This means that MS SQL can be a much stronger competitor to Oracle, and that can mean this can be a major cash cow. To me, regardless of good press with the open source fans, MS choice to port MS SQL to Linux may financially be a very smart choice. They may loose a few MS Server licenses, but might end up with selling a lot of MS SQL licenses.
Rather than make an uninformed opinion about how it's bad, not worth the time, or sucks - I can see for myself what the weaknesses and strengths are and judge accordingly.
First of all, thank you Linkedin for open sourcing this! Always good to share.
First, three hours is not enough time to conduct any manual testing steps, so holding ourselves to this constraint ensures we won’t revert to using manual validation to certify our releases.
I've been in testing for some time and have been taught to make a distinction between verification and validation. Verification is checking if the software works according to specs. Validation means: does it actually work for us. By defintion that means that you can automate verification but not validation. Is that just semantics? Not for testers. In the test community there currently is a big debate going on checking vs testing. See i.e. Michael Boltons blog. . Checking can be done automated. Real validation in my opinion can not.
What I am curious about is the 'to production each three hours' That sounds great, but although I don't use a linkedin app on my phone, I am still pretty sure users don't get their app update three times a day.. With such rapid deployment, I suspect it takes multiple deploments before it adds up to a significant increase in usable functionality.
Many small releases means in general that mistakes are also small and quickly fixed. I am actually in favour of them. But it is not a full garantuee that one of these small releases will not break something badly that would have been found by even a limited manual test. The chance that that happens may be much lower with small releases but it still exists and the impact is still high.
Automated tests can perform a huge amount of checks quickly. Humans can't beat that. But they can also overlook the blatanly obvious. I would hope they would have manual testing at least prior to releasing new functionality. To find these things, but also to do some validation by the definition above. Else I suspect it may work well for them for quite some time but it may bite them badly at one point as well.
Fully agree, I wrote two books with Lyx, turned them into epubs and published them in the Kindle store. I did use Calibre though to turn the html produced by Lyx into an epub.
A tip: Dovecot has a nice sync tool http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools... Perfect to get your email from different IMAP sources to your own system. It can also change mailbox format etc. Combine that with Dovecot itself to give you IMAP access and you have access. You can also use it to keep it in sync with an off site archive.
Dovecot does have full body search, but it is quite CPU intensive. No problem if you just run it for a few users and except that it may take a while on a large amount of emails. Not too great if you're hosting for lots of users.
Hmm, I actually got a Cisco from my ISP and ended up buying a Netgear as the Cisco was too unstable. The Cisco is a Docsis cable modem with built in wifi router. If you use your own router you can have the modem set up in bridge mode, which I did. Ever since the connection is stable. You have to call the ISP to have the modem switch to bridge mode. Funny thing is when I did, the person on the phone agreed with me that using my own router would probably be a lot better. I'm sure I could buy my own Docsis modem as well, but for me that thing is now part of the internet, not my home network. So it is in untrusted territory anyway. As long as it works it is fine.
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This..
I actually believe that finding a solution to give people a purpose will be a much bigger challenge than implementing basic income. The stakes are high, this is stuff that leads to unrest which leads to wars....
To make it fit in the backpocket of your jeans. I do hope they'll have EU versions though....
, and no real UI improvements or new features.
Which is exactly the point. Those 'improvements' are to many just an unnecessary complication. The UI of W2K was fine, WinXp could be set to look like it it.
I've put some family members on Ubuntu Mate. They love, they just use the computer for internet. The UI is more familiar than Windows 10, it doesn't get slower over time and there is a lot less worry for them for malware.
So they did just did it themselves in stead of paying Apple for it
Zarafa , Open-Xchange to name a few. Not that I'm against Outllook. It is quite useful, except for the fact that the search functionality leaves a lot to be desired and the pst files really must go.
and now 26% of parents of Netflix subscribers are thinking about cancelling Cable......
It's worse. They see you as an 'upsell' opportunity. My previous none Nexus phone got quite a number of updates. Nearly all contained more crap to sell their own 'services'.
So those that don't RTFA are actually the smart ones?
well, maybe if you're always down under you might want to know what it's like to be on top once. Even if it's just virtual...
The EU shouldn't take any punitive measures. Those will only give the leavers an excuse for why things are going badly. "we were right, but we're being boycotted by the nasty EU".
Although in the end it doesn't matter much since we've seen how little facts matter anyway. It'll be the EU's fault anyway...
so that's why they call their tablet fire...
because of Oracle...
In many organisations for whatever reason the choice is often limited to MS-SQL and Oracle. Also many applications you can buy support MS SQL or Oracle.
In corporate dollars, running it on Linux can be a lot cheaper. The license costs are not so much the issue. If you have a good Unix team, maintenance costs per server can be a lot cheaper.
And if OS is not a factor, MS SQL vs Oracle can be very tempting. Technically Oracle may be ahead, but their license schemes would make Tony Soprana blush. If you don't need the extra Oracles features, MS SQL can be a very tempting proposition. Lot's of companies would love to leave Oracle because of their license thuggery. Lot's of them don't even run Oracle on virtualised servers due to the stupid licenses.
This means that MS SQL can be a much stronger competitor to Oracle, and that can mean this can be a major cash cow. To me, regardless of good press with the open source fans, MS choice to port MS SQL to Linux may financially be a very smart choice. They may loose a few MS Server licenses, but might end up with selling a lot of MS SQL licenses.
Rather than make an uninformed opinion about how it's bad, not worth the time, or sucks - I can see for myself what the weaknesses and strengths are and judge accordingly.
I think you kind of missed the point of /.
This time, however, fresh-cut grass was added to the growing medium.
Yes, we Dutch people have lot's of experience in adding grass into the mix...
Nope, I'm rooting for Stallman...
Should at least make things intersting ;-)
First of all, thank you Linkedin for open sourcing this! Always good to share.
First, three hours is not enough time to conduct any manual testing steps, so holding ourselves to this constraint ensures we won’t revert to using manual validation to certify our releases.
I've been in testing for some time and have been taught to make a distinction between verification and validation.
Verification is checking if the software works according to specs. Validation means: does it actually work for us. By defintion that means that you can automate verification but not validation.
Is that just semantics? Not for testers. In the test community there currently is a big debate going on checking vs testing.
See i.e. Michael Boltons blog. . Checking can be done automated. Real validation in my opinion can not.
What I am curious about is the 'to production each three hours' That sounds great, but although I don't use a linkedin app on my phone, I am still pretty sure users don't get their app update three times a day.. With such rapid deployment, I suspect it takes multiple deploments before it adds up to a significant increase in usable functionality.
Many small releases means in general that mistakes are also small and quickly fixed. I am actually in favour of them. But it is not a full garantuee that one of these small releases will not break something badly that would have been found by even a limited manual test. The chance that that happens may be much lower with small releases but it still exists and the impact is still high.
Automated tests can perform a huge amount of checks quickly. Humans can't beat that. But they can also overlook the blatanly obvious. I would hope they would have manual testing at least prior to releasing new functionality. To find these things, but also to do some validation by the definition above.
Else I suspect it may work well for them for quite some time but it may bite them badly at one point as well.
Good news for the people at Orly airport .
Agree, /. should have a 'car analogy needed' functionality like wikipedia has 'citation needed'
There's still the BBC. I get a lot of my news from them on the web or radio. I wish they had a streaming service that will go to a TV though.
You could try https://www.filmon.com/tv/live BBC News is there as well, you can cast it to chrome from a tablet. SD quality is free (with some ads)
Fully agree, I wrote two books with Lyx, turned them into epubs and published them in the Kindle store.
I did use Calibre though to turn the html produced by Lyx into an epub.
You can even read how I did in a document I wrote on the process at: http://www.pluton.nl/documente...
(Note that one advantage of making the text first in Libreoffice is the spell and grammar check :-)
well, they do like their kartoffelsalat
A tip: Dovecot has a nice sync tool http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools... Perfect to get your email from different IMAP sources to your own system. It can also change mailbox format etc. Combine that with Dovecot itself to give you IMAP access and you have access. You can also use it to keep it in sync with an off site archive.
Dovecot does have full body search, but it is quite CPU intensive. No problem if you just run it for a few users and except that it may take a while on a large amount of emails. Not too great if you're hosting for lots of users.
at HP everyone worked around here
Great idea. Where are you going to get the carbon from to replace all the CO2 that has blown away?
Send Al Gore there. I hear he produces enough CO2 for a small planet.
Hmm, I actually got a Cisco from my ISP and ended up buying a Netgear as the Cisco was too unstable.
The Cisco is a Docsis cable modem with built in wifi router. If you use your own router you can have the modem set up in bridge mode, which I did. Ever since the connection is stable. You have to call the ISP to have the modem switch to bridge mode. Funny thing is when I did, the person on the phone agreed with me that using my own router would probably be a lot better.
I'm sure I could buy my own Docsis modem as well, but for me that thing is now part of the internet, not my home network. So it is in untrusted territory anyway. As long as it works it is fine.