You forgot: "If everyone reading this just donated the cost of the tissue they use to pick their nose, this fund-raiser would be over in 3 seconds. Your donation can help ensure that JavaScript package management stays free from costly subscriptions and advertising messages that run whenever you try to install a package."
Personally, I prefer to rant about how stupid Google product managers are. Some people, however, go apoplectic when they see any dynamically typed language. And by then, golly gosh, comes the points about how JavaScript is associated with the web, and all its brokenness, and somehow, that means that anyone who programs in JavaScript is just a hipster trying to pretend to be a professional programmer. And of course, let's not forget to bring up the point that JavaScript was created in 10 days (OMG, wasn't Git created in 10 days?), and there are some quirky side effects (e.g. 0.1 + 0.2 !== 0.3) you can use to prove that JavaScript is absolutely a brain-dead language.
Me? I program in about 20 different languages, and program mostly in JavaScript during my day job. That makes me a wannabe programmer.
These new domain TLDs are apparently enforcing the law of supply and demand, by charging more for "coveted" and popular domains.
For example, "so.dev" is a 2-letter domain, which Google prices at $720/yr. "sot.dev" is a 3-letter domain, but what the hell is a "sot", so that only cost $98/yr. Meanwhile, "sos.dev" costs $360/yr, because if you really need help, it should cost more. "pants.dev" is $98/yr, but if you want to save some money, you can just register "pant.dev", which is $56/yr.
Even though this "nickel and dime" pricing is just the latest extension to our capitalist overlords trying to suck us dry for every cent we have, I hate the idea.
One operating system was programmed, from its inception, to support nine input methods: mouse, single-touch trackpad, multi-touch trackpad, single-touch display, multi-touch display, on-display stylus, off-display stylus, keyboard, and generic joystick/gamepad. And that OS was programmed by a company who had very poor forays into mobile devices.
The fact that Microsoft could get something so right, while iOS still fails to support mouse devices, is laughable. I love iPad Pro, but until it supports a mouse natively, I wouldn't ever consider using it for anything professionally.
If I have someone I really dislike, my goal in life is that I think about them zero. In fact my general goal in life is to think about politicians zero.
Sure, some idiot decides to shut down the government over a morally bankrupt, unsound "political" strategy, and I should ignore him. Right...
Protecting user privacy is paramount in the Apple ecosystem.
Oh really? Then how come Apple only takes action after these issues get exposed to the press? Surely someone at Apple knows each and every trick that app developers use to create and promote their apps.
10 years in prison is just long enough for this kid to get a Ph.D. in telecommunications technology, and spend a few years working on and patenting a method for allowing phone calls without being so hilariously insecure and vulnerable to tampering. Capitalism at its finest. Guard the kingdom with a wooden fence, and make it a capital crime for approaching the fence.
Homebrew's security model is half-baked, if that, and they justify it with lame rhetoric ("Why does Homebrew say sudo is bad? Sudo is dangerous, and you installed TextMate.app without sudo anyway.") Uhm, pointing out that TextMate installs itself poorly on an OS itself that has a half-baked approach to multi-user applications is... lazy at best, and incompetent at worst.
The best workaround I've found is to create a security group called something appropriate (like "local"), and assign your user to that group. Make all subdirectories of "/usr/local" owned by root and the security group, and make all subdirectories chmod 664, and all subdirectory files that are executable 775, and all other subdirectory files 664. Make any other users that want to use Homebrew also belong to the security group.
Occasionally, a "brew install" will fail, and you'll have to temporarily change all contents under "/usr/local" to be owned by your user, and then change it back after the install is done. But for the most part, this strategy allows multiple users to share Homebrew without exposing "/usr/local" to ridiculous security privileges.
Just remember, despite the fact that volunteers contribute millions of edits to Wikipedia, for free, Jimmy Wales desperately needs your money! If everyone in the world would just donate the cost of a Wednesday afternoon cup of coffee, Wikipedia could earn tens of millions of dollars in 2019 and stay free from advertisement and other corporate and government influence, for at least all of 2019! Heck, Wikipedia might also come close to solving world hunger! (at least for its corporate staff)
Steve Jobs once said, "We're here to put a dent in the universe." And Apple clearly considers the iPad as the center of the Apple universe. Therefore, Tim Cook is just following Steve's vision.
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Jesus Christ, Google, you can't even kill a product without offering a flimsy, half-baked alternative in its stead.
We get it, BETA stands for "Be Expecting Termination Anydaynow"
You forgot: "If everyone reading this just donated the cost of the tissue they use to pick their nose, this fund-raiser would be over in 3 seconds. Your donation can help ensure that JavaScript package management stays free from costly subscriptions and advertising messages that run whenever you try to install a package."
Great, maybe they can turn their desperate pleas for money into an official W3C standard.
I hear their next keyboard will have only one button ... :-)
Yes. After all, it's called a "keyboard", not a "keysboard".
I don't get the point of this language hate.
Nerds have to rant about something, right?
Personally, I prefer to rant about how stupid Google product managers are. Some people, however, go apoplectic when they see any dynamically typed language. And by then, golly gosh, comes the points about how JavaScript is associated with the web, and all its brokenness, and somehow, that means that anyone who programs in JavaScript is just a hipster trying to pretend to be a professional programmer. And of course, let's not forget to bring up the point that JavaScript was created in 10 days (OMG, wasn't Git created in 10 days?), and there are some quirky side effects (e.g. 0.1 + 0.2 !== 0.3) you can use to prove that JavaScript is absolutely a brain-dead language.
Me? I program in about 20 different languages, and program mostly in JavaScript during my day job. That makes me a wannabe programmer.
This is sophistry attempting to cover up the weakness of the Python type system.
His argument seems far stronger than yours.
Pleas links to the streams or it didn't happen :)
That will be $44.95, please.
Google hires the smartest idiots in the world.
once any business has enough financial leverage / savings that it's best to just get into financing/lending/banking, period
Especially if you're a non-profit, like Harvard University, which has a 37 BILLION DOLLAR TAX-FREE endowment.
These new domain TLDs are apparently enforcing the law of supply and demand, by charging more for "coveted" and popular domains.
For example, "so.dev" is a 2-letter domain, which Google prices at $720/yr. "sot.dev" is a 3-letter domain, but what the hell is a "sot", so that only cost $98/yr. Meanwhile, "sos.dev" costs $360/yr, because if you really need help, it should cost more. "pants.dev" is $98/yr, but if you want to save some money, you can just register "pant.dev", which is $56/yr.
Even though this "nickel and dime" pricing is just the latest extension to our capitalist overlords trying to suck us dry for every cent we have, I hate the idea.
Trump doesn't believe in intelligence.
This will be the thing that causes Redis to lose whatever prominent marketshare it currently has.
The fact that you need this explained to you means that it would take too much effort for me to do so.
One operating system was programmed, from its inception, to support nine input methods: mouse, single-touch trackpad, multi-touch trackpad, single-touch display, multi-touch display, on-display stylus, off-display stylus, keyboard, and generic joystick/gamepad. And that OS was programmed by a company who had very poor forays into mobile devices.
The fact that Microsoft could get something so right, while iOS still fails to support mouse devices, is laughable. I love iPad Pro, but until it supports a mouse natively, I wouldn't ever consider using it for anything professionally.
What would be accomplished by attaching a mouse to an iOS device? iOS doesn't support mice.
I never understood the fascination with Linux. It's just a few computer programs
No, you're thinking of GNU/Linux.
If I have someone I really dislike, my goal in life is that I think about them zero. In fact my general goal in life is to think about politicians zero.
Sure, some idiot decides to shut down the government over a morally bankrupt, unsound "political" strategy, and I should ignore him. Right...
Protecting user privacy is paramount in the Apple ecosystem.
Oh really? Then how come Apple only takes action after these issues get exposed to the press? Surely someone at Apple knows each and every trick that app developers use to create and promote their apps.
10 years in prison is just long enough for this kid to get a Ph.D. in telecommunications technology, and spend a few years working on and patenting a method for allowing phone calls without being so hilariously insecure and vulnerable to tampering. Capitalism at its finest. Guard the kingdom with a wooden fence, and make it a capital crime for approaching the fence.
Homebrew's security model is half-baked, if that, and they justify it with lame rhetoric ("Why does Homebrew say sudo is bad? Sudo is dangerous, and you installed TextMate.app without sudo anyway.") Uhm, pointing out that TextMate installs itself poorly on an OS itself that has a half-baked approach to multi-user applications is... lazy at best, and incompetent at worst.
The best workaround I've found is to create a security group called something appropriate (like "local"), and assign your user to that group. Make all subdirectories of "/usr/local" owned by root and the security group, and make all subdirectories chmod 664, and all subdirectory files that are executable 775, and all other subdirectory files 664. Make any other users that want to use Homebrew also belong to the security group.
Occasionally, a "brew install" will fail, and you'll have to temporarily change all contents under "/usr/local" to be owned by your user, and then change it back after the install is done. But for the most part, this strategy allows multiple users to share Homebrew without exposing "/usr/local" to ridiculous security privileges.
Just remember, despite the fact that volunteers contribute millions of edits to Wikipedia, for free, Jimmy Wales desperately needs your money! If everyone in the world would just donate the cost of a Wednesday afternoon cup of coffee, Wikipedia could earn tens of millions of dollars in 2019 and stay free from advertisement and other corporate and government influence, for at least all of 2019! Heck, Wikipedia might also come close to solving world hunger! (at least for its corporate staff)
OMG, reading comments like this make me feel like I finally found my online family :)
Steve Jobs once said, "We're here to put a dent in the universe." And Apple clearly considers the iPad as the center of the Apple universe. Therefore, Tim Cook is just following Steve's vision.
And how would you enforce that a .com domain is or is not legitimately used for commercial endeavors?
Alternative?