* What we need is well-established software engineering practices. Not just whiz-kids who learnt C++ in their spare time managed by people who just reap the rewards. Best practices will give software engineer the right amount of appreciation at the price a decent education. Imagine getting heart surgery from a guy who read a book in his spare time.
In your definition of sports, beer-drinking is a sport too:
(1) you can train for it, and you actually get better with training.
(2) Your beer-drinking skill can absolutely be measured.
(3) Some people have a gift for beer-drinking.
Most of all, beer-drinking is just fun !
Same reasoning goes for sex, BTW.
I think the key point is they're using Web Services, which happens to be XML-based. The author misuses the reference to XML. As a Web Services project, it looks quite cool. Karma: Geddon; mostly acquired by hitting innocent pedestrians.
According to Netcraft, www.mikerowesoft.com is running Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) mod_python/2.7.8 Python/2.2.2 mod_perl/1.27 mod_throttle/3.1.2 PHP/4.3.2 FrontPage/5.0.2.2510 mod_ssl/2.8.14 OpenSSL/0.9.7c on FreeBSD.
Way to go Mike !
...how much did they pay you to write this review ? I mean, it's probably a good book, but who needs a book on JavaScript ? There's plenty of info on the web; I can't think of _any_ book that's worth buying when it comes to mainstream software development. Dead tree format study guides are so 20th-century...
Hell, maybe they wrote both the worm and the anti-worm. The bug was sufficiently documented so anybody could write a worm; it was just a matter of time. But if Microsoft wrote it first, they could 'force' sysadmins into installing their patches before someone wrote a more destructive virus. Why did the 'hacker' use windowsupdate.com, which made it _very_ easy for Microsoft to avoid a real DDoS just by removing that entry from DNS ? Why did the virus do practically no harm to the hijacked PC ? Heck, you were even given time to save your documents before the automatic reboot ! And if they want to switch from "software as a product" to "software as a service", they have to make the updates look valuable and worth paying for. In the end, I believe the worm was a good thing for Microsoft given the damage that could have been done. The end-user has learned a lesson that "Windows isn't perfect, but if I install the updates...".
Order your penis enlargement pills now at SCO ! They're only 699$.
If you bought pills from other companies, you still have to pay because your penis contains SCO patented technology.
as the OS moves from a hobbyist platform to a real business tool.
Could someone explain this author that Linux is professional for something like 10 years and is widely used as a web server platform ?
Unfortunately, hating them isn't going help. On the contrary, that's probably what they want: to cause irritation by frustration thereby weakening the overall Linux enthusiasm and credibility. All this debating on SCO vs Linux is exactly what they want. IMHO, pro-Linux websites should never even post such news.
I don't get it. What's the point in calling you a dummy if you're trying to sell a book. How did marketing people ever come up with that ? There's a For Dummies book for about every f**king aspect of life: beekeeping for dummies, prostate cancer for dummies, there's even a "Hypoglycemia for Dummies". Why do people buy books entitled "The Complete Idiot's Guide to...". Stuff like Solaris, C++,... are not for idiots. Such titles disgrace the art of programming. They'd better start showing some goddamn respect !
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I need Microsoft Money 64-bit edition to handle my personal finance...
* What we need is well-established software engineering practices. Not just whiz-kids who learnt C++ in their spare time managed by people who just reap the rewards. Best practices will give software engineer the right amount of appreciation at the price a decent education. Imagine getting heart surgery from a guy who read a book in his spare time.
Article gets posted at 3.57 PM. Half an hour later, already 40 posts... Come on guys, it's a 26 page article.
Actually, the knowledge that fruit is healthy came several hundreds of years before the discovery of vitamin C.
How do you do that ? How do you spell congratulations with a 'd' ? The 'd' is like an inch away from the 't' on my keyboard, man.
From TFA: Total global demand for software is projected to increase by an order of magnitude over the next decade
Didn't I just read an article about how Tech Employment is dropping sharply this year ?
In your definition of sports, beer-drinking is a sport too:
(1) you can train for it, and you actually get better with training.
(2) Your beer-drinking skill can absolutely be measured.
(3) Some people have a gift for beer-drinking.
Most of all, beer-drinking is just fun !
Same reasoning goes for sex, BTW.
I think the key point is they're using Web Services, which happens to be XML-based. The author misuses the reference to XML. As a Web Services project, it looks quite cool.
Karma: Geddon; mostly acquired by hitting innocent pedestrians.
Soon, they'll be like my grandma: dead !
According to Netcraft, www.mikerowesoft.com is running Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) mod_python/2.7.8 Python/2.2.2 mod_perl/1.27 mod_throttle/3.1.2 PHP/4.3.2 FrontPage/5.0.2.2510 mod_ssl/2.8.14 OpenSSL/0.9.7c on FreeBSD. Way to go Mike !
If the Indians are so smart, why don't they start up their own companies ?
High Times actually exists; and it's indeed a publication of a different snort...;=)
Check out their news section.
Great ! Now post the rest of the book !
Simon.
(Who's been using Linux on the desktop for the last 3 years...)
Hooray for Simon ! Woohoo !!
Maybe you should file a bug report rather than post this stuff on /.
...how much did they pay you to write this review ? I mean, it's probably a good book, but who needs a book on JavaScript ? There's plenty of info on the web; I can't think of _any_ book that's worth buying when it comes to mainstream software development. Dead tree format study guides are so 20th-century...
Hell, maybe they wrote both the worm and the anti-worm. The bug was sufficiently documented so anybody could write a worm; it was just a matter of time. But if Microsoft wrote it first, they could 'force' sysadmins into installing their patches before someone wrote a more destructive virus. Why did the 'hacker' use windowsupdate.com, which made it _very_ easy for Microsoft to avoid a real DDoS just by removing that entry from DNS ? Why did the virus do practically no harm to the hijacked PC ? Heck, you were even given time to save your documents before the automatic reboot ! And if they want to switch from "software as a product" to "software as a service", they have to make the updates look valuable and worth paying for. In the end, I believe the worm was a good thing for Microsoft given the damage that could have been done. The end-user has learned a lesson that "Windows isn't perfect, but if I install the updates ...".
Order your penis enlargement pills now at SCO ! They're only 699$. If you bought pills from other companies, you still have to pay because your penis contains SCO patented technology.
as the OS moves from a hobbyist platform to a real business tool.
Could someone explain this author that Linux is professional for something like 10 years and is widely used as a web server platform ?
Unfortunately, hating them isn't going help. On the contrary, that's probably what they want: to cause irritation by frustration thereby weakening the overall Linux enthusiasm and credibility. All this debating on SCO vs Linux is exactly what they want. IMHO, pro-Linux websites should never even post such news.
I don't get it. What's the point in calling you a dummy if you're trying to sell a book. How did marketing people ever come up with that ? There's a For Dummies book for about every f**king aspect of life: beekeeping for dummies, prostate cancer for dummies, there's even a "Hypoglycemia for Dummies". Why do people buy books entitled "The Complete Idiot's Guide to ...". Stuff like Solaris, C++, ... are not for idiots. Such titles disgrace the art of programming. They'd better start showing some goddamn respect !
I've also started to get a little belly.
Seen Fight Club ? Visit the liposuction clinic once a year, make soap of your own fat ass and wash yourself with it . Now that's recycling !
... it's GNU/Linux !!!