You say you don't want to spend time tinkering. As we don't know what specific software/hardware you will run, only general advice can be given. So generally speaking, if you go with the flow and use the most used distro, that will maximize chances that any 3rd party software you use will work with it. Even if something goes wrong, you have the largest chance of being able to Google your way to a solution. So, then consider Ubuntu (or another mainstream Linux distro).
As I asked in the comment, please read up instead of giving wildly incorrect speculation based on your gut feeling. There are very good reasons I used that wording. If you believe that you know better than the scientists that spend their lives studying these issues, without even reading up on the reasoning, then you are no better than Trump who similarly denies valid research because it doesn't fit his narrative.
Not sure if you are joking, but interestingly the Antarctic has been warming up for over 50000 years (obviously, not every year, decade or century or even millennium has been warmer than the last, but the overall trend has been one of raising temperatures). However, the amount of ice on Antarctica is actually still increasing (as warming doesn't mean that it's warm).
Perhaps in some butterfly effect type of way, but if you turn on your oven it will get hotter in your oven, yet climate change is not a particularly meaningful factor there.
There is endless documentation about this. Even the article Slashdot linked says nothing about climate change. For a mainstream media example: http://www.usatoday.com/story/... "There is no direct evidence to link this event to climate change, he added. Although the general ice shelf decay along the Antarctic Peninsula has been linked to a warming world, this rift appears to have been developing for many decades, and the result is likely natural, according to Project MIDAS."
Changes in the antarctic are a complicated subject, I suggest reading up before making assumptions.
Scientists actually don't believe this particular instance to be caused by climate change. So, if people could read up a bit and post something thoughtful instead of having a knee jerk anti-Trump comment, that would be awesome.
expect to buy one in the next couple months (OK, I'm not all that serious about it yet). The 2 things I demand are a regular headphone jack, and an SDCC card slot.
How about a starting your search with the Nokia 3110 classic? Assuming by SDCC you mean SD Card Controller. What does SDCC stand for?
Large-scale copyright infringement is a felony in many countries, and we got our current draconian copyright system in large part at the urging of European publishers. Copyright law is still more permissive in the US than elsewhere.
So it is purely coincidental that this Estonian national, that was living in the Netherlands, ended up in prison in the US? While the law may be more permissive, this will do you absolutely no good as the prosecutors will pressure you into accepting a plea deal that barely involves the actual law, or facing a decade long campaign against you facing trumped up charges for 50 years jailtime. There are no countries in the world where more people got hurt in anti-copyright lawsuits than the US.
This is just a list of software they rely on, not an opinion piece or a list of software they will fund. Are you saying they rely on LibreSSL? It's not like they currently use either one in Firefox.
Yes, if you follow the docs it's not really hard but feels like a mess... There is no way to send any payload or data with the message, they use registration id's which are depricated in real GCM, the service-worker and manifest seem overkill just to receive a message, and you need HTTPS for the service-worker (which is fine for production, but a bit of a pain for development). Hopefully they will improve things in the coming times.
This is mostly a change in API, Google is now pushing for the W3C Push API to become the standard for web push notifications. This (amongst other things) allows developers to use the same much more commonly used push code used for Android notifications (Google Cloud Messaging) to send messages to web browsers. As Google is trying to push this API, having it's own internal (and hardly used) competitor doesn't make sense.
The one thing I agree with is that Git is the obvious choice as it is the current standard. For the rest I guess you are fairly inexperienced. If you really believe it's easier to shoot (or nuke) yourself with Python than with C you are extremely wrong. Obviously you can write bad code in any language, but Python is no worse than most others.
In a couple of hours most Git basics can be taught to any reasonable programmer. It can be worthwhile to make sure they set aside some time to read up on Git usage. Especially with a GUI it's not exactly rocket science (and any programmer worth their salt should have no problems with the CLI, some annoyances notwithstanding). Making your hiring decision for a Python programmer based on Git skill is a bit weird, as there are much more important factors to choose a programmer on. I have seen good and bad Git usage across all ages and skill levels, it mostly just depends on what exactly they worked on in recent years.
As far as massively changed programming paradigms, unless you just time traveled from the 70's, that's BS.
As for Scrum and Test Driven Development, you would need to know more about this project before you can make a decision like that. I don't see anything in this description that would give you enough information to advise on that.
I'm Dutch. I live in Amsterdam. It's not perfectly valid to call a gracht a kanaal.
Maybe you should send an angry letter to Van Dale that calls gracht a kanaal right in the main definition;-).
With your second part I agree (way of thinking and language are intertwined), but I was just responding to someone who said you can not call a gracht a canal. That is just plain incorrect.
This is not Wikipedia, on Slashdot you are allowed to make submissions about yourself. This is not your website, and you do not make the rules. If you want to make a website where that is not allowed, you are free to do it.
Given that it's a fairly interesting story, who cares anyway?
Aside from that, I don't get why you would speculate on the exact person doing this, writing out his full name in a public forum. You could be right, but for all we know it could be a completely different person.
I think we are actually on the same page, I also never used networking libraries, but I can't blame people that did. NSURLConnection really was lacking.
Yeah, it was all possible, but when you searched for IOS networking problems on sites like Stackoverflow for networking related issues, you would often get answers that just gave a couple of lines of AFNetworking code to fix something that was a PITA in NSURLConnection.
If NSURLConnection really was that good, people wouldn't have bothered with libraries for basic tasks.
As for NSURLSession. The fact is that a lot of apps were written prior to IOS7 and you can not expect everyone to rewrite networking code to a new API. I suspect a lot of the pretty small group apps of apps caught by this problem were simply written before that.
I don't know why you would say that it's good. Especially early in IOS history it was pretty annoying to write basic networking functionality like downloading and saving a file that's too large to keep in memory. The whole reason people used libraries like these is because Apples API weren't easy enough to use.
From a business point of view they can be similar.
From the perspective of the mainframe guys, the whole point of a mainframe is that it is a single machine handling all of your transactions. Basically, it is simpler to deal with all kinds of transaction problems when you are not using a vastly distributed system with thousands of nodes. Typically PaaS/SaaS are large distributed systems.
To reliably and consistantly handle a very large stream of very important transactions where you basically need 100% reliability, they are a real option. The business case for a mainframe is something like, it would cost 200mln per year for some bank to make a failure proof distributed system, and 100mln to do it with a a mainframe. Outside of this type of systems, it is hard to think of any use for a mainframe, given the cost and complexity.
How is this insightful? The Slashdot blurb doesn't mention anywhere that North Korea is responsible, it just says that the US is imposing sanctions based on it. Are you disputing that the US is imposing sanctions?
Also, what was this authoritative source that proofs beyond any doubt that it wasn't North Korea?
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You say you don't want to spend time tinkering. As we don't know what specific software/hardware you will run, only general advice can be given. So generally speaking, if you go with the flow and use the most used distro, that will maximize chances that any 3rd party software you use will work with it. Even if something goes wrong, you have the largest chance of being able to Google your way to a solution. So, then consider Ubuntu (or another mainstream Linux distro).
You should look up the 'core–mantle boundary' and be amazed. (Otherwise, sure, some of these layers are pretty arbitrary)
As I asked in the comment, please read up instead of giving wildly incorrect speculation based on your gut feeling. There are very good reasons I used that wording. If you believe that you know better than the scientists that spend their lives studying these issues, without even reading up on the reasoning, then you are no better than Trump who similarly denies valid research because it doesn't fit his narrative.
Not sure if you are joking, but interestingly the Antarctic has been warming up for over 50000 years (obviously, not every year, decade or century or even millennium has been warmer than the last, but the overall trend has been one of raising temperatures). However, the amount of ice on Antarctica is actually still increasing (as warming doesn't mean that it's warm).
since everything is caused by climate change
Perhaps in some butterfly effect type of way, but if you turn on your oven it will get hotter in your oven, yet climate change is not a particularly meaningful factor there.
There is endless documentation about this. Even the article Slashdot linked says nothing about climate change. For a mainstream media example: http://www.usatoday.com/story/...
"There is no direct evidence to link this event to climate change, he added. Although the general ice shelf decay along the Antarctic Peninsula has been linked to a warming world, this rift appears to have been developing for many decades, and the result is likely natural, according to Project MIDAS."
Changes in the antarctic are a complicated subject, I suggest reading up before making assumptions.
Scientists actually don't believe this particular instance to be caused by climate change. So, if people could read up a bit and post something thoughtful instead of having a knee jerk anti-Trump comment, that would be awesome.
Many of these areas don't get much recognition outside of their academic sphere. This seems like a great way to give greater recognition.
expect to buy one in the next couple months (OK, I'm not all that serious about it yet). The 2 things I demand are a regular headphone jack, and an SDCC card slot.
How about a starting your search with the Nokia 3110 classic? Assuming by SDCC you mean SD Card Controller. What does SDCC stand for?
So it is purely coincidental that this Estonian national, that was living in the Netherlands, ended up in prison in the US? While the law may be more permissive, this will do you absolutely no good as the prosecutors will pressure you into accepting a plea deal that barely involves the actual law, or facing a decade long campaign against you facing trumped up charges for 50 years jailtime. There are no countries in the world where more people got hurt in anti-copyright lawsuits than the US.
Just be happy they didn't pick Dollar as the unit of power.
This is just a list of software they rely on, not an opinion piece or a list of software they will fund. Are you saying they rely on LibreSSL? It's not like they currently use either one in Firefox.
Yes, if you follow the docs it's not really hard but feels like a mess... There is no way to send any payload or data with the message, they use registration id's which are depricated in real GCM, the service-worker and manifest seem overkill just to receive a message, and you need HTTPS for the service-worker (which is fine for production, but a bit of a pain for development). Hopefully they will improve things in the coming times.
This is mostly a change in API, Google is now pushing for the W3C Push API to become the standard for web push notifications. This (amongst other things) allows developers to use the same much more commonly used push code used for Android notifications (Google Cloud Messaging) to send messages to web browsers. As Google is trying to push this API, having it's own internal (and hardly used) competitor doesn't make sense.
The one thing I agree with is that Git is the obvious choice as it is the current standard. For the rest I guess you are fairly inexperienced. If you really believe it's easier to shoot (or nuke) yourself with Python than with C you are extremely wrong. Obviously you can write bad code in any language, but Python is no worse than most others.
In a couple of hours most Git basics can be taught to any reasonable programmer. It can be worthwhile to make sure they set aside some time to read up on Git usage. Especially with a GUI it's not exactly rocket science (and any programmer worth their salt should have no problems with the CLI, some annoyances notwithstanding). Making your hiring decision for a Python programmer based on Git skill is a bit weird, as there are much more important factors to choose a programmer on. I have seen good and bad Git usage across all ages and skill levels, it mostly just depends on what exactly they worked on in recent years.
As far as massively changed programming paradigms, unless you just time traveled from the 70's, that's BS.
As for Scrum and Test Driven Development, you would need to know more about this project before you can make a decision like that. I don't see anything in this description that would give you enough information to advise on that.
Maybe you should send an angry letter to Van Dale that calls gracht a kanaal right in the main definition ;-).
With your second part I agree (way of thinking and language are intertwined), but I was just responding to someone who said you can not call a gracht a canal. That is just plain incorrect.
I'm Dutch. Gracht is just a type of canal ('kanaal'). There is no a linguistic or translation problem, it's perfectly valid to call it canal.
This is not Wikipedia, on Slashdot you are allowed to make submissions about yourself. This is not your website, and you do not make the rules. If you want to make a website where that is not allowed, you are free to do it.
Given that it's a fairly interesting story, who cares anyway?
Aside from that, I don't get why you would speculate on the exact person doing this, writing out his full name in a public forum. You could be right, but for all we know it could be a completely different person.
I think we are actually on the same page, I also never used networking libraries, but I can't blame people that did. NSURLConnection really was lacking.
Yeah, it was all possible, but when you searched for IOS networking problems on sites like Stackoverflow for networking related issues, you would often get answers that just gave a couple of lines of AFNetworking code to fix something that was a PITA in NSURLConnection.
If NSURLConnection really was that good, people wouldn't have bothered with libraries for basic tasks.
As for NSURLSession. The fact is that a lot of apps were written prior to IOS7 and you can not expect everyone to rewrite networking code to a new API. I suspect a lot of the pretty small group apps of apps caught by this problem were simply written before that.
I don't know why you would say that it's good. Especially early in IOS history it was pretty annoying to write basic networking functionality like downloading and saving a file that's too large to keep in memory. The whole reason people used libraries like these is because Apples API weren't easy enough to use.
I'd still rather take the deal bankers got when they effectively stole billions and we gave them more money.
From a business point of view they can be similar.
From the perspective of the mainframe guys, the whole point of a mainframe is that it is a single machine handling all of your transactions. Basically, it is simpler to deal with all kinds of transaction problems when you are not using a vastly distributed system with thousands of nodes. Typically PaaS/SaaS are large distributed systems.
To reliably and consistantly handle a very large stream of very important transactions where you basically need 100% reliability, they are a real option. The business case for a mainframe is something like, it would cost 200mln per year for some bank to make a failure proof distributed system, and 100mln to do it with a a mainframe. Outside of this type of systems, it is hard to think of any use for a mainframe, given the cost and complexity.
How is this insightful? The Slashdot blurb doesn't mention anywhere that North Korea is responsible, it just says that the US is imposing sanctions based on it. Are you disputing that the US is imposing sanctions?
Also, what was this authoritative source that proofs beyond any doubt that it wasn't North Korea?
Great! Then it shouldn't be no problem for you. If you read my post you would know I support you and applaud your effort!
Why don't you switch them all over to IPv6 while you're at it?
That's great! Why don't you go convince every single carrier in the world to do this!
Meanwhile we will use real world solutions. Let us know when you are done, then we can stop using those services.