So your big complaint is ads? You do know they are inevitable regardless of the tech employed. If HTML had never become the standard and everything was written in C++ you would still get ads. Look at iOS and Android apps. Look at the latest Ubuntu search (and Windows now too). There are ad supported (and malware linking) apps all over. It's even worse as they have less sandboxing and can cause more problems.
Sorry. Things change. It won't be long before browsers are just wrappers around the JSVM and all web addresses are just sandboxed applications running in it. The web is the biggest App Store there is.
You want raw data in a structured format? There are REST APIs for that, they return JSON. HTML is too verbose by far as the default response and is useless for any other client besides an HTML renderer.
Text content is moving to Markdown as a standard as well. It's quicker and easier and covers text formatting. Clients should just render it directly.
I could go on but it's probably lost on you. Suffice to say that modern server app development is evolving to be service driven and client agnostic. HTML is one of many targets. Why write server apps or content engines (CMS/blog/forum) for a single client when you can instead create a server based API and several thin client apps (JS, DART, iOS, Android, C++,.Net, Lua, etc).
I'm watching The Andy Griffith Show on Netflix right now. Eight seasons with 30+ episodes per. I saw Leave it to Beaver too. Netflix library is getting bigger all the time. They just added Antiques Roadshow and lots of other PBS content.
Some other beachheads: clean water, large nature reserves, national defense, education, energy, roads and transportation, wireless communications, interstate commerce - to name a few.
They may have faults and all would benefit from an overlay of local policy (many do have this via state laws and regulations) but all are effective enough and all are governed by standards and policies set by a central authority.
Health care should be in this list. It is a national concern at the very least. The health and well being of each citizen directly impacts the success of the nation. Any amount of standard health care will improve the effectiveness of our workforce, the success rates of our education system and the ability for all to participate more fully in our economy (as consumers of goods and services). It's no different than providing access to clean water and waste disposal (sewage). You allow every provider to set their own standards and watch as our society crumbles.
A rising tide lifts all ships. National health care is a rising tide.
Health care is not trauma care. You're an idiot. Quality of life and lifestyle moderation is exactly what good healthcare is about.
Do you take your car to a body shop to get your brake pads replaced? If you wait long enough you may have to (have your rotors planed). Maintenance can prevent a lot of problems. Health care is good maintenance.
The Salty Dog is one of two X-47B aircraft built by Northrop Grumman to experiment with incorporating drones onto aircraft carriers. It has a 2,000-mile range and can carry two guided bombs, though it is primarly designed for around-the-clock surveillance. The Salty Dog cost $1.4 billion.
The drones probably won’t see any combat. After a minimum of three landings on a carrier in the next week, they will be retired to flight museums in Florida and Maryland.
Instead, the Navy’s UCLASS program will design and build drones for aircraft carriers over the next three to six years. These drones will be used for both reconnaissance and strike missions. According to Reuters, they could be valuable as a counter to missiles in China and Iran designed to limit the range of the U.S. Navy.
They could have proven out the guidance systems with less expensive hardware. I'm sure some portion of those Billions was directly related to the effort but a significant amount was also dumped into the plane itself as labor and not recoverable.
I'm expecting to find out that DropBox is negotiating agreements with all major ISPs to host cache servers and not count DropBox traffic against caps (for your home at least) as the requests won't leave their network.
This means a) that latency will be as low as possible for most requests and b) costs will be kept down for consumers.
They may do this by piggybacking on Akamai or Netflix or Amazon's existing agreement or may negotiate their own.
If they do it with the cell carriers (AT&T and Verizon at least) they can cover mobile synch as well.
This would just be a shuffling of the costs around of course but consumers will feel like they are getting their money's worth.
Node solves a problem Java can't solve. It's fast to develop for. Java takes 10 times longer for the same result (assuming your result is a web application). If you include a full suite of unit tests it still takes 1/8th the time.
Time to market and time to add features is very significant. This also means lower cost. A good Node developer is probably an ex-Java developer so they likely cost the same (or if not an ex-Java dev they have equivalent experience, not just a front end UI guy who switches to app dev). Still, the code -> compile -> deploy -> QA process turns into code -> QA.
This is why new companies choose Node. It's a competitive edge.
Maybe later when they need to they will convert some mature parts of their code base to Java or C++. Until then why penalize themselves with overhead for code that may change next week?
An Enterprise should be using an ESB from someone like Tibco. Then they should have a heterogenous set of apps that publish endpoints to that ESB. Some could be Java backed, some.Net, some Node/Python/Erlang or straight C/++ (throw some COBOL or Haskell in). These apps should subscribe to each other as needed for data interchange.
The client apps used for managing and reporting can be anything at this point. Node would be just fine for a web based GUI. It loves to consume endpoints. Sockets, REST, streams - it can handle all of those well.
When the next tech comes along for either data wrangling or for the GUI layer just version your endpoints as needed and continue working to your SLA.
Stop thinking about one size fits all for apps. The only thing that needs that feature is the ESB (so invest in a good one).
Dragons typically live in lairs, why not lairs of abstraction?
"Quest to find the Lair of Abstraction! Undefined treasures await you in this thrilling new module set in the World of Greyhawk." - a Gary Gygax production
I tried teaching my six yr old daughter about game design, set up an account with Scratch and went through the tutorials with her. She tried for a day or two, then later in the week she showed me her games. Six sheets of paper, double sided with cut out characters, a controller (d-pad) and point tokens. Each sheet was colored with a "level" and the backs had the score screen with places for tokens. She had double sided tape on each character and put them on the appropriate screen (one hero and six villains). Then she explained the game mechanics to me and what the hero had to do to complete each level and get tokens.
I was very proud of unintended consequences and of my daughter.
And yet if you assume that the youngest are 22 (4 year degree completed in 4 years), 50% are between 22 and 29 while the rest are 30 to ??? Probably not 37. It's still an uneven distribution bias to the younger set.
The biggest issue isn't Netflix. It's crappy routers on the other end that can't recover from a mild outage. I came home the other day to find my router blinking like a a madman on stimulants but no service. Unplugged, replugged and it all worked fine. Seems like it should have been able to diagnose itself and restart to achieve the same result.
People are not uninformed. They are selectively informed. I know next to nothing about Justin Bieber. Also I can't tell you one good or bad thing about.Net and C#. Finally, I am blissfully unaware of the politics of Switzerland. There are plenty of people who want to be informed of these topics and can become so within minutes. This does not mean that I am uninformed or that they are superior in some way.
You get it from downloading free apps that have auto downloads of other apps that have ads and more auto loaded apps. From Playstore. Go download any number of dress up apps for girls or apps that give you jewels to buy fashion so you can go on "dates" or get modeling jobs. Worse yet get cupcake maker apps where you can buy sprinkles and decorations. They also force download other apps that say "banking" or "browser" , you get the idea.
Actually you can hook Jira into Stash, which is a GIT repo server, hook that into FishEye/Crucible which is a code review portal and hooked into Jenkins, thereby creating a nearly round trip QA process.
QA creates a ticket, developer sees ticket, creates a branch from it, commits code, gets peer review after which the code is deployed to a QA server, ticket is moved back to a QA user who has a link to the QA server (typically a unique server instance is spun up for each ticket), QA confirms - this spins down the QA server instance and a pull request is made for the production branch.
So there you go. Automated code deployment with useful checkpoints in a workflow process.
You can't beat coastal CA weather. NoCal is pretty good. SoCal is even better, 55-95 F temp range. 10 months a year it's 65-85 F. You live outside all year. Beaches are 5-25 min away. Mountains are 25-60 min away. I lived in a house with NO air conditioning. Just a ceiling fan and getting out to a movie or the pool in the afternoon during August. Coastal breezes cool it off after 5pm (rather than the heat rising until the sun goes down).
It's a different way to live and if you've never experienced it before it can seem like no big deal. It is though. Not being stuck inside for half the year from heat or cold makes a huge difference.
Not to mention the licensed content which is typically very expensive per seat. Think college book pricing. That's what schools pay already. Granted the books they buy have a multi year lifetime but this looks like a similar deal in the form of a subscription which will include updates.
Who said anything about programming. These are textbook replacements. The only thing they have to do is have all curriculum loaded, accept updated periodically and integrate with the schools provisioning system.
They can still give out the paper workbooks where the kids write stuff. There will still be wide rule notebooks filled with scribbled examples off the whiteboard and doodles galore.
You can always make it up. The best job is the one you pull out of thin air. You might even be able to make work for others to do. Wouldn't that feel good.
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So your big complaint is ads? You do know they are inevitable regardless of the tech employed. If HTML had never become the standard and everything was written in C++ you would still get ads. Look at iOS and Android apps. Look at the latest Ubuntu search (and Windows now too). There are ad supported (and malware linking) apps all over. It's even worse as they have less sandboxing and can cause more problems.
Sorry. Things change. It won't be long before browsers are just wrappers around the JSVM and all web addresses are just sandboxed applications running in it. The web is the biggest App Store there is.
You want raw data in a structured format? There are REST APIs for that, they return JSON. HTML is too verbose by far as the default response and is useless for any other client besides an HTML renderer.
Text content is moving to Markdown as a standard as well. It's quicker and easier and covers text formatting. Clients should just render it directly.
I could go on but it's probably lost on you. Suffice to say that modern server app development is evolving to be service driven and client agnostic. HTML is one of many targets. Why write server apps or content engines (CMS/blog/forum) for a single client when you can instead create a server based API and several thin client apps (JS, DART, iOS, Android, C++, .Net, Lua, etc).
Get a Harmony Remote and it will switch the inputs for you.
Air Sharing works great with AppleTV. Use the iPad to pick the movie then share it to the TV. Drains the iPad but works fine.
Got a Logitech Harmony and set it up for AppleTV, same thing, one button to start TV and aTV.
I'm watching The Andy Griffith Show on Netflix right now. Eight seasons with 30+ episodes per. I saw Leave it to Beaver too. Netflix library is getting bigger all the time. They just added Antiques Roadshow and lots of other PBS content.
So when he's sitting on property worth 200k plus minimum and only paying 4k annual in taxes, where will your savings be?
Some other beachheads: clean water, large nature reserves, national defense, education, energy, roads and transportation, wireless communications, interstate commerce - to name a few.
They may have faults and all would benefit from an overlay of local policy (many do have this via state laws and regulations) but all are effective enough and all are governed by standards and policies set by a central authority.
Health care should be in this list. It is a national concern at the very least. The health and well being of each citizen directly impacts the success of the nation. Any amount of standard health care will improve the effectiveness of our workforce, the success rates of our education system and the ability for all to participate more fully in our economy (as consumers of goods and services). It's no different than providing access to clean water and waste disposal (sewage). You allow every provider to set their own standards and watch as our society crumbles.
A rising tide lifts all ships. National health care is a rising tide.
Health care is not trauma care. You're an idiot. Quality of life and lifestyle moderation is exactly what good healthcare is about.
Do you take your car to a body shop to get your brake pads replaced? If you wait long enough you may have to (have your rotors planed). Maintenance can prevent a lot of problems. Health care is good maintenance.
The Salty Dog is one of two X-47B aircraft built by Northrop Grumman to experiment with incorporating drones onto aircraft carriers. It has a 2,000-mile range and can carry two guided bombs, though it is primarly designed for around-the-clock surveillance. The Salty Dog cost $1.4 billion.
The drones probably won’t see any combat. After a minimum of three landings on a carrier in the next week, they will be retired to flight museums in Florida and Maryland.
Instead, the Navy’s UCLASS program will design and build drones for aircraft carriers over the next three to six years. These drones will be used for both reconnaissance and strike missions. According to Reuters, they could be valuable as a counter to missiles in China and Iran designed to limit the range of the U.S. Navy.
They could have proven out the guidance systems with less expensive hardware. I'm sure some portion of those Billions was directly related to the effort but a significant amount was also dumped into the plane itself as labor and not recoverable.
I'm expecting to find out that DropBox is negotiating agreements with all major ISPs to host cache servers and not count DropBox traffic against caps (for your home at least) as the requests won't leave their network.
This means a) that latency will be as low as possible for most requests and b) costs will be kept down for consumers.
They may do this by piggybacking on Akamai or Netflix or Amazon's existing agreement or may negotiate their own.
If they do it with the cell carriers (AT&T and Verizon at least) they can cover mobile synch as well.
This would just be a shuffling of the costs around of course but consumers will feel like they are getting their money's worth.
Node solves a problem Java can't solve. It's fast to develop for. Java takes 10 times longer for the same result (assuming your result is a web application). If you include a full suite of unit tests it still takes 1/8th the time.
Time to market and time to add features is very significant. This also means lower cost. A good Node developer is probably an ex-Java developer so they likely cost the same (or if not an ex-Java dev they have equivalent experience, not just a front end UI guy who switches to app dev). Still, the code -> compile -> deploy -> QA process turns into code -> QA.
This is why new companies choose Node. It's a competitive edge.
Maybe later when they need to they will convert some mature parts of their code base to Java or C++. Until then why penalize themselves with overhead for code that may change next week?
An Enterprise should be using an ESB from someone like Tibco. Then they should have a heterogenous set of apps that publish endpoints to that ESB. Some could be Java backed, some .Net, some Node/Python/Erlang or straight C/++ (throw some COBOL or Haskell in). These apps should subscribe to each other as needed for data interchange.
The client apps used for managing and reporting can be anything at this point. Node would be just fine for a web based GUI. It loves to consume endpoints. Sockets, REST, streams - it can handle all of those well.
When the next tech comes along for either data wrangling or for the GUI layer just version your endpoints as needed and continue working to your SLA.
Stop thinking about one size fits all for apps. The only thing that needs that feature is the ESB (so invest in a good one).
Dragons typically live in lairs, why not lairs of abstraction?
"Quest to find the Lair of Abstraction! Undefined treasures await you in this thrilling new module set in the World of Greyhawk."
- a Gary Gygax production
I tried teaching my six yr old daughter about game design, set up an account with Scratch and went through the tutorials with her. She tried for a day or two, then later in the week she showed me her games. Six sheets of paper, double sided with cut out characters, a controller (d-pad) and point tokens. Each sheet was colored with a "level" and the backs had the score screen with places for tokens. She had double sided tape on each character and put them on the appropriate screen (one hero and six villains). Then she explained the game mechanics to me and what the hero had to do to complete each level and get tokens.
I was very proud of unintended consequences and of my daughter.
And yet if you assume that the youngest are 22 (4 year degree completed in 4 years), 50% are between 22 and 29 while the rest are 30 to ??? Probably not 37. It's still an uneven distribution bias to the younger set.
The biggest issue isn't Netflix. It's crappy routers on the other end that can't recover from a mild outage. I came home the other day to find my router blinking like a a madman on stimulants but no service. Unplugged, replugged and it all worked fine. Seems like it should have been able to diagnose itself and restart to achieve the same result.
People are not uninformed. They are selectively informed. I know next to nothing about Justin Bieber. Also I can't tell you one good or bad thing about .Net and C#. Finally, I am blissfully unaware of the politics of Switzerland. There are plenty of people who want to be informed of these topics and can become so within minutes. This does not mean that I am uninformed or that they are superior in some way.
You get it from downloading free apps that have auto downloads of other apps that have ads and more auto loaded apps. From Playstore. Go download any number of dress up apps for girls or apps that give you jewels to buy fashion so you can go on "dates" or get modeling jobs. Worse yet get cupcake maker apps where you can buy sprinkles and decorations. They also force download other apps that say "banking" or "browser" , you get the idea.
Yep it's malware hidden behind cuteness.
Actually you can hook Jira into Stash, which is a GIT repo server, hook that into FishEye/Crucible which is a code review portal and hooked into Jenkins, thereby creating a nearly round trip QA process.
QA creates a ticket, developer sees ticket, creates a branch from it, commits code, gets peer review after which the code is deployed to a QA server, ticket is moved back to a QA user who has a link to the QA server (typically a unique server instance is spun up for each ticket), QA confirms - this spins down the QA server instance and a pull request is made for the production branch.
So there you go. Automated code deployment with useful checkpoints in a workflow process.
Don't be jealous.
You can't beat coastal CA weather. NoCal is pretty good. SoCal is even better, 55-95 F temp range. 10 months a year it's 65-85 F. You live outside all year. Beaches are 5-25 min away. Mountains are 25-60 min away. I lived in a house with NO air conditioning. Just a ceiling fan and getting out to a movie or the pool in the afternoon during August. Coastal breezes cool it off after 5pm (rather than the heat rising until the sun goes down).
It's a different way to live and if you've never experienced it before it can seem like no big deal. It is though. Not being stuck inside for half the year from heat or cold makes a huge difference.
Not to mention the licensed content which is typically very expensive per seat. Think college book pricing. That's what schools pay already. Granted the books they buy have a multi year lifetime but this looks like a similar deal in the form of a subscription which will include updates.
It's probably a better deal than we imagine.
Who said anything about programming. These are textbook replacements. The only thing they have to do is have all curriculum loaded, accept updated periodically and integrate with the schools provisioning system.
They can still give out the paper workbooks where the kids write stuff. There will still be wide rule notebooks filled with scribbled examples off the whiteboard and doodles galore.
Anything else is a bonus.
You can always make it up. The best job is the one you pull out of thin air. You might even be able to make work for others to do. Wouldn't that feel good.
Try ZeroMQ - has bindings for most languages. Different light weight philosophy from other message queue stacks.
SALT is a deploy automation tool built on top of it. Exosite has a nice near real time platform built on it as well. Very interesting.