SOME programmers walk around in the "10 types of people" t-shirt and what-not. They are actually hyper-competitive and offensive people in my experience. They alienate men too. Myself, I wasn't really an outcast as you put it. But I could and do appreciate the astounding edifice we are standing on and I was amazed as a child by the various computers I encountered as they appeared in my lives. I wanted, instinctively, to understand how they worked and how to control them if possible, like any machine or system I come across.
But yet, the computer has never really done what I have told it to do. The normal result, of course, is that the program immediately blows up on the next line of code. Sometimes it works; and that is the reward, the micro-reward who's puirsuit I suspect defines a programmer. Sometimes, so rarely, the project bug list is actually emptied. Troubleshooting and debugging code is what makes it hard, tiring work. But the rewards are intellectually satisfying, like solving cryptic crossword puzzles, even if it's as ephemeral as cocaine.
I am sure it's environmental, the actual work involved can be done by woman as easily and proficiently as men. We just have to kill all the nerds first.
Dunno, it's all above my pay grade really, but either this is as you say utter dipshittery or it's so obscure it's irrelevant. Reads like a poorly written April fool joke.
I would assume so too. I once got involved in a C++ product that was licensed to oil companies for c. $10,000 a year. It had a 10,000 line main(). The owner wrote it at university while learning C++ on his course. Incredibly shoddy, unstructured code, but it works, and he's rich.
I don't think you can call dictionary attacks on phpmyadmin and its possible installation paths a "scan". Well, you can if you want but in what I would call a scan one is scanning available ports for interesting services to attack. ydmv and fairly pointless comment on my part anyway so have a good day.
Both of you are wrong. A Linux box set up according to current good practice will not be easy to pwn, even for the great NSA. Where did you get this idea from? Pay better attention to the story please. The NSA has taken advantage of the treasure trove of network communication metadata primarily, which has nothing to do with linux boxen per se, The NSA has taken advantage of access to important nodes on the internet and to listen in - where possible - to the actual packet payloads. The NSA has taken advantage of security key infrastructure and no doubt been able to decrypt SSL and more. The NSA has taken advantage of its dark political power to coerce, force or flatter the big US internet companies into giving them as much access as they could squeeze from these mega data stores. All of this is already a massive, unprecedented, ominous new development in human society. This is what the NSA has been doing. But what they haven't been doing is pwning mcgrews linux box. Nobody is, unless he's an idiot.
We have fought our rebellions here, and citizens know when it's time to stand up en masse and it wasn't too long ago since the last one.
Aside from the rest of your depressing post which I didn't pay any attention to, your line above is ludicrous. If you all stood up en masse, you'd all be stood up en masse. Rebelling against what, then? Anyway, historically, you haven't got a leg to stand on. Just to fix that for you: "You have not fought your rebellions there. Your citizens do not know when it's time to stand up en masse. This has never happened."
And yeah: what? Stop working? Everyone? It's inconceivable. Humans are too entwined and reliant on the functions of the hive.
But the commie pinko stuff that is needed is organised labour. It's about time that the value of the workforce was recognised, bartered and bartered it for its true value. Individual democratic power has withered, the democratic vote is now dissipated and scattered or siloed against relentless, organised, self-interested business groups. The one group now absent almost entirely, at least in UK politics (ycmmv), is the workforce. Unions are needed. The interesting thing to watch for now is whether the trends in income distribution will give rise to the conditions that could see "the worker" take a significant slice of the power - and whether that can be done in a non-violent manner.
26,500,000 km^3 = 2.65 x 10^16 kg This transfer of mass over the globe will cause tectonic disturbances resulting in alterations to the continental plates - causing uplift in places. So it's probably a bit more complicated than you have it.
I agree with you. Maybe there needs to be a -2 level, where the junk can go. Make some erudite,established, regular/. users Benevolent Dictators who get a nuke button as they browse the comments - one click and it's in the trash. Of course, then someone still has to go through the trash from time to time and check for abuse. And so someone has to check the trash checkers. It's moderation all the way down! But no, I think we can do better and it's necessary to subjectively apply some order, some QUALITY to something that is used in a relatively friendly, intelligent and enjoyable manner by the vast majority of its users.
For sure, web comment tree design must evolve. It's becoming the bulk of the content on the web.
The really ridiculous thing is that emergency locator beacons have almost become commodities these days. If I were to become a pilot I'd almost certainly invest in one. From what I've read the newer digital ones use pulsed transmissions designed to penetrate cloud cover.
Indeed. No mention of any EPIRB units on board? That is very unusual.
Not so sure about the cloud cover issue though. Are you mixing up laser flares?
UM you say that with a lot of confidence. More that 13 times over? How precise is that? I think you'll find it's pretty hard to enumerate the value of technology transfer from the space missions. Most of it was pretty good tech for, er, space. Not so much really bled out into other sectors. It's all pretty hard to quantify and any estimates are pretty woolly.
2. Enforcing MVC architecture Drupal 8 includes a new, non-php, default templating engine called "Twig" ( http://twig.sensiolabs.org/ ). No more PHP code in templates.
Now how exactly does that enforce an MVC architecture? Anyway, PHP is a great templating language and I use it in MVC. Twig is also nice, they use that on Lemonstand. Plus Drupal shouldn't enforce a templating language; that's not core.
With Drupal 7 I probably tried to make the mistake of attempting to understand how the system works. var_dump is not your friend here. The render array that gets dragged through each request is absolutely byzantine and fairly hopeless as a tool to understand the system. I was coming at it with a design-led brief and the design requirements could not be met out the box; attempts to bend various aspects of the output were not very successful. The system was dropped in favour of a bespoke framework based on a revved-up version of codeigniter. Another friend, however, has successfully deployed a D6 site to support his business and has had a great experience on the whole; his advantage, though, is that he understood that his site would be developed within the available modular functionality and the constraints of the templating and general front-end system of drupal. Then again, he knows he has to upgrade sometime soon, and he's tried and he's failed once already.
Drupal online is also a mess. Whilst the core drupal.org pages and the technical documentation found there is a good start, things rapidly deteriorate as you search wider and join the lost millions blindly seeking a way out of the deadends drupal has led them into, all raking across the same hodge podge of dupes, ignorance, ridiculous bravado, outright falsehoods and version hell.
And all that bloody clicking. It's not efficient and it hurts after a while.
Keyword is "practical". The Wright brothers did not fly a practical plane.
The Wright brothers had achieved flights of over 5 minutes with multiple circular paths around the field within a year of the first powered flight success. And they incrementally improved their designs and concepts over many years. They were truly engineers, not romantics, and based their development on research, science, testing and feedback. They were instrumental in the development of practical aircraft.
Oh, you mean wifi and body scans and free gin-and-tonics? OK.
...eventually coalescing into the cookies for the advertisers being handled THROUGH the corporate websites
Agreed. This sounds like the obvious next evolution. The communication and cookie sharing will take place between servers: the client will only communicate with the principle web site but all the third parties involved will be listening in all the same.
Why the hell is there a chat client in a mail program to start with? I saw this new 'feature' and died a little inside. It is a classic sign on developers losing their direction.
Although a single search point across all communication channels would be nice...
...Most of the clients mentioned in the OP haven't changed much recently because they have reached a level of maturity where there's little to improve on or take away.
But I share the submitter's concerns, a feeling of "is this it?" when using TBird. I occasionally look around to see if I could improve on TBird on Win and year after year, there's no change in the landscape. Of course, I should now state for you my wish list of missing features; sorry. All I can say right now is that it isn't perfect, and I just have this feeling there has to be a better way to handle and interact with email.
Yeah, and I went back to Mutt recently as TBird was choking on IMAP stuff. Work-around.
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SOME programmers walk around in the "10 types of people" t-shirt and what-not. They are actually hyper-competitive and offensive people in my experience. They alienate men too. Myself, I wasn't really an outcast as you put it. But I could and do appreciate the astounding edifice we are standing on and I was amazed as a child by the various computers I encountered as they appeared in my lives. I wanted, instinctively, to understand how they worked and how to control them if possible, like any machine or system I come across.
But yet, the computer has never really done what I have told it to do. The normal result, of course, is that the program immediately blows up on the next line of code. Sometimes it works; and that is the reward, the micro-reward who's puirsuit I suspect defines a programmer. Sometimes, so rarely, the project bug list is actually emptied. Troubleshooting and debugging code is what makes it hard, tiring work. But the rewards are intellectually satisfying, like solving cryptic crossword puzzles, even if it's as ephemeral as cocaine.
I am sure it's environmental, the actual work involved can be done by woman as easily and proficiently as men. We just have to kill all the nerds first.
Tentatively, "this".
Dunno, it's all above my pay grade really, but either this is as you say utter dipshittery or it's so obscure it's irrelevant. Reads like a poorly written April fool joke.
I would assume so too. I once got involved in a C++ product that was licensed to oil companies for c. $10,000 a year. It had a 10,000 line main(). The owner wrote it at university while learning C++ on his course. Incredibly shoddy, unstructured code, but it works, and he's rich.
And that, kids, is what encryption is for.
...and onion routing, kids.
So was I. You can't specify the port number in an MX record.
Bouncing packets "back where they came from" is a recipe for disrupting even more innocent parties.
Aye. DNS amplification attack, for example.
I don't think you can call dictionary attacks on phpmyadmin and its possible installation paths a "scan". Well, you can if you want but in what I would call a scan one is scanning available ports for interesting services to attack. ydmv and fairly pointless comment on my part anyway so have a good day.
Both of you are wrong. A Linux box set up according to current good practice will not be easy to pwn, even for the great NSA. Where did you get this idea from? Pay better attention to the story please. The NSA has taken advantage of the treasure trove of network communication metadata primarily, which has nothing to do with linux boxen per se, The NSA has taken advantage of access to important nodes on the internet and to listen in - where possible - to the actual packet payloads. The NSA has taken advantage of security key infrastructure and no doubt been able to decrypt SSL and more. The NSA has taken advantage of its dark political power to coerce, force or flatter the big US internet companies into giving them as much access as they could squeeze from these mega data stores. All of this is already a massive, unprecedented, ominous new development in human society. This is what the NSA has been doing. But what they haven't been doing is pwning mcgrews linux box. Nobody is, unless he's an idiot.
We have fought our rebellions here, and citizens know when it's time to stand up en masse and it wasn't too long ago since the last one.
Aside from the rest of your depressing post which I didn't pay any attention to, your line above is ludicrous. If you all stood up en masse, you'd all be stood up en masse. Rebelling against what, then? Anyway, historically, you haven't got a leg to stand on. Just to fix that for you:
"You have not fought your rebellions there. Your citizens do not know when it's time to stand up en masse. This has never happened."
And yeah: what? Stop working? Everyone? It's inconceivable. Humans are too entwined and reliant on the functions of the hive.
But the commie pinko stuff that is needed is organised labour. It's about time that the value of the workforce was recognised, bartered and bartered it for its true value. Individual democratic power has withered, the democratic vote is now dissipated and scattered or siloed against relentless, organised, self-interested business groups. The one group now absent almost entirely, at least in UK politics (ycmmv), is the workforce. Unions are needed. The interesting thing to watch for now is whether the trends in income distribution will give rise to the conditions that could see "the worker" take a significant slice of the power - and whether that can be done in a non-violent manner.
Mettle detector - a device for checking the ability of someone to cope in a situation.
Metal detector - a device for detecting metals.
What the TSA does is clearly dual-purpose.
Indeed, the entirety of the security theatre is a test of one's mettle, every time.
26,500,000 km^3 = 2.65 x 10^16 kg
This transfer of mass over the globe will cause tectonic disturbances resulting in alterations to the continental plates - causing uplift in places. So it's probably a bit more complicated than you have it.
I agree with you. Maybe there needs to be a -2 level, where the junk can go. Make some erudite,established, regular /. users Benevolent Dictators who get a nuke button as they browse the comments - one click and it's in the trash. Of course, then someone still has to go through the trash from time to time and check for abuse. And so someone has to check the trash checkers. It's moderation all the way down! But no, I think we can do better and it's necessary to subjectively apply some order, some QUALITY to something that is used in a relatively friendly, intelligent and enjoyable manner by the vast majority of its users.
For sure, web comment tree design must evolve. It's becoming the bulk of the content on the web.
The really ridiculous thing is that emergency locator beacons have almost become commodities these days. If I were to become a pilot I'd almost certainly invest in one. From what I've read the newer digital ones use pulsed transmissions designed to penetrate cloud cover.
Indeed. No mention of any EPIRB units on board? That is very unusual.
Not so sure about the cloud cover issue though. Are you mixing up laser flares?
UM you say that with a lot of confidence. More that 13 times over? How precise is that? I think you'll find it's pretty hard to enumerate the value of technology transfer from the space missions. Most of it was pretty good tech for, er, space. Not so much really bled out into other sectors. It's all pretty hard to quantify and any estimates are pretty woolly.
Creationist: Between 2 and 6 x 10^21.
what is that even? Is that an ark building dimension or what?
2. Enforcing MVC architecture
Drupal 8 includes a new, non-php, default templating engine called "Twig" ( http://twig.sensiolabs.org/ ). No more PHP code in templates.
Now how exactly does that enforce an MVC architecture? Anyway, PHP is a great templating language and I use it in MVC. Twig is also nice, they use that on Lemonstand. Plus Drupal shouldn't enforce a templating language; that's not core.
With Drupal 7 I probably tried to make the mistake of attempting to understand how the system works. var_dump is not your friend here. The render array that gets dragged through each request is absolutely byzantine and fairly hopeless as a tool to understand the system. I was coming at it with a design-led brief and the design requirements could not be met out the box; attempts to bend various aspects of the output were not very successful. The system was dropped in favour of a bespoke framework based on a revved-up version of codeigniter. Another friend, however, has successfully deployed a D6 site to support his business and has had a great experience on the whole; his advantage, though, is that he understood that his site would be developed within the available modular functionality and the constraints of the templating and general front-end system of drupal. Then again, he knows he has to upgrade sometime soon, and he's tried and he's failed once already.
Drupal online is also a mess. Whilst the core drupal.org pages and the technical documentation found there is a good start, things rapidly deteriorate as you search wider and join the lost millions blindly seeking a way out of the deadends drupal has led them into, all raking across the same hodge podge of dupes, ignorance, ridiculous bravado, outright falsehoods and version hell.
And all that bloody clicking. It's not efficient and it hurts after a while.
The page source (they're harder to find in today's browsers...)
Control+U works for me if i am in a hurry
Keyword is "practical". The Wright brothers did not fly a practical plane.
The Wright brothers had achieved flights of over 5 minutes with multiple circular paths around the field within a year of the first powered flight success. And they incrementally improved their designs and concepts over many years. They were truly engineers, not romantics, and based their development on research, science, testing and feedback. They were instrumental in the development of practical aircraft.
Oh, you mean wifi and body scans and free gin-and-tonics? OK.
...eventually coalescing into the cookies for the advertisers being handled THROUGH the corporate websites
Agreed. This sounds like the obvious next evolution. The communication and cookie sharing will take place between servers: the client will only communicate with the principle web site but all the third parties involved will be listening in all the same.
heh, well it increases the name space at least. $var != @var
Perl was my first web language, fond memories.
Chilling? I think the submitter fails the goddam Turing test.
"highly reasonable" I would say. Which, come to think of it, is kind of chilling, seeing as it's the UK government being reasonable.
...the rotation of the moon just about exactly matches the revolution around the Earth
I think we can say exactly, as it's not a coincidence that the rotations align like that, it's a stable configuration of two bodies in orbit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_locking
Why the hell is there a chat client in a mail program to start with? I saw this new 'feature' and died a little inside. It is a classic sign on developers losing their direction.
Although a single search point across all communication channels would be nice...
...Most of the clients mentioned in the OP haven't changed much recently because they have reached a level of maturity where there's little to improve on or take away.
But I share the submitter's concerns, a feeling of "is this it?" when using TBird. I occasionally look around to see if I could improve on TBird on Win and year after year, there's no change in the landscape. Of course, I should now state for you my wish list of missing features; sorry. All I can say right now is that it isn't perfect, and I just have this feeling there has to be a better way to handle and interact with email.
Yeah, and I went back to Mutt recently as TBird was choking on IMAP stuff. Work-around.