You need to start a training program. If the current workers feel uncomfortable in the new technologies, the will oppose you every step of the way (though they won't say why). If they feel comfortable in the new technologies, they will push you faster in the adoption.
If a team has been working on a lousy codebase, your first priority should be to teach them to do better. You can try cleaning things up, but they will make messes faster than you can clean. You need to find a way to teach them to at least not make things worse.
What if the policies of prior administrations, or even other actors in a position to influence if not write policy, make it one of the less-odious of available options?
In the case of Bush, "Don't start a war in Iraq on false pretenses" would have been a good idea.
After nearly a decade of fighting, somehow Iraq managed to stabilize itself. Obama could have left a small force there, like the Iraqis wanted. Instead he grasped at any excuse he could to leave the place, and now it's a mess again.
btw, on economy, I don't blame Obama (or Bush) for any particular downturn. I do blame them for using bank lobbyists as advisers. The banking crisis could have been handled so much better, and this is how: any bank that needs a government bailout should be shut down, or broken up and sold in pieces.
It might be impossible to avoid bank situations that are "too big to fail," but once you see them, once they need government funding, they should be broken up. Obama didn't need to listen to me on this point, he could have listened to Paul Volcker, or to Sheila Bair, who were saying the same thing (and actually worth listening to, unlike me). Instead, Obama listened to bankers from Goldman Sachs.
If you're going to claim that Obama is competent, that's fine, but you'll need to explain why he took bad advice from banker/lobbyists instead of some of the top economic minds.
Maybe your expectations of what prez can accomplish is unrealistic. The middle east has confounded them all, for example.
You can start with "avoid pre-emptive wars in the middle east." In fact, "avoid pre-emptive wars anywhere." It's not hard to do, yet every president this century has failed. There is certainly such a thing as "unrealistic expectations", but there is also such a thing as incompetent, and we haven't seen competence in a while.
I'm wondering how these apps made it through in the first place. Apple is known for being strict about vetting apps and what's allowed to enter the walled garden.
The vetting process is strict and sometimes capricious, but do not be deceived that is by any means thorough.
The large amount of time and effort spent to create a meaningful review (rather than the more typical short-form PR puff piece masquerading as a review) costs a lot of money, and in some cases may actually require you buy the product in question *and* related accessories if the company creating the product doesn't want a critical eye cast over it.
Is there any website you like that you wouldn't be willing to pay for?
I've thought through every place I visit on the web. There are some I'd rather pay than have advertising, and others I would rather disappear than have advertising, but overall the internet would be a better place without advertising.
Ask yourself this: If the content isn't valuable, why are you even reading it? Either read it without an ad blocker and support its creator, or GO ELSEWHERE if the ads are more offensive than you're willing to accept in trade for the content. Don't be disingenuous and claim the ads aren't needed, then steal the content anyway.
There is malware in all the major ad networks. If they don't want ad-blocking, they shouldn't be hostile. Right now, it's irresponsible to not block ads.
The problem here is that the browser has become two different things:
1) A document browser.
2) An app-runner.
As much as I hate it, there is huge demand for an app-runner, so that use case is not going away. The mistake was to try to tie both of these things into the same web-browser framework. We could have had a document viewer separated from an app-runner, but instead we have them both mixed together, with all the complexity that entails. It's not a problem that's going away, and expect Javascript exploits to multiply in the next few years, if not decades.
There's too much momentum with Javascript + HTML to go back now.
The best supersonic designs I'm aware of achieve a L/D of around 9 at L/D at Mach 1.5. These are incredibly optimized designs that have been fine-tuned with supercomputers and would be quite unfeasible for a passenger aircraft (weird shapes, no windows, etc.) As a result the Concorde consumed about 3x more fuel PER MILE than a comparable subsonic jet. So half the mass of the Concorde was fuel (!), it winded up being very heavy, and it carried only 100 passengers. And its maximum range was limited to 4500 miles.
These guys (actually, there are several different teams working on competing designs, including Airbus) are planning on using ramjets, probably powered by hydrogen.
Interestingly, the prototype pictured in the article has no windows, not even a cockpit (as far as I can tell).
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You need to start a training program. If the current workers feel uncomfortable in the new technologies, the will oppose you every step of the way (though they won't say why). If they feel comfortable in the new technologies, they will push you faster in the adoption.
If a team has been working on a lousy codebase, your first priority should be to teach them to do better. You can try cleaning things up, but they will make messes faster than you can clean. You need to find a way to teach them to at least not make things worse.
Iraq didn't actually invade Kuwait?
I'm sorry, I seem to have confused you. I was talking about Bush Jr.
What if the policies of prior administrations, or even other actors in a position to influence if not write policy, make it one of the less-odious of available options?
In the case of Bush, "Don't start a war in Iraq on false pretenses" would have been a good idea.
After nearly a decade of fighting, somehow Iraq managed to stabilize itself. Obama could have left a small force there, like the Iraqis wanted. Instead he grasped at any excuse he could to leave the place, and now it's a mess again.
btw, on economy, I don't blame Obama (or Bush) for any particular downturn. I do blame them for using bank lobbyists as advisers. The banking crisis could have been handled so much better, and this is how: any bank that needs a government bailout should be shut down, or broken up and sold in pieces.
It might be impossible to avoid bank situations that are "too big to fail," but once you see them, once they need government funding, they should be broken up. Obama didn't need to listen to me on this point, he could have listened to Paul Volcker, or to Sheila Bair, who were saying the same thing (and actually worth listening to, unlike me). Instead, Obama listened to bankers from Goldman Sachs.
If you're going to claim that Obama is competent, that's fine, but you'll need to explain why he took bad advice from banker/lobbyists instead of some of the top economic minds.
Maybe your expectations of what prez can accomplish is unrealistic. The middle east has confounded them all, for example.
You can start with "avoid pre-emptive wars in the middle east." In fact, "avoid pre-emptive wars anywhere." It's not hard to do, yet every president this century has failed. There is certainly such a thing as "unrealistic expectations", but there is also such a thing as incompetent, and we haven't seen competence in a while.
I'm wondering how these apps made it through in the first place. Apple is known for being strict about vetting apps and what's allowed to enter the walled garden.
The vetting process is strict and sometimes capricious, but do not be deceived that is by any means thorough.
Oh. In that case I'll forgive you, but only because French also invented chicken cordon bleu.
He was a product manager. He lead new product development for Change.org. (AFAICT)
Bush was pathologically incompetent, but that doesn't mean Obama's any good.
If you're that lazy, think of the topic, head to Wikipedia, and look at the references. That will give you the start of a clue.
According to the article, he lost control and got hit by a car.
Yeap, I just loaded the google homepage, and it has nearly a megabyte of HTML and javascript alone, without images.
The large amount of time and effort spent to create a meaningful review (rather than the more typical short-form PR puff piece masquerading as a review) costs a lot of money, and in some cases may actually require you buy the product in question *and* related accessories if the company creating the product doesn't want a critical eye cast over it.
Consumer reports manages to make that work with a Paywall.
Is there any website you like that you wouldn't be willing to pay for?
I've thought through every place I visit on the web. There are some I'd rather pay than have advertising, and others I would rather disappear than have advertising, but overall the internet would be a better place without advertising.
Ask yourself this: If the content isn't valuable, why are you even reading it? Either read it without an ad blocker and support its creator, or GO ELSEWHERE if the ads are more offensive than you're willing to accept in trade for the content. Don't be disingenuous and claim the ads aren't needed, then steal the content anyway.
There is malware in all the major ad networks. If they don't want ad-blocking, they shouldn't be hostile. Right now, it's irresponsible to not block ads.
Do you have a solution? Change Ghostery configuration? A different plugin?
I heard (somewhere, not sure where) that you can use Hosts files for that.
If the size of banner ads scares you, never measure the full size of any web page. For a while, Google.com was weighing in at 400k.
The problem here is that the browser has become two different things:
1) A document browser.
2) An app-runner.
As much as I hate it, there is huge demand for an app-runner, so that use case is not going away. The mistake was to try to tie both of these things into the same web-browser framework. We could have had a document viewer separated from an app-runner, but instead we have them both mixed together, with all the complexity that entails. It's not a problem that's going away, and expect Javascript exploits to multiply in the next few years, if not decades.
There's too much momentum with Javascript + HTML to go back now.
Why?
This is why.
Do you think that sort of vulnerability can't be exploited from Javascript? Oh yes it can.
Please don't run executable code inside my document viewer.
Welcome to......Javascript? It's a little late for that, really.
Support of his idea to make his app more like theirs.
At the end of the day, this is really an attempt from ad-block pro to capitalize on the publicity he got.
the fear of someone showing up on your door step with a weapon is the difference between a genuine doxxer epidemic and your typical interwebs asshats.
No, that's exactly what happens.
The police don't care,
If you want to get the police to do anything in this world, don't contact them yourself, have your lawyer contact them.
The feminist complaint isn't that Barbie says the wrong things.......it's that Barbie exists at all. It's stuff like this.
Right now, I think the best I can hope for is "someone who doesn't mess things up too much."
Help Brendan pay off his student loans
It would be more tempting if they had taught you how to spell "dissent" :/
The best supersonic designs I'm aware of achieve a L/D of around 9 at L/D at Mach 1.5. These are incredibly optimized designs that have been fine-tuned with supercomputers and would be quite unfeasible for a passenger aircraft (weird shapes, no windows, etc.) As a result the Concorde consumed about 3x more fuel PER MILE than a comparable subsonic jet. So half the mass of the Concorde was fuel (!), it winded up being very heavy, and it carried only 100 passengers. And its maximum range was limited to 4500 miles.
These guys (actually, there are several different teams working on competing designs, including Airbus) are planning on using ramjets, probably powered by hydrogen.
Interestingly, the prototype pictured in the article has no windows, not even a cockpit (as far as I can tell).