They force me to use email at work. Three percent, maybe five percent of everything I get is useful, or needed. At home, on my personal account, that percentage number is much lower. Email is a pain in the ass to manage. It's not worth the headache. Rather than worrying about encrypting your email (which is among the most pointless things you can possibly do), why not set up a corporate jabber server, or tell everyone to get social networking accounts? These things, these beautiful innovations of modern email free living don't have the problems email has, and you can filter out pretty much anything you don't want to read, silence anyone you don't want to hear from. Nobody's ever going to call you when their facebook stops working for no reason, because well... facebook never stops working. And while you may need to find a new purpose for all that firepower you have stored away in your basement for the day you finally do snap, you'll find that you're happier without email, and so is everybody else.
How is it unfortunate? That people aren't buying into transit encryption anymore? It's not the movement of the email you need to worry about. It's what happens when it gets there. If someone steals your computer, email encryption is the least of your worries.
Was dealing with a DynDNS owned service awhile back. Took a very famous client from a competitor, and the competitor insisted they owned the web site, even though I had the contract with the previous company that clearly stated that they didn't. Previous company sends DynDNS a DMCA notice, I sent proof the notice was crap (with pertinent sections of the contracted highlighted for easy reading), they took down the web site... and then I moved my DNS to GoDaddy. It's disheartening that DynDNS are such complete shit heads. I will never do business with them, or any company owned by them again, and you shouldn't either.
I've been through it too. The truth of the matter is that it can be done, and it's not usually as difficult as the people involved want you to think it is. Truth of the matter is that people hate parting with software they're comfortable with, no matter how much better the newer software is. The trick to it, as with most things is building them a new piece of software that's pretty much exactly like the old one. Build it properly, but don't change the look of the ui, or the workflow, no matter how absolutely idiotic or inefficient the workflow is. As programmers, we have it in our nature to want to improve things. We do, we can't help it. It's hard wired into our DNA. But in a project where you're replacing an old system that everyone uses, that initial acceptance phase is critical. So at least for that first step, you're task is to recreate it. You can improve it gradually later, in small steps, over time. Honestly, it's not that difficult if all you're doing is getting rid of xml islands and assorted com objects. But it's like any software project. The success of it is determined at the planning stage. If there's no planning stage, all you're doing is throwing money out the window.
I doubt it. The question I have with the whole thing, is, well, how exactly is windows phone any simpler or easier to use than Android? Do they know something at Nokia that the rest of us don't?
Yes, but it's non standard. With Phlanger, you're mixing old extensions with known threading and security bugs with a weird namespace format, and an incomplete implementation. Then there's Studio integration, which is spotty. Didn't even support Studio 10 last I checked. If by "real" you mean, "runs half ass on.net" you're right. In terms of maturity, and in most other respects, it can't touch hiphop. Seriously man, try hiphop. It's amazing.
You know, you hear that kind of weird argument a lot from people who don't realize they've been framework programming on Microsoft platforms. They are always complaining about how primitive PHP is because it doesn't have any "built in" separation between the various heavily abstracted but highly arbitrary layers, and that they don't understand the way PHP abstracts logic, variable classes, magic methods, lambada syntax, etc. They're always pointing to perceived shortcomings in PHP, like the one data interchange layer they know about, or the fact that PHP doesn't pass complete classes as strings. The list goes on for fucking ever. The intentional ignorance of these people annoys the holy shit out of me. Or, well... it used to.
You know, by the same criteria these "evangelist" idiots are using to judge PHP, and failing to apply their idea of "modern", they would be sorely disappointed with any number of other languages. PHP is C++ script. Plane and simple. So if you hate PHP, or you simply can't bring yourself to understand it, it's fair to assume you wouldn't like like C++ either. And for that matter, you certainly wouldn't enjoy Perl, any version of C (other than the sharp kind), Python, Ruby, Java, or any other modern language not developed by our friends in Redmond. None of them would be "modern" enough for you. Or maybe, you're just not skilled enough at your chosen craft. Nobody will ever appreciate the artist who refused to paint because he didn't like the brushes.
PHP isn't the only language that people have written mountains of bad code on either. If you could even begin to understand the mountain of truly nightmarishly bad.net code I've had to wade through over the last decade, you would give me a fucking medal. In fact, I would wager to say that it's easier to write a large, poorly architected application in C# than it is to write one in PHP. Why? Easy. Because Visual Studio doesn't require you to actually think a whole hell of a lot about what you're coding.
When you write something in PHP, it's a direct reflection of your ability to code.
That's all it is. Code. Start to finish. You think out a problem, and then you write the code to do it.
If you want to seperate it into objects, classes, or layers, you're entitled to. If you have another way to do it, that's also fine.
PHP gives you absolute control and power over whatever it is you want to create.
If you're not used to it, or ready for that kind of responsability, it can be frightening.
So I totally understand why lesser programmers hate it.
Personally, I like having options.
I love Slashdot, always have. But as a community, we seriously need to stop applying the term "study" to every observation, or web page with pretty charts on it. This last thing wasn't a study. Not in the formal sense. It was a feature comparison. Biased, maybe. But who cares? It's not a study. And it's not the first time this has happened here.
I work with English people all the time. Literally every day.
Other than the curious way they kind of sing the language, the only differences in terms of spoken English are related to the slang they use.
They're also very conscious of their accents when they talk to Americans. So much so, that it's annoying. Working with them can be challenging, because I'm always sitting there trying to think of how not to offend my English colleagues, or cause them to get jumpy, without sounding brutish or uneducated. It actually makes them more comfortable, when my old Brooklyn accent springs out, like it does occasionally. They'll say, "Hey Sam, say 'quarter.'"
Oh please.
Escaping your strings isn't enough. Any half way intelligent hacker knows that all you have to do in order get around that is screw with the character set. Seriously, even the wanna bunnies at Anonymous know that.
You're not even talking about PHP though, and that's what I find annoying. PDO Let's you use prepared statements, but that's not php either.
See, the problem with people who say clueless things like this is that it demonstrates that they're either totally uneducated at the difference between a language and an api, or they're working in Microsoft world. Same basic idea.
PHP itself is neither good, nor bad with injection attacks, because PHP is a language.
MySQLi isn't even a requirement for installing it.
If you don't like MySQLi, try PDO or any of the others.
Why not be adventurous and do something other than write poorly constructed mysql database apps?
I mean, if you don't know the difference between an api and a language, it's safe to say that you won't be able to write anything in any language that scales for shit.
It makes sense to me. Of course, I don't really see COBOL as a programming language; not like the languages we work in today. It's more like a conversation with a computer than anything.
If you love what you do you'll keep adapting, evolving, improving. If you care about making a living, you will keep learning. If you're afraid of change, you will fail.
I think that's pretty much universal in any field though.
Dude, what the fuck? You're actually more likely to be getting a job at 35 than 19 because you have the experience. Sure, you have to have a plan and keep your resume current. You ALWAYS have to keep your resume current. You ALWAYS have to stay up on new technologies, and you ALWAYS have to work at getting better. Age has nothing to do with it. If you don't have a plan or stay up on new technology, you're as fucked at 25 as you are at 55.
Maybe. If they ever did it.
How many Anonymous operations have they announced that simply never happened over the last year?
Look, I hate to be the one to say it, but Anonymous has nothing to do with hacking.
It has everything to do with PR.
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Don't tell that to the "I hate anyone over 35" crowd.
They force me to use email at work. Three percent, maybe five percent of everything I get is useful, or needed. At home, on my personal account, that percentage number is much lower. Email is a pain in the ass to manage. It's not worth the headache. Rather than worrying about encrypting your email (which is among the most pointless things you can possibly do), why not set up a corporate jabber server, or tell everyone to get social networking accounts? These things, these beautiful innovations of modern email free living don't have the problems email has, and you can filter out pretty much anything you don't want to read, silence anyone you don't want to hear from. Nobody's ever going to call you when their facebook stops working for no reason, because well... facebook never stops working. And while you may need to find a new purpose for all that firepower you have stored away in your basement for the day you finally do snap, you'll find that you're happier without email, and so is everybody else.
How is it unfortunate? That people aren't buying into transit encryption anymore? It's not the movement of the email you need to worry about. It's what happens when it gets there. If someone steals your computer, email encryption is the least of your worries.
Was dealing with a DynDNS owned service awhile back. Took a very famous client from a competitor, and the competitor insisted they owned the web site, even though I had the contract with the previous company that clearly stated that they didn't. Previous company sends DynDNS a DMCA notice, I sent proof the notice was crap (with pertinent sections of the contracted highlighted for easy reading), they took down the web site... and then I moved my DNS to GoDaddy. It's disheartening that DynDNS are such complete shit heads. I will never do business with them, or any company owned by them again, and you shouldn't either.
I've been through it too. The truth of the matter is that it can be done, and it's not usually as difficult as the people involved want you to think it is. Truth of the matter is that people hate parting with software they're comfortable with, no matter how much better the newer software is. The trick to it, as with most things is building them a new piece of software that's pretty much exactly like the old one. Build it properly, but don't change the look of the ui, or the workflow, no matter how absolutely idiotic or inefficient the workflow is. As programmers, we have it in our nature to want to improve things. We do, we can't help it. It's hard wired into our DNA. But in a project where you're replacing an old system that everyone uses, that initial acceptance phase is critical. So at least for that first step, you're task is to recreate it. You can improve it gradually later, in small steps, over time. Honestly, it's not that difficult if all you're doing is getting rid of xml islands and assorted com objects. But it's like any software project. The success of it is determined at the planning stage. If there's no planning stage, all you're doing is throwing money out the window.
My friends, it's time for a conga line!
I doubt it. The question I have with the whole thing, is, well, how exactly is windows phone any simpler or easier to use than Android? Do they know something at Nokia that the rest of us don't?
Epiphany users are just like IE users, but nowhere near as demanding.
I laugh, but only because I wonder if it's a real study, or a page with pretty graphs, because people on slashdot can't tell the difference.
Yes, but it's non standard. With Phlanger, you're mixing old extensions with known threading and security bugs with a weird namespace format, and an incomplete implementation. Then there's Studio integration, which is spotty. Didn't even support Studio 10 last I checked. If by "real" you mean, "runs half ass on .net" you're right. In terms of maturity, and in most other respects, it can't touch hiphop. Seriously man, try hiphop. It's amazing.
How about Brainf*ck?
Let me fix that for you:
Thus, PHP is their preferred tool set.
You know, you hear that kind of weird argument a lot from people who don't realize they've been framework programming on Microsoft platforms. They are always complaining about how primitive PHP is because it doesn't have any "built in" separation between the various heavily abstracted but highly arbitrary layers, and that they don't understand the way PHP abstracts logic, variable classes, magic methods, lambada syntax, etc. They're always pointing to perceived shortcomings in PHP, like the one data interchange layer they know about, or the fact that PHP doesn't pass complete classes as strings. The list goes on for fucking ever. The intentional ignorance of these people annoys the holy shit out of me. Or, well... it used to.
You know, by the same criteria these "evangelist" idiots are using to judge PHP, and failing to apply their idea of "modern", they would be sorely disappointed with any number of other languages. PHP is C++ script. Plane and simple. So if you hate PHP, or you simply can't bring yourself to understand it, it's fair to assume you wouldn't like like C++ either. And for that matter, you certainly wouldn't enjoy Perl, any version of C (other than the sharp kind), Python, Ruby, Java, or any other modern language not developed by our friends in Redmond. None of them would be "modern" enough for you. Or maybe, you're just not skilled enough at your chosen craft. Nobody will ever appreciate the artist who refused to paint because he didn't like the brushes.
PHP isn't the only language that people have written mountains of bad code on either. If you could even begin to understand the mountain of truly nightmarishly bad .net code I've had to wade through over the last decade, you would give me a fucking medal. In fact, I would wager to say that it's easier to write a large, poorly architected application in C# than it is to write one in PHP. Why? Easy. Because Visual Studio doesn't require you to actually think a whole hell of a lot about what you're coding.
When you write something in PHP, it's a direct reflection of your ability to code. That's all it is. Code. Start to finish. You think out a problem, and then you write the code to do it. If you want to seperate it into objects, classes, or layers, you're entitled to. If you have another way to do it, that's also fine.
PHP gives you absolute control and power over whatever it is you want to create. If you're not used to it, or ready for that kind of responsability, it can be frightening.
So I totally understand why lesser programmers hate it.
Personally, I like having options.
Yes. I don't remember which license it's under though.
I love Slashdot, always have. But as a community, we seriously need to stop applying the term "study" to every observation, or web page with pretty charts on it. This last thing wasn't a study. Not in the formal sense. It was a feature comparison. Biased, maybe. But who cares? It's not a study. And it's not the first time this has happened here.
I work with English people all the time. Literally every day. Other than the curious way they kind of sing the language, the only differences in terms of spoken English are related to the slang they use. They're also very conscious of their accents when they talk to Americans. So much so, that it's annoying. Working with them can be challenging, because I'm always sitting there trying to think of how not to offend my English colleagues, or cause them to get jumpy, without sounding brutish or uneducated. It actually makes them more comfortable, when my old Brooklyn accent springs out, like it does occasionally. They'll say, "Hey Sam, say 'quarter.'"
Oh please. Escaping your strings isn't enough. Any half way intelligent hacker knows that all you have to do in order get around that is screw with the character set. Seriously, even the wanna bunnies at Anonymous know that. You're not even talking about PHP though, and that's what I find annoying. PDO Let's you use prepared statements, but that's not php either. See, the problem with people who say clueless things like this is that it demonstrates that they're either totally uneducated at the difference between a language and an api, or they're working in Microsoft world. Same basic idea. PHP itself is neither good, nor bad with injection attacks, because PHP is a language. MySQLi isn't even a requirement for installing it. If you don't like MySQLi, try PDO or any of the others. Why not be adventurous and do something other than write poorly constructed mysql database apps? I mean, if you don't know the difference between an api and a language, it's safe to say that you won't be able to write anything in any language that scales for shit.
Really? I've never had trouble with it in php. It's a real bitch on anything connected to SQL server.
It makes sense to me. Of course, I don't really see COBOL as a programming language; not like the languages we work in today. It's more like a conversation with a computer than anything.
I was hoping this would be the way it would go. I think it's going to be a game changer. Expect HTC and others to jump on this.
Hey, I have a lot guns, and I feel like you're demeaning them. Guns are people too, man. They have feelings.
If you love what you do you'll keep adapting, evolving, improving. If you care about making a living, you will keep learning. If you're afraid of change, you will fail. I think that's pretty much universal in any field though.
That's beautiful, man.
Dude, what the fuck? You're actually more likely to be getting a job at 35 than 19 because you have the experience. Sure, you have to have a plan and keep your resume current. You ALWAYS have to keep your resume current. You ALWAYS have to stay up on new technologies, and you ALWAYS have to work at getting better. Age has nothing to do with it. If you don't have a plan or stay up on new technology, you're as fucked at 25 as you are at 55.
Maybe. If they ever did it. How many Anonymous operations have they announced that simply never happened over the last year? Look, I hate to be the one to say it, but Anonymous has nothing to do with hacking. It has everything to do with PR.