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  1. Re: Yes on Is It Time To Ditch Google Analytics? (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Just what's wrong with Webalizer?

    That gives in principle all you really need to know about the traffic to your web site. Outsourcing the statistics to someone that runs cookies is more or less just a waste of time considering all the cookie filters and other filters from people that don't want to be tracked.

  2. Re: Not as dead as ... on Ask Slashdot: How Dead Is Java? (jaxenter.com) · · Score: 1

    Unit tests - that's just testing the unit and not how well it integrates with the rest of the system.

    Anyway - when you come into the loop of testing then you are already in the larger loop of workload than the short loop of compile-time detection.

  3. Re:What? on Ask Slashdot: How Dead Is Java? (jaxenter.com) · · Score: 1

    I C what you did there.

    For anyone else - if you can find a modern device not relying on C in some layer of the platform, please tell.

    If you run Android, then you have Linux Kernel written in C. Any modern car and even some TV remotes have software written in C. And it's not going away.

  4. Re:Not dead on Ask Slashdot: How Dead Is Java? (jaxenter.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree - PHP is in the Javascript league of issues, please don't give me more issues than I already have.

  5. Re:Security is a lot of why it's dying on Ask Slashdot: How Dead Is Java? (jaxenter.com) · · Score: 1

    No type safety - Maintainability Hell.

    And you have to chase bugs 'forever'.

    JSP is a bit of a beast to maintain since it mixes three languages; HTML, Java and JavaScript. And that requires strictness. But if done right it's not bad.

  6. Re:Part of me hopes it is dead on Ask Slashdot: How Dead Is Java? (jaxenter.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't mix up the language and the underlying compiler/runtime system.

    The language itself has some shortcomings, but the underlying system is the real problem.

  7. Re: C# Killed Java on Ask Slashdot: How Dead Is Java? (jaxenter.com) · · Score: 1

    Just be aware that embarcadero is more or less just a holding company for old tech like Delphi, a lot of the competence has left the building so some bugs that exists aren't going to be fixed.

    My source can't unfortunately be revealed, but I wouldn't be surprised if their products dies in a few years.

  8. Re: C# Killed Java on Ask Slashdot: How Dead Is Java? (jaxenter.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe Google should look at Ada instead of Java then?

    There's at least enough type safety and ability to detect things at compile time.

  9. Re: C# Killed Java on Ask Slashdot: How Dead Is Java? (jaxenter.com) · · Score: 1

    C# is from a language perspective very similar to Java, but it suffers from the "need" to also run on the same platform as Visual Basic, which has forced introduction of the 'var' declaration where you don't really know what object you have when you use the variable.

    It's a shortcut that is easy to make to use the 'var' declaration, but it's a time bomb as well.

  10. Re: Not as dead as ... on Ask Slashdot: How Dead Is Java? (jaxenter.com) · · Score: 1

    Even compiled Basic suffers from uncertainty when it comes to compiling. Type safety issues is one of the main problems in large systems unless you have very strict coding rules.

  11. Re: Not as dead as ... on Ask Slashdot: How Dead Is Java? (jaxenter.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Javascript, Python, vbscript and a number of other scripting languages are to programming like a tricycle for kids is to a long haul truck. You can get to the goal, but you will hit a number of snags and it takes time to find coding errors that a full-blown fully type-safe compiler would have found.

    With many scripting languages you find the typing faults at runtime and not when compiling.

    But if you want some small isolated functionality maintained by a single programmer and it's only something around 100 lines of code then a scripting language is sufficient.

    Scripting languages suffers from the same limitations as Basic did in the 80's - a great instep, but prone to 'bit rot'.

  12. I see that you want to surf the web, let me start Mosaic for you!

  13. It was at least stable compared to NT 3.1.

  14. Firefox+uBlock exists for Android too.

  15. I think that you have figured it out - the nail in the eye of many ad providers is the strength of Firefox/Gecko when it comes to allowing ad blocking tech.

    Without ad blocking the web would be useless and we could as well just look up the small waterholes that run no or very limited ads.

    By driving development to a single rendering engine you allow a very limited number of people in control of what we are served.

    As long as the rendering engines follows the standards declared by the World Wide Web Consortium then we don't have a problem. If they have "hidden features" as IE had for a long time, then we are as users in the hands of the major corporations.

    We are in a Max Headroom world. Hello Blank Reg!

  16. Re:Only removed when "discovered" on The Mystery Tracks Being 'Forced' on Spotify Users (musicbusinessworldwide.com) · · Score: 1

    Might be to see if someone reacted and how long it would take before they did.

    Never underestimate the ways people are tracked today.

  17. Re:He Also Intends To Be President on Zuckerberg Plans To Integrate WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    One ring to rule them all.

  18. Re: Property is dead on Android Q Will Include More Ways For Carriers To SIM Lock Your Phone (9to5google.com) · · Score: 1

    That was a separate lock code that you as a user could set.

  19. Re: Property is dead on Android Q Will Include More Ways For Carriers To SIM Lock Your Phone (9to5google.com) · · Score: 1

    I only once got a phone that was simlocked, but the seller unlocked it for me since I actually paid full price for it.

    Since then I have always purchased phone and subscription separately. I'm pretty satisfied with the Cat S60 I have now with dual sims.

    But simlocking should be banned.

  20. Re:Obviously cannot be t'rusted' on A Large Number of Top Free VPN Apps Either Have Chinese Ownership or Are Based in China (hackernoon.com) · · Score: 1

    I have problem trusting a VPN that I have set up myself, so when I can't review the remote end how should I be able to trust that VPN?

  21. Re:How is that motivation out of line on Is California's PG&E The First Climate Change Bankruptcy? (marketscreener.com) · · Score: 1

    Two things that you have to take into account:
    1. Population density is lower in Sweden on average, 57/sq mi for Sweden and 251/sq mi for California.
    2. Start with the towns and housings close to the towns.

    So it's still feasible, just the volume of effort that is actually going to be lower per capita.

    The biggest problem is that people and towns are cheapskates that only consider the solution until next election and not a solution for 50+ years.

  22. Re:How is that motivation out of line on Is California's PG&E The First Climate Change Bankruptcy? (marketscreener.com) · · Score: 1

    Abandon the gas lines and generate electricity from it instead.

  23. Re:Welcome to the Cloud on Google Criticized Over Its Handling of the End of Google+ (vortex.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The basic problem with Facebook, Google+ etc. is that you actually don't know the real price - your privacy, and you don't have control over what information that you own anymore when you have dropped it to another site.

    In the early days of the internet people experimented by setting up their own homepages, then came Geocities and now everything is essentially collected in either Facebook or LinkedIn.

  24. Re:How is that motivation out of line on Is California's PG&E The First Climate Change Bankruptcy? (marketscreener.com) · · Score: 1

    made PG&E liable if its equipment started a fire, regardless of whether it was negligent."

    In that case, would not the wise company use equipment that did not start fires?

    It's time to consider to bury the power lines. Something they do here in Sweden more and more.

    Even if their equipment caused it - the amount of combustible items around should have been trimmed. Maybe like the GoatFundMe campaign?

  25. Re: Rian Johnson killed Star Wars on Is Disney's Star Wars Franchise In Trouble? (cosmicbook.news) · · Score: 1

    I agree, the 7-9 movies aren't introducing anything new so far, it's more or less a reiteration of 4-6 so far.

    What makes them worse is the stressed pace and action without afterthought. Almost all is fighting and other action, little is thrill, mystery and reflection. Throw away a number of unnecessary scenes like those bounty hunters that are chasing Han Solo - they are just a waste of time in the movie and give more moments of what we have seen in Sergio Leone or Hitchcock movies.

    When Kylo Ren dropped the mask it threw away the mystery and made him look like a spoiled brat. It was also too quickly revealed who he was. And Hux - what a farce character... They should have used Kevin Spacey instead, then at least there would have been something to be scared about - watch your butt if nothing else.