That's not the same web devs making those same mistakes. Developers with some experience do not write code that fails against easy sql-injection. But companies prefer to hire younger inexperienced devs for the reasons that have been discussed here on/. many times.
I'll add to that that this isn't limited to web developers.
Work in rooms, not an open-plan office. This way, if someone wants to interrupt you, they have to "pay" a higher price, like messaging you (you may not be available or the nature of the asynchronous conversation may not be convenient) or actually getting up and going to your room.
Cultivate a culture of empathy, wherein people learn to pick up signs that someone is busy working. Apply peer pressure when someone doesn't pick up the cues. Make it an "insult" to destroy someone's flow. Don't be a dick about it, though - there are ways of cultivating this slowly and discreetly.
Networking is a form of communication. If they're not good at this form, what others are they bad at? Code monkeys are cheap and plentiful, people who can communicate their designs, collaborate with others, and work on a team where everyone benefits from the specialist expertise that each individual has are rare. The latter are the ones worth hiring.
Bull. I find networking hard and tasking, but am also one of the best communicators on any team I'm in. They're two different skills - creating new bonds and performing within new ones.
It can take a while to appear, simply because I queue posts for publication top make sure we have a steady stream of activity. It usually takes up to a month tops.
I mean, we could always trust the Russians to work in our best interests. Also, they were never sneaky about anything. Always truthful and honest, them Russians.
And Iran only threatened to wipe The West off the map, starting with Israel, with any means at their disposal. And that they could make a nuclear bomb if they wanted to, because it was a right granted to them from Allah.
Not to mention that they're playing the North Korean game of "let's talk" / "we're not talking to you anymore" / "let's talk" / "we're not talking to you anymore" with the UN. Remember what North Korea has now after a few years of that? Ah, yes, The Bomb.
And all this in the hands of a fanatic regime, intent on spreading Islam through force, feared and hated even by most other Islamic nations, all the while being one of the most horrible human-rights violators of our time.
But there's nothing to fear. They're not after the bomb. They say they are, but there's nothing to worry about. It's just a nuclear power plant.
[fanboy of company] was one of a surprisingly large number of people writing in this morning to report that [company's website] is having serious troubles taking pre-orders of the [yearly product refresh]. People are seeing the error page or just waiting an insanely great long time to get pages back. Just imagine [pseudo-snarky comment trying to downplay moderator's asskissing]!
Would this story appear for Microsoft's Windows? Adobe Photoshop? Color me skeptic.
What is a "biometric visual scan of their face"? A photograph?
It is the mathematical function that identifies your facial features as your own to a very high degree of probability.
Every country does that. It's called an ID card. As far as fingerprints, I've had to submit my fingerprints like 10 times for various services, clearances, not to mention immigration documents.
Your fingerprints are not in one big database that can be hacked (as others have been hacked before) along with the rest of your entire country. If you've given your fingerprints 10 times, I hope you're sure you gave them to people who can keep them a secret. You can't really change them later.
As much as it bothers me to have centralized databases of ANYTHING, if there is anything that needs a centralized database, it's identification. I'm a privacy freak and I am not sure that this bothers me, especially in the context of a country that can claim the dubious honor of being the most likely terrorist target in the industrialized world.
Think of someone using this database, along with live CCTV footage from a railway station (say, a public online webcam), singling out the Israelis in the crowd. When they see a large group of Israelis coming by, a suicide bomber comes along and explodes next to them. You don't have to be a privacy freak to shudder at that thought.
You don't need a central database to have biometric passports/id cards. All you need is to store their hashes on the card and that would be compared to the person in question. This is the only thing required of a biometric card.
There's been a long struggle against this biometric database and we may have lost the battle, but we will win the war. There are still ways to bury this database and all will be pursued, whether they're appealing to the Israeli High Court of Justice (Bagatz), convincing the Ministry of Treasury to keep it outside the budget (It is estimated at over US$100,000,000 to implement), etc.
The law was introduced by MK Shirtrit who I personally suspect has ulterior motives for his overzealous support of the bill and the way he rallied both the coalition and opposition to the cause. The finger has already been pointed at lobbyists from Hewlett Packard. The government bowed to pressure and shady deals were made - we knew it was going to be passed even before they started deliberating.
There's only one finger that I'll be showing MK Shitrit and his biometric database.
I've been using Windows 7 for a couple of months now, since it was RTW, after using Vista for a couple of years. There is absolutely no comparison to Vista in terms of speed and stability, as it it far better. I also love some of the new features they added. Windows 7 is to Windows Vista what Windows XP was to Windows ME.
By the way, Apple's ads have been going downhill since they started. They started out nice and truthful, highlighting Microsoft's failures and Apple's successes nicely, but now they've turned into mostly FUD and cheap-shots.
Two opinions from people who didn't read the novel
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The first is my friend who went with me to watch it last night. He said during the intermission that he feels like he's walked into a sequel and was missing lots of information, to which I replied that the novel went just like this. After the movie he said he enjoyed it very much.
My other friend went with his wife and they both said that it was a movie you had to stay really focused and concentrated on to understand, but that they think it's one of the best comic-book-based movies they've seen in years.
I've read the novel and loved it, so my view doesn't count;)
"Multi Theft Auto (MTA) is an open-source software project that adds a full multi-player network play functionality to several of Rockstar North's Grand Theft Auto game titles, in which this network play element is not originally found."
The application in question is not AltaVista's Babelfish, but rather Babylon, which was originally created by Israelies, hence it has Hebrew-English translation capabilities.
The reporter in question did not know English well, so he used Babylon to translate his questions and didn't bother to proof. Due to many reasons, including the imperfect nature of translation engines and the fact that much of Hebrew is read by context (vowels are implicit half of the time), the translation turned out very badly.
For instance, if you take the sentence "Ha'im neheneta" which means "Did you enjoy", the fact that vowels are implicit means the sentence can be read "Ha'em nehenta", which means "The mother enjoyed."
"[...] it actually in practice meant essentially a word that you may not want to talk about in this phone call, let's say it begins with ASS and then goes further."
Here in Israel it's the same thing - some of the shows airing now first aired at the term of the century in the States and the UK, but are still being marketed as 'new'. The problem is that this is a market controlled by an oligopoly (or worse - here it's a duopoly) - what they don't air doesn't exist. There are no other alternatives, just these companies. Here it's even worse with the cable company and the satellite company having mutually exclusive content, so I could never watch both Prison Break and House.
Most of the people I know who love watching TV supplement their viewing habits by downloading the content they love but can't get their hands on. Some completely replaced watching TV with watching downloaded (pirated) content.
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This happens on the same day as the GDPR goes into effect. Put two and two together and you see what Klout was most likely doing with its users' data.
> The team behind the recent study assessed the sleep of almost 900 elderly people with no signs of depression
That's not the same web devs making those same mistakes. Developers with some experience do not write code that fails against easy sql-injection. But companies prefer to hire younger inexperienced devs for the reasons that have been discussed here on /. many times.
I'll add to that that this isn't limited to web developers.
Looking at it from a manager's perspective:
Work in rooms, not an open-plan office. This way, if someone wants to interrupt you, they have to "pay" a higher price, like messaging you (you may not be available or the nature of the asynchronous conversation may not be convenient) or actually getting up and going to your room.
Cultivate a culture of empathy, wherein people learn to pick up signs that someone is busy working. Apply peer pressure when someone doesn't pick up the cues. Make it an "insult" to destroy someone's flow. Don't be a dick about it, though - there are ways of cultivating this slowly and discreetly.
Networking is a form of communication. If they're not good at this form, what others are they bad at? Code monkeys are cheap and plentiful, people who can communicate their designs, collaborate with others, and work on a team where everyone benefits from the specialist expertise that each individual has are rare. The latter are the ones worth hiring.
Bull. I find networking hard and tasking, but am also one of the best communicators on any team I'm in. They're two different skills - creating new bonds and performing within new ones.
Please do and submit those that you find to be offenders :)
It can take a while to appear, simply because I queue posts for publication top make sure we have a steady stream of activity. It usually takes up to a month tops.
See plaintextoffenders.com - they've got hundreds of examples
Thousands, actually. Really glad you guys are finding our website so helpful and I'm very happy this is the top comment :)
Thank you all for your support!
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Kindle.
I mean, we could always trust the Russians to work in our best interests. Also, they were never sneaky about anything. Always truthful and honest, them Russians.
And Iran only threatened to wipe The West off the map, starting with Israel, with any means at their disposal. And that they could make a nuclear bomb if they wanted to, because it was a right granted to them from Allah.
Not to mention that they're playing the North Korean game of "let's talk" / "we're not talking to you anymore" / "let's talk" / "we're not talking to you anymore" with the UN. Remember what North Korea has now after a few years of that? Ah, yes, The Bomb.
And all this in the hands of a fanatic regime, intent on spreading Islam through force, feared and hated even by most other Islamic nations, all the while being one of the most horrible human-rights violators of our time.
But there's nothing to fear. They're not after the bomb. They say they are, but there's nothing to worry about. It's just a nuclear power plant.
REMAIN CALM!
Would this story appear for Microsoft's Windows? Adobe Photoshop? Color me skeptic.
True, but we don't need more databases like these, we need less.
What is a "biometric visual scan of their face"? A photograph?
It is the mathematical function that identifies your facial features as your own to a very high degree of probability.
Every country does that. It's called an ID card. As far as fingerprints, I've had to submit my fingerprints like 10 times for various services, clearances, not to mention immigration documents.
Your fingerprints are not in one big database that can be hacked (as others have been hacked before) along with the rest of your entire country. If you've given your fingerprints 10 times, I hope you're sure you gave them to people who can keep them a secret. You can't really change them later.
As much as it bothers me to have centralized databases of ANYTHING, if there is anything that needs a centralized database, it's identification. I'm a privacy freak and I am not sure that this bothers me, especially in the context of a country that can claim the dubious honor of being the most likely terrorist target in the industrialized world.
Think of someone using this database, along with live CCTV footage from a railway station (say, a public online webcam), singling out the Israelis in the crowd. When they see a large group of Israelis coming by, a suicide bomber comes along and explodes next to them. You don't have to be a privacy freak to shudder at that thought.
You don't need a central database to have biometric passports/id cards. All you need is to store their hashes on the card and that would be compared to the person in question.
This is the only thing required of a biometric card.
There's been a long struggle against this biometric database and we may have lost the battle, but we will win the war. There are still ways to bury this database and all will be pursued, whether they're appealing to the Israeli High Court of Justice (Bagatz), convincing the Ministry of Treasury to keep it outside the budget (It is estimated at over US$100,000,000 to implement), etc.
The law was introduced by MK Shirtrit who I personally suspect has ulterior motives for his overzealous support of the bill and the way he rallied both the coalition and opposition to the cause. The finger has already been pointed at lobbyists from Hewlett Packard. The government bowed to pressure and shady deals were made - we knew it was going to be passed even before they started deliberating.
There's only one finger that I'll be showing MK Shitrit and his biometric database.
How about every American comedy since the 1990's?
I've been using Windows 7 for a couple of months now, since it was RTW, after using Vista for a couple of years.
There is absolutely no comparison to Vista in terms of speed and stability, as it it far better. I also love some of the new features they added. Windows 7 is to Windows Vista what Windows XP was to Windows ME.
By the way, Apple's ads have been going downhill since they started. They started out nice and truthful, highlighting Microsoft's failures and Apple's successes nicely, but now they've turned into mostly FUD and cheap-shots.
The first is my friend who went with me to watch it last night. He said during the intermission that he feels like he's walked into a sequel and was missing lots of information, to which I replied that the novel went just like this. After the movie he said he enjoyed it very much.
My other friend went with his wife and they both said that it was a movie you had to stay really focused and concentrated on to understand, but that they think it's one of the best comic-book-based movies they've seen in years.
I've read the novel and loved it, so my view doesn't count ;)
Ah, now I get it.
It's not a real-life car. It's a concept. Concepts are renders and at best life-size fiberglass models.
Call me once it goes into production.
Petah Tikva doesn't really exist.
The application in question is not AltaVista's Babelfish, but rather Babylon, which was originally created by Israelies, hence it has Hebrew-English translation capabilities.
The reporter in question did not know English well, so he used Babylon to translate his questions and didn't bother to proof. Due to many reasons, including the imperfect nature of translation engines and the fact that much of Hebrew is read by context (vowels are implicit half of the time), the translation turned out very badly.
For instance, if you take the sentence "Ha'im neheneta" which means "Did you enjoy", the fact that vowels are implicit means the sentence can be read "Ha'em nehenta", which means "The mother enjoyed."
... and we are left guessing... (although it's ok here)
Here in Israel it's the same thing - some of the shows airing now first aired at the term of the century in the States and the UK, but are still being marketed as 'new'.
The problem is that this is a market controlled by an oligopoly (or worse - here it's a duopoly) - what they don't air doesn't exist. There are no other alternatives, just these companies. Here it's even worse with the cable company and the satellite company having mutually exclusive content, so I could never watch both Prison Break and House.
Most of the people I know who love watching TV supplement their viewing habits by downloading the content they love but can't get their hands on. Some completely replaced watching TV with watching downloaded (pirated) content.
Just so it's clear, the article is talking about RD&D (the kind you play fully costumed) and not D&D (the kind you play with paper and dice).