Re:Try Why the Lucky Stiff's guide
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+1 on this. Why's Poignant Guide to Ruby is the best tech book I've ever read. I just wish it was available when I was a newb. Why's book is not finished yet, but one can easily learn the basic programming concepts. CHUNKY BACON!!:-)
Re:It would be a great first language
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You can have 1, 2 and 3 in Ruby without knowing the others. And it would be a pleasant surprise to learn 4, 5, 6 and see that Ruby implemented 1, 2, 3 using them (OOP):-)
It's easier if they can just track everybody without going through a lot of paperwork. So, this is kind of authoritarianism/dictatorship? You know, government tracking individuals based on their political views, without caring about the laws or individual rights?
So if I have a service contract with Google to provide my business with Gmail, and I stop paying - they are obliged to provide me with my data, be it on CD, DVD, or as a ZIP file? That's certainly news to me. Do they provide a 3.5 inch floppy option? They sure have! They even have an option to send you in binary format written in a book or via Gmail Paper:-) Seriously now, if you stop paying, the contract is not valid anymore. Usually, companies keep paying its providers until they can entirely "turn off" the application. It means that the imports are finished, the needed hardware and software are ready and configured and so on. Also note that they can charge you the costs of sending it to you:-) It may not be included in their regular price. But they *have* to send you *your* data if you request them.
So you'd roll out every update you received from companies, for critical business software, without doing a limited test across a few machines first - on the basis that they should work A-ok across whatever configuration of hardware and software you have...? And if it breaks, you'll sue them... Ok, you are right. +1 to you here:-)
The point I was making, that has nothing to do with service contracts, is that when you give up direct control of an application, it can change, at any time. The ability to export data can be changed, it can be removed. It is *your* data. They can't retain it. If you paid for their services and want to move to another service provider, they *have to* deliver *your* data (in a CD, DVD, zip file,...).
If MS roll out an update that may potentially impact your infrastructure, you do have the ability to do limited-tests first - something you lose when direct control of the application is taken out of your hands. I don't want to have a team just to test their updates... They are supposed to test it, and they are supposed to be responsible for make it working fine. In any other company, if you deliver an update that makes anything crash (deletes emails, sends cash to wrong people,...) you get sued:-)
I don't have admin privileges to my workstation and I can't install anything on there (just admins can install things, upon request with manager's approval). As I said in the gp, I work in a financial institution, so, they are very restrictive about what you use:-(
Please, read this comment I just made to another reply.
Your answer led me to yet another question:-) Why would DoJ want to get into your personal business? I guess they have other things to worry about, right? If they want to get into your personal business, don't they have a strong reason to do that? Here in Brazil, if someone get into your bank account, phone call listing and other personal things (and don't have a judicial order to do that), *they* will have big problems (a ministry was recently fired for asking a bank to reveal the bank statements of a person).
Here in Brazil we have the phrase "Quem não deve, não teme", which translates to something like "If you did nothing wrong, you don't need to fear". This probably remains from dictatorial years we had. We certainly have freedom and privacy notions, but seems it is not as much as americans do have:-)
I use the "2000" version of some Microsoft products (windows, office/outlook/exchange) at work and "usability" was OK when these products were first launched.
Nowadays, a powerful search feature is essential to me (and probably everyone). I have only 40Mb of mailbox space in my company (a financial institution). So, I have about 20 PST files, one for each "folder" in Inbox tree (you know, if you keep everything in one huge PST file, it will corrupt sooner or later). Did you know Outlook can't do a search in all of these PST's at once? You have to execute the search 20 times, one per PST file... Is this what you call usability (this was the first thing that came to my mind, but I can list others if you want) ?
The fact that most people get it backward is that they don't care if anybody else read the mail about their last vacations. However company don't like their trade secret being hosted by their competitor. Trade secrets are serious thing. We are not in a lawless world. If someone takes your trade secret and sells it to your competitor, they get arrested. If your competitor is as honest as PepsiCo, you have nothing to worry. And actually, most companies prefers to get the market leadership by competency, not by cheating;-)
But let me ask you... Are you a Google competitor? If so, you don't really have reasons to host on their servers:-)
I'm curious... I read a lot of comments like yours lately (and not only in this article). So, may I ask you something?
Don't get me wrong, but why so much fear of DoJ??? What will they find if they can look into your emails? OK, I know US loves that story about "freedom", "privacy", etc etc etc, but why do you want to always hide everything? Paranoia?
Again, don't get me wrong... I'm not american and am just curious:-)
Nowadays, it is easier to have a Kernel Panic in Mac OS X than an internet outage in the office, even for 5 minutes. And I'm in Brazil... Maybe, US and Europe is even more reliable:-)
And if they decide to stop hosting it, guess what? I dont have data. Why do people thinks Google will host your company's email for free? I mean, they know the difference between hosting a grandma's email and the Big Company CEO's email. Your company *will* pay for a service. So, Google can't simply throw your data away. As any other important service, there's a thing called "SLA". The "you don't have data" or "Google will furiously delete your data" is simply FUD.
And if Google decides to close its doors and stop hosting your emails (thus, stop making money), they will advise you before, as any other minimal serious company will.
There's a thing called "SLA", specially for commercial services. Your company won't use Google services for free. You'll pay a fee and will get the warranty it will work xx% of the time. So, Google can't simply "take your data away".
Here in Brazil, we have a "e-CPF" (something like e-ID), which is basically a cert issued by some brazilian institutions (including Certisign Brasil, and some governamental offices). Banco do Brasil have a login page which uses this, so, it is more secure. The problem is: the e-CPF costs money to the end-user:-)
About bank security (and not "how to protect from phishing"): Banco do Brasil also have another technology to ensure an user is who it claims to be. When you connect the first time to their internet banking, your have read-only access to certain info, and you'll receive a number which identifies the computer. Then, you must go to any Banco do Brasil ATM in 48 hours or so and validate the computer code. Only after that you can fully use the Internet Banking.
Please, no. What kind of math do you want in CSS? And as for variables, I would suggest something like "style sets". They may seem like variables, but variables are way too powerful for CSS, which is *not* a programming language. By "style sets" I mean: "$defaultBg {color: white; background-color: black;}" or something like that.
I didn't say it isn't insightful. I said he is sick. Just like most crazy people, he was very sane in some statements, but completely insane in others.
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+1 on this. Why's Poignant Guide to Ruby is the best tech book I've ever read. I just wish it was available when I was a newb. Why's book is not finished yet, but one can easily learn the basic programming concepts. CHUNKY BACON!! :-)
You can have 1, 2 and 3 in Ruby without knowing the others. And it would be a pleasant surprise to learn 4, 5, 6 and see that Ruby implemented 1, 2, 3 using them (OOP) :-)
Why is the parent marked as Troll? Does he wrote any lie?
Moderators, please remember: you have to moderate based on the content, not on your personal opinions.
I don't have admin privileges to my workstation and I can't install anything on there (just admins can install things, upon request with manager's approval). As I said in the gp, I work in a financial institution, so, they are very restrictive about what you use :-(
Please, read this comment I just made to another reply.
:-) Why would DoJ want to get into your personal business? I guess they have other things to worry about, right? If they want to get into your personal business, don't they have a strong reason to do that? Here in Brazil, if someone get into your bank account, phone call listing and other personal things (and don't have a judicial order to do that), *they* will have big problems (a ministry was recently fired for asking a bank to reveal the bank statements of a person).
Your answer led me to yet another question
Here in Brazil we have the phrase "Quem não deve, não teme", which translates to something like "If you did nothing wrong, you don't need to fear". This probably remains from dictatorial years we had. We certainly have freedom and privacy notions, but seems it is not as much as americans do have :-)
I wish I had my mod points :-) +1 Funny for you
(you aren't serious, right?)
I use the "2000" version of some Microsoft products (windows, office/outlook/exchange) at work and "usability" was OK when these products were first launched.
Nowadays, a powerful search feature is essential to me (and probably everyone). I have only 40Mb of mailbox space in my company (a financial institution). So, I have about 20 PST files, one for each "folder" in Inbox tree (you know, if you keep everything in one huge PST file, it will corrupt sooner or later). Did you know Outlook can't do a search in all of these PST's at once? You have to execute the search 20 times, one per PST file... Is this what you call usability (this was the first thing that came to my mind, but I can list others if you want) ?
But let me ask you... Are you a Google competitor? If so, you don't really have reasons to host on their servers
I'm curious... I read a lot of comments like yours lately (and not only in this article). So, may I ask you something?
:-)
Don't get me wrong, but why so much fear of DoJ??? What will they find if they can look into your emails? OK, I know US loves that story about "freedom", "privacy", etc etc etc, but why do you want to always hide everything? Paranoia?
Again, don't get me wrong... I'm not american and am just curious
Nowadays, it is easier to have a Kernel Panic in Mac OS X than an internet outage in the office, even for 5 minutes. And I'm in Brazil... Maybe, US and Europe is even more reliable :-)
And if Google decides to close its doors and stop hosting your emails (thus, stop making money), they will advise you before, as any other minimal serious company will.
I'm sorry, but this is FUD :-)
There's a thing called "SLA", specially for commercial services. Your company won't use Google services for free. You'll pay a fee and will get the warranty it will work xx% of the time. So, Google can't simply "take your data away".
-1 Wrong. We are talking about HTML 3.2 here.
Here in Brazil, we have a "e-CPF" (something like e-ID), which is basically a cert issued by some brazilian institutions (including Certisign Brasil, and some governamental offices). Banco do Brasil have a login page which uses this, so, it is more secure. The problem is: the e-CPF costs money to the end-user :-)
About bank security (and not "how to protect from phishing"): Banco do Brasil also have another technology to ensure an user is who it claims to be. When you connect the first time to their internet banking, your have read-only access to certain info, and you'll receive a number which identifies the computer. Then, you must go to any Banco do Brasil ATM in 48 hours or so and validate the computer code. Only after that you can fully use the Internet Banking.
Please, no. What kind of math do you want in CSS? And as for variables, I would suggest something like "style sets". They may seem like variables, but variables are way too powerful for CSS, which is *not* a programming language. By "style sets" I mean: "$defaultBg {color: white; background-color: black;}" or something like that.
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I think a good point to understand *why* CSS don't have math, variables and alikes is the HowCome's (Haakon) interview here on
Should I assume you use to define the position of the elements?
I didn't say it isn't insightful. I said he is sick. Just like most crazy people, he was very sane in some statements, but completely insane in others.
By the first time in my life, I have the feeling that Sao Paulo is more important than New York City. YAY! :-)
Dude, I read everything you wrote. I have only three words to say: you are sick.
And if you call in the next 5 minutes, we'll send you flashbacks for your entire life for free!!
Do you (or anyone in the world) really needs this to *park a car* ?? I mean, tech is cool, but c'mon...
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