This has nothing to do with Linux, and is a failing equally shared with closed-source software.
I disagree.
Closed source software has a structure around the code to mitigate problems of this ilk. The structure consists of customers, management, marketing, and sales.
Payment gains you access. It has been this way since murder in the shadow of the monolith.
Merit gains you access in the OSS world. Those who can't, request of those who can. There IS a problem of lack of criticism as meant in the article.
I don't have mod points, so I'll just pluralize the anecdotes into data.;)
I once maintained C++ code written by a very good Chinese programmer. I don't know a lick of Chinese outside of a menu.
This guy's code was very elegant. All of his comments were in VERY bad and confusing English; pretty much to the point where they were mostly useless.
I never complained because: one, the comments _were_ in English, and two, the code was the most self documented stuff I ever saw outside of a classroom.
I never met him, but it was obvious that he took it for granted that the code should be commented in English.
That's quite likely. I doubt you met anybody who couldn't speak English, but you would meet a lot who didn't. Especially in the holiday season. When I was working in Paris I found that almost everyone spoke English until the tourists arrived, and then nobody did.
I found that simply saying something like "let's go back to XX and buy it, they could speak English there" worked wonders. Although, it was quite easy to pick up enough French for basic commerce, dining, and bodily functions.
Outside the snooty city limits, folks are often eager to practice their English with you, or on you, depending how bad it is. Still, their Crappy English was better than my atrocious French.
Now, try talking to an Italian who learned English from a Scotsman. GFL deciphering _that_.
Since the crimes were committed with a computer, why aren't there a whole heap of additional federal charges piled on? As we all know any crime with a computer element is much worse than murder./sarcasm
As a juror it is your duty to give the defendant the benefit of the doubt.
I would not challenge a judge on a question of law. However, in a technical area where I have expertise, I will defer to myself over what is filtered through an officer of the court any day of the week.
Things are a bit different in a civil trial. Nobody is going to jail and it is usually pretty easy to figure out which side is the moral jerk trying to screw the other side over.
Judges debate the merit of jury questions, but practicing attorneys rarely support it. The attorneys want the trial to be theater featuring themselves as the actors. Allowing the audience to participate adds a level of unpredictability that their script may not be able to handle.
I am in favor of jury questions.
And the judge from your link who never allows questions is a coward who doubts her own ability in my book (no, I don't know her).
That I do see that a lot in young people. They're convinced they have the right answers and won't budge or take a suggestion. There's no curiosity or willingness to explore. they seem really regimented in their thinking. Something I found profoundly saddening personally and, as hiring authority, really freaking annoying.
My first reaction is that maybe those young people were/are focused on what they deem to be important for their own aspirations, not yours.
From their perspective, you are just another suit dangling a carrot in the event the first pick declines an offer. It is no wonder subtle hints don't work as they can be summarily dismissed as well meaning advice from a senior practitioner.
They just feel that they can go on the streets and do whatever they like
and
Taylor's son, Damilola Taylor, was killed in November 2000 at the age of 10 by knife stabbing
Why would he allow his ten year old son to go on the street and flaunt the law?
What happened to his child is a sad and tragic thing. However, by his own logic, the kid was doomed anyway. I think this is why they created the word 'absurd'.
Take away his position and this guy is just another nutbag on the corner shouting while holding a crudely drawn cardboard sign.
When I worked in a computer shop I'd get a lot of computers coming in infected with so much spyware/adware that they were struggling just to remain "idle". In just about every case I could trace the infection back to something downloaded off of limewire.
Because all the spyware executables have something like "Thanks to Limewire for timely reliable delivery" in the properties or something?
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This has nothing to do with Linux, and is a failing equally shared with closed-source software.
I disagree.
Closed source software has a structure around the code to mitigate problems of this ilk. The structure consists of customers, management, marketing, and sales.
Payment gains you access. It has been this way since murder in the shadow of the monolith.
Merit gains you access in the OSS world. Those who can't, request of those who can. There IS a problem of lack of criticism as meant in the article.
For the love of all that's decent, make it stop!
Publishing these holes only encourages further malicious activity!
I don't have mod points, so I'll just pluralize the anecdotes into data. ;)
I once maintained C++ code written by a very good Chinese programmer. I don't know a lick of Chinese outside of a menu.
This guy's code was very elegant. All of his comments were in VERY bad and confusing English; pretty much to the point where they were mostly useless.
I never complained because: one, the comments _were_ in English, and two, the code was the most self documented stuff I ever saw outside of a classroom.
I never met him, but it was obvious that he took it for granted that the code should be commented in English.
That's quite likely. I doubt you met anybody who couldn't speak English, but you would meet a lot who didn't. Especially in the holiday season. When I was working in Paris I found that almost everyone spoke English until the tourists arrived, and then nobody did.
I found that simply saying something like "let's go back to XX and buy it, they could speak English there" worked wonders. Although, it was quite easy to pick up enough French for basic commerce, dining, and bodily functions.
Outside the snooty city limits, folks are often eager to practice their English with you, or on you, depending how bad it is. Still, their Crappy English was better than my atrocious French.
Now, try talking to an Italian who learned English from a Scotsman. GFL deciphering _that_.
TFA discusses this part, if you'd read it.
I only read the first 140 characters of TFA. Everything you want to know should be there, right?
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Since the crimes were committed with a computer, why aren't there a whole heap of additional federal charges piled on? As we all know any crime with a computer element is much worse than murder. /sarcasm
OMG, you figured out step 2!!!
I genuflect before you, oh Prophet of profit.
MOD PARENT UP.
As a juror it is your duty to give the defendant the benefit of the doubt.
I would not challenge a judge on a question of law. However, in a technical area where I have expertise, I will defer to myself over what is filtered through an officer of the court any day of the week.
Things are a bit different in a civil trial. Nobody is going to jail and it is usually pretty easy to figure out which side is the moral jerk trying to screw the other side over.
Judges debate the merit of jury questions, but practicing attorneys rarely support it. The attorneys want the trial to be theater featuring themselves as the actors. Allowing the audience to participate adds a level of unpredictability that their script may not be able to handle.
I am in favor of jury questions.
And the judge from your link who never allows questions is a coward who doubts her own ability in my book (no, I don't know her).
That I do see that a lot in young people. They're convinced they have the right answers and won't budge or take a suggestion. There's no curiosity or willingness to explore. they seem really regimented in their thinking. Something I found profoundly saddening personally and, as hiring authority, really freaking annoying.
My first reaction is that maybe those young people were/are focused on what they deem to be important for their own aspirations, not yours.
From their perspective, you are just another suit dangling a carrot in the event the first pick declines an offer. It is no wonder subtle hints don't work as they can be summarily dismissed as well meaning advice from a senior practitioner.
Just some thoughts from the devil's advocate.
In my experience, technical people know how to read. You have to keep tabs on those seditious bass turds!
WHOOSH
Wait, is it your position that you use knives for something other than killing?
That's just crazy sane type talk.
Why is this modded funny?
Methinks we need a 'prophetic' category
They just feel that they can go on the streets and do whatever they like
and
Taylor's son, Damilola Taylor, was killed in November 2000 at the age of 10 by knife stabbing
Why would he allow his ten year old son to go on the street and flaunt the law?
What happened to his child is a sad and tragic thing. However, by his own logic, the kid was doomed anyway. I think this is why they created the word 'absurd'.
Take away his position and this guy is just another nutbag on the corner shouting while holding a crudely drawn cardboard sign.
Mod parent up.
A sedentary lifestyle indoors is unhealthy; who'd a thunk it?
In my day we had to breathe underwater and we were THANKFUL for the opportunity. Darn sissys.
One of them even test fired a large-caliber cannon in space at another satellite.
Sound and fury signifying nothing... That is one helluva an ammo run.
When I worked in a computer shop I'd get a lot of computers coming in infected with so much spyware/adware that they were struggling just to remain "idle". In just about every case I could trace the infection back to something downloaded off of limewire.
Because all the spyware executables have something like "Thanks to Limewire for timely reliable delivery" in the properties or something?
Yet they were 'new' versions of the same Hampshire and York found across the pond (not sure about Jersey).
;)
At semantics grand? We can do this all day.
Isn't Texas still a republic if in name only?
And yet they still call themselves a commonwealth. As do several other states. Go figure.
Just to pick a nit, Virginia is a commonwealth.
Socks?
Rich bass turd!
And the users got what they paid for.
Simple as that.
The flip side is that this guy's service will probably be the MOST reliable going forward.
Of course he should have had reliable backups; now he is the poster child for backups. Remember, nobody pays you for backups, only for restores.
And, also, when the police search his house, they found weapons ammo. This is presumably relevant somehow.
Because you need to paint him as an unsympathetic louse before you railroad him?
4 plus million bucks for 8 wireless cameras? Where to even begin with that one.