Flagging a mysterious outbreak is a lot easier to do than, and carries far less consequence in case of error, than officially announcing an outbreak of the specific disease.
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It is good the the World Health organization did not jump the gun.
If the CS grad did not take a course in Data Structures and Algorithms, or have verifiable knowledge on the topic, then the candidate wouldn't get past the first couple hours of interviewing.
It is not which languages you know, languages are merely the means to express your computer science knowledge.
Every time I visit my facebook page, I have to click on the "most recent first" option instead of having facebook decide what items I want to see. Sure would be nice if facebook made the "most recent first" option persistent across visits....
...One big difference is that OSS sometimes has NO documentation at all. The commercial software I've seen almost always has SOME documentation, and not zero. (Of course that doesn't mean it's good documentation)....
Agreed.
However a big difference between the FOSS and the commercial software in the scenario you cite is that with the FOSS you will not spend money to find out the documentation is lacking.
It is rude (I'm being kind) to charge for software that has no or little documentation.
If I have to proffer my credit card in order acquire the software, the documentation had better well be useful.
...So you do not cite Wikipedia, you cite the article it points to....
Here, let me fix that typo for you...
So you do not cite Wikipedia --- you cite the article it points to, plus the opinion of any hovering mods who remove any citations of alternate (yet accurate) viewpoints.
Wikipedia is not the utopia you envision, it is the product of territorial mods who want "their" articles to read the way "they" want them to read.
The last time there was a thread here on the topic, someone posted an article and stated the article showed wikipedia was better than Encyclopedia Britannica. I must have been the only person who read the original article, because the numbers in the article showed that wikipedia had a 3% higher error rate than the encyclopedia.
...due to the competitive nature of its maintenance...
This so-called "feature" has turned out to be more of a problem than a feature. You have competitive hovering mods removing any content they happen to disagree with, even if that content is accurate.
Sorry, Wikipedia is good, but it is not all its fan-bois crank it up to be.
These days I interpret Linus' "meltdowns" just as some funny nerd rage. He uses that technique to strongly underline the importance of his point, it's never real anger.....
I don't 'like' lima beans, that doesn't mean there is anything wrong with them. In this case your lima beans have been switched out with castor beans and you're dying. Pretty big difference.
It's a compiler bug, for Pete's sake, not the end of the world.
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Revert to a known working version of the compiler, submit a bug report and move on.
Why the temper tantrums? What is with all the drama?
...Do you really want to bug those user's repeatedly with self signed cert validation prompts or just say "okay, $30 / year is worth avoiding the helpdesks"?...
They are bugged only once, and then they accept the cert locally. Or the college provides an easy way for the BYOD people to acquire the college's cert.
There is no need for an official CA to issue a cert for Server1 at IP address 10.2.1.2. No need whatsoever. And, as proof of that, starting in November, the official CAs will stop issuing those types of certs.
Comcast actually does beat Verizon on residential services, at least when it comes to download speeds. The top FiOS residential plan is 75 down, the top Comcast plan is 100 down.
Last I checked, Verizon's 500mbps download (as part of the 500/500 symmetrical) is larger than the 100mbps download you cite from Comcast.
... as the mobile infrastructure seems to handle IPv6 better than the PC infrastructures do. It would not have been a pretty sight to try to make IPv4 work with all those mobile devices.
A tweet (in Russian) from a key Twitter account used by pro-Russian separatists, in which they claim to have captured a Buk surface-to-air missile system, has now been deleted, BBC Monitoring observes. Ukrainians say the Malaysian plane could have been downed with a Buk, but pro-Russian rebels have now denied they have it.
The LibreSSL developers apparently agreed that it was a bug that should be fixed, and fix it they did.
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The discussion seems to center more around whether or not this was a "catastrophic" bug, or a "minor" bug. A bug in a library that has not yet seen a production release. So one really should ask, why not just report the bug and have it fixed, instead of seeking headlines?
There seem to be some people who would like to see the LibreSSL project fail. It makes one wonder why, as the OpenSSL near-monoculture has served the world so well.
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It is good the the World Health organization did not jump the gun.
It will be easier now to notify 911 when facebook is down.
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Then there is the entire health problem with all the head injuries.
It really makes me wonder why the NFL is so pervasive in our society.
While I find the moniker "ESports" somewhat humorous, calling gamers "athletes" borders on the ridiculous.
It is not which languages you know, languages are merely the means to express your computer science knowledge.
Every time I visit my facebook page, I have to click on the "most recent first" option instead of having facebook decide what items I want to see. Sure would be nice if facebook made the "most recent first" option persistent across visits....
...One big difference is that OSS sometimes has NO documentation at all. The commercial software I've seen almost always has SOME documentation, and not zero. (Of course that doesn't mean it's good documentation)....
Agreed.
However a big difference between the FOSS and the commercial software in the scenario you cite is that with the FOSS you will not spend money to find out the documentation is lacking.
It is rude (I'm being kind) to charge for software that has no or little documentation.
If I have to proffer my credit card in order acquire the software, the documentation had better well be useful.
The state of FOSS documentation is about the same or, in my experience, a bit better, than the state of software documentation in general.
...So you do not cite Wikipedia, you cite the article it points to. ...
Here, let me fix that typo for you...
So you do not cite Wikipedia --- you cite the article it points to, plus the opinion of any hovering mods who remove any citations of alternate (yet accurate) viewpoints.
Wikipedia is not the utopia you envision, it is the product of territorial mods who want "their" articles to read the way "they" want them to read.
...due to the competitive nature of its maintenance...
This so-called "feature" has turned out to be more of a problem than a feature. You have competitive hovering mods removing any content they happen to disagree with, even if that content is accurate.
Sorry, Wikipedia is good, but it is not all its fan-bois crank it up to be.
These days I interpret Linus' "meltdowns" just as some funny nerd rage. He uses that technique to strongly underline the importance of his point, it's never real anger. ....
It is bullying, plain and simple.
...It's a little ironic that the he's so quick to attack the GCC people. ...
Especially since the Linux kernel has always been bug-free.
I don't 'like' lima beans, that doesn't mean there is anything wrong with them. In this case your lima beans have been switched out with castor beans and you're dying. Pretty big difference.
It's a compiler bug, for Pete's sake, not the end of the world.
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Revert to a known working version of the compiler, submit a bug report and move on. Why the temper tantrums? What is with all the drama?
Linus is having another meltdown, complaining about something he doesn't like.
The concept is called planned obsolescence , and it has existed for as long as people have been buying things.
...Do you really want to bug those user's repeatedly with self signed cert validation prompts or just say "okay, $30 / year is worth avoiding the helpdesks"? ...
They are bugged only once, and then they accept the cert locally. Or the college provides an easy way for the BYOD people to acquire the college's cert.
There is no need for an official CA to issue a cert for Server1 at IP address 10.2.1.2. No need whatsoever. And, as proof of that, starting in November, the official CAs will stop issuing those types of certs.
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Instead of talking about "malicious actors", the article should be talking about malicious developers.
Comcast actually does beat Verizon on residential services, at least when it comes to download speeds. The top FiOS residential plan is 75 down, the top Comcast plan is 100 down.
Last I checked, Verizon's 500mbps download (as part of the 500/500 symmetrical) is larger than the 100mbps download you cite from Comcast.
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Will Comcast catch up to Verizon? If so, when?
... as the mobile infrastructure seems to handle IPv6 better than the PC infrastructures do. It would not have been a pretty sight to try to make IPv4 work with all those mobile devices.
That was my first thought ... all the cool kids are doing it.
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According to Bloomberg TV, Bing has a whopping 2.5% marketshare in the EU search market.
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Odd That Microsoft Demands Google Take Down Links That Remain In Bing
Or is Microsoft just trying to say, "Hey, we have a search engine also. Pay attention to us."
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A tweet (in Russian) from a key Twitter account used by pro-Russian separatists, in which they claim to have captured a Buk surface-to-air missile system, has now been deleted, BBC Monitoring observes. Ukrainians say the Malaysian plane could have been downed with a Buk, but pro-Russian rebels have now denied they have it.
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The discussion seems to center more around whether or not this was a "catastrophic" bug, or a "minor" bug. A bug in a library that has not yet seen a production release. So one really should ask, why not just report the bug and have it fixed, instead of seeking headlines?
There seem to be some people who would like to see the LibreSSL project fail. It makes one wonder why, as the OpenSSL near-monoculture has served the world so well.