I'm curious how it breaks the moderation system? I'm not doubting you - I'm just not very familiar with it.
The glaring problem I see with the new design is that the right hand column spans the length of the page greatly reduces the space for the comments. I like the way the current design does it better, but it seems like they wanted to add in extra junk like polls, ads, and other headlines.
For quite a while now the mobile site was updated to a new design. It's OK, but like just about any site that tries to look like a mobile app (I'm guessing its jQuery Mobile?) the animations are jerky and slow on my iPhone 5.
I find myself getting used to user interfaces and resisting change. Having to get used to something different sucks especially when it doesn't add new features. In time the Slashdot team will fix the issues and everyone will get used to the new look.
IE provides no revenue for Microsoft?? Do you really think MSN would be the 7th highest ranking website in the USA (alexa), and live.com 6th if it weren't for all those people having MSN set to their homepage?
This article was obviously written by LimeLight. Speaking from personal experience their setup is inferior to Akamai. Even sites such as MySpace have dumped LimeLight in favor of Akamai.. An article about how caching helped the internet from melting would have been cool - but this thing goes overboard and is a blatent advertisement for Limelight and bashing of other companies which have a better product. I would hope Slashdot could do better and weed out this crap.
This tends to happen when companies don't focus on keeping their best talent, and don't regularly get rid of those who have no desire or ability to learn or do their job better. There are two types of employees - the guys who love their job and would spend time at home (for free) to learn more.. and those who show up, do their job, go home and don't give a shit. Your company is only as good as the people who work for it.
True, hanging out with older peers will probably help him out a lot. I wasn't half as smart as this kid, but at 8 years old I was (attempting) to program and a couple years later I was also using linux exclusively. One thing I look back at now is the fact that just about every one of my friends was older than me. At the age of 10 I mostly spoke with 15-30 year olds about computers but stayed within my age group at school. Anyhow, most people say I act old for my age, I'm 20, have a great job and career, a family, and big goals. I had my fun and immature days in highschool, but I cant imagine it lasting any further than that..
I have used MySQL behind a multi-million dollar website over the last 2 years, with projected growth it's hard to say weather or not mysql will work well in the future. However with everything I've seen, Postgres and most of the other commercial databases don't really solve the problem of scaling in a write-heavy environment. We've had to turn to creating separate clusters of master-slaves since our writes pretty much consume the slaves. This will eventually grow to a point where adding slaves won't make a difference.
I fail to see how clustering or replication is going to help out in this instance. There are a few downfalls to MySQL. I.e. where is the support for master failover without some sort of half assed setup?
In my eyes (web developer) data consistancy and roll-back support doesn't matter as much as the ability to scale and failover. In most cases you store critical data outside of your MySQL db, though it is pretty safe to do so.
What's so new about this? How is this news?
Very little substance to the article, plus I've been using IPs, Cookies and Logins to track people for a long time.
Neat, hello.com seems to be using PHP for their site.
If google came out with a free alternative to ICQ/AIM/etc I think it could do very very well as with anything google does.
Just because a company knows you hit a certain pattern of pages on their sites doesn't mean they know anything about you. Companies collect this information in aggregate, nobody cares about you and the few pages you looked at unless they have data for thousands of other people as well.
Anyway, the point is theres not many evil things you can do with this sort of information. Many anti virus, firewall, etc. companies use this sort of shit to get people to buy their software to protect themselves against the "enemy" stealing their personal data. Please.
Or, the company's first and main product was hired by a bunch of monkies who knew nothing.
We have this problem -- growth is limited by the terrible database and code design but there's never time to fix it because it will take too long. Sure, the stuff works but you have to throw twice as many servers and waste tons of time dealing with its inconsistencies and bugs.
One lesson learned here is never outsource programming, you're likely to spend many times the money fixing the problems the outsourcing creates and be prepared for your code to be sold to your competitors.
Around here there is no such thing as "mature" code, there's no time for that, not enough developers and way too many projects needed ASAP. To me it looks like bad management for not hiring the number of people you need for growth especially when the company is doing great financially.
How about those guys who know a little about programming and think any task is "easy". Then think of a hundred "important" projects they want you to work on, tell you which is most important then every hour come up with a new "most important" task for you to do. Isn't it great when a boss who is supposed to help direct you and set you up for getting things done actually has the opposite effect.
I noticed this the other day when I was browsing the "Small Business" rack-mount poweredge servers then I went over to see what they had in the "Medium & Large Business" rack-mount poweredge servers area.. I found the same thing in the large business area at a higher cost.
Some of dell's products are hard to beat price wise, their servers are very nice for small business. The only thing they get you on is the additional hard drives and lots of ram - you can easily get those at other online shops for about 30% off dell's price.
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I'm curious how it breaks the moderation system? I'm not doubting you - I'm just not very familiar with it.
The glaring problem I see with the new design is that the right hand column spans the length of the page greatly reduces the space for the comments. I like the way the current design does it better, but it seems like they wanted to add in extra junk like polls, ads, and other headlines.
For quite a while now the mobile site was updated to a new design. It's OK, but like just about any site that tries to look like a mobile app (I'm guessing its jQuery Mobile?) the animations are jerky and slow on my iPhone 5.
I find myself getting used to user interfaces and resisting change. Having to get used to something different sucks especially when it doesn't add new features. In time the Slashdot team will fix the issues and everyone will get used to the new look.
Great, an INVITE ONLY phone? That's a first.
IE provides no revenue for Microsoft?? Do you really think MSN would be the 7th highest ranking website in the USA (alexa), and live.com 6th if it weren't for all those people having MSN set to their homepage?
This article was obviously written by LimeLight. Speaking from personal experience their setup is inferior to Akamai. Even sites such as MySpace have dumped LimeLight in favor of Akamai.. An article about how caching helped the internet from melting would have been cool - but this thing goes overboard and is a blatent advertisement for Limelight and bashing of other companies which have a better product. I would hope Slashdot could do better and weed out this crap.
This tends to happen when companies don't focus on keeping their best talent, and don't regularly get rid of those who have no desire or ability to learn or do their job better. There are two types of employees - the guys who love their job and would spend time at home (for free) to learn more.. and those who show up, do their job, go home and don't give a shit. Your company is only as good as the people who work for it.
"If successful, eBay will roll it out to other markets." Of course they'll be successful, all other modes of payment are barred!
True, hanging out with older peers will probably help him out a lot. I wasn't half as smart as this kid, but at 8 years old I was (attempting) to program and a couple years later I was also using linux exclusively. One thing I look back at now is the fact that just about every one of my friends was older than me. At the age of 10 I mostly spoke with 15-30 year olds about computers but stayed within my age group at school. Anyhow, most people say I act old for my age, I'm 20, have a great job and career, a family, and big goals. I had my fun and immature days in highschool, but I cant imagine it lasting any further than that..
This kid is going to have the social skills of a log.
I have used MySQL behind a multi-million dollar website over the last 2 years, with projected growth it's hard to say weather or not mysql will work well in the future. However with everything I've seen, Postgres and most of the other commercial databases don't really solve the problem of scaling in a write-heavy environment. We've had to turn to creating separate clusters of master-slaves since our writes pretty much consume the slaves. This will eventually grow to a point where adding slaves won't make a difference. I fail to see how clustering or replication is going to help out in this instance. There are a few downfalls to MySQL. I.e. where is the support for master failover without some sort of half assed setup? In my eyes (web developer) data consistancy and roll-back support doesn't matter as much as the ability to scale and failover. In most cases you store critical data outside of your MySQL db, though it is pretty safe to do so.
What's so new about this? How is this news? Very little substance to the article, plus I've been using IPs, Cookies and Logins to track people for a long time.
Neat, hello.com seems to be using PHP for their site. If google came out with a free alternative to ICQ/AIM/etc I think it could do very very well as with anything google does.
Relax. You've been reading too many magazines..
Just because a company knows you hit a certain pattern of pages on their sites doesn't mean they know anything about you. Companies collect this information in aggregate, nobody cares about you and the few pages you looked at unless they have data for thousands of other people as well.
Anyway, the point is theres not many evil things you can do with this sort of information. Many anti virus, firewall, etc. companies use this sort of shit to get people to buy their software to protect themselves against the "enemy" stealing their personal data. Please.
Or, the company's first and main product was hired by a bunch of monkies who knew nothing.
We have this problem -- growth is limited by the terrible database and code design but there's never time to fix it because it will take too long. Sure, the stuff works but you have to throw twice as many servers and waste tons of time dealing with its inconsistencies and bugs.
One lesson learned here is never outsource programming, you're likely to spend many times the money fixing the problems the outsourcing creates and be prepared for your code to be sold to your competitors. Around here there is no such thing as "mature" code, there's no time for that, not enough developers and way too many projects needed ASAP. To me it looks like bad management for not hiring the number of people you need for growth especially when the company is doing great financially.
How about those guys who know a little about programming and think any task is "easy". Then think of a hundred "important" projects they want you to work on, tell you which is most important then every hour come up with a new "most important" task for you to do. Isn't it great when a boss who is supposed to help direct you and set you up for getting things done actually has the opposite effect.
I noticed this the other day when I was browsing the "Small Business" rack-mount poweredge servers then I went over to see what they had in the "Medium & Large Business" rack-mount poweredge servers area.. I found the same thing in the large business area at a higher cost.
Some of dell's products are hard to beat price wise, their servers are very nice for small business. The only thing they get you on is the additional hard drives and lots of ram - you can easily get those at other online shops for about 30% off dell's price.
That's why I just download the latest pirated copy with SP2 included. Works great every time.