These days it's hard to write anything non-trivial without relying on something that will be hard to replace if it goes away, that's just a reality of modern software design. You can minimize the risk with abstraction and try to rely on open standards with multiple implementations, but at some point you have to just accept the occasional puzzle piece change as part of the business and move on.
That said, google pulls this shit all the time. Using a google API or service for anything critical would imo be a huge risk given their long history of suddenly killing things.
Quick google and just looks like one of the many youtube wannabies out there that started to spring up when hosting video (at least on a small to mid scale) started to become more feasible.
It's a controversial opinion, but while I thought season 7 was mostly terrible, I actually liked where they went with the last season and actually hold it up as a rare example of a show managing to breath new life into something that's gone stale by introducing a major plot development near the end.
Yeah, but "a bit rough" meant there was maybe a month or so where the teller would say "our chip and pin isn't working yet" and maybe the odd occasion you'd have to re-try a few times or eventually "lets just do it the old fashioned way". It sounds like the US is having a much harder time of it.
As a Canadian I really don't get this. We've had chip and pin here for awhile, and while the initial adoption was a bit rough, it generally works fine.
Confusing
Reader says "insert chip in the bottom". You insert chip in the bottom. Reader says "enter pin". You enter pin.
Painstakingly slow
I've noticed some readers are slow, but this probably has nothing to do with the chip, the merchant just has a shitty system. If you're talking about the process being slower, ok yeah, by about 10 to 15 seconds or so.
Less secure than the alternatives
What alternatives? Getting a signature that no teller ever verifies or checking the name against your ID (which again, never actually happens)?
Not saying chip and pin is perfect, but I really don't get why this is such a big "disaster".
I honestly feel like when it comes to television, women are better represented.
It seems like most shows are either squarely aimed at women, or are designed to appeal to both sexes. For all the whining about it, there arn't that many "guy shows" any more.
Meh, guilty as charged to pretty much all of that.
If what you said works then I'm envious.. I accepted having to choose between sitting through some crap while cuddling or no cuddling and possibly a speech a long time ago.
I do complain about the shows though, it's no secret that I don't like them. Why women (or at least the subset I've known) absolutely insist on forcing us to watch stuff with them that they _know_ we hate is beyond me, but it's a thing and I (like I suspect many others) gave up fighting it a long time ago.
And beyond that, when your GF does sit through one of "your shows" she's usually doing something else, whereas for whatever reason I feel guys are compelled to watch what's on the TV even if we hate it to our core.
There are certainly legit social issues relating to gender inequality, but I wish we could find a balance and accept that yes, there _are_ actually differences between how men and women generally behave and that may not actually be a bad thing.
I admit it's mostly a psychological thing for me, objectively you're probably 100% right.
That said, I have certainly been considering moving a big chunk (at least half) of it into a low to mid risk index fund (I'm Canadian and lean towards tangerine for that kind of thing).
In general I'm in the Canadian couch potato crowd (primarily relying on index funds and self balanced ETF allocations). I've played with investopedia enough to learn that individual securities trading is probably a terrible idea for me.
And since it's life story time, I'm on the "live within my means, balance between mid and long term goals and enjoying life while young and healthy, retire comfortably within a reasonable timeframe" plan, but I have respect for the live frugal retire well and early plan.
I keep about 6 months living expenses in a plain-ol savings account (earns %0.8 interest) for accessibility and safety. Sure I could dump that money in with the rest of my investments and risk eating a loss if I need it at the wrong time, but I prefer the peace of mind of knowing I have that money available and can use it worry free if required.
Sure, but the average Joe doesn't tend to care either.
I have to imagine it's a pretty small market of people who are tech savvy enough to get the risks of public wifi but not be able to do something about it themselves.
It's trivial to set this up yourself, just get some kind of dyndns type service so you can find your machine and either run a vpn server or just tunnel through SSH (lots of guides on how to do this, just google it).
Opera is still (and will probably always be) that weird guy no one really likes but few have specific complaints about.
Personally I'm strongly debating switching to chromium because firefox has gone to shit and palemoon doesn't look long for this world unfortunately. I never even considered opera, but despite this reminder that they are still around and despite my admission that I don't really have anything specific against them, I'm still not going to.
Another thing where paper wins out over tech is writing space. When I'm working on something complicated I like to have it all spread out so I can quickly see everything and re-arrange as appropriate. Scrolling around on a screen (or even a few screens) just doesn't have the same utility as a conference room table and a pile of paper printouts for some things.
Can this example finally serve as a textbook example of why you need to make offsite backups that are physically removed from the systems you're archiving?
There are plenty of examples already and keeping a set of backups physically disconnected from running infrastructure is pretty well established practice, with random software bugs and screw ups being just one of many reasons. That said people will continue to have all their backups fully accessible (and destroyable) or just not back things up at all and things like this will continue to happen.
Guy can possibly recover the data, but the company is probably still screwed reputation wise.
Hmm, that's a good point. I suppose the solution from the advertisers perspective is to switch back to flat rates / advertising based on anticipated traffic (though then you're back into the problem of what's to stop a site owner from lying through their teeth. I can't wait till we get the equivalent to Nielsen ratings for the internet driving ad rates.
Indeed, it's pretty hard to develop software without depending on _something_. The stuff I work on is quite far removed from the web, but we depend on a whole pile of third party libraries and tools. Best you can do is abstract 3rd party stuff within the realm of practicality and accept occasionally having to migrate to something else as a cost of business.
I'm largely of this mindset, but as I said in an earlier comment somewhere, it's pretty hard to know what's being tracked or passed along on the server side. Server side tracking is more difficult than tracking that largely relies on client side mechanisms, but only just, and if pushback continues I think that's what we're going to see.
I for one would love to see more containerization on the browser side (prevent those facebook cookies from being sent unless you're actually on facebook) to become the norm, but unfortunately the rise of content distribution networks makes it hard to do this generically without breaking all the things, and a lot of people actually like the whole "oh, it knows my facebook, cool!" thing.
Well that's exactly it. This also negates the other big advantage of it's smaller size and takes up it's one USB port (meaning the usual use case of "network connected thing that drives some USB thing and pipes the data back" now requires a hub (possibly a powered one)...
Sure you can make it work, but at that point may as well just use a regular rasp pi.
My well meaning but non-tech savvy sister got me one for Christmas and I'm at a loss what to do with the thing. The lack of ethernet in particular makes it useless for just about anything I would use the thing for, the main selling point for me was always "arduino with effortless network connectivity".
Unfortunately there is nothing stopping the website owner from tracking this information and reporting it back to the ad provider, acting mainly as a proxy (so you access http://yourfavouritesite/somea... and they just make a request on their end to http://eviladcompany/?all_that... and serve up the results).
The one thing it would make harder is cross-site tracking, but again, nothing stopping each site from serving up their own cookie, tying it to the generic ad companies id, and forwarding it to them (although that would require significantly more energy and at least be somewhat detectable unless done really well).
I'm generally fine with high level tracking that can't easily be tied to an actual person.
That said, there's no way to really audit how the dots are being connected, what's being stored, and with whom, so _practically_ speaking, I agree you pretty much do have to ban tracking in general.
- Stays quietly off to the side somewhere - Clearly distinguishable as an ad - Doesn't slow down page load time - Isn't a scam - Preferrably doesn't do an excessive amount of tracking
It's acceptable in my books.
That said, the adblock guys are about to blow their own foot off. Nothing they do is that complicated, there are already workable alternatives.. the only reason they are so popular is that they've "just worked" for the longest, but it won't take much of this crap before they see their entire userbase migrate to something else.
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These days it's hard to write anything non-trivial without relying on something that will be hard to replace if it goes away, that's just a reality of modern software design. You can minimize the risk with abstraction and try to rely on open standards with multiple implementations, but at some point you have to just accept the occasional puzzle piece change as part of the business and move on.
That said, google pulls this shit all the time. Using a google API or service for anything critical would imo be a huge risk given their long history of suddenly killing things.
This was pretty much my thought.
Quick google and just looks like one of the many youtube wannabies out there that started to spring up when hosting video (at least on a small to mid scale) started to become more feasible.
It's a controversial opinion, but while I thought season 7 was mostly terrible, I actually liked where they went with the last season and actually hold it up as a rare example of a show managing to breath new life into something that's gone stale by introducing a major plot development near the end.
Yeah, but "a bit rough" meant there was maybe a month or so where the teller would say "our chip and pin isn't working yet" and maybe the odd occasion you'd have to re-try a few times or eventually "lets just do it the old fashioned way". It sounds like the US is having a much harder time of it.
As a Canadian I really don't get this. We've had chip and pin here for awhile, and while the initial adoption was a bit rough, it generally works fine.
Confusing
Reader says "insert chip in the bottom".
You insert chip in the bottom.
Reader says "enter pin".
You enter pin.
Painstakingly slow
I've noticed some readers are slow, but this probably has nothing to do with the chip, the merchant just has a shitty system. If you're talking about the process being slower, ok yeah, by about 10 to 15 seconds or so.
Less secure than the alternatives
What alternatives? Getting a signature that no teller ever verifies or checking the name against your ID (which again, never actually happens)?
Not saying chip and pin is perfect, but I really don't get why this is such a big "disaster".
I honestly feel like when it comes to television, women are better represented.
It seems like most shows are either squarely aimed at women, or are designed to appeal to both sexes. For all the whining about it, there arn't that many "guy shows" any more.
Meh, guilty as charged to pretty much all of that.
If what you said works then I'm envious.. I accepted having to choose between sitting through some crap while cuddling or no cuddling and possibly a speech a long time ago.
I do complain about the shows though, it's no secret that I don't like them. Why women (or at least the subset I've known) absolutely insist on forcing us to watch stuff with them that they _know_ we hate is beyond me, but it's a thing and I (like I suspect many others) gave up fighting it a long time ago.
This would actually be really useful, but would probably cause a huge PR shitstorm.
So much actual this.
And beyond that, when your GF does sit through one of "your shows" she's usually doing something else, whereas for whatever reason I feel guys are compelled to watch what's on the TV even if we hate it to our core.
There are certainly legit social issues relating to gender inequality, but I wish we could find a balance and accept that yes, there _are_ actually differences between how men and women generally behave and that may not actually be a bad thing.
I admit it's mostly a psychological thing for me, objectively you're probably 100% right.
That said, I have certainly been considering moving a big chunk (at least half) of it into a low to mid risk index fund (I'm Canadian and lean towards tangerine for that kind of thing).
In general I'm in the Canadian couch potato crowd (primarily relying on index funds and self balanced ETF allocations). I've played with investopedia enough to learn that individual securities trading is probably a terrible idea for me.
And since it's life story time, I'm on the "live within my means, balance between mid and long term goals and enjoying life while young and healthy, retire comfortably within a reasonable timeframe" plan, but I have respect for the live frugal retire well and early plan.
I keep about 6 months living expenses in a plain-ol savings account (earns %0.8 interest) for accessibility and safety. Sure I could dump that money in with the rest of my investments and risk eating a loss if I need it at the wrong time, but I prefer the peace of mind of knowing I have that money available and can use it worry free if required.
Sure, but the average Joe doesn't tend to care either.
I have to imagine it's a pretty small market of people who are tech savvy enough to get the risks of public wifi but not be able to do something about it themselves.
It's trivial to set this up yourself, just get some kind of dyndns type service so you can find your machine and either run a vpn server or just tunnel through SSH (lots of guides on how to do this, just google it).
Opera is still (and will probably always be) that weird guy no one really likes but few have specific complaints about.
Personally I'm strongly debating switching to chromium because firefox has gone to shit and palemoon doesn't look long for this world unfortunately. I never even considered opera, but despite this reminder that they are still around and despite my admission that I don't really have anything specific against them, I'm still not going to.
This entirely.
Another thing where paper wins out over tech is writing space. When I'm working on something complicated I like to have it all spread out so I can quickly see everything and re-arrange as appropriate. Scrolling around on a screen (or even a few screens) just doesn't have the same utility as a conference room table and a pile of paper printouts for some things.
Right, at minimum there should be two sets, and both should never be connected at the same time for exactly this kinda reason.
This is borderline bait at this point.
Can this example finally serve as a textbook example of why you need to make offsite backups that are physically removed from the systems you're archiving?
There are plenty of examples already and keeping a set of backups physically disconnected from running infrastructure is pretty well established practice, with random software bugs and screw ups being just one of many reasons. That said people will continue to have all their backups fully accessible (and destroyable) or just not back things up at all and things like this will continue to happen.
Guy can possibly recover the data, but the company is probably still screwed reputation wise.
Hmm, that's a good point. I suppose the solution from the advertisers perspective is to switch back to flat rates / advertising based on anticipated traffic (though then you're back into the problem of what's to stop a site owner from lying through their teeth. I can't wait till we get the equivalent to Nielsen ratings for the internet driving ad rates.
Indeed, it's pretty hard to develop software without depending on _something_. The stuff I work on is quite far removed from the web, but we depend on a whole pile of third party libraries and tools. Best you can do is abstract 3rd party stuff within the realm of practicality and accept occasionally having to migrate to something else as a cost of business.
I'm largely of this mindset, but as I said in an earlier comment somewhere, it's pretty hard to know what's being tracked or passed along on the server side. Server side tracking is more difficult than tracking that largely relies on client side mechanisms, but only just, and if pushback continues I think that's what we're going to see.
I for one would love to see more containerization on the browser side (prevent those facebook cookies from being sent unless you're actually on facebook) to become the norm, but unfortunately the rise of content distribution networks makes it hard to do this generically without breaking all the things, and a lot of people actually like the whole "oh, it knows my facebook, cool!" thing.
Well that's exactly it. This also negates the other big advantage of it's smaller size and takes up it's one USB port (meaning the usual use case of "network connected thing that drives some USB thing and pipes the data back" now requires a hub (possibly a powered one)...
Sure you can make it work, but at that point may as well just use a regular rasp pi.
Yup.
My well meaning but non-tech savvy sister got me one for Christmas and I'm at a loss what to do with the thing. The lack of ethernet in particular makes it useless for just about anything I would use the thing for, the main selling point for me was always "arduino with effortless network connectivity".
Unfortunately there is nothing stopping the website owner from tracking this information and reporting it back to the ad provider, acting mainly as a proxy (so you access http://yourfavouritesite/somea... and they just make a request on their end to http://eviladcompany/?all_that... and serve up the results).
The one thing it would make harder is cross-site tracking, but again, nothing stopping each site from serving up their own cookie, tying it to the generic ad companies id, and forwarding it to them (although that would require significantly more energy and at least be somewhat detectable unless done really well).
I'm generally fine with high level tracking that can't easily be tied to an actual person.
That said, there's no way to really audit how the dots are being connected, what's being stored, and with whom, so _practically_ speaking, I agree you pretty much do have to ban tracking in general.
Meh, if it:
- Stays quietly off to the side somewhere
- Clearly distinguishable as an ad
- Doesn't slow down page load time
- Isn't a scam
- Preferrably doesn't do an excessive amount of tracking
It's acceptable in my books.
That said, the adblock guys are about to blow their own foot off. Nothing they do is that complicated, there are already workable alternatives.. the only reason they are so popular is that they've "just worked" for the longest, but it won't take much of this crap before they see their entire userbase migrate to something else.