The company I work for is a development firm that has offices in San Francisco, NYC, Paris, Tokyo and elsewhere in the world. We have people developing in San Francisco and Paris with some bits of work coming from other offices. We do programming during the day and it's highly encouraged for people to learn the markets we cater to as their evolving. There is no way other than to be very commited to keep up and that means constantly learning in or out of the office. I wore slippers to work today and walked in around 9 today. Yesterday, I also wore slippers but strolled in around 10:30. No one cared. Sometimes the guy next to me comes in at 11:30. We work in and out of the office, so when we're actually there doesn't matter. It is more useful, however, to talk to other developers so the office is quite useful. We also fly people to the different offices to meet with groups specializing in something they need.
If you think you've got it rough training yourself on your own time, then perhaps you should consider new careers. This is not a slow game. This is the world as it moves and to work in certain fields and remain employable, you've got to keep up. Read the docs as you tinker. You're not going to set anything up without starting somewhere. Even if you're moved out of the lab, the lab exists. If you want to guarantee for your employer that you're going to ensure no downtime, request testing periods. Surely, they don't expect you to use live systems to try new things. And if they do, then all 5 users on the small network won't care... they'll be used to small business practices. Basically, no reason to stress.
No matter who the boss is, they have never had a computer experience where something didn't behave quite as expected, but the people who knew how to take new information in fast and could fix things fast were the stars.
And how do you fix new tech fast? You learn it all the time.
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I'm sure the reporter was judging this based on spam in their inbox regardless of whether a spam filter caught it. I wonder if they even know about spam filters...
First, why does anyone care what Dvorak is saying.
Second, Opera is irrelevant by any serious standards. I don't care about it's minimal market share or how well it works.
Third, MS has hired so many security professionals to work on IE and have IE 7 in the works. It'd be a pathetic move to switch over from IE and then have to port everything that has been done over to Opera and audit the code first and get everyone familiar with the base and then integrate opera into the OS the way IE is integrated.
It's not a new language, but I picked it up over the weekend and really like it. It can make all the annoying stuff trivially easy and it never feels like a hack. Worth a shot anyway and the tutorial won't take very long to go through to see if you like it.
I also use emacs for editing. In terms of IDE's, I think Eclipse is about as good an IDE as I've ever seen, but I do go back and forth between Eclipse and Emacs.
Obviously they are. The public only discovered the problems with lucifer 15 years AFTER the NSA changed it and forced the changes on the public. Jeez...
clearly, none of you have any idea what the gov can do. i have friends who work for nsa and different dept's of the dod and they'd laugh at the garbage spewing from your fingers.
you're insane. if you really believe all problems are the customers fault, then join the mpaa and riaa and help create draconian laws that leave customers helpless to lazy and selfish big business.
Don't be stupid. If the Gov't is after you, sure, they can arrest you, but they need evidence. No encryption scheme is unbreakable. Public key is good, but they can catch the key exchange or, if they really want to, break the encryption. The NSA had 5 acres of computing equipment under the ground in 1970. What do you think they have now?
While I was working for Harvard Law School, the Secret Service came and spoke to the different IT communities at Harvard. What they came to tell us was that if there was any security breach, they would help us minimize the damages and then went through their plan on how to do that. The plan was essentially to not scare the public, not tell anyone, and hide as much of the damage as possible and try to recover. That basically does nothing for anyone interested in *actually* knowing how safe they are.
Kudos to to Korea having the balls to blame the people leaving the doors to security breaches WIDE open.
They'll just capture the key exchange. Unless you want to do the key exchange via phone or in person. Maybe they'll just force the encryption keys to be forked over. If the government wants to read your data, they'll find a way. Pity.
Java outdated?! Not in financial services...
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I work for an unnamed financial services company and we write all our software in Java with the exception of some places. Java is far from dead. The class library is huge and very useful. The speed is not an issue. Java can be as fast as anything else after the initial load and this has been demonstrated numerous times. We can tie web front ends into internal trading systems easily using java since it can be a web tool or an application development tool. We also don't have to care what platform our users are running. We can run the server software and application software on our development machines running linux, windows, or mac (all 3 are present in the office according to taste) even though our users typically have all the server software on high end linux / sun systems and the desktop software running off a windows desktop. It's not a big deal to have an icon that calls java to start the app.
Big deal. It's not new. Most operating systems are written in C and C is much older than Java. Java falls under the same rule of thumb which all tools fall under: "right tool, right job". That's all there is to it.
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If it travels over port 443, the ports need to be configurable!
You can be certain the Chinese firewalls will just start to block 443 and ban encrypted http... What have they got to lose!?
Not for me in Firefox 1.5. Weak, dudes.
these will be out soon enough. nothing that has roots in technology stays secret for very long.
The company I work for is a development firm that has offices in San Francisco, NYC, Paris, Tokyo and elsewhere in the world. We have people developing in San Francisco and Paris with some bits of work coming from other offices. We do programming during the day and it's highly encouraged for people to learn the markets we cater to as their evolving. There is no way other than to be very commited to keep up and that means constantly learning in or out of the office. I wore slippers to work today and walked in around 9 today. Yesterday, I also wore slippers but strolled in around 10:30. No one cared. Sometimes the guy next to me comes in at 11:30. We work in and out of the office, so when we're actually there doesn't matter. It is more useful, however, to talk to other developers so the office is quite useful. We also fly people to the different offices to meet with groups specializing in something they need.
If you think you've got it rough training yourself on your own time, then perhaps you should consider new careers. This is not a slow game. This is the world as it moves and to work in certain fields and remain employable, you've got to keep up. Read the docs as you tinker. You're not going to set anything up without starting somewhere. Even if you're moved out of the lab, the lab exists. If you want to guarantee for your employer that you're going to ensure no downtime, request testing periods. Surely, they don't expect you to use live systems to try new things. And if they do, then all 5 users on the small network won't care... they'll be used to small business practices. Basically, no reason to stress.
No matter who the boss is, they have never had a computer experience where something didn't behave quite as expected, but the people who knew how to take new information in fast and could fix things fast were the stars.
And how do you fix new tech fast? You learn it all the time.
He's the L Ron Hubbard of the computer industry.
I'm sure the reporter was judging this based on spam in their inbox regardless of whether a spam filter caught it. I wonder if they even know about spam filters...
Excuse me! I don't have $ in front of my variables!
I don't like yourOsOfChoice style naming, so I'll give you that...
Emacs is, well, it's Emacs.
Eclipse has a python development plugin and Eclipse is well awesome!
Can erlang style message passing be built into something that small?
Isn't it??
You're stalking me.
First, why does anyone care what Dvorak is saying. Second, Opera is irrelevant by any serious standards. I don't care about it's minimal market share or how well it works. Third, MS has hired so many security professionals to work on IE and have IE 7 in the works. It'd be a pathetic move to switch over from IE and then have to port everything that has been done over to Opera and audit the code first and get everyone familiar with the base and then integrate opera into the OS the way IE is integrated.
He clearly means to imply that it's hard and he isn't sure he can handle it. WIMP!
It's not a new language, but I picked it up over the weekend and really like it. It can make all the annoying stuff trivially easy and it never feels like a hack. Worth a shot anyway and the tutorial won't take very long to go through to see if you like it. I also use emacs for editing. In terms of IDE's, I think Eclipse is about as good an IDE as I've ever seen, but I do go back and forth between Eclipse and Emacs.
Obviously they are. The public only discovered the problems with lucifer 15 years AFTER the NSA changed it and forced the changes on the public. Jeez...
clearly, none of you have any idea what the gov can do. i have friends who work for nsa and different dept's of the dod and they'd laugh at the garbage spewing from your fingers.
you are an idiot. i'm done with this conversation.
you're insane. if you really believe all problems are the customers fault, then join the mpaa and riaa and help create draconian laws that leave customers helpless to lazy and selfish big business.
bla bla... one time pad... bla bla...
Don't be stupid. If the Gov't is after you, sure, they can arrest you, but they need evidence. No encryption scheme is unbreakable. Public key is good, but they can catch the key exchange or, if they really want to, break the encryption. The NSA had 5 acres of computing equipment under the ground in 1970. What do you think they have now?
If they're providing the service, they should protect their customers.
While I was working for Harvard Law School, the Secret Service came and spoke to the different IT communities at Harvard. What they came to tell us was that if there was any security breach, they would help us minimize the damages and then went through their plan on how to do that. The plan was essentially to not scare the public, not tell anyone, and hide as much of the damage as possible and try to recover. That basically does nothing for anyone interested in *actually* knowing how safe they are.
Kudos to to Korea having the balls to blame the people leaving the doors to security breaches WIDE open.
They'll just capture the key exchange. Unless you want to do the key exchange via phone or in person. Maybe they'll just force the encryption keys to be forked over. If the government wants to read your data, they'll find a way. Pity.
I work for an unnamed financial services company and we write all our software in Java with the exception of some places. Java is far from dead. The class library is huge and very useful. The speed is not an issue. Java can be as fast as anything else after the initial load and this has been demonstrated numerous times. We can tie web front ends into internal trading systems easily using java since it can be a web tool or an application development tool. We also don't have to care what platform our users are running. We can run the server software and application software on our development machines running linux, windows, or mac (all 3 are present in the office according to taste) even though our users typically have all the server software on high end linux / sun systems and the desktop software running off a windows desktop. It's not a big deal to have an icon that calls java to start the app.
Big deal. It's not new. Most operating systems are written in C and C is much older than Java. Java falls under the same rule of thumb which all tools fall under: "right tool, right job". That's all there is to it.