even if he gets away with this, his new employees will probably think twice before working on unpaid wages for so long. Also, a publisher should certainly be wary of someone with such dubious business practices.
I expected some homebrew usb2.0 or somesuch gadget with a hardware decoder... That would have been slashdot-worthy, but hey, it would have been old news...
If you stay in one place too long, you're seen as being stuck in a rut and not growing your skillset (nevermind what the truth might actually be).
That mindset is probably not as prevalent as the opinions about job-hoppers you described... It can also be countered by simply devoting more space in your CV to the skills learned/applied and work done during that time. But one thing I can guarantee: no employer wants employees that resign simply because they are concerned with the attractiveness of their CV above everything else (or any other things that are far beyond the employer's sphere of influence).
learning a new language is easy. Learning to program is hard.
c, java, c#, php, perl, are all very much alike. Once you know one learning the rest are easy.
I would almost agree, but felt I had to point out that the more you have seen, the worse you'll feel about (and consequently more inner resistance you'll develop against) having to learn something that is crap / has bad documentation / unfinished specs / unstable IDEs / buggy compilers/VMs etc. etc....
... you should have finished the Perl script that does your job / earns your living. Unless you promoted yourself to management, in which case I pity you, fool.
No, it's not! I've been a computer geek since the age of 10 (26 years ago), have never really used Apple Desktops, think the iPhone is the best smartphone out there (due to its usability, the 3Gs mic admittedly sucks a bit) and I'd love to get an iPad OR similar device (no fans/moving parts/noise please and no crappy design/usability or attempts to put a messy desktop OS on a tablet) for both kitchen and bedroom - just to have it lying there in case I want to read something / look something up etc.... I have an old ThinkPad (XP) and a Dell Mini 9 (Ubuntu) now for this purpose but they're both too messy/too desktop-like for simple web browsing and annoy the heck out of me when their bloated OSes cause delays or show me nagging popups asking to reboot for yet another automatic update.
Please name a few where more modern, widely-adopted and -accepted alternative solutions aren't available. Animated, noisy ads? I can live without those.
Google getting desperate and subtly spamming slashdot now? Hey, perhaps people just don't want a phone made by the "maybeyou shouldn't be doing it in the first place" guys?
Post the name of your project and pretend you posted the original question!
Or, post the name of your project and pretend you have a similar problem! Or, post the name of your project and pretend you've never had such problems because your project is awesome!
So many possibilities... (even if you *did* post the original question)
no one wants to commit to using software that will disappear if you get hit by a bus.
We *are* talking about FOSS here, right? You can always fix it yourself if you depend on it. Besides, most FOSS projects "disappear" in the sense you probably mean because the maintainer(s) lose(s) interest. I seriously doubt that developers getting hit by busses is a serious problem for FOSS users.
... seriously, if it lacks users, it isn't good/useful enough. Deserved visibility is so much easier to get nowdays, but not every project is a winner. "without community, users aren't coming" isn't really true, unless perhaps it's some sort of infrastructure project like an online store or forums software where you can expect users to have lots of questions/feedback and no visible community will make them assume noone found it good enough to bother with asking questions. In that case it'd better be able to replace some established software and you could try getting someone with enough visibility to switch to your software.
But, there's no good alternative to sitting down and working on your project, don't wait for users/community/whatever if you think it's going to be a success.
... would have compared more than those few mainstream input methods. Particularly interesting: Dvorak keyboards and Tikinotes, Swype and MessageEase for the iPhone.
Because of its simpler, smaller (= leightweight) design, the self-balancing unicycle seems more promising: Focus Designs SBU. I'm not sure if it's really that easy to master, but I plan on getting one.
... videos of robots doing "cool things" while being remote controlled (i.e. not moving autonomously) are disappointing. IMHO it's far more interesting to see what researchers are doing with autonomous (virtual) robots in a simulated 3d environment, even though it isn't as visually pleasing.
We gained an encrypted transport, meaning that eavesdropping is not possible without forging packets. What's so hard to understand about it? Yes, MITM is still possible, as it is with weak SSL, but it is a different problem and it does not need to be adressed for many uses. If my ISP can intercept and modify packets, he can forge all my responses in a (unidirectionally authenticated) SSL communication, he can do all sorts of evil stuff pretending to be me and I'm generally out of luck with most current protocols/implementations. The number of people who can eavesdrop is generally higher than that of the evil ISPs who can forge packets and when I have the choice between unencrypted transport and encrypted transport vulnerable to MITM, I will choose the latter, simply because the evil people with only the capability to record conversations will be unsuccessful.
SSL and predecessory try to prevent forged messages in addition to providing encrypted communication, adding the unacceptable overhead of handling a key infrastructure, purchasing certificates etc. where for most uses encrypted communication alone would be sufficient and could be achieved in a much simpler, cheaper way (especially when authentication is achieved with passwords anyway). So we're not encrypting traffic and not preventing eavesdropping because preventing forged messages is too hard/costly - congratulations! On the other hand, one should consider the implications of the false sense of security for the layman with only encrypted traffic - which is similar to what we have now with SSL being broken (MD5 etc.)
I wish our government would do something to piss Google off so that we could have uncensored search results
You don't need that, all you need to do is build a local search engine that is more popular than Google (Baidu in China). Google just doesn't want to play by the same rules anymore, since they lost.
... something inside me wants to flame him for being a rude twat who wasted 1 minute of my lifetime, even though he has some valid points. I'd be surprised if he didn't get some responses along the lines of "cry me a river" etc.
While in larger companies doing away with free coffee could be a sensible alternative to laying off perhaps 0.5% of the work force, you have to wonder about the margins and sustainability of a corporation that actually *needs* to do that. As for smaller companies - if they can't even afford free coffee, it must really suck to work there.
I can only recommend managers to think about how much free for employees (good) food and drinks actually cost you compared to the part of the salaries that goes towards pizza/drinks at work otherwise, what the benefits are (healthier employees, less time wasted ordering stuff or going out to buy it) and how it may or may not make people feel more attached/loyal to your company. As for coffee - think of the headaches from caffeine deprivation you might induce if you don't provide it.;-)
The incident happened around 11:20 am (EST) and they managed to send out a new security directive on the same day . One would have thought they'd take longer to draft something as elaborate as that. Who knows, perhaps they had it prepared already for such an incident...
Slashdot Mirror
... paid marketing again, it's really sad. (OK I lied, I somehow found my way to the Go page once in those 4 months and found nothing worthwhile)
even if he gets away with this, his new employees will probably think twice before working on unpaid wages for so long. Also, a publisher should certainly be wary of someone with such dubious business practices.
I expected some homebrew usb2.0 or somesuch gadget with a hardware decoder ... That would have been slashdot-worthy, but hey, it would have been old news ...
If you stay in one place too long, you're seen as being stuck in a rut and not growing your skillset (nevermind what the truth might actually be).
That mindset is probably not as prevalent as the opinions about job-hoppers you described ... It can also be countered by simply devoting more space in your CV to the skills learned/applied and work done during that time. But one thing I can guarantee: no employer wants employees that resign simply because they are concerned with the attractiveness of their CV above everything else (or any other things that are far beyond the employer's sphere of influence).
learning a new language is easy. Learning to program is hard. c, java, c#, php, perl, are all very much alike. Once you know one learning the rest are easy.
I would almost agree, but felt I had to point out that the more you have seen, the worse you'll feel about (and consequently more inner resistance you'll develop against) having to learn something that is crap / has bad documentation / unfinished specs / unstable IDEs / buggy compilers/VMs etc. etc. ...
... you should have finished the Perl script that does your job / earns your living. Unless you promoted yourself to management, in which case I pity you, fool.
It's not for you. It's for your Mom.
No, it's not! I've been a computer geek since the age of 10 (26 years ago), have never really used Apple Desktops, think the iPhone is the best smartphone out there (due to its usability, the 3Gs mic admittedly sucks a bit) and I'd love to get an iPad OR similar device (no fans/moving parts/noise please and no crappy design/usability or attempts to put a messy desktop OS on a tablet) for both kitchen and bedroom - just to have it lying there in case I want to read something / look something up etc. ...
I have an old ThinkPad (XP) and a Dell Mini 9 (Ubuntu) now for this purpose but they're both too messy/too desktop-like for simple web browsing and annoy the heck out of me when their bloated OSes cause delays or show me nagging popups asking to reboot for yet another automatic update.
. It's actually got a lot of popular uses still.
Please name a few where more modern, widely-adopted and -accepted alternative solutions aren't available. Animated, noisy ads? I can live without those.
The iPad is a natural device for playing back Flash files, both on the Web and as native files
really, a "natural device" for the ancient crud that is Flash
Yet another poor FUD article.
Google getting desperate and subtly spamming slashdot now? Hey, perhaps people just don't want a phone made by the "maybeyou shouldn't be doing it in the first place" guys?
Post the name of your project and pretend you posted the original question!
Or, post the name of your project and pretend you have a similar problem! Or, post the name of your project and pretend you've never had such problems because your project is awesome!
So many possibilities... (even if you *did* post the original question)
no one wants to commit to using software that will disappear if you get hit by a bus.
We *are* talking about FOSS here, right? You can always fix it yourself if you depend on it. Besides, most FOSS projects "disappear" in the sense you probably mean because the maintainer(s) lose(s) interest. I seriously doubt that developers getting hit by busses is a serious problem for FOSS users.
... seriously, if it lacks users, it isn't good/useful enough. Deserved visibility is so much easier to get nowdays, but not every project is a winner. "without community, users aren't coming" isn't really true, unless perhaps it's some sort of infrastructure project like an online store or forums software where you can expect users to have lots of questions/feedback and no visible community will make them assume noone found it good enough to bother with asking questions. In that case it'd better be able to replace some established software and you could try getting someone with enough visibility to switch to your software.
But, there's no good alternative to sitting down and working on your project, don't wait for users/community/whatever if you think it's going to be a success.
... would have compared more than those few mainstream input methods. Particularly interesting: Dvorak keyboards and Tikinotes, Swype and MessageEase for the iPhone.
Because of its simpler, smaller (= leightweight) design, the self-balancing unicycle seems more promising: Focus Designs SBU. I'm not sure if it's really that easy to master, but I plan on getting one.
One could easily write a LUA script that /who's the player in-game between some intervals and save the info.
You need to have an account and be logged on to the same server as the person whose habits you are tracking, big difference.
... videos of robots doing "cool things" while being remote controlled (i.e. not moving autonomously) are disappointing. IMHO it's far more interesting to see what researchers are doing with autonomous (virtual) robots in a simulated 3d environment, even though it isn't as visually pleasing.
Exactly what did we gain?
We gained an encrypted transport, meaning that eavesdropping is not possible without forging packets. What's so hard to understand about it? Yes, MITM is still possible, as it is with weak SSL, but it is a different problem and it does not need to be adressed for many uses. If my ISP can intercept and modify packets, he can forge all my responses in a (unidirectionally authenticated) SSL communication, he can do all sorts of evil stuff pretending to be me and I'm generally out of luck with most current protocols/implementations. The number of people who can eavesdrop is generally higher than that of the evil ISPs who can forge packets and when I have the choice between unencrypted transport and encrypted transport vulnerable to MITM, I will choose the latter, simply because the evil people with only the capability to record conversations will be unsuccessful.
SSL and predecessory try to prevent forged messages in addition to providing encrypted communication, adding the unacceptable overhead of handling a key infrastructure, purchasing certificates etc. where for most uses encrypted communication alone would be sufficient and could be achieved in a much simpler, cheaper way (especially when authentication is achieved with passwords anyway). So we're not encrypting traffic and not preventing eavesdropping because preventing forged messages is too hard/costly - congratulations! On the other hand, one should consider the implications of the false sense of security for the layman with only encrypted traffic - which is similar to what we have now with SSL being broken (MD5 etc.)
Startcom offers free ssl certs and they are in all the browser roots now (although only recently added by microsoft).
They also offer to generate a private/public key pair for you, which is something you should really give some thought before you recommend using it.
I wish our government would do something to piss Google off so that we could have uncensored search results
You don't need that, all you need to do is build a local search engine that is more popular than Google (Baidu in China). Google just doesn't want to play by the same rules anymore, since they lost.
... with seemingly personal comments, messages, chat logs etc. etc. ...
... something inside me wants to flame him for being a rude twat who wasted 1 minute of my lifetime, even though he has some valid points. I'd be surprised if he didn't get some responses along the lines of "cry me a river" etc.
While in larger companies doing away with free coffee could be a sensible alternative to laying off perhaps 0.5% of the work force, you have to wonder about the margins and sustainability of a corporation that actually *needs* to do that. As for smaller companies - if they can't even afford free coffee, it must really suck to work there.
;-)
I can only recommend managers to think about how much free for employees (good) food and drinks actually cost you compared to the part of the salaries that goes towards pizza/drinks at work otherwise, what the benefits are (healthier employees, less time wasted ordering stuff or going out to buy it) and how it may or may not make people feel more attached/loyal to your company. As for coffee - think of the headaches from caffeine deprivation you might induce if you don't provide it.
The incident happened around 11:20 am (EST) and they managed to send out a new security directive on the same day . One would have thought they'd take longer to draft something as elaborate as that. Who knows, perhaps they had it prepared already for such an incident...