Re:it's not a switch to Apple, but a return
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To me, 'hacker' always was and always will be reserved for someone who works with undocumented APIs, machine code and/or unconventional hardware in an unstructured environment.
Originally, hackers (like me) coded in Assembler, both 808x and 68xxx and other series. There were no APIs. We wrote bootstrap programs, read the machine code raw, built our own Bus systems (S100), and LIKED IT.
Now Hacker is returning to it's roots. Which is good. But I haven't read an Assembler book in years.
There's a 98 percent coorelation with people using Microsoft Project to plan their projects too.
I think that means anyone who uses software to plan a project is entering the assumptions incorrectly, such as:
1. Assuming everyone has 100 percent of their time to devote to your projects, even though 10 percent is admin and 40 percent will be firefighting.
2. Assuming all the pieces will be there on time.
3. Assuming all code will work correctly with no real testing and no real Q&A and no real customer feedback or alpha or beta testing and no bugfixes later.
4. Assuming training will magically occur.
Basically, what I learned in the Army as a Sergeant is still true today - ASSUME makes an AZZ out of U and ME.
Re: if you want to be a fashionable
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If you want to be a fashionable hacker, get a mac and brag to friends about how you can slow down expose' animations by holding down the shift key.
Funny. Gee, that's Flash animation 101 for how to "play" online games...
Re:If you think the book requires too much coding
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I'm sure this book has a target audience, but it's not hackers - a hacker would want some kind of a rough outline for fixing bugs and adding features to Firefox, but based on the pages on the O'Reilly site, this book is geared toward power users. Still a useful book, I'm sure, but has nothing to do with hacking or hackers.
Good points. Reading the examples, I'm sure it would be a useful resource for a hacker, but it looks like maybe it might be more of a power user or beginning Firefox hacker book. Which might not be a bad book, if it helped get some power users more comfortable with coding.
My son Ian's going to be on their team and they can just surf the UW auctions for spare parts.
Hey, if we can't win the Apple Cup, at least we can win in BattleBot!
If you think the book requires too much coding ...
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... it spends a little too much time a fair way along the technology curve for those who aren't ready for some programming, though for anyone who wants to get their hands dirty and perform some hardcore hacking on their favourite browser, then this is an above-average volume.
If you're not ready for some programming, then, by definition, you're not a hacker.
Not a good idea. Many states have stiff mandatory minimum sentences if a pun is used in the commission of a crime.
Well, true, you should get a forestry permit I guess. But since it's a federal request, maybe if you stick to Federal Parks, it might be ok, since you're only responding to their "document" request.
chop down a tree you've lubricated with liquid waste products while standing next to it, and cut it into short two foot segments (or half-meter for the rest of the world).
Get a poker, bend it so it spells IP, then start a fire with the sawdust and stick the poker in.
Heat up the poker till it glows, using tree branches and some short tree segments and scrap. Then brand each tree segment with the symbol IP from the poker. Reheat as needed if the poker cools.
Deliver tree segments, aka "Logs", that you can truthfully say are "IP Logs", to Secret Service.
Mission Accomplished! You are now a terrorrorrorrist.
In that study, "One restaurant manager who was so upset with his laptop that he threw it into deep fryer. That destroyed the laptop... and deep fryer, too.""
Darn, there go the Freedom Fries...
Of course, maybe if he was using BSD or Linux he would have Freedom Fries...
The US is not the issue, so don't deflect the comment. (Nice try at US bashing, btw).
The UN wants to take over the Internet, and given what they've done with things in the past, this would be a very bad thing..
I live in the US, I was born in the US, in fact at a USAF base nigh unto the Alamo. I used to get bashed for being an American when I lived in or travelled to other countries, so don't give that feldercarb.
As to the UN wanting to take over the Net, I'm not in favor of governments being in charge, especially given the inaction at the US level in the first place.
But they are more competent than our US government.
re Triggers, Stored Procs, and other features being evil...
You can host all these above in the Java tier, or use PHP if you want, but the nice thing about Triggers is using them for Add, Update, and Delete.
It's a very documentable procedure to have the Delete trigger on the Database tier handle referential integrity issues and avoid row locking and orphan rows in associated tables. It keeps all that away from the Java tier, so you can not worry about it.
The same goes for Add and Update - you can ensure at the Database level that any required associations actually exist, or are prebuilt for later update.
But, yes, you could totally avoid them, provided you can be sure that the Java or other coders actually know what to do.
The problem isn't storage, it's READING the data stored in an old format. We have many miles of census data stored on punch cards and paper tapes, but don't have the machines to read them anymore - at least not in quantity.
So making it last isn't important - I can still play my records, but it's hard to find needles to play them.
Is that the big MSFT and Blue Dinosaur PR spin machine in Las Vegas?
Nah, DEFCON is way more fun.
Re:it's not a switch to Apple, but a return
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I'm not sure I'd call your typical MIT CS student a hacker, either. Not your typical one, anyway. The author was clearly using the term as code for 'bleeding-edge programmer', which is really sort of not right.
That is the original meaning of the term hacker. There was a brief time when cracker came to mean hacker, but I think the meaning has drifted back to a more original variation where it means more hacker than cracker.
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To me, 'hacker' always was and always will be reserved for someone who works with undocumented APIs, machine code and/or unconventional hardware in an unstructured environment.
Originally, hackers (like me) coded in Assembler, both 808x and 68xxx and other series. There were no APIs. We wrote bootstrap programs, read the machine code raw, built our own Bus systems (S100), and LIKED IT.
Now Hacker is returning to it's roots. Which is good. But I haven't read an Assembler book in years.
MS Project dosen't plan projects, PM's do.
Well, it encourages you to think (or not think) in certain ways, and it's assumptions are part of the problem, not of the solution.
Abort, Cancel, Delete All Recorded Shows, Retry?
then how come my son hacking Wikipedia yesterday isn't emblazoned across the front pages?
Geesh, hackers at UCSB, the Zombie Capitol of the World, who would have thunk it?
[caveat, my sister works there]
There's a 98 percent coorelation with people using Microsoft Project to plan their projects too.
I think that means anyone who uses software to plan a project is entering the assumptions incorrectly, such as:
1. Assuming everyone has 100 percent of their time to devote to your projects, even though 10 percent is admin and 40 percent will be firefighting.
2. Assuming all the pieces will be there on time.
3. Assuming all code will work correctly with no real testing and no real Q&A and no real customer feedback or alpha or beta testing and no bugfixes later.
4. Assuming training will magically occur.
Basically, what I learned in the Army as a Sergeant is still true today - ASSUME makes an AZZ out of U and ME.
If you want to be a fashionable hacker, get a mac and brag to friends about how you can slow down expose' animations by holding down the shift key.
...
Funny. Gee, that's Flash animation 101 for how to "play" online games
They're using Diebold's voting machines.
Ssh. Don't wake up the public.
it's just no-bid contracts.
SNAFU.
I'm sure this book has a target audience, but it's not hackers - a hacker would want some kind of a rough outline for fixing bugs and adding features to Firefox, but based on the pages on the O'Reilly site, this book is geared toward power users. Still a useful book, I'm sure, but has nothing to do with hacking or hackers.
Good points. Reading the examples, I'm sure it would be a useful resource for a hacker, but it looks like maybe it might be more of a power user or beginning Firefox hacker book. Which might not be a bad book, if it helped get some power users more comfortable with coding.
My son Ian's going to be on their team and they can just surf the UW auctions for spare parts.
Hey, if we can't win the Apple Cup, at least we can win in BattleBot!
... it spends a little too much time a fair way along the technology curve for those who aren't ready for some programming, though for anyone who wants to get their hands dirty and perform some hardcore hacking on their favourite browser, then this is an above-average volume.
...
If you're not ready for some programming, then, by definition, you're not a hacker.
Geesh, next you'll want the Flash version
Let's not forget the following forms of illegal speech...
You forgot slashdotting. Not quite inciting to riot, but it's kind of the same. I've heard people say obscenities when it happens to their servers.
Not a good idea. Many states have stiff mandatory minimum sentences if a pun is used in the commission of a crime.
Well, true, you should get a forestry permit I guess. But since it's a federal request, maybe if you stick to Federal Parks, it might be ok, since you're only responding to their "document" request.
chop down a tree you've lubricated with liquid waste products while standing next to it, and cut it into short two foot segments (or half-meter for the rest of the world).
Get a poker, bend it so it spells IP, then start a fire with the sawdust and stick the poker in.
Heat up the poker till it glows, using tree branches and some short tree segments and scrap. Then brand each tree segment with the symbol IP from the poker. Reheat as needed if the poker cools.
Deliver tree segments, aka "Logs", that you can truthfully say are "IP Logs", to Secret Service.
Mission Accomplished! You are now a terrorrorrorrist.
In that study, "One restaurant manager who was so upset with his laptop that he threw it into deep fryer. That destroyed the laptop ... and deep fryer, too.""
...
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Darn, there go the Freedom Fries
Of course, maybe if he was using BSD or Linux he would have Freedom Fries
See? Using Windows has repercussions beyond just bad UI. It has turned us into a nation of homicidal maniacs on the road.
Friends don't let Friends drive while using the Windows OS.
cause if it's not seated, it won't have any data.
Then I throw the cat against the wall, just for good measure.
In 20 years you won't be able to read the DVDR.
And the surface coating will flake off within 10 years anyway, unless carefully preserved in climate-controlled conditions without sun exposure.
Hope you have a north-facing wall that you keep them stored in.
The US is not the issue, so don't deflect the comment. (Nice try at US bashing, btw).
The UN wants to take over the Internet, and given what they've done with things in the past, this would be a very bad thing..
I live in the US, I was born in the US, in fact at a USAF base nigh unto the Alamo. I used to get bashed for being an American when I lived in or travelled to other countries, so don't give that feldercarb.
As to the UN wanting to take over the Net, I'm not in favor of governments being in charge, especially given the inaction at the US level in the first place.
But they are more competent than our US government.
re Triggers, Stored Procs, and other features being evil ...
You can host all these above in the Java tier, or use PHP if you want, but the nice thing about Triggers is using them for Add, Update, and Delete.
It's a very documentable procedure to have the Delete trigger on the Database tier handle referential integrity issues and avoid row locking and orphan rows in associated tables. It keeps all that away from the Java tier, so you can not worry about it.
The same goes for Add and Update - you can ensure at the Database level that any required associations actually exist, or are prebuilt for later update.
But, yes, you could totally avoid them, provided you can be sure that the Java or other coders actually know what to do.
Which is a BIG assumption.
CDs last 3-5 years
Floppies last 4-5 years
The problem isn't storage, it's READING the data stored in an old format. We have many miles of census data stored on punch cards and paper tapes, but don't have the machines to read them anymore - at least not in quantity.
So making it last isn't important - I can still play my records, but it's hard to find needles to play them.
Be vewwy vewwy careful, I'm hunting Oracle users ...
So long as they don't use PL/SQL for them, I'll be very interested in the implementation of stored procedures and triggers, that's for sure!
along with all the Cisco, Intel, and Big Blue jobs.
Is that the big MSFT and Blue Dinosaur PR spin machine in Las Vegas?
Nah, DEFCON is way more fun.
I'm not sure I'd call your typical MIT CS student a hacker, either. Not your typical one, anyway. The author was clearly using the term as code for 'bleeding-edge programmer', which is really sort of not right.
That is the original meaning of the term hacker. There was a brief time when cracker came to mean hacker, but I think the meaning has drifted back to a more original variation where it means more hacker than cracker.