Work long hours only to add value to something you own. Your company. Your idea. Never work for free for anyone else. Convince other people to work for you for free. You can decide to be a wage slave, and you can also decide not to.
I'd have sworn he died in a freak pack of raccoons accident some years ago. Funny story, the only reason I got my UID when I did was because he would not shut the fuck up about Columbine. Every day on Slashdot with it. He's also the only contributor on slashdot that I ever banned from my feed.
Can we class-action sue them if they leaked our data? If we get the usual $10 gift certificate to Hot Topic, that'd be a cool couple billion dollars. It would also propel Hot Topic to the top of the stock market.
IIRC they beefed up the requirements for a constitutional amendment last year, and I'd be surprised if that gets enough signatures to get on the ballot, much less get approved by the voters. This sort of busybody legislation traditionally doesn't go anywhere and this story wouldn't be news until it at least ends up on the ballot, except that it's clickbaity enough to get a lot of clicks.
You could just link your binaries statically. That's always where I end up when I'm writing native software.
Back in the day when there were dozens of different unixes that you had to conform to, I would have said that a better build system would have been nice, but I'm currently working with ffmpeg on OSX and Linux and find that good old-fashioned makefiles more than adequate to build my code. It'd be fine for Java, too, if you didn't need to bring in 8000 separate components when building your system.
Agile and Devops won't do anything on their own to improve your security. I'd have a really hard time taking seriously anyone who thought they did. Also, the current state of the industry is not likely to change as long as there are intelligence agencies that feel that it's beneficial for software to not be secure. If you OS were truly secure, you could be that there'd be a constant push by those guys to introduce backdoors they could exploit.
Ubuntu should be taken seriously, as they seem to be the most successful corporate takeover of Linux to date. Redhat seemed largely content to just follow along with community standards for components, but Ubuntu's been actively trying to dictate Linux standards since they started. And while I can see where they'r'e coming from with systemd and weyland, having spent the better part of the last couple years up to my ears in shitty X11 code, their tendency to dismiss actual legitimate concerns because "No one actually uses those features," is more than a little disturbing.
We've seen how well private industry does it. In the places where taxpayers fund the internet, you get gigabit speeds at rates around a quarter of what private industry offers for any internet service at all. Private industry might complain that it isn't "fair", but private industry won't step up and do it, either. And if life were "fair", you'd die penniless in the gutter after spending a lifetime enriching yourself by destroying the planet. So I'm not going to worry about that too much.
I'd drop Chrome in a heartbeat if anything better came along. If the Firefox guys implemented some features around making the browser harder to identify and give the user some control over the javascript being run and the page being presented to the user, I'd consider switching back. Someone recently posted a great idea to maintain two document trees, the one that's presented to the user and the one that the page javascript thinks is being presented to the user. Maybe add a page blacklist so I can remove those spammy sites that pop up toward the bottom of the first page on Google from the internet I see. And let me use my favorite editor when entering text posts. That would actually be pretty nice.
Doofensmirtz Evil Incorporated just announced a plan to use a giant baking soda volcano to take over the ENTIRE Tri-State area! Their stock is up 5 points after the announcement.
Yeah, the company I was working for from '89 to '93 had three DOS programs they maintained. We had clients all over the place, so they bought me an amazing 486 laptop with a color display and 4 megabytes of RAM that was the most powerful machine at the company. Our production systems started out as 286 machines that we eventually upgraded to 386 or 386sx processors. They were running DOS and mostly only needed to run one of the three programs we maintained. But I was able to run all three programs (and then some) at the same time on the 486 laptop running OS/2. This was quite helpful to my development effort.
The company had originally experimented with SCO Xenix (not UNIX mind you,) which was actually the original reason they hired me -- they had no experience with a UNIX-like OS. The SCO Xenix OS had costed them $1200 and SCO wanted another $1200 (IIRC) for the C compiler and I want to say adding TCP/IP would cost you another several hundred bucks. We also looked at another multitasking DOS (DR/M DOS or something,) that was in the same price ballpark. So the OS/2 price tag seemed quite reasonable to us. Plus, working with it gave me enough experience with the OS to pick up a contract position with IBM on their tech support line, after both owners at that company died of lung cancer. Probably not coincidentally, it was the last place I worked that allowed smoking in the office. There's probably still a quarter-full coffee cup with a cigarette butt in that office, somewhere...
A friend of mine tried to make OS/2 work for his BBS, but never could get it running on the computer he was using for it. OS/2 was a bit fiddly about the hardware it ran on, at the time.
Or is it actually a gallon per mile rating? I suppose it's news that any 800+ horsepower car can be made street legal. Too bad for your 85 grand they can't make it look less... Dodge-y.
Everyone was bitching about the new windows 10 look anyway, so moving to Linux/X11 with XFCE or something should be pretty refreshing to them. Especially with it not crapping ads and looking like a glorified facebook feed. The Linux game situation is much better than it used to be -- steam and a reasonable number of games run on it now, and you can even get Worlld of Warcraft to work without too much effort via playonlinux. And Chrome and Firefox always look the same pretty much everywhere. The barrier to entry isn't going to get much lower, I think.
Magic is going to eat both of them. What the hell, right? They're all the same to a CEO. I'm sure AI is the silver bullet that will end all software, but magic is the silver bullet that is going to end AI! Because magic! You still have to tell an AI what you want, and a lot of those guys can barely form a coherent thought, much less put it down on paper. They're too busy synergizing their paradigms! Well magic solves that problem! You don't even have to know what you want! You just wave your magic wand and magic will make you crap daisies and unicorns! And isn't that really what they want?
My first computer was a TI 99/4A my parents got me for Christmas in 1983. I was one of three or four self-taught programmers my first year of college, the other couple hundred had heard it would be a good career. Many of them had never touched a computer before and were not particularly interested in learning about them beyond what it would take to get a piece of paper. Some of them simply had no aptitude for it whatsoever. I don't know how much cheating was going on, but I know at least one guy got caught at it. Presumably the others were better about getting caught. So yeah, that's been going on for a while, and I agree that if they need to cheat, they shouldn't be in CS. But that won't stop them.
What would you get for shoplifting the same movie? Of course, you'd still get that nasty DRM on the disc and would have to jump through hoops to play it on a Windows 10 or OSX machine, so maybe you should shoplift a DVD player while you're there.
After it can't boot anymore, Windows is WAY more secure than it was. Really, you could say they're doing a GREAT job of keeping your system free of virusses!
BASIC, back in the day. I started teaching myself at 13, on a TI 99/4A. The school I was attending at the time had barely heard about computers, much less come up with a way to try to teach someone that young about them. I was actually starting to dabble in assembly language on that machine, and managed to get a sprite to move in response to me moving a joystick around. The school may have been woefully uninformed, but the public library was a pretty good resource.
A fortunate move to upstate New York put me on a track to pick up some classes on BASIC and Pascal at the high school and Watfiv and assembly language at a local university that had a high school summer program. My senior project in high school was a graphing program that generated several kinds of graphs using Apple Pascal and the turtle graphics package that came with it. The system could barely handle it, but it was pretty spiffy. I wrote my own keyboard input routines that would allow me to set up fields of a specific size that would only allow certain characters to be typed into them.
College was more Basic, which I was entirely fucking sick of by then, and some scripting languages. I got my intro to REXX there, which was much nicer than Basic. I switched schools into a more CS-oriented program and picked up C, Ada and COBOL. By then I was starting to hear about this newfangled C++, which really sucked back in the early '90's, let me tell you. They didn't even have a STL yet. They started talking about adding templates to the language a few years later.
By then I knew my way around C pretty well, but mostly had to work on the shitty proprietary languages of the 90's. I got into some work that involved actual C programming in the mid 90's, and had a pretty solid decade of C programming. Since 2005 it's been a pretty steady mix of Java and C++, along with a bit of maintenance on some really badly-designed projects in Perl, Ruby and TCL. I'm currently doing a mix of C++ for hardware-level access to some specialty hardware I'm working on, and Java to provide some web services associated with that hardware. I might get into some Javascript to put it all together, but I'm going to try to leave that to the guys who are more comfortable with Javascript than I am.
I don't see much new coming along the road..net, go and rust are all sufficiently close to Java or C++ that they really don't interest me. Maybe if someone offers some large briefcases full of cash to work with them. I'd be more interested in doing some hand-optimized assembly language and perhaps some GPU programming, but that would probably take another decade to get good at.
IIRC the one test we tried to do of a light sail didn't work very well. We seem to be pretty good about getting stuff into space at the moment, maybe we should try again. Kickstarter, anyone?
Yeah, they often say that no one wants that, while the last couple of decades of jobs I've had, that's pretty much the only way anyone worked. I assume it's the same disease that makes devs think that people liked Unity.
Sit on my lap, sonny, while I tell you the story of the 386SX, a new processor with a disabled math coprocessor that was actually slower than an older 386 at the same clock speed...
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Work long hours only to add value to something you own. Your company. Your idea. Never work for free for anyone else. Convince other people to work for you for free. You can decide to be a wage slave, and you can also decide not to.
I wasn't going to say anything, but the new layout kind of looks like William Randolph Hearst wiped his ass with my web browser.
I'd have sworn he died in a freak pack of raccoons accident some years ago. Funny story, the only reason I got my UID when I did was because he would not shut the fuck up about Columbine. Every day on Slashdot with it. He's also the only contributor on slashdot that I ever banned from my feed.
Can we class-action sue them if they leaked our data? If we get the usual $10 gift certificate to Hot Topic, that'd be a cool couple billion dollars. It would also propel Hot Topic to the top of the stock market.
IIRC they beefed up the requirements for a constitutional amendment last year, and I'd be surprised if that gets enough signatures to get on the ballot, much less get approved by the voters. This sort of busybody legislation traditionally doesn't go anywhere and this story wouldn't be news until it at least ends up on the ballot, except that it's clickbaity enough to get a lot of clicks.
Back in the day when there were dozens of different unixes that you had to conform to, I would have said that a better build system would have been nice, but I'm currently working with ffmpeg on OSX and Linux and find that good old-fashioned makefiles more than adequate to build my code. It'd be fine for Java, too, if you didn't need to bring in 8000 separate components when building your system.
Agile and Devops won't do anything on their own to improve your security. I'd have a really hard time taking seriously anyone who thought they did. Also, the current state of the industry is not likely to change as long as there are intelligence agencies that feel that it's beneficial for software to not be secure. If you OS were truly secure, you could be that there'd be a constant push by those guys to introduce backdoors they could exploit.
Ubuntu should be taken seriously, as they seem to be the most successful corporate takeover of Linux to date. Redhat seemed largely content to just follow along with community standards for components, but Ubuntu's been actively trying to dictate Linux standards since they started. And while I can see where they'r'e coming from with systemd and weyland, having spent the better part of the last couple years up to my ears in shitty X11 code, their tendency to dismiss actual legitimate concerns because "No one actually uses those features," is more than a little disturbing.
We've seen how well private industry does it. In the places where taxpayers fund the internet, you get gigabit speeds at rates around a quarter of what private industry offers for any internet service at all. Private industry might complain that it isn't "fair", but private industry won't step up and do it, either. And if life were "fair", you'd die penniless in the gutter after spending a lifetime enriching yourself by destroying the planet. So I'm not going to worry about that too much.
Here's how that might look.
I'd drop Chrome in a heartbeat if anything better came along. If the Firefox guys implemented some features around making the browser harder to identify and give the user some control over the javascript being run and the page being presented to the user, I'd consider switching back. Someone recently posted a great idea to maintain two document trees, the one that's presented to the user and the one that the page javascript thinks is being presented to the user. Maybe add a page blacklist so I can remove those spammy sites that pop up toward the bottom of the first page on Google from the internet I see. And let me use my favorite editor when entering text posts. That would actually be pretty nice.
Doofensmirtz Evil Incorporated just announced a plan to use a giant baking soda volcano to take over the ENTIRE Tri-State area! Their stock is up 5 points after the announcement.
It's probably overloading their 9600 kbps modem.
The company had originally experimented with SCO Xenix (not UNIX mind you,) which was actually the original reason they hired me -- they had no experience with a UNIX-like OS. The SCO Xenix OS had costed them $1200 and SCO wanted another $1200 (IIRC) for the C compiler and I want to say adding TCP/IP would cost you another several hundred bucks. We also looked at another multitasking DOS (DR/M DOS or something,) that was in the same price ballpark. So the OS/2 price tag seemed quite reasonable to us. Plus, working with it gave me enough experience with the OS to pick up a contract position with IBM on their tech support line, after both owners at that company died of lung cancer. Probably not coincidentally, it was the last place I worked that allowed smoking in the office. There's probably still a quarter-full coffee cup with a cigarette butt in that office, somewhere...
A friend of mine tried to make OS/2 work for his BBS, but never could get it running on the computer he was using for it. OS/2 was a bit fiddly about the hardware it ran on, at the time.
Or is it actually a gallon per mile rating? I suppose it's news that any 800+ horsepower car can be made street legal. Too bad for your 85 grand they can't make it look less... Dodge-y.
Everyone was bitching about the new windows 10 look anyway, so moving to Linux/X11 with XFCE or something should be pretty refreshing to them. Especially with it not crapping ads and looking like a glorified facebook feed. The Linux game situation is much better than it used to be -- steam and a reasonable number of games run on it now, and you can even get Worlld of Warcraft to work without too much effort via playonlinux. And Chrome and Firefox always look the same pretty much everywhere. The barrier to entry isn't going to get much lower, I think.
Magic is going to eat both of them. What the hell, right? They're all the same to a CEO. I'm sure AI is the silver bullet that will end all software, but magic is the silver bullet that is going to end AI! Because magic! You still have to tell an AI what you want, and a lot of those guys can barely form a coherent thought, much less put it down on paper. They're too busy synergizing their paradigms! Well magic solves that problem! You don't even have to know what you want! You just wave your magic wand and magic will make you crap daisies and unicorns! And isn't that really what they want?
My first computer was a TI 99/4A my parents got me for Christmas in 1983. I was one of three or four self-taught programmers my first year of college, the other couple hundred had heard it would be a good career. Many of them had never touched a computer before and were not particularly interested in learning about them beyond what it would take to get a piece of paper. Some of them simply had no aptitude for it whatsoever. I don't know how much cheating was going on, but I know at least one guy got caught at it. Presumably the others were better about getting caught. So yeah, that's been going on for a while, and I agree that if they need to cheat, they shouldn't be in CS. But that won't stop them.
What would you get for shoplifting the same movie? Of course, you'd still get that nasty DRM on the disc and would have to jump through hoops to play it on a Windows 10 or OSX machine, so maybe you should shoplift a DVD player while you're there.
It sounds like, "in order for this to work remotely", however the post reads to me as if a local exploit exists, even if AMT is disabled.
After it can't boot anymore, Windows is WAY more secure than it was. Really, you could say they're doing a GREAT job of keeping your system free of virusses!
A fortunate move to upstate New York put me on a track to pick up some classes on BASIC and Pascal at the high school and Watfiv and assembly language at a local university that had a high school summer program. My senior project in high school was a graphing program that generated several kinds of graphs using Apple Pascal and the turtle graphics package that came with it. The system could barely handle it, but it was pretty spiffy. I wrote my own keyboard input routines that would allow me to set up fields of a specific size that would only allow certain characters to be typed into them.
College was more Basic, which I was entirely fucking sick of by then, and some scripting languages. I got my intro to REXX there, which was much nicer than Basic. I switched schools into a more CS-oriented program and picked up C, Ada and COBOL. By then I was starting to hear about this newfangled C++, which really sucked back in the early '90's, let me tell you. They didn't even have a STL yet. They started talking about adding templates to the language a few years later.
By then I knew my way around C pretty well, but mostly had to work on the shitty proprietary languages of the 90's. I got into some work that involved actual C programming in the mid 90's, and had a pretty solid decade of C programming. Since 2005 it's been a pretty steady mix of Java and C++, along with a bit of maintenance on some really badly-designed projects in Perl, Ruby and TCL. I'm currently doing a mix of C++ for hardware-level access to some specialty hardware I'm working on, and Java to provide some web services associated with that hardware. I might get into some Javascript to put it all together, but I'm going to try to leave that to the guys who are more comfortable with Javascript than I am.
I don't see much new coming along the road. .net, go and rust are all sufficiently close to Java or C++ that they really don't interest me. Maybe if someone offers some large briefcases full of cash to work with them. I'd be more interested in doing some hand-optimized assembly language and perhaps some GPU programming, but that would probably take another decade to get good at.
IIRC the one test we tried to do of a light sail didn't work very well. We seem to be pretty good about getting stuff into space at the moment, maybe we should try again. Kickstarter, anyone?
Yeah, they often say that no one wants that, while the last couple of decades of jobs I've had, that's pretty much the only way anyone worked. I assume it's the same disease that makes devs think that people liked Unity.
Sit on my lap, sonny, while I tell you the story of the 386SX, a new processor with a disabled math coprocessor that was actually slower than an older 386 at the same clock speed...