Although the scammers steal credit cards and drain bank accounts, Dell customers still reported the experience as "an improvement" over previous interactions with Dell technical support.
It was pretty shit the first couple of times I looked at it in the early 90's. IIRC the first time I looked at it, the language didn't even have templates yet. I also vaguely recall the discussion about templates and thinking that it was a cool idea. The early C++ libraries were basically written in C, using most pointers and with plenty of difficulty determining who owned what resources at what times. At the time no one really knew how to do object oriented design, either. The whole design patterns discussion and RAII really started cleaning things up a few years later. Boost provides pretty good coverage of the gaps in the standard language library, though the standards committee seems to have pretty much addressed that by pulling a good chunk of boost into the standard.
I used the language for a test data generation project a couple years ago and was quite impressed with how nice it was to work with -- easily as easy as writing a java program. I needed a math library to generate the data and considered several languages. The Eigen C++ library I found looked like it had the easiest API to get into, with reasonably clear documentation and examples. I was able to organize the functionality of the program into unit-tested libraries. Between that and the strict type checking in the compile phase, I was able to deploy with very high confidence that I wouldn't be introducing any bugs into the environment.
I'm actually happy that Disney acquired a cultural icon and think they did a better job of it than the original creators. I never thought I'd see the day. I'm just going to blame George Lucas for this sad state of affairs, and in retaliation would like to remind everyone that ONE of the two parties being discussed is responsible for the Wookie Life Day Christmas Special.
I'm sure the NSA doesn't care about those steamy penis pics you've been sending to Netanyahu. At least, so long as the NSA continues to meet its funding goals.
How about at finding messages that aren't there in the noise? The human brain is excellent at doing that, so in the end the computer might win on error rate.
A lot of adults I've met can't handle compass directions either. It'd be nice if they learned it at some point.
I don't recall anyone talking about reference frames specifically, either. Admittedly school was a long time ago, and I've forgotten quite a lot of the specifics since then.
My sixth grade teacher told the class one day that if the air raid sirens ever went off "for real", he'd go outside and face the base, because he didn't want to survive a nuclear war. And since were basically at ground zero, we wouldn't have to worry about that. But at least we didn't get that "duck and cover" nonsense.
Jail rape hardly ever happens in the white collar prison he'd be going to. Now a federal "Pound-me-in-the-ass" prison, on the other hand... Actually it doesn't happen as much as people think it does there, either.
Please tell me Thinkgeek sells a Penis Drone (Nice cock block at 0:39, by the way) that I would then be required to register with the FAA! I think they'd sell like hotcakes!
She must be doing something right, seeing as how I keep hearing about them, despite the fact that Yahoo has been largely irrelevant ever since Lycos had the brilliant idea of making a "search engine" for "the Internet."
How's "Freedom Anuses" grab you? Honestly, if it hadn't been for the Government's meddling in the 90's, all traffic on the Internet would be encrypted by now and the whole place would be much more secure. Near as I can tell, you still can't integrate PGP into a E-Mail client without the government trying to fuck you in the ass. I mean backdoor, er... freedom anus!
Trump is going to single-handedly destroy the Republican Party! If he wins the majority vote in the primaries, their choice will be to smile, take a bite of that shit sandwich and lose the general election or name someone else and have him take his toys (And his 30% of their base that hates brown people and likes small words) and go somewhere else! And if THAT happens, they'll lose the general election! And the other candidates have no way to counter him! I'm pretty sure he doesn't even listen to himself or think about what he says. He just opens his Trump Hole and goes up another 3 points in the polls!
That can work to a point, if you make the developers who wrote the code support it, too. That's getting in to devops territory. As long as you have a few developers who hate getting called in on the weekend to fix their broken shit and a manager who's willing to allocate some time to push for quality, it can work reasonably well. Your deploy process also has to support very easy rollbacks.
I do a lot of maintenance programming and come in years after the original code was written -- my last project had C files with comments going back to the early '90's and K&R function declarations in some of the older headers. I don't recall ever encountering unit tests on any of the projects I've come in on, and the code is usually too tightly coupled to start adding them. Though if I do any significant new development, it's usually in the form of unit tested libraries that I can then integrate into the software.
I'm usually the one pushing for quality enhancements, because I hate getting called in on the weekend. I also hate deploying blindly to production. Often, the companies systems are also extremely tightly coupled, so setting up a test environment and a basic regression suite is also very difficult. A lot of the problems I see I attribute to very little actual accountability on the parts of the developers and designers. I think if they're the ones who end up having to support the code, there'd be a lot more consideration of quality in the design and implementation phases. That's probably what Yahoo's tapping into.
There are some drawbacks to that method of development, though. Poor quality deploys can definitely piss off your customer base. You also only find the bugs the customers find and report to you. A few projects ago, I was looking at a web front end a company put together for user management. For testing these, the software I was using at the time would act as a proxy to the server and completely bypass the javascript UI once you started playing back your tests. Unfortunately, all the data validation was happening on the client side. Naturally one of the tests I wrote was to try to enter a user with full administrative access on the system from an account that didn't have permission to create users. They system happily accepted it. I got some push-back from the developer when I reported it, because I was "making direct calls to the back end! No one's ever going to do that!" It's difficult not to be... hostile... in the face of that sort of ignorance.
Luckily for that guy, and for Yahoo, the sort if software I was using at the time is not readily available. You'd actually have to open up a web browser and go to a site on the internet to find something like that! No one's ever going to think to do that! And the sort of people who know how to do that sort of thing would never misuse that knowledge to steal billions from your company or embarrass them like that time with Sony. Or that other time with Sony. Or... hey, you guys remember that time with Sony? Yeah... that was a good one! Or that other time with all those people cheating on their spouses. I'm sure those were just flukes! So I'm sure this policy will in no way backfire on Yahoo!
They ran a metric fuck-ton of fiber under Longmont back in the '90's, just before the state passed a law that municipalities couldn't offer communications services. There was a loophole in the law, though. If a majority of voters in the municipality voted that their municipality would be exempt from this, then they could offer communication services. We had the vote a couple years ago and it passed by something like 86%. 600 mbps up to youtube is pretty nice. I usually upload a few boring skydiving videos a week. Pulling games down from steam in a couple of minutes is also pretty nice. The city can also offer a pretty sweet deal to companies wanting to move into the area. My link to the internet now is faster that most companies' private LAN connections.
"The Republican Guy, champion of the people," no one ever said. EVER. He's not going to say something like this unless he's sure it's going nowhere or he's desperate for any coverage at all in the face of the overwhelming noise emanating from The Trump Hole.
Developers having to do operations and getting paid operators salaries. Kind of like how all the companies currently looking for "test automation engineers" require Python and C++ and really want a developer who will take a tester's salary.
Oh, was there some mystical era of history when we had the luxury of "our own" lives? Because I'm pretty sure that at every other point in history, most of us would have been lucky to be allowed to own personal property, much less have any measure of freedom.
That's always the case, though. I'd guess that most Americans have never actually had a fruit ripened on a tree. I grew up in Hawaii and used to get mangoes straight from the tree. The ones at the grocery store are not even close. The same thing goes for oranges and tomatoes. If you're lucky enough to live in a place where you can grow your own fruit, it really is worth doing so.
I'm guessing they used all that software encryption to get the 4 guns, body armor, materials for pipe bombs and enough ammo to keep the national guard supplied for a couple of months. We really need to do something about all that software encryption. Surely that will solve all these problems!
Heh, all that Air Force dental work I had 30 years ago is still hanging in there pretty well. The old stuff may have been made from mercury, uranium and asbestos but damn does it last!
Then your teeth just erode around the fillings. Can I just get a set of permanently-affixed graphene replacement teeth? Then I could bite through cable car cables like that one Bond villain!
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Although the scammers steal credit cards and drain bank accounts, Dell customers still reported the experience as "an improvement" over previous interactions with Dell technical support.
So, Like, Missouri?
I used the language for a test data generation project a couple years ago and was quite impressed with how nice it was to work with -- easily as easy as writing a java program. I needed a math library to generate the data and considered several languages. The Eigen C++ library I found looked like it had the easiest API to get into, with reasonably clear documentation and examples. I was able to organize the functionality of the program into unit-tested libraries. Between that and the strict type checking in the compile phase, I was able to deploy with very high confidence that I wouldn't be introducing any bugs into the environment.
Within the second week of its release?
I'm actually happy that Disney acquired a cultural icon and think they did a better job of it than the original creators. I never thought I'd see the day. I'm just going to blame George Lucas for this sad state of affairs, and in retaliation would like to remind everyone that ONE of the two parties being discussed is responsible for the Wookie Life Day Christmas Special.
Heh, nothing except this HOT BLACKMAIL VIDEO!
I'm sure the NSA doesn't care about those steamy penis pics you've been sending to Netanyahu. At least, so long as the NSA continues to meet its funding goals.
How about at finding messages that aren't there in the noise? The human brain is excellent at doing that, so in the end the computer might win on error rate.
I don't recall anyone talking about reference frames specifically, either. Admittedly school was a long time ago, and I've forgotten quite a lot of the specifics since then.
My sixth grade teacher told the class one day that if the air raid sirens ever went off "for real", he'd go outside and face the base, because he didn't want to survive a nuclear war. And since were basically at ground zero, we wouldn't have to worry about that. But at least we didn't get that "duck and cover" nonsense.
Jail rape hardly ever happens in the white collar prison he'd be going to. Now a federal "Pound-me-in-the-ass" prison, on the other hand... Actually it doesn't happen as much as people think it does there, either.
For the next few years the Chinese will be probing around Uranus looking for dark matter?
Please tell me Thinkgeek sells a Penis Drone (Nice cock block at 0:39, by the way) that I would then be required to register with the FAA! I think they'd sell like hotcakes!
She must be doing something right, seeing as how I keep hearing about them, despite the fact that Yahoo has been largely irrelevant ever since Lycos had the brilliant idea of making a "search engine" for "the Internet."
How's "Freedom Anuses" grab you? Honestly, if it hadn't been for the Government's meddling in the 90's, all traffic on the Internet would be encrypted by now and the whole place would be much more secure. Near as I can tell, you still can't integrate PGP into a E-Mail client without the government trying to fuck you in the ass. I mean backdoor, er... freedom anus!
Trump is going to single-handedly destroy the Republican Party! If he wins the majority vote in the primaries, their choice will be to smile, take a bite of that shit sandwich and lose the general election or name someone else and have him take his toys (And his 30% of their base that hates brown people and likes small words) and go somewhere else! And if THAT happens, they'll lose the general election! And the other candidates have no way to counter him! I'm pretty sure he doesn't even listen to himself or think about what he says. He just opens his Trump Hole and goes up another 3 points in the polls!
I do a lot of maintenance programming and come in years after the original code was written -- my last project had C files with comments going back to the early '90's and K&R function declarations in some of the older headers. I don't recall ever encountering unit tests on any of the projects I've come in on, and the code is usually too tightly coupled to start adding them. Though if I do any significant new development, it's usually in the form of unit tested libraries that I can then integrate into the software.
I'm usually the one pushing for quality enhancements, because I hate getting called in on the weekend. I also hate deploying blindly to production. Often, the companies systems are also extremely tightly coupled, so setting up a test environment and a basic regression suite is also very difficult. A lot of the problems I see I attribute to very little actual accountability on the parts of the developers and designers. I think if they're the ones who end up having to support the code, there'd be a lot more consideration of quality in the design and implementation phases. That's probably what Yahoo's tapping into.
There are some drawbacks to that method of development, though. Poor quality deploys can definitely piss off your customer base. You also only find the bugs the customers find and report to you. A few projects ago, I was looking at a web front end a company put together for user management. For testing these, the software I was using at the time would act as a proxy to the server and completely bypass the javascript UI once you started playing back your tests. Unfortunately, all the data validation was happening on the client side. Naturally one of the tests I wrote was to try to enter a user with full administrative access on the system from an account that didn't have permission to create users. They system happily accepted it. I got some push-back from the developer when I reported it, because I was "making direct calls to the back end! No one's ever going to do that!" It's difficult not to be... hostile... in the face of that sort of ignorance.
Luckily for that guy, and for Yahoo, the sort if software I was using at the time is not readily available. You'd actually have to open up a web browser and go to a site on the internet to find something like that! No one's ever going to think to do that! And the sort of people who know how to do that sort of thing would never misuse that knowledge to steal billions from your company or embarrass them like that time with Sony. Or that other time with Sony. Or... hey, you guys remember that time with Sony? Yeah... that was a good one! Or that other time with all those people cheating on their spouses. I'm sure those were just flukes! So I'm sure this policy will in no way backfire on Yahoo!
They ran a metric fuck-ton of fiber under Longmont back in the '90's, just before the state passed a law that municipalities couldn't offer communications services. There was a loophole in the law, though. If a majority of voters in the municipality voted that their municipality would be exempt from this, then they could offer communication services. We had the vote a couple years ago and it passed by something like 86%. 600 mbps up to youtube is pretty nice. I usually upload a few boring skydiving videos a week. Pulling games down from steam in a couple of minutes is also pretty nice. The city can also offer a pretty sweet deal to companies wanting to move into the area. My link to the internet now is faster that most companies' private LAN connections.
"The Republican Guy, champion of the people," no one ever said. EVER. He's not going to say something like this unless he's sure it's going nowhere or he's desperate for any coverage at all in the face of the overwhelming noise emanating from The Trump Hole.
Developers having to do operations and getting paid operators salaries. Kind of like how all the companies currently looking for "test automation engineers" require Python and C++ and really want a developer who will take a tester's salary.
Oh, was there some mystical era of history when we had the luxury of "our own" lives? Because I'm pretty sure that at every other point in history, most of us would have been lucky to be allowed to own personal property, much less have any measure of freedom.
That's always the case, though. I'd guess that most Americans have never actually had a fruit ripened on a tree. I grew up in Hawaii and used to get mangoes straight from the tree. The ones at the grocery store are not even close. The same thing goes for oranges and tomatoes. If you're lucky enough to live in a place where you can grow your own fruit, it really is worth doing so.
I'm guessing they used all that software encryption to get the 4 guns, body armor, materials for pipe bombs and enough ammo to keep the national guard supplied for a couple of months. We really need to do something about all that software encryption. Surely that will solve all these problems!
Heh, all that Air Force dental work I had 30 years ago is still hanging in there pretty well. The old stuff may have been made from mercury, uranium and asbestos but damn does it last!
Then your teeth just erode around the fillings. Can I just get a set of permanently-affixed graphene replacement teeth? Then I could bite through cable car cables like that one Bond villain!