It could be, though! Think of the possibilities! Give everyone and gun and let the games begin! After all, we must enjoy this sort of thing, or we'd have put a stop to it long before now. All I'm saying is that maybe we should just play the hand we're dealt!
He's basically just a pawn at this point. Putin keeps him around because it embarrasses the US Government. He'll probably find himself extradited in a heartbeat if Putin can get something valuable in trade. I'm also guessing he's not exactly a prisoner, but that he would find it to be very difficult to leave Russia if he wanted to. You know, pawn stuff.
Yeah, that's true. Last year I was in a job that was maintaining some decades-old X11 apps. Shit honestly hasn't improved since when those apps were written. There are still half a dozen or so competing widget sets, all of which suck (Yes, Even Qt, although Qt sucks a good bit less than everything else I looked at.) If you're concerned about performance sending graphics across a network, there are two or three X11 extensions to do things like double buffering and pixmap caching. They mostly seem to be unmaintained and undocumented. And nearly everything is written in moldy old C.
And yes, I could start a widget set project or something to try to rectify the situation, and then we'd have one more competing widget set that probably sucks. The programming's really not that hard once you start learning your way around the various tools, but it is pretty tedious and writing even a widget set is a fairly large undertaking with no guarantee anything you do will ever be adopted by anyone.
Just so I can say "I told you so." Just from the summary, $1 billion really isn't enough for the scope of work that has to be involved. I suspect they'll burn through that in the first year and come back looking for more. I also wouldn't be holding my breath for anything useful to ever actually get done. Although, as bad as civilian agencies are at security, they might actually accidentally improve the security at a few of them.
Is Gvim still the de-facto thing? I always just use EMACS. I haven't really used Gnome for quite a while, though.
To stay somewhat on-topic, "Swell, now I'm going to have to learn assembly language for DNA." Which I probably would also use EMACS for. Maybe we could code an ACTUAL gnome, though. That would be confusing and funny at the same time. I'm sure the Germans have a word for that.
Sure, and if you don't like that behavior, find a distribution that doesn't jam it down their user's throats. There are plenty that didn't. A lot of them aren't as shiny as some of the distributions that did, but that's also a trade off you make, isn't it?
We've had an anti-government undertone basically since the nation was founded. The revolutionary war was clearly a traumatic event for a few people, and they don't like the idea of anyone having any power over them. We all kind of had to pull together for the second World War and the cold war that followed kind of kept those guy in line for a long time. They started getting louder again when Russia fell apart back in the 90's. It's like some of us are stuck in the angsty sixteen-year-old mentality that "Everyone's oppressing me!" They've long since learned that directly talking about shutting the government down doesn't get them anywhere, so they're currently trying to chip away at it. The nation gets more polarized and the government shutdowns and brinkmanship become far more common.
There are some potentially sensible candidates on the left and right, but no one's paying much attention to them right now. It doesn't really matter who becomes president as long as Congress remains broken. Voters are largely indifferent because the two party system is effectively rigged to keep those two parties in power. I could see Trump getting elected on name appeal alone. It's still pretty early, though. I suspect Trump and Hillary will end up getting ejected from the race. Whatever happens, it's going to be a wild ride.
From what I know of Nixon, he was actually more likable that Hillary is. He had a certain charisma that she lacks. Every time she speaks, it's like someone's dragging their nails across a chalkboard. Meanwhile every time Trump opens his glorious Trump-hole, he goes up a few points in the polls. I don't think he even pays attention to what comes out of it.
So let the election come down to Sanders/Warren vs Trump/Fiorina. If nothing else, it would be quite entertaining. It doesn't really matter who's President as long as the twatwaffles who are overtly trying to destroy the government keep gaining ground.
The slashdot knee-jerk response is "Install Linux". But it might actually be time to have that conversation. You don't feel your OS vendor has your best interests in mind and is trying to jam some crap you don't want down your throat. Do you stick with them because they're familiar or do you switch vendors? The answer is going to be different for everyone. My parents use their computer as a dumb terminal to the internet, use OpenOffice.org for the few documents they do write and they aren't gamers. I could switch them to Linux and they'd never notice the difference. People with a lot of games, photography professionals who have to run Photoshop and people who do video editing might have a different answer.
Of course, you don't have to install Linux. Maybe some people would be happier with Apple. You run into a lot of the same problems with them -- Apple looks out for Apple. I got tired of beating my head against my computer to make it work in the mid 2000s and ran Apple hardware for nearly a decade. You plug their shit in, it just works. It's tempting. But even more than Microsoft, their software thinks it knows how you should be working and it's difficult or impossible to do anything differently. You start banging your head against your computer again, and at least with Linux when you do that, you damn well can make the system do what you want it to. Apple's gaming scene when I was using them was only marginally better than Linux's -- you could make a couple of big MMOs and some decade-old games work with their systems.
You could also go with FreeBSD. I don't know a lot about them, but with the whole systemd debacle, a lot of people are moving in that direction now. I'd have to set it up and run it for a while before I could recommend it to relatives.
So that pretty much leaves me with Linux. If you're moving away from Microsoft because you don't like their agenda, you probably don't want a commercial distribution of Linux, either. Find one with an active community that has politics you like and go with them. Or just decide that maybe you can put up with Microsoft's bullshit after all. That's your choice, right there, and you should be able to talk intelligently with your relatives about it.
You don't have to stay there once you make that move, either. I've just about eliminated all the Apple stuff I had going on -- my old Core 2 Duo Macbook is running Linux and my destop dual boots windows and Linux. I'm still booting back to Windows for the games collection and because getting files off my Android phone is easier with Windows. I prefer Kdenlive in Linux for editing my GoPro videos, but I mostly just clip a bit off the front and back of the video and tweak the contrast and sharpening.
The point is that for all these things you always have that choice. Live with your current vendor's bullshit or find some vendor whose bullshit you can tolerate.
Yeah, IBM's the same way. All the addresses in the company are 9.x.x.x. Last time I checked, all their internet-facing addresses were in class C address space.
My reality is awesome! I'm excited for VR because I'm looking forward to putting a 360 degree 3D camera on my helmet and bringing VR users along on wingsuit jumps.
That very much hits the nail on the head. Most of what I've done has been maintenance and not new development. If I'm doing new development on my own and I'm trying to learn something new, it's hard to estimate. If it's tools I'm familiar with, I can be reasonably accurate.
There's another side to that story as well -- most programming positions are actually not new development. Even if you're getting in early on a project, there's probably already a lot of framework code in place and likely a design. If you're not familiar with the code, your work won't be as efficient as someone who is, and your estimates will also be less accurate. I've found that in general it takes about a year to get to the point where you can start being reasonably efficient and reasonably accurate in your estimates. You start to get familiar with the code, the company's products and customers and their management practices. The longer you work with any one code base, the better you get at working with it.
Ironically most programmers seem to stay at a job for a year or two tops and then move on. I've seen rounds of layoffs in the past that have caused companies to "forget" how to make entire products lines.
If you follow along at the Cunningham and Cunningham website, it's pretty easy to see the clear evolution of both concepts. Agile very much evolved from extreme programming. Most companies that I've encountered that claim they're agile really aren't, though. They're agile but they don't have time to write tests, they don't empower their programmers to limit the number of stories in a cycle, and they very frequently have half-hour to hour long daily scrums. In short, they just add a bunch of agile paperwork on top of their previous micromanagement practices.
A couple of previous companies I've worked for would jump on some new bandwagon for managing their code and processes every year or so. They'd try it for a while and when it didn't magically fix all their problems, they'd jump on a new bandwagon. The old timers would just shrug and keep doing what they'd been doing all along because they knew the company would lose interest in a few months and be on to something else. I never thought there could be a learning disability on a corporate level before working at those places. Maybe there was something in the water supply in that state...
Yeah but think of the consequences, man! The surviving generation will be better at taking selfies! And the one after that even more so! One day people will be able to safely take selfies while being lit on fire while simultaneously exploding! And it's probably already too late to stop it!
I run into that every time I go to DIA. No matter how you arrange it, it's always going to cost neighborhood of $60 and take about an hour to get there. Parking for three days there cost nearly as much as a round trip ticket to Phoenix.
I live next door to a municipal airport and talked to a pilot there about just flying down to the big airport. I'd have to pay for the plane rental and pilot's time by the hour, but that's actually pretty reasonable. Meaning a round trip could cost less than parking a car there for a week. Apparently the gate fees at the airport will run you at least a couple hundred bucks, though.
The way I see it, these points of view are formed from willful ignorance. If we tolerate this sort of behavior, we'll only be encouraging it in the future. Of course, an answer of "Wow... you must be retarded," from a position of ignorance is just as bad. Therefore I only use it in extreme circumstances when I feel it's justifiable. That preserves the potency of the position when it is used, while conveying the requisite level of scorn to the aforementioned willfully ignorant party. I usually reserve it for examples of extreme racism.
If I found myself in the position of being interviewed by a university, my own controversial position that I can very effectively argue is that a degree is not required for success if an individual is sufficiently motivated. As an investment, the value is questionable, and it's certainly not worth incurring tens of thousands of dollars of non-dischargeable debt to pay for it. They'd have to sell me on the idea of attending their school much more than I'd have to sell them on the idea of me attending their school. But I digress.
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I am not "Rambo", and real life is NOT a movie.
It could be, though! Think of the possibilities! Give everyone and gun and let the games begin! After all, we must enjoy this sort of thing, or we'd have put a stop to it long before now. All I'm saying is that maybe we should just play the hand we're dealt!
She wants a chance to run the USA into the ground, just like she ran HP into the ground.
He's basically just a pawn at this point. Putin keeps him around because it embarrasses the US Government. He'll probably find himself extradited in a heartbeat if Putin can get something valuable in trade. I'm also guessing he's not exactly a prisoner, but that he would find it to be very difficult to leave Russia if he wanted to. You know, pawn stuff.
And yes, I could start a widget set project or something to try to rectify the situation, and then we'd have one more competing widget set that probably sucks. The programming's really not that hard once you start learning your way around the various tools, but it is pretty tedious and writing even a widget set is a fairly large undertaking with no guarantee anything you do will ever be adopted by anyone.
It's shit like that that drives people to adblock. And also to class action lawsuits.
Just so I can say "I told you so." Just from the summary, $1 billion really isn't enough for the scope of work that has to be involved. I suspect they'll burn through that in the first year and come back looking for more. I also wouldn't be holding my breath for anything useful to ever actually get done. Although, as bad as civilian agencies are at security, they might actually accidentally improve the security at a few of them.
To stay somewhat on-topic, "Swell, now I'm going to have to learn assembly language for DNA." Which I probably would also use EMACS for. Maybe we could code an ACTUAL gnome, though. That would be confusing and funny at the same time. I'm sure the Germans have a word for that.
Sure, and if you don't like that behavior, find a distribution that doesn't jam it down their user's throats. There are plenty that didn't. A lot of them aren't as shiny as some of the distributions that did, but that's also a trade off you make, isn't it?
There are some potentially sensible candidates on the left and right, but no one's paying much attention to them right now. It doesn't really matter who becomes president as long as Congress remains broken. Voters are largely indifferent because the two party system is effectively rigged to keep those two parties in power. I could see Trump getting elected on name appeal alone. It's still pretty early, though. I suspect Trump and Hillary will end up getting ejected from the race. Whatever happens, it's going to be a wild ride.
So let the election come down to Sanders/Warren vs Trump/Fiorina. If nothing else, it would be quite entertaining. It doesn't really matter who's President as long as the twatwaffles who are overtly trying to destroy the government keep gaining ground.
Of course, you don't have to install Linux. Maybe some people would be happier with Apple. You run into a lot of the same problems with them -- Apple looks out for Apple. I got tired of beating my head against my computer to make it work in the mid 2000s and ran Apple hardware for nearly a decade. You plug their shit in, it just works. It's tempting. But even more than Microsoft, their software thinks it knows how you should be working and it's difficult or impossible to do anything differently. You start banging your head against your computer again, and at least with Linux when you do that, you damn well can make the system do what you want it to. Apple's gaming scene when I was using them was only marginally better than Linux's -- you could make a couple of big MMOs and some decade-old games work with their systems.
You could also go with FreeBSD. I don't know a lot about them, but with the whole systemd debacle, a lot of people are moving in that direction now. I'd have to set it up and run it for a while before I could recommend it to relatives.
So that pretty much leaves me with Linux. If you're moving away from Microsoft because you don't like their agenda, you probably don't want a commercial distribution of Linux, either. Find one with an active community that has politics you like and go with them. Or just decide that maybe you can put up with Microsoft's bullshit after all. That's your choice, right there, and you should be able to talk intelligently with your relatives about it.
You don't have to stay there once you make that move, either. I've just about eliminated all the Apple stuff I had going on -- my old Core 2 Duo Macbook is running Linux and my destop dual boots windows and Linux. I'm still booting back to Windows for the games collection and because getting files off my Android phone is easier with Windows. I prefer Kdenlive in Linux for editing my GoPro videos, but I mostly just clip a bit off the front and back of the video and tweak the contrast and sharpening.
The point is that for all these things you always have that choice. Live with your current vendor's bullshit or find some vendor whose bullshit you can tolerate.
Yeah, IBM's the same way. All the addresses in the company are 9.x.x.x. Last time I checked, all their internet-facing addresses were in class C address space.
My reality is awesome! I'm excited for VR because I'm looking forward to putting a 360 degree 3D camera on my helmet and bringing VR users along on wingsuit jumps.
There's another side to that story as well -- most programming positions are actually not new development. Even if you're getting in early on a project, there's probably already a lot of framework code in place and likely a design. If you're not familiar with the code, your work won't be as efficient as someone who is, and your estimates will also be less accurate. I've found that in general it takes about a year to get to the point where you can start being reasonably efficient and reasonably accurate in your estimates. You start to get familiar with the code, the company's products and customers and their management practices. The longer you work with any one code base, the better you get at working with it.
Ironically most programmers seem to stay at a job for a year or two tops and then move on. I've seen rounds of layoffs in the past that have caused companies to "forget" how to make entire products lines.
A couple of previous companies I've worked for would jump on some new bandwagon for managing their code and processes every year or so. They'd try it for a while and when it didn't magically fix all their problems, they'd jump on a new bandwagon. The old timers would just shrug and keep doing what they'd been doing all along because they knew the company would lose interest in a few months and be on to something else. I never thought there could be a learning disability on a corporate level before working at those places. Maybe there was something in the water supply in that state...
Guy with the bull up on him, horn sticking out his chest, it's a shoo-in for selfie of the year.
Yeah but think of the consequences, man! The surviving generation will be better at taking selfies! And the one after that even more so! One day people will be able to safely take selfies while being lit on fire while simultaneously exploding! And it's probably already too late to stop it!
Their web page does not disappoint. I'll have to add a todo to search their careers page to see if they need any portal testers...
That explains it. I'm guessing their "solution" was to throw Ctrix at the problem and call it a day.
Is he sorry they did it, or sorry they got caught?
I live next door to a municipal airport and talked to a pilot there about just flying down to the big airport. I'd have to pay for the plane rental and pilot's time by the hour, but that's actually pretty reasonable. Meaning a round trip could cost less than parking a car there for a week. Apparently the gate fees at the airport will run you at least a couple hundred bucks, though.
"That's ridiculous! No computer can handle 32 things!"
If I found myself in the position of being interviewed by a university, my own controversial position that I can very effectively argue is that a degree is not required for success if an individual is sufficiently motivated. As an investment, the value is questionable, and it's certainly not worth incurring tens of thousands of dollars of non-dischargeable debt to pay for it. They'd have to sell me on the idea of attending their school much more than I'd have to sell them on the idea of me attending their school. But I digress.
Fuck yeah!
Hmm, where to start countering your points... what an overwhelming task. Let's try this... That's retarded. And you're retarded for saying it.