Tried and true tactics. Works for quasi-religions too, for example, look at the youth organizations of the 3rd Reich, the USSR, Eastern Germany, North Korea and so on. Get them early and they may may even rat out their own parents, because children are generally about as stupid as adults, but lack the life experience that could have taught them something about things that sound to good to be true.
While I agree on the tech-industry, a critical look at the history of the Christian faith seems to indicate the same, coupled with a vicious streak...
Religion is never the answer. Religion is a very serious problem in itself. That some people with religion still manage to remain decent human beings is to their credit and not to the credit of that mental affliction they manage to keep under control.
Only with an UBI. Then we can have them argue with each other and the sane rest of us can ignore them. We should also do the same thing with the lawyers and the politicians. These people have a massively negative productivity.
Very much this. In fact, many inexperienced coders have negative productivity, because cleaning up after them is much more expensive then the value they generated.
I like Python. If you do not need performance, it it a very nice language that rarely stands in your way. If you need performance, writing extension modules in C for the heavy lifting is pretty easy.
PHP is more a "tried and ran screaming" kind of technology....
That said, a really good developer can wrest solid code even from PHP, but it is kind of hard. Most PHP "developers" (and I include the language design team here) should instead realize their true potential and move to things like shoveling dirt, stacking shelves or flipping burgers. They would probably manage to even mess that up though.
I am strongly going on 50. The funny thing is, part of my work-time I code (mostly C these days) and for full consulting-rates at that, because what I code is apparently too difficult for the hot-shot cowboys. Of course, I also deliver useful documentation, analyze problems not caused by me, explain how web-technology works to "developers", explain different architectural, design and implementation options, do security analysis, etc. The very competent and helpful UNIX-guru on the customer-side is even 10 years older than me.
The part of the industry that is ageist and arrogant (i.e. the far larger part) is also very incompetent, and very, very stupid, because when it really hits the fan, they need some older guys (and the occasional gal) that actually have a clue how everything works and are not confined to their nice, sterile "Framework"-world, where problems do not exist and nobody needs to even understand how an URL is composed of components. This also nicely explain why so many IT projects fail or deliver vastly under-performing results: Lack of experience and the lack of understanding that comes with it. Amateurs.
Has already happened several times, I believe. And that are only the people that could prove their innocence. There will be a lot more that could not and also some that could but decided not to advertise what happened anyways.
Looking at the actual figures, that Wall-Street banker has negative productivity and harms society. The grocery shop worker very likely has positive productivity.
"Zero tolerance" is the authoritarian idea that every deviation from what they find acceptable has to be crushed with extreme force. Of course, in the case at hand, the accusation was extreme, but the same shit does happen for things that are nowhere near as bad. And you would think that before destroying a person's life they would double-check they have the right person. But not so, because the authoritarians behind this believe everybody to be guilty and giving people a chance to prove they are innocent is optional.
No, there is nothing at all "noble" with zero tolerance. It is a purely fascist idea. (And yes, I do know the actual definition for "fascism". It fits.)
One could argue that these are two aspects of the same thing, but as MS undoubtedly also works with law-enforcement offering them no or very little resistance, you have a point.
Whenever I find a bug in Debian or the kernel, I report it and try to report a solution as well if I can find one, including source-code patches. I will also run further tests on these on request and test proposed solutions. I would have done that for sysvinit as well, but so far it just worked for me. Is there a list of things in sysvinit that need looking at? It is very stable and non-problematic from my experience.
Well, it is crapware certainly, but I think it also comes with malicious intent. Of course, I cannot demonstrate the second, after all "never attribute to malice, which can be adequately explained by stupidity", and the systemd team has plenty of stupidity and arrogance.
Indeed. I can get quite a few "notebooks" here that would have been called "netbooks" during the hype. This seems to be fake news (alternate facts?) designed to make the gullible buy something they can get significantly cheaper elsewhere.
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Otherwise it is pretty much a proven fact.
Who proved this and how?
If you have to ask, then you have not nearly what it takes to understand the relevant facts. You are just regurgitating propaganda.
Except all those that care whether a society survives. I guess you are not one of them.
Tried and true tactics. Works for quasi-religions too, for example, look at the youth organizations of the 3rd Reich, the USSR, Eastern Germany, North Korea and so on. Get them early and they may may even rat out their own parents, because children are generally about as stupid as adults, but lack the life experience that could have taught them something about things that sound to good to be true.
While I do not like them very much on general principles, that is certainly a valid fact.
If you are blind and completely ignorant of the history of religion, it may not be. Otherwise it is pretty much a proven fact.
While I agree on the tech-industry, a critical look at the history of the Christian faith seems to indicate the same, coupled with a vicious streak...
Religion is never the answer. Religion is a very serious problem in itself. That some people with religion still manage to remain decent human beings is to their credit and not to the credit of that mental affliction they manage to keep under control.
Only with an UBI. Then we can have them argue with each other and the sane rest of us can ignore them. We should also do the same thing with the lawyers and the politicians. These people have a massively negative productivity.
Very much this. In fact, many inexperienced coders have negative productivity, because cleaning up after them is much more expensive then the value they generated.
Accept that sometimes we come up with a way to do better.
Very, very, very rarely. And then it is often actually some older guy that has actually done it.
He did not stay on his obscure back-alley defrauding stupid people? Now he is trying to defraud everybody.
I like Python. If you do not need performance, it it a very nice language that rarely stands in your way. If you need performance, writing extension modules in C for the heavy lifting is pretty easy.
PHP is more a "tried and ran screaming" kind of technology....
That said, a really good developer can wrest solid code even from PHP, but it is kind of hard. Most PHP "developers" (and I include the language design team here) should instead realize their true potential and move to things like shoveling dirt, stacking shelves or flipping burgers. They would probably manage to even mess that up though.
I am strongly going on 50. The funny thing is, part of my work-time I code (mostly C these days) and for full consulting-rates at that, because what I code is apparently too difficult for the hot-shot cowboys. Of course, I also deliver useful documentation, analyze problems not caused by me, explain how web-technology works to "developers", explain different architectural, design and implementation options, do security analysis, etc. The very competent and helpful UNIX-guru on the customer-side is even 10 years older than me.
The part of the industry that is ageist and arrogant (i.e. the far larger part) is also very incompetent, and very, very stupid, because when it really hits the fan, they need some older guys (and the occasional gal) that actually have a clue how everything works and are not confined to their nice, sterile "Framework"-world, where problems do not exist and nobody needs to even understand how an URL is composed of components. This also nicely explain why so many IT projects fail or deliver vastly under-performing results: Lack of experience and the lack of understanding that comes with it. Amateurs.
Has already happened several times, I believe. And that are only the people that could prove their innocence. There will be a lot more that could not and also some that could but decided not to advertise what happened anyways.
Looking at the actual figures, that Wall-Street banker has negative productivity and harms society. The grocery shop worker very likely has positive productivity.
"Zero tolerance" is the authoritarian idea that every deviation from what they find acceptable has to be crushed with extreme force. Of course, in the case at hand, the accusation was extreme, but the same shit does happen for things that are nowhere near as bad. And you would think that before destroying a person's life they would double-check they have the right person. But not so, because the authoritarians behind this believe everybody to be guilty and giving people a chance to prove they are innocent is optional.
No, there is nothing at all "noble" with zero tolerance. It is a purely fascist idea. (And yes, I do know the actual definition for "fascism". It fits.)
Can we please get tech-journalists that at least get the very basic vocabulary right?
One could argue that these are two aspects of the same thing, but as MS undoubtedly also works with law-enforcement offering them no or very little resistance, you have a point.
Requires a stop-watch and a calculator. The energy consumed per spin is typically printed next to the disk. Really not difficult to do.
He is? News to me. He seems to be fighting to replace bad foreign programmers with worse domestic ones.
Whenever I find a bug in Debian or the kernel, I report it and try to report a solution as well if I can find one, including source-code patches. I will also run further tests on these on request and test proposed solutions. I would have done that for sysvinit as well, but so far it just worked for me. Is there a list of things in sysvinit that need looking at? It is very stable and non-problematic from my experience.
Well, it is crapware certainly, but I think it also comes with malicious intent. Of course, I cannot demonstrate the second, after all "never attribute to malice, which can be adequately explained by stupidity", and the systemd team has plenty of stupidity and arrogance.
Excellent, thank you for that information.
Indeed. I can get quite a few "notebooks" here that would have been called "netbooks" during the hype. This seems to be fake news (alternate facts?) designed to make the gullible buy something they can get significantly cheaper elsewhere.
Debian 8 does. As long as that is the case, I do not care who wants to shoot themselves in the foot using that malware.