healtchcare.gov was no worse then any other website as complex as it.. oh wait, there has never been a launch of anything the complex on the web.
Clearly you have no idea how complex the world of airplane tickets and hotel bookings can be. Just like in health care there are a few big networks (SABRE, Apollo) and a few spinoffs (Galileo, Shares), none of which is compatible with the others, plus there are plenty of small providers who do things in their own way. Yet companies like Kayak or Orbitz managed to build decent platforms dealing with this chaotic industry without pouring billions of dollars in a half-baked implementation.
There are systems like Morningstar who manage to keep track of data provided by various incompatible and antiquated financial services systems. There are online home/life insurance quotes providers. There is Equifax that does a decent job of merging nightmarish data sources.
I could go on and keep talking about websites that are more complex than a simple healthcare marketplace, but one thing I know is that with Obamaniacs nothing even remotely linked to His Administration will ever be considered less than perfect, be it a botched healthcare program or spying on American citizens and getting caught by a bunch of army transvestites and Autralian rapists.
With big data, when you actively look for patterns you always find them; this is how hedge funds have been operating for years. The purpose of the technology is not to make predictions, but rather to confirm existing trends and possibly identify new ones.
Proper way to utilize big data in this case would be: 1) to assist the CDC in confirming or refuting trends observed in the field 2) to offer additional correlations (such as: are people living closer to highways more sensitive fo specific strains of flu) 3) to provide long-term indicators facilitating the assessment of medication and other flu containment factors
Big data is not a magic eight ball but it's not a piece of shit either.
Everyone wants to provide the presidential vehicles. Does Tesla provide as many jobs as GM?
The votes those employees provide are probably the most important factor when deciding who gets to provide the presidential ride.
How many members of the electoral college actually work in car factories? And for that matter, how many GM plants are located in states that are likely to switch side because they lose this symbolic business?
After the healthcare.gov fiasco, the Obama administration should learn from their mistake, stop pouring money in legacy businesses and embrace the brave new world. This means Tesla: a technology that does not require to bomb arab countries to keep oil prices low and that does not open the door to polluting the beautiful gulf of Mexico.
If they do so, there will be an interesting question: do they have to pay the $1.43-a-mile EV tax when they drive on roads in other countries? Or maybe "not polluting" is worth a fine only in America?
It takes a long time for kids to understand the value of money, especially when it's all virtual. Expecting a kid to restrain from ordering stuff in his videogame while it could give him an edge against some dragon or other players is different from expecting that a kid won't steal money or jewelry from his mom.
The game makers prey on that blurry line and on the short term gains for the players when they buy in-game goods. This is why that lawsuit is not about bad parenting, but about taking advantage of kids; the system is designed to facilitate abuse and this has to stop.
An Anonymous Coward talking about trust issues... interesting.
This being said, if you were able to order PPV or use Amazon 1 Click at 12 years old, then you are still a kid and obviously have only a theoretical understanding of parenting. Let's wait a few years and see when you get kids of your own if you still think that things are that easy for parents.
I know I am an AC, but I really did type this and since the purchasers of my immortal soul are likely to be a deity, or semi-deity or have the powers of such, they too know who I am, and that I really did write this.
So basically you decide what are the abilities of an entity you do not believe into, then you use those alleged abilities to justify hiding behind an anonymous account. Obviously this is just in case the said entity actually exists and would enforce a covenant in which you would have entered by not using a fake name.
Either you are a lawyer or you work in the claims department of an HMO.
Since you are such a rational individual and by no way superstitious, you should have no fear to do the following: reply to this post by stating clearly that you hereby sell your soul to Satan for the price of a bag of Cheetos. If you have balls you will also include in this deal the souls of everyone in your family.
I hereby sell my soul to Satan for a family size bag of Cheetos. I include the souls of everyone in my family.
People think that they can get away with selling their soul because the dudes in Supernatural always find a workaround. Can't you tell that a tv show is FICTION? In real life you can't break a satanic covenant. Duh.
The Supernatural series is like ARV treatment: it makes people careless by letting them believe that there is no consequence for risky behaviors.
Since you are such a rational individual and by no way superstitious, you should have no fear to do the following: reply to this post by stating clearly that you hereby sell your soul to Satan for the price of a bag of Cheetos. If you have balls you will also include in this deal the souls of everyone in your family.
Don't reply that you won't do it because it's nonsense; that would be like pussies who run from a fight because "they don't want to get their hands dirty". Stand by your principles and show everyone that you have no fear of fairy tales characters like Satan.
People who bring up the concept of "fairy tales" in discussions about religion are like people who think that typing "windoze" instead of "Windows" is clever and funny.
Also I happen to be an atheist so I am not sure how you could have made a weaker and less relevant point.
Gender and age mean nothing as far as hardcore stuff goes.
A long time ago I was working as a field tech in a large organization, and the most disturbing collection of hardcore porn that we ever found was on a laptop belonging to a lady in her late 50s. It was a company laptop, not her own.
Some of the stuff was so bad that the cops were called. I was not the one doing the inventory but I remember the face of the dude who did, and I bet he still has nightmares. I won't get into too much details, let's just say that some of the files on that computer would have come up if someone had done a keywords search for "rape" AND "diapers".
you are a theocrat and a totalitarian. [...] There's also no such thing as Darwinism. There's science, and science has shown that Evolution is an observed fact
Thank you for posting this darwinist version of Shahadah, and for doing so in a manner that truly illustrates how actual theocrats and totalitarians behave.
Take a chill pill then read my post again. This time you may notice that I did not say that I was for/against any of the pillars of the two religions I mentioned; as it happens I share most of the beliefs of Liberals. However I'm respectful enough not to try to shove them down the throat of other people. That's the difference between "promoting democracy" and "promoting democracy as long as the other person agrees with my values" (i.e. being a big phony).
A shame the kids themselves don't get a say in their indoctrination & skewed education.
Islam has five pillars: declaration of belief, daily prayers, alms, fasting and Mecca pilgrimage.
Liberalism also has five pillars: democracy, darwinism, global warming, gay marriage and right to elective abortion.
Anybody who adheres to one of those religions believes that their children should be taught the relevant five pillars. That does not mean that people who disagree are idiots or ignorant.
My co-worker gave me his personal tablet to use for work purposes (app testing), with his photos and music still on it.
I can understand if you don't care about the data, but I would still advise you to take a quick look at the pictures and possibly at the browsing history to make sure that you don't need to coat this thing with Purell (or dip it in rubbing alcohol).
Any Geeksquad veteran will tell you that there is a surprisingly large number of people who do ungodly things with their iPads (and I don't mean taking pictures of their tuna salad at Applebees).
You have to be careful with "second hand" devices...
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What exactly would be a correct namespace implementation? Are you getting your panties in a bunch because one has to type "use My\Own\Namespace;" instead of "import My.Own.Namespace;"? Because that's basically the only difference with languages like java or C#.
Actually I find PHP namespaces less clunky than the reverse domain notation used in java. I don't know who came up with that idiotic approach but countless man-hours have been wasted in history by people typing the "com." or "org." part of the libraries they imported.
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That's how it works with technologies that have a huge customer base; it's called "pitchfork-mob-driven release management".
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You complain about == and === in PHP, but then you bring up a javascript solution (Node.js) as an alternative. This leads me to believe that if *you* decided to rewrite Mt Gox using your beloved Node, another hacker would probably get rich pretty soon. And just as it happened with the PHP version of Mt Gox, the problem would lie in the implementation not in the language.
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Wake up time. PHP actually has a pretty decent way to remove "garbage". First they make the compiler (and documentation) warn you about a feature being made obsolete in a future version, and then a few versions later they do remove the feature.
As of PHP 5.3.0, you will get a warning saying that "call-time pass-by-reference" is deprecated when you use & in foo(&$a);. And as of PHP 5.4.0, call-time pass-by-reference was removed, so using it will raise a fatal error.
As soon as the BASIC ecosystem gets a good templating framework like Twig, a good package management system like Composer or PEAR, convenient SDKs for most cloud providers like AWS or Azure, native support for JSON and easy access to mainstream database drivers (RDBMS and NoSQL), I'm definitely jumping on the BASIC bandwagon!
Seriously, if you compare programming languages based on HelloWorld, it's easy to come out with worthless conclusions such as BASIC > $ANYTHING or $ANYTHING > PHP, but when you have to deliver web solutions quickly for clients who frequently change their mind about fundamental aspects of their business or expect your solution to support the latest fad of the week (be it a new social network or a new trend in web design), PHP is pretty convenient. On the other hand I have yet to find a situation where BASIC would allow someone to solve a real world problem except maybe fixing that bug in Gorilla.bas, which is a bit of an edge case.
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Getting a VM (VPS) is not the same as shared hosting. WIth a VM you have to install, maintain, patch and monitor everything yourself. Obviously cheap providers that offer PHP/MySQL hosting for $3 a month won't offer terrific performance, the resources will be shared with a lot of other customers, but for a simple website with maybe a shopping cart and a small catalog it's far less overhead to use shared hosting than a VM and there is a big market for that.
This being said, there are lots of cheap hosts that offer not only PHP but also Perl and Python; even Java or.Net providers can be found for $7 per month. So I'm not sure why the OP talks about $100/mo.
As for cheap solutions: OpenShift (Red Hat) has a pretty decent free tier that comes with PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, Node.js and MySQL, but to run java it gets more expensive quickly (about $50).
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healtchcare.gov was no worse then any other website as complex as it.. oh wait, there has never been a launch of anything the complex on the web.
Clearly you have no idea how complex the world of airplane tickets and hotel bookings can be. Just like in health care there are a few big networks (SABRE, Apollo) and a few spinoffs (Galileo, Shares), none of which is compatible with the others, plus there are plenty of small providers who do things in their own way. Yet companies like Kayak or Orbitz managed to build decent platforms dealing with this chaotic industry without pouring billions of dollars in a half-baked implementation.
There are systems like Morningstar who manage to keep track of data provided by various incompatible and antiquated financial services systems. There are online home/life insurance quotes providers. There is Equifax that does a decent job of merging nightmarish data sources.
I could go on and keep talking about websites that are more complex than a simple healthcare marketplace, but one thing I know is that with Obamaniacs nothing even remotely linked to His Administration will ever be considered less than perfect, be it a botched healthcare program or spying on American citizens and getting caught by a bunch of army transvestites and Autralian rapists.
With big data, when you actively look for patterns you always find them; this is how hedge funds have been operating for years. The purpose of the technology is not to make predictions, but rather to confirm existing trends and possibly identify new ones.
Proper way to utilize big data in this case would be:
1) to assist the CDC in confirming or refuting trends observed in the field
2) to offer additional correlations (such as: are people living closer to highways more sensitive fo specific strains of flu)
3) to provide long-term indicators facilitating the assessment of medication and other flu containment factors
Big data is not a magic eight ball but it's not a piece of shit either.
Everyone wants to provide the presidential vehicles. Does Tesla provide as many jobs as GM?
The votes those employees provide are probably the most important factor when deciding who gets to provide the presidential ride.
How many members of the electoral college actually work in car factories? And for that matter, how many GM plants are located in states that are likely to switch side because they lose this symbolic business?
After the healthcare.gov fiasco, the Obama administration should learn from their mistake, stop pouring money in legacy businesses and embrace the brave new world. This means Tesla: a technology that does not require to bomb arab countries to keep oil prices low and that does not open the door to polluting the beautiful gulf of Mexico.
If they do so, there will be an interesting question: do they have to pay the $1.43-a-mile EV tax when they drive on roads in other countries? Or maybe "not polluting" is worth a fine only in America?
It takes a long time for kids to understand the value of money, especially when it's all virtual. Expecting a kid to restrain from ordering stuff in his videogame while it could give him an edge against some dragon or other players is different from expecting that a kid won't steal money or jewelry from his mom.
The game makers prey on that blurry line and on the short term gains for the players when they buy in-game goods. This is why that lawsuit is not about bad parenting, but about taking advantage of kids; the system is designed to facilitate abuse and this has to stop.
An Anonymous Coward talking about trust issues... interesting.
This being said, if you were able to order PPV or use Amazon 1 Click at 12 years old, then you are still a kid and obviously have only a theoretical understanding of parenting. Let's wait a few years and see when you get kids of your own if you still think that things are that easy for parents.
Ain't nothing swimming around down there.
That's what she said
It is local address. He just trolled you.
Oh now I understand why for the last few minutes I had no internet access but found printouts of domain names on the floor nearby my inkjet printer!
I know I am an AC, but I really did type this and since the purchasers of my immortal soul are likely to be a deity, or semi-deity or have the powers of such, they too know who I am, and that I really did write this.
So basically you decide what are the abilities of an entity you do not believe into, then you use those alleged abilities to justify hiding behind an anonymous account. Obviously this is just in case the said entity actually exists and would enforce a covenant in which you would have entered by not using a fake name.
Either you are a lawyer or you work in the claims department of an HMO.
I never stated that I was not afraid of that.
Since you are such a rational individual and by no way superstitious, you should have no fear to do the following: reply to this post by stating clearly that you hereby sell your soul to Satan for the price of a bag of Cheetos. If you have balls you will also include in this deal the souls of everyone in your family.
I hereby sell my soul to Satan for a family size bag of Cheetos. I include the souls of everyone in my family.
People think that they can get away with selling their soul because the dudes in Supernatural always find a workaround. Can't you tell that a tv show is FICTION? In real life you can't break a satanic covenant. Duh.
The Supernatural series is like ARV treatment: it makes people careless by letting them believe that there is no consequence for risky behaviors.
Congratulations. You are the only one so far who replied without injecting some kind of loophole in the deal.
Since you enjoy Cheetos, here is your reward: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Since you are such a rational individual and by no way superstitious, you should have no fear to do the following: reply to this post by stating clearly that you hereby sell your soul to Satan for the price of a bag of Cheetos. If you have balls you will also include in this deal the souls of everyone in your family.
Don't reply that you won't do it because it's nonsense; that would be like pussies who run from a fight because "they don't want to get their hands dirty". Stand by your principles and show everyone that you have no fear of fairy tales characters like Satan.
People who bring up the concept of "fairy tales" in discussions about religion are like people who think that typing "windoze" instead of "Windows" is clever and funny.
Also I happen to be an atheist so I am not sure how you could have made a weaker and less relevant point.
Gender and age mean nothing as far as hardcore stuff goes.
A long time ago I was working as a field tech in a large organization, and the most disturbing collection of hardcore porn that we ever found was on a laptop belonging to a lady in her late 50s. It was a company laptop, not her own.
Some of the stuff was so bad that the cops were called. I was not the one doing the inventory but I remember the face of the dude who did, and I bet he still has nightmares. I won't get into too much details, let's just say that some of the files on that computer would have come up if someone had done a keywords search for "rape" AND "diapers".
you are a theocrat and a totalitarian.
[...] There's also no such thing as Darwinism. There's science, and science has shown that Evolution is an observed fact
Thank you for posting this darwinist version of Shahadah, and for doing so in a manner that truly illustrates how actual theocrats and totalitarians behave.
Take a chill pill then read my post again. This time you may notice that I did not say that I was for/against any of the pillars of the two religions I mentioned; as it happens I share most of the beliefs of Liberals. However I'm respectful enough not to try to shove them down the throat of other people. That's the difference between "promoting democracy" and "promoting democracy as long as the other person agrees with my values" (i.e. being a big phony).
A shame the kids themselves don't get a say in their indoctrination & skewed education.
Islam has five pillars: declaration of belief, daily prayers, alms, fasting and Mecca pilgrimage.
Liberalism also has five pillars: democracy, darwinism, global warming, gay marriage and right to elective abortion.
Anybody who adheres to one of those religions believes that their children should be taught the relevant five pillars. That does not mean that people who disagree are idiots or ignorant.
My co-worker gave me his personal tablet to use for work purposes (app testing), with his photos and music still on it.
I can understand if you don't care about the data, but I would still advise you to take a quick look at the pictures and possibly at the browsing history to make sure that you don't need to coat this thing with Purell (or dip it in rubbing alcohol).
Any Geeksquad veteran will tell you that there is a surprisingly large number of people who do ungodly things with their iPads (and I don't mean taking pictures of their tuna salad at Applebees).
You have to be careful with "second hand" devices...
What exactly would be a correct namespace implementation? Are you getting your panties in a bunch because one has to type "use My\Own\Namespace;" instead of "import My.Own.Namespace;"? Because that's basically the only difference with languages like java or C#.
Actually I find PHP namespaces less clunky than the reverse domain notation used in java. I don't know who came up with that idiotic approach but countless man-hours have been wasted in history by people typing the "com." or "org." part of the libraries they imported.
That's how it works with technologies that have a huge customer base; it's called "pitchfork-mob-driven release management".
You complain about == and === in PHP, but then you bring up a javascript solution (Node.js) as an alternative. This leads me to believe that if *you* decided to rewrite Mt Gox using your beloved Node, another hacker would probably get rich pretty soon. And just as it happened with the PHP version of Mt Gox, the problem would lie in the implementation not in the language.
Wake up time. PHP actually has a pretty decent way to remove "garbage". First they make the compiler (and documentation) warn you about a feature being made obsolete in a future version, and then a few versions later they do remove the feature.
Here is an example (quote from the manual):
As of PHP 5.3.0, you will get a warning saying that "call-time pass-by-reference" is deprecated when you use & in foo(&$a);. And as of PHP 5.4.0, call-time pass-by-reference was removed, so using it will raise a fatal error.
As soon as the BASIC ecosystem gets a good templating framework like Twig, a good package management system like Composer or PEAR, convenient SDKs for most cloud providers like AWS or Azure, native support for JSON and easy access to mainstream database drivers (RDBMS and NoSQL), I'm definitely jumping on the BASIC bandwagon!
Seriously, if you compare programming languages based on HelloWorld, it's easy to come out with worthless conclusions such as BASIC > $ANYTHING or $ANYTHING > PHP, but when you have to deliver web solutions quickly for clients who frequently change their mind about fundamental aspects of their business or expect your solution to support the latest fad of the week (be it a new social network or a new trend in web design), PHP is pretty convenient. On the other hand I have yet to find a situation where BASIC would allow someone to solve a real world problem except maybe fixing that bug in Gorilla.bas, which is a bit of an edge case.
Getting a VM (VPS) is not the same as shared hosting. WIth a VM you have to install, maintain, patch and monitor everything yourself. Obviously cheap providers that offer PHP/MySQL hosting for $3 a month won't offer terrific performance, the resources will be shared with a lot of other customers, but for a simple website with maybe a shopping cart and a small catalog it's far less overhead to use shared hosting than a VM and there is a big market for that.
This being said, there are lots of cheap hosts that offer not only PHP but also Perl and Python; even Java or .Net providers can be found for $7 per month. So I'm not sure why the OP talks about $100/mo.
As for cheap solutions: OpenShift (Red Hat) has a pretty decent free tier that comes with PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, Node.js and MySQL, but to run java it gets more expensive quickly (about $50).
England? Never heard of it. Is it near Miami? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...