They never claimed that it's ready. They've said over and over that the prototype was flawed and no longer considered, that they were working on new avenues.
These people are truly working to improve lab testing (which is their actual business), it's not a startup that does nothing but try to invent a new thing. They do millions of regular tests, for less money than the competition, and they should be praised for that, not bashed because some of their R&D programs are not yet viable.
But that's not what is being disputed! Are you unaware that Theranos is a private lab that does all kinds of tests, and this whole finger prick thing is taken out of context and spinned as if that's actual core business?
They are researching ways to get more tests per blood sample, and they invented procedures and equipment for that. The "detect cancer from a drop of blood" is not what they do on a daily basis, it's part of their R&D program. But the WSJ made it look like they claim to do all their tests with that experimental technology, then ridicule them when they try to explain why they do tests with "normal" equipment.
Did you read the articles? I don't know why I even bother with this because people are not looking for what this is all about, they're just out for blood like with that fucking gorilla that got killed.
The first article you post has nothing to do with Theranos using an unproven technology. It's essentially an internal letter (not an actual decision) citing issues with lab procedures for a specific incident. None of the R&D stuff at Theranos is related to Medicare coverage.
The second one is just a follow-up from the same bullshit WSJ article that keeps bashing the old prototype (that Edison machine) for things Theranos never claimed it did. It doesn,t bring up new facts at all.
Well did YOU make your own due diligence before coming to the conclusion that it doesn't do what Theranos actually claims it does (as opposed to all the made up bullshit)? or did you just jump on the bandwagon and assumed that if there's a story about it in the WSJ then it must mean Theranos are crooks?
do you even KNOW what the real story is about, or did you just assume that Theranos claimed miracles of some kind and got caught in their lies?
post a fucking link that proves that Theranos themselves actually *claimed* that this test does something magic. Only things you'll find will tie back to that bullshit WSJ article (which Theranos disputes) that mixes a bunch of false assumptions and unverified facts to spin a spectacular story painting Theranos as snake oil salespeople.
It's a fucking terrifying situation because it shows how even the shallowest nonchalant "reporting" in one article triggers a shitstorm of epic proportions, with no one listening to the accused and just adding their own layer of indignant comments based on top of countless piles of misinformation.
this kind of comment is the modern day equivalent of joining a witch hunt. You use Slashdot buttons instead of a pitch fork, but the spirit and enthusiasm for expedient "justice" is the same. And anyone who gets in your way has to be in cahoots with the witch, right? Zero chance that maybe you're just plain wrong.
The original article was essentially bullshit, using people who worked at Theranos for 2 weeks 5 years ago as "internal sources", and debunking claims that Theranos never made. What they did was like posting a story saying that the Linux kernel doesn't "truly" prevent computers from being infected by viruses (a claim nobody ever made) and that the GNU didn't it grant it a GPLv3 license.
I don't know if this total incompetence or if there's a hidden agenda, or maybe it is in fact a case of blatant sexism, but the coverage of Theranos by the Wall Street journal is awful and careless. And the other big media gobbled this up without thinking twice about it.
There was a video interview of Holmes by some grinning moron from the WSJ posted on Slashdot a while ago. Anyone watching that video could see that this whole story is essentially sensationalistic reporting with no basis in reality. But who cares about facts, it's much easier to call that girl a crook and move on to the next scandal.
I actually cancelled my Audible subscription to the WSJ after watching that interview and doing my own research into this story. Who knows what proportion of their stories are full of bullshit like this one. They remind me of that guy from the movie Shattered Glass.
That's just more simplistic assumptions about what racism is. Simplistic and corny like those lousy motivational gif idiots keep cranking out ("aim for the stars", "there's no traffic jam on the extra mile", etc).
You are not standing up against racism when you say things like "racists are cowards". You're just posturing and fishing for Likes or +1s, instead of facilitating a discussion about complex social issues. I'd say there's more cowardice in that than in that generic racist persona you're pretending to shame.
They just had those forms in case people's pictures were taken in the new pool area and ended up on the management company's facebook page. Someone just blew that out of proportions and internet happened.
There's zero evidence to support that statement. It's just a cheap attack at people who have values different than yours.
Besides, a lot of racist people are unaware that they are technically racist. Same goes for sexists and many others. Putting all those shades of values and beliefs in the same bigotry bucket only demonstrates a poor understanding of humanity.
That's systemd in a nutshell (and pulseaudio too). Replace well-known things that are not broken with something obscure and clunky that thinks it's smarter than you.
systemd, unity, iTunes, Windows 10... We live in a world where mediocre aspies decide how other people should use their computers because they work in large footprint organizations that have no competent dictators.
The real question should be: why would be the same person called "dude" or "lady" depending on his/her gender? Why not dude/chick or gentleman/lady? Does the sex change imply a transformation of the personality or social standing?
But of course it's socially acceptable as long as the woman version is more respectful; nobody would stand for "gentleman or chick". That kind of inconscious bias is an order of magnitude more sexist than the alleged discrepancy in gender income, which is actually explained by pregnancy leaves and the fact that a larger proportion of women choose a career in a field that is more rewarding socially/emotionally than financially (ex: dedicated special ed teacher vs coke snorting stock market broker).
50 years from now they will make TV shows that take in place in the 2010s and just like we're shocked by the blatant systemic discrimination against women in Mad Men, people from the future will be shocked to see the constant belittlement of males in the name of "equality" or "feminism" in our current society.
Look, if you can't even do the match correctly on this, you have no business giving your input on this.
I hate when this happens to me. Just yesterday I didn't do the match correctly and I ended up wearing a brown belt with my black shoes, I looked stupid all day.
Most of these teachers are probably not even qualified to teach programming and you end up getting this hard reliance on a textbook.
That's the kind of teacher that made it possible for me to learn how to perform a DDOS. It was highly motivating to see her wonder why her computer had severe network problems during class, while nobody else seemed to be affected. And when they upgraded her computer to a (omg) multimedia machine and I figured out how to eject her cdrom remotely, I was hooked. And those were dos and Netware years, mind you, none of this fancy linux thing.
I don't think I'd have become interested in computers if instead of her my teacher had been an elegant coder who really jnew the importance of design patterns and DRY and was talking about multifaceted this and polymorphism that.
So what I'm saying is, keep this kind of thing going on and let the horse figure out by himself if he wants to drink. If coding becomes a dull school subject it will attract the wrong crowd, and god knows we don't need any more dullards in this industry.
Seriously, does this guy think the WISE team are a bunch of idiots? I'm personally not qualfied to judge the details of the physical arguments in Myhrvold's paper, but I would give it high probability that he's full of shit.
And your opinion is based on what? The moral and intellectual superiority of NASA?
There's a reason why people go to the former USSR to launch private space ships and satellites. And it's not that the NASA is amazingly good and flexible and cost-effective. They are the DMV of space, with the same arrogance based on state-backed authority, not competence.
Just looking at how the WISE people answer to his critics show that they're not used to have people challenge them, and just based on that I'd bet a dollar against them any day.
Sure, I know CPAN, but you can get all that plus vastly superior performance with node js. And there's 10x more packages on npm than CPAN (according to modulecounts.com) and it's clearly the most active.
It's not more difficult to install a package (npm install ModuleName) and you get all kinds of fancy tools to make development easier. You can use frameworks like express js to quickly build apps, but with just node alone it's trivial to create pretty much anything. It's javascript so there are things that suck (like dates) but overall it's pretty good, and much easier to learn than perl.
I'm not saying you should ditch perl, but there's no compelling reason to use it unless one has invested time already in becoming a perl expert.
There's plenty of options in any of those languages to use ACID transactions *if* that's the appropriate design for the specific needs of the application, and it doesn't bring any code overhead. As an example you can open an ADO.Net connection with the Serializable transaction isolation level to apply the ACID principles strictly (especially the I part). That's merely a property to be set.
It is however a misconception that "stability" can only be achieved with ACID transactions. It's always a matter of requirements and purpose.
I've done my share of Perl years ago, including cgi web applications with mod_perl. Back in the days I was all for it, telling whoever who'd listen how slashdot and imdb were success stories of Perl on the web.
Back then it was an okay technology, but it didn't age well and never got the kind of good frameworks that make rapid development of complex applications possible in other ecosystems. I don't know why someone would still write web applications with Perl today, unless they're unable or unwilling to keep up with more dynamic technologies. I can see someone using it for systems administration, but even there it's been outpaced by python and ruby thanks to devops tools like Ansible or Puppet.
If you want to create new web applications quickly, especially ones where you rely on a REST design, node.js is fantastic. With express js you can build things with very few lines of code, and if you respect the REST spirit you won't feel like the asynchronous thing is a problem. Just find Promise-based libraries for your database layer and you'll find the whole thing very smooth. Although I find the default templating library (jade) totally unusable, which is why I usually use swig; that's something to keep in mind if you do a lot of server-side html generation (as opposed to single page apps).
As an added bonus, with a nginx/node combo you'll get better performance than with Apache/PHP and it's even easier to configure. (Although to be honest you could use nginx/fpm to get almost the same performance). Performance matters because it's easier to scale in a cost-effective way. You can start with a smaller host (like one of those $5 virtual machines on AWS) and provision as many of them as you need.
Unfortunately this beautiful agility comes at a cost: node is not a stable ecosystem and unless you're extremely diligent in managing your dependencies, there's no way you can expect the same code base to live for 10 years. Just like bower and other packagers, npm is great and solves a lot of problems, but it relies on houses of cards built upon houses of cards. Libraries hat depend on librairies are more nimble but at the end of the day you will be the one left with a pile of garbage once a few building blocks start to erode. And with npm it's totally normal to have core libraries built by one guy in his basement who doesn't maintain his masterpiece; you don't see it because each "npm install" does all the magic, but really it can be nerve-wracking when something goes wrong and you start digging for weird error messages caused by cross-dependencies in two underlying libraries you didn't know you were using. At least with PHP frameworks there's usually a somewhat structured community.
I don't pretend this is highly scientific but based on my experience, here's fhe difference between the same web application written in different programming languages:
-Asp.net takes 25% less code than j2ee -PHP takes 50% less code than Asp.net -Node takes 75% less code than PHP
However when it comes to long term maintenance: -nothing comes even close to java in terms of stability. I will happily debug a war created in 2002 and figure out ways to work around old jdk issues. -there is zero way to debug an Asp.net web application created with an old framework; just finding an IDE that will support it without trying to upgrade it (and failing at it) would prove nightmarish. And it keeps moving forward like this. -I'd rather drink a tall glass of melted butter than debug something written in PHP3, especially with the bad mixes of html, includes and mysterious variables that may or may not come from another file. -As for node, it's probably easier to rewrtie an app created two years ago than to try and fix it.
Maybe things will change; PHP is becoming more mature and at some point people will get fed up with the throw-away nature of node js and some stability will appear. Until then: for quick & dirty stuff node is the best, and for long term maintenance java is king. I don't see immense value in sticking with stuff like PHP, RoR or Asp.net, but to each his own.
The Fox news crowd had to send a bunch of shills here to try to shift opinions of the tech crowd who are unswervingly democratic.
The following scene takes place in one of those Fox News board rooms.
The room is tense, as everyone waits for Bill and Megyn, who always do their best to let the other one arrive first at meetings. Most people in the room have already moved their pens, mistakenly positioned to the left the of notebooks by the intern who prepared the room for the meeting. There's a dripping pitcher of ice cold water in the middle of the table, as well as an uninspiring selection of juices. Nobody will drink juice during the meeting; the catering service has recently switched to those depressing plastic cups with a sticky foil cover, a type of container that nobody in the room knew still existed outside of hospital cafeterias. Another small brick in the wall of mediocrity that Anita in Facilities Management has started to build since she took over last October.
The meeting mediator is fiddling with the whiteboard markers. She checks each one over and over to make sure that no permanent marker has found its way in the lot; she doesn't want some stupid thing to get written permanently on the whiteboard on her watch, like it happened in the Dasher room. The Dasher room... She almost shakes her head in disgust. Who picked the theme for naming the meeting rooms? It's already annoying to book meetings with the broken search wizard in Lotus Notes, it doesn't help to have meeting room names that don't convey their size. As far as she knows all the Santa Claus reindeers were the same size. It was so much better back at Rubbermaid; you knew immediately that for a crowded meeting it would be best to book the Texas or California room, not Rhode Island, which didn't even had windows.
A guy with a 9-11 pin on his lapel - he never lets people forget that he was there that day - clears his throat. Everyone knows what's about to happen; he'll make a potentially controversial suggestion while the meeting hasn't started yet so he can feel the room's reaction without going on the official record. If the reaction is bad, he'll add something ludicrous to make it look like he was joking. Brainstorm meetings are supposed to be a safe place, but creativity has gone down drastically since those drones from Legal insisted that detailed minutes be kept of every meeting. The pre-meeting loophole is often the only way to bring up fresh ideas.
"My son spends a lot of time on that Slashdot website," he says. "That's where the Geek Squad kind of people hang out to talk about iPhones."
A few people nod. They, too, have awkward children with no social skills who spend their days arguing about iPhones and Linuxes (or is it Lunixes?) on internet forums. Those people know that their kids are very low on the totem pole, but at least not as low as the youngest boy of Anita in Facilities Management, who was arrested by the FBI for posting naked pictures of semi-celebrities on that ChannelFour website (or something).
"Maybe we could hire a few internet experts to go on Slashdot and promote a healthy, God-fearing perspective on life," continues the Lapel Pin Guy.
That's how the moderator refers to him when she talks with the girls in the yoga center locker room. Not Tom, not the 9-11 guy, not even Giuliani Junior like most people call him in Sametime chats. She calls him Lapel Pin Guy. She wishes he would move on. She won't admit it but there's a part of her that wouldn't mind taking him up on his offer to go share an order of pancake puppies at Denny's one of those nights. If he could just give the 9-11 thing a rest.
"Wouldn't the regular users of Slashdot notice if marketing experts suddenly started to open accounts on that website?" asks a guy with no chin. He has a gigantic lump just above his right eyebrow, which is the real reason why he's never getting promotions, but he seems unaware of it. The thing is like a shiny, sometimes pulsating mound of flesh; it looks
Slashdot Mirror
They never claimed that it's ready. They've said over and over that the prototype was flawed and no longer considered, that they were working on new avenues.
These people are truly working to improve lab testing (which is their actual business), it's not a startup that does nothing but try to invent a new thing. They do millions of regular tests, for less money than the competition, and they should be praised for that, not bashed because some of their R&D programs are not yet viable.
But that's not what is being disputed! Are you unaware that Theranos is a private lab that does all kinds of tests, and this whole finger prick thing is taken out of context and spinned as if that's actual core business?
Look at their website:
https://www.theranos.com/test-...
They are researching ways to get more tests per blood sample, and they invented procedures and equipment for that. The "detect cancer from a drop of blood" is not what they do on a daily basis, it's part of their R&D program. But the WSJ made it look like they claim to do all their tests with that experimental technology, then ridicule them when they try to explain why they do tests with "normal" equipment.
Can you explain how you link is relevant? Exact quote and how it constitutes a rebuttal of my point?
Did you read the articles? I don't know why I even bother with this because people are not looking for what this is all about, they're just out for blood like with that fucking gorilla that got killed.
The first article you post has nothing to do with Theranos using an unproven technology. It's essentially an internal letter (not an actual decision) citing issues with lab procedures for a specific incident. None of the R&D stuff at Theranos is related to Medicare coverage.
The second one is just a follow-up from the same bullshit WSJ article that keeps bashing the old prototype (that Edison machine) for things Theranos never claimed it did. It doesn,t bring up new facts at all.
Because you can't prove a fucking negative. They NEVER claimed what the article say
Well did YOU make your own due diligence before coming to the conclusion that it doesn't do what Theranos actually claims it does (as opposed to all the made up bullshit)? or did you just jump on the bandwagon and assumed that if there's a story about it in the WSJ then it must mean Theranos are crooks?
do you even KNOW what the real story is about, or did you just assume that Theranos claimed miracles of some kind and got caught in their lies?
post a fucking link that proves that Theranos themselves actually *claimed* that this test does something magic. Only things you'll find will tie back to that bullshit WSJ article (which Theranos disputes) that mixes a bunch of false assumptions and unverified facts to spin a spectacular story painting Theranos as snake oil salespeople.
It's a fucking terrifying situation because it shows how even the shallowest nonchalant "reporting" in one article triggers a shitstorm of epic proportions, with no one listening to the accused and just adding their own layer of indignant comments based on top of countless piles of misinformation.
Due diligence? what a fuckingly ironic accusation
this kind of comment is the modern day equivalent of joining a witch hunt. You use Slashdot buttons instead of a pitch fork, but the spirit and enthusiasm for expedient "justice" is the same. And anyone who gets in your way has to be in cahoots with the witch, right? Zero chance that maybe you're just plain wrong.
The original article was essentially bullshit, using people who worked at Theranos for 2 weeks 5 years ago as "internal sources", and debunking claims that Theranos never made. What they did was like posting a story saying that the Linux kernel doesn't "truly" prevent computers from being infected by viruses (a claim nobody ever made) and that the GNU didn't it grant it a GPLv3 license.
I don't know if this total incompetence or if there's a hidden agenda, or maybe it is in fact a case of blatant sexism, but the coverage of Theranos by the Wall Street journal is awful and careless. And the other big media gobbled this up without thinking twice about it.
There was a video interview of Holmes by some grinning moron from the WSJ posted on Slashdot a while ago. Anyone watching that video could see that this whole story is essentially sensationalistic reporting with no basis in reality. But who cares about facts, it's much easier to call that girl a crook and move on to the next scandal.
I actually cancelled my Audible subscription to the WSJ after watching that interview and doing my own research into this story. Who knows what proportion of their stories are full of bullshit like this one. They remind me of that guy from the movie Shattered Glass.
Blaming others not to face yourself is cowardice.
That's just more simplistic assumptions about what racism is. Simplistic and corny like those lousy motivational gif idiots keep cranking out ("aim for the stars", "there's no traffic jam on the extra mile", etc).
You are not standing up against racism when you say things like "racists are cowards". You're just posturing and fishing for Likes or +1s, instead of facilitating a discussion about complex social issues. I'd say there's more cowardice in that than in that generic racist persona you're pretending to shame.
They just had those forms in case people's pictures were taken in the new pool area and ended up on the management company's facebook page. Someone just blew that out of proportions and internet happened.
Real racists are cowards
There's zero evidence to support that statement. It's just a cheap attack at people who have values different than yours.
Besides, a lot of racist people are unaware that they are technically racist. Same goes for sexists and many others. Putting all those shades of values and beliefs in the same bigotry bucket only demonstrates a poor understanding of humanity.
How is the old way a problem?
That's systemd in a nutshell (and pulseaudio too). Replace well-known things that are not broken with something obscure and clunky that thinks it's smarter than you.
systemd, unity, iTunes, Windows 10... We live in a world where mediocre aspies decide how other people should use their computers because they work in large footprint organizations that have no competent dictators.
[SJW mode] And what's wrong with that? [/]
The real question should be: why would be the same person called "dude" or "lady" depending on his/her gender? Why not dude/chick or gentleman/lady? Does the sex change imply a transformation of the personality or social standing?
But of course it's socially acceptable as long as the woman version is more respectful; nobody would stand for "gentleman or chick". That kind of inconscious bias is an order of magnitude more sexist than the alleged discrepancy in gender income, which is actually explained by pregnancy leaves and the fact that a larger proportion of women choose a career in a field that is more rewarding socially/emotionally than financially (ex: dedicated special ed teacher vs coke snorting stock market broker).
50 years from now they will make TV shows that take in place in the 2010s and just like we're shocked by the blatant systemic discrimination against women in Mad Men, people from the future will be shocked to see the constant belittlement of males in the name of "equality" or "feminism" in our current society.
Could anyone genuinely be this much of a moron?
I wasn't sure about the scientific value of his argument, but thanks to your in-depth analysis I am now a born-again anti-denier.
Cool people kill radroaches with mininukes.
Look, if you can't even do the match correctly on this, you have no business giving your input on this.
I hate when this happens to me. Just yesterday I didn't do the match correctly and I ended up wearing a brown belt with my black shoes, I looked stupid all day.
The Mars Rover should have been hybrid. I told them, but they didn't listen. See where it got us.
Most of these teachers are probably not even qualified to teach programming and you end up getting this hard reliance on a textbook.
That's the kind of teacher that made it possible for me to learn how to perform a DDOS. It was highly motivating to see her wonder why her computer had severe network problems during class, while nobody else seemed to be affected. And when they upgraded her computer to a (omg) multimedia machine and I figured out how to eject her cdrom remotely, I was hooked. And those were dos and Netware years, mind you, none of this fancy linux thing.
I don't think I'd have become interested in computers if instead of her my teacher had been an elegant coder who really jnew the importance of design patterns and DRY and was talking about multifaceted this and polymorphism that.
So what I'm saying is, keep this kind of thing going on and let the horse figure out by himself if he wants to drink. If coding becomes a dull school subject it will attract the wrong crowd, and god knows we don't need any more dullards in this industry.
Seriously, does this guy think the WISE team are a bunch of idiots? I'm personally not qualfied to judge the details of the physical arguments in Myhrvold's paper, but I would give it high probability that he's full of shit.
And your opinion is based on what? The moral and intellectual superiority of NASA?
There's a reason why people go to the former USSR to launch private space ships and satellites. And it's not that the NASA is amazingly good and flexible and cost-effective. They are the DMV of space, with the same arrogance based on state-backed authority, not competence.
Just looking at how the WISE people answer to his critics show that they're not used to have people challenge them, and just based on that I'd bet a dollar against them any day.
Sure, I know CPAN, but you can get all that plus vastly superior performance with node js. And there's 10x more packages on npm than CPAN (according to modulecounts.com) and it's clearly the most active.
Look at the packages:
https://www.npmjs.com/
It's not more difficult to install a package (npm install ModuleName) and you get all kinds of fancy tools to make development easier. You can use frameworks like express js to quickly build apps, but with just node alone it's trivial to create pretty much anything. It's javascript so there are things that suck (like dates) but overall it's pretty good, and much easier to learn than perl.
I'm not saying you should ditch perl, but there's no compelling reason to use it unless one has invested time already in becoming a perl expert.
There's plenty of options in any of those languages to use ACID transactions *if* that's the appropriate design for the specific needs of the application, and it doesn't bring any code overhead. As an example you can open an ADO.Net connection with the Serializable transaction isolation level to apply the ACID principles strictly (especially the I part). That's merely a property to be set.
It is however a misconception that "stability" can only be achieved with ACID transactions. It's always a matter of requirements and purpose.
Really? You have created actual web applications with this thing? What kind?
Regards, a Perl developer.
I've done my share of Perl years ago, including cgi web applications with mod_perl. Back in the days I was all for it, telling whoever who'd listen how slashdot and imdb were success stories of Perl on the web.
Back then it was an okay technology, but it didn't age well and never got the kind of good frameworks that make rapid development of complex applications possible in other ecosystems. I don't know why someone would still write web applications with Perl today, unless they're unable or unwilling to keep up with more dynamic technologies. I can see someone using it for systems administration, but even there it's been outpaced by python and ruby thanks to devops tools like Ansible or Puppet.
If you want to create new web applications quickly, especially ones where you rely on a REST design, node.js is fantastic. With express js you can build things with very few lines of code, and if you respect the REST spirit you won't feel like the asynchronous thing is a problem. Just find Promise-based libraries for your database layer and you'll find the whole thing very smooth. Although I find the default templating library (jade) totally unusable, which is why I usually use swig; that's something to keep in mind if you do a lot of server-side html generation (as opposed to single page apps).
As an added bonus, with a nginx/node combo you'll get better performance than with Apache/PHP and it's even easier to configure. (Although to be honest you could use nginx/fpm to get almost the same performance). Performance matters because it's easier to scale in a cost-effective way. You can start with a smaller host (like one of those $5 virtual machines on AWS) and provision as many of them as you need.
Unfortunately this beautiful agility comes at a cost: node is not a stable ecosystem and unless you're extremely diligent in managing your dependencies, there's no way you can expect the same code base to live for 10 years. Just like bower and other packagers, npm is great and solves a lot of problems, but it relies on houses of cards built upon houses of cards. Libraries hat depend on librairies are more nimble but at the end of the day you will be the one left with a pile of garbage once a few building blocks start to erode. And with npm it's totally normal to have core libraries built by one guy in his basement who doesn't maintain his masterpiece; you don't see it because each "npm install" does all the magic, but really it can be nerve-wracking when something goes wrong and you start digging for weird error messages caused by cross-dependencies in two underlying libraries you didn't know you were using. At least with PHP frameworks there's usually a somewhat structured community.
I don't pretend this is highly scientific but based on my experience, here's fhe difference between the same web application written in different programming languages:
-Asp.net takes 25% less code than j2ee
-PHP takes 50% less code than Asp.net
-Node takes 75% less code than PHP
However when it comes to long term maintenance:
-nothing comes even close to java in terms of stability. I will happily debug a war created in 2002 and figure out ways to work around old jdk issues.
-there is zero way to debug an Asp.net web application created with an old framework; just finding an IDE that will support it without trying to upgrade it (and failing at it) would prove nightmarish. And it keeps moving forward like this.
-I'd rather drink a tall glass of melted butter than debug something written in PHP3, especially with the bad mixes of html, includes and mysterious variables that may or may not come from another file.
-As for node, it's probably easier to rewrtie an app created two years ago than to try and fix it.
Maybe things will change; PHP is becoming more mature and at some point people will get fed up with the throw-away nature of node js and some stability will appear. Until then: for quick & dirty stuff node is the best, and for long term maintenance java is king. I don't see immense value in sticking with stuff like PHP, RoR or Asp.net, but to each his own.
The Fox news crowd had to send a bunch of shills here to try to shift opinions of the tech crowd who are unswervingly democratic.
The following scene takes place in one of those Fox News board rooms.
The room is tense, as everyone waits for Bill and Megyn, who always do their best to let the other one arrive first at meetings. Most people in the room have already moved their pens, mistakenly positioned to the left the of notebooks by the intern who prepared the room for the meeting. There's a dripping pitcher of ice cold water in the middle of the table, as well as an uninspiring selection of juices. Nobody will drink juice during the meeting; the catering service has recently switched to those depressing plastic cups with a sticky foil cover, a type of container that nobody in the room knew still existed outside of hospital cafeterias. Another small brick in the wall of mediocrity that Anita in Facilities Management has started to build since she took over last October.
The meeting mediator is fiddling with the whiteboard markers. She checks each one over and over to make sure that no permanent marker has found its way in the lot; she doesn't want some stupid thing to get written permanently on the whiteboard on her watch, like it happened in the Dasher room. The Dasher room... She almost shakes her head in disgust. Who picked the theme for naming the meeting rooms? It's already annoying to book meetings with the broken search wizard in Lotus Notes, it doesn't help to have meeting room names that don't convey their size. As far as she knows all the Santa Claus reindeers were the same size. It was so much better back at Rubbermaid; you knew immediately that for a crowded meeting it would be best to book the Texas or California room, not Rhode Island, which didn't even had windows.
A guy with a 9-11 pin on his lapel - he never lets people forget that he was there that day - clears his throat. Everyone knows what's about to happen; he'll make a potentially controversial suggestion while the meeting hasn't started yet so he can feel the room's reaction without going on the official record. If the reaction is bad, he'll add something ludicrous to make it look like he was joking. Brainstorm meetings are supposed to be a safe place, but creativity has gone down drastically since those drones from Legal insisted that detailed minutes be kept of every meeting. The pre-meeting loophole is often the only way to bring up fresh ideas.
"My son spends a lot of time on that Slashdot website," he says. "That's where the Geek Squad kind of people hang out to talk about iPhones."
A few people nod. They, too, have awkward children with no social skills who spend their days arguing about iPhones and Linuxes (or is it Lunixes?) on internet forums. Those people know that their kids are very low on the totem pole, but at least not as low as the youngest boy of Anita in Facilities Management, who was arrested by the FBI for posting naked pictures of semi-celebrities on that ChannelFour website (or something).
"Maybe we could hire a few internet experts to go on Slashdot and promote a healthy, God-fearing perspective on life," continues the Lapel Pin Guy.
That's how the moderator refers to him when she talks with the girls in the yoga center locker room. Not Tom, not the 9-11 guy, not even Giuliani Junior like most people call him in Sametime chats. She calls him Lapel Pin Guy. She wishes he would move on. She won't admit it but there's a part of her that wouldn't mind taking him up on his offer to go share an order of pancake puppies at Denny's one of those nights. If he could just give the 9-11 thing a rest.
"Wouldn't the regular users of Slashdot notice if marketing experts suddenly started to open accounts on that website?" asks a guy with no chin. He has a gigantic lump just above his right eyebrow, which is the real reason why he's never getting promotions, but he seems unaware of it. The thing is like a shiny, sometimes pulsating mound of flesh; it looks