Apparently Google is being sued in the EU because they found a way to exploit Safari's security and put device persistent cookies in spite of privacy settings.
Of course, Apple would go bankrupt if people actually started poking at Safari security.
I mean ultimately its Safari's problem that Google could find a way to circumvent their privacy settings and write cookies to their user profile. If Safari was written properly then no website should be able to access private information or write to profile.
What is at fault here is the users thought Safari was secure, but Google found a way around the security. Its Safari's issue, period.
Seriously, I think JJ Abrams is a decent enough director, can't be any worse the George Lucas, but he has to end his obsession with the lens flare. Been watching Fringe from Season 1 again and there is lens flare in almost every shot. Its one thing to have a trademark, but its another to not understand it being overused and becoming a meme joke.
As for Star Trek, come on, that shit was ruined before he got to it. I value him bringing action and darkness back to the Star Trek franchise instead of overly contrived morality plays and endless yapping of people in pajamas that plagued the numerous TV series and the complete lack of focus in the TNG movies. Getting rid of Bermen and Ronald D Moore from anything to do with Star Trek is the first good thing that franchise has done since TNG. I'll reserve judgement on Abrams until I see Into Darkness, although it can't be all that dark with all the lens flare.
What right does someone have to claim rights on something out in space? There is no point creating laws on earth to start allowing companies or countries right's to space stuff. Even if some paper on earth is written up its not going to stop someone from building a space ship and getting there first to actually mine it.
If you can plant a flag on it, its yours, period. If you can put gun turrets onit to protect your stake, then you win.
For decades Apple tried to tell PC user's their machines sucked and Apple was better, and it only got Apple maybe at most, 10% of the market, a distant second place. In fact once Apple stopped the whole stupid switch campaigns and started to focus on iPhones and crap, people started buying Macs more.
Valve telling Window's users they should switch to Linux is retarded, period. It means people have to switch an OS just to play a game that works identically to the game played on Windows. Oh sure, maybe in some situations the games run a little faster, but really Valve is asking people to switch and OS, including adapting everything else they try to do with that OS, just to use Linux Steam? What a poor poor marketing strategy. Its like Honda asking Toyota owners to replace their Toyota engines with Honda engines so they can basically get the same crap performance but with all the extra hassle of actually having to switch engines, just because.
Instead Valve should really be focused 100% on their Steam Box. I mean if this thing is for real, costs less then $400, and actually offers great game performance I could easily see myself buying one, and I really don't care what OS it runs on. But I'm not about to switch OS'es just because Valve has a new product for Linux they are trying to promote. If decades of people telling Windows users that Windows sucks and Linux is better hasn't moved the market towards Linux, having a game platform isn't going to make people switch, just because.
Jobs was just a bully. After years of being a distant second to the Wintel platform, he made sure Apple wasn't going to be pushed around in the mobile/consumer electronics markets and so did everything a bully would do to protect their interests. Lawsuits, patent hoarding, and threats to their competitors.
Not sure how or why anybody would actually leave Apple to go to Palm, but I mean if someone offered you better money and better perks then the company you are working for then by all means a person has a RIGHT to decide where they should be employed. I mean no-poach rules are simply unconstitutional, its basically a form a slavery.
How could Jobs feel so insecure as to believe Palm would be a competitor to Apple even if they poached a few key employees? I think Jobs suffered from some kind of massive insecurity complex. I definitely feel more and more stories like this are going to emerge now that the year of morning is over.
It says a lot about a culture when someone laments the removable of menial minimum wage jobs requiring no skill and claims it a negative impact on society. Maybe that culture should aim just a little higher.
Its easy to go back over a finished codebase, run some static analysis and refactoring tools and clean it up. Chances are this is what was done before releasing it to be open source. I can guarantee this source coded didn't look anything like this during development.
Of course this is maybe why the game took longer to develop, spending more time making the code look purdy then, say, making the game a superlative gaming experience.
The people that worry about coding style don't write good code. It might look nice, but is fundamentally they don't spend enough time on functionality.
I have found consistently that the big office blowhard developer that sends out numerous emails and writes documents about the company's coding style practices is typically the person who is the worst programmer in the bunch. He only writes beautifully coded bugs.
These guys were responsible for 90,000 people losing their jobs and there pensions through outright illegal practices running Nortel.
These are millionaires that tried to over-inflate the value of their company to get more money, not just some hard working guys doing what it took to keep the company profitable and afloat.
Don't pull the "lets put on their other guys shoes" empathetic bullshit here. You couldn't afford the shoes these guys were putting on their feat ripping off the 90,000 people who were just doing their jobs and the millions of investors the lost their shirts investing in what they though was a strongly performing company.
OMG, it has problems sucking out cauliflower and broccoli. Is that going to be an issue for overweight people using this device? Maybe if you coat those veggies in cheese and butter the extra lubrication will aid the removal by the machine.
I am surprised Dyson didn't invent this yet. He makes products that suck all the time, I am sure cauliflower wouldn't stop it.
I've said before that the world's love affair with Apple is slowly eroding, and so it seems iPhone 5 orders are not quite what Apple was expecting. 2013 is going to be a very tough year for Apple and coming out with cheap iPhone mini's or doing minor revamps of existing products are not going to cut it. Unless Apple does something truly innovative with iOS and iPhone in general, this slow erosion of their market will pick up speed.
Cutting back screen orders because they want to introduce a new product does not make any sense, why place an order so large in the first place? Is Apple so completely out of touch they don't even have a firm release cycle for future products when they ship a new product? Like they didn't know the 5S release cycle when they shipped the iPhone 5? I would be dumping Apple stock if this is their emerging trend, release a product with ridiculous expectations on sales, cross their fingers, and when the sales don't reach their inflated estimates dump the product and rush a new version to market???
Nothing about this speaks of a company that is being run properly.
Only a person without a child would think iPotty is a stupid idea.
While I don't have a child, my best buddy has a 3 year old that has been very difficult to get potty trained. They finally did so by using the iPad as a way to entice her to stay on the potty long enough to do her business. Within two weeks she is fully potty trained.
There are two guarantees for every infant, they love iPad, and hate getting potty trained.
How is this any dumber then the geek that hangs a TV in their bathroom?
Been on the fence about removing Java completely from all my systems. Have a few things still requiring it, but I get tired of the frequent nagging update notices and the fact it installs 16 parallel versions. With the recent security problems I just decided to nuke java completely and refuse to use any service, tool or app that requires Java. While Java "the code" should live on, Java the "platform" should die a fiery death. Anybody still using Java as a platform for app distribution should seriously consider moving to a more 'modern" platform, or get a new career in basket weaving.
Maybe accept that your code sucks. I mean just as bad the guy that goes around assuming everyone else's code sucks is that guy who assumes he is perfect.
I think the only reason why I can consider myself a senior developer is because I learned how to finally accept criticism and improve my coding based on it, and understand I don't know everything out there so every new idea or concept that is introduced to me should be evaluated. If someone shows me a better way to do things, I adapt and bring it into my skill set. Also a senior is not "possessive" of "their" code so should not be offended when someone criticizes it. The code is about the product you are trying to produce, and making the product better, not your personal ego.
If that is not the case then ask him exactly why it sucks. People are reactionary as you said, so if he doesn't understand something and so assumes it sucks, but then can't explain why it sucks, or better yet, explain how to make it better, then he is just an ass that likes to bitch. If he stands there and can't give a reason for why it sucks then he basically sucks as a developer and should probably be turfed.
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Apparently Google is being sued in the EU because they found a way to exploit Safari's security and put device persistent cookies in spite of privacy settings.
Of course, Apple would go bankrupt if people actually started poking at Safari security.
I mean ultimately its Safari's problem that Google could find a way to circumvent their privacy settings and write cookies to their user profile. If Safari was written properly then no website should be able to access private information or write to profile.
What is at fault here is the users thought Safari was secure, but Google found a way around the security. Its Safari's issue, period.
Intel wants more horse meat in their products.
Seriously, I think JJ Abrams is a decent enough director, can't be any worse the George Lucas, but he has to end his obsession with the lens flare. Been watching Fringe from Season 1 again and there is lens flare in almost every shot. Its one thing to have a trademark, but its another to not understand it being overused and becoming a meme joke.
As for Star Trek, come on, that shit was ruined before he got to it. I value him bringing action and darkness back to the Star Trek franchise instead of overly contrived morality plays and endless yapping of people in pajamas that plagued the numerous TV series and the complete lack of focus in the TNG movies. Getting rid of Bermen and Ronald D Moore from anything to do with Star Trek is the first good thing that franchise has done since TNG. I'll reserve judgement on Abrams until I see Into Darkness, although it can't be all that dark with all the lens flare.
Now if only there was some kind of profession that would have people investigate and research all these questions.
Looked up silicic acid and, for once, doesn't seem to want to destroy the environment or cause cancer, that we know of yet.
Needing multiple windows on a tablet or phone means you are using it wrong, or really want to be using a laptop.
The right they have is getting there first.
What right does someone have to claim rights on something out in space? There is no point creating laws on earth to start allowing companies or countries right's to space stuff. Even if some paper on earth is written up its not going to stop someone from building a space ship and getting there first to actually mine it.
If you can plant a flag on it, its yours, period. If you can put gun turrets onit to protect your stake, then you win.
I am sure millions of people will happily throw money into this without any hope of return or success.
The moment you buy something like "Cauliflower © 2013", you should probably switch supermarkets.
For decades Apple tried to tell PC user's their machines sucked and Apple was better, and it only got Apple maybe at most, 10% of the market, a distant second place. In fact once Apple stopped the whole stupid switch campaigns and started to focus on iPhones and crap, people started buying Macs more.
Valve telling Window's users they should switch to Linux is retarded, period. It means people have to switch an OS just to play a game that works identically to the game played on Windows. Oh sure, maybe in some situations the games run a little faster, but really Valve is asking people to switch and OS, including adapting everything else they try to do with that OS, just to use Linux Steam? What a poor poor marketing strategy. Its like Honda asking Toyota owners to replace their Toyota engines with Honda engines so they can basically get the same crap performance but with all the extra hassle of actually having to switch engines, just because.
Instead Valve should really be focused 100% on their Steam Box. I mean if this thing is for real, costs less then $400, and actually offers great game performance I could easily see myself buying one, and I really don't care what OS it runs on. But I'm not about to switch OS'es just because Valve has a new product for Linux they are trying to promote. If decades of people telling Windows users that Windows sucks and Linux is better hasn't moved the market towards Linux, having a game platform isn't going to make people switch, just because.
Jobs was just a bully. After years of being a distant second to the Wintel platform, he made sure Apple wasn't going to be pushed around in the mobile/consumer electronics markets and so did everything a bully would do to protect their interests. Lawsuits, patent hoarding, and threats to their competitors.
Not sure how or why anybody would actually leave Apple to go to Palm, but I mean if someone offered you better money and better perks then the company you are working for then by all means a person has a RIGHT to decide where they should be employed. I mean no-poach rules are simply unconstitutional, its basically a form a slavery.
How could Jobs feel so insecure as to believe Palm would be a competitor to Apple even if they poached a few key employees? I think Jobs suffered from some kind of massive insecurity complex. I definitely feel more and more stories like this are going to emerge now that the year of morning is over.
It says a lot about a culture when someone laments the removable of menial minimum wage jobs requiring no skill and claims it a negative impact on society. Maybe that culture should aim just a little higher.
They watched that episode of Homeland where the Vice President was killed remotely through his pace maker.
Need a new hobby other then building obsolete shoebox computers.
Its easy to go back over a finished codebase, run some static analysis and refactoring tools and clean it up. Chances are this is what was done before releasing it to be open source. I can guarantee this source coded didn't look anything like this during development.
Of course this is maybe why the game took longer to develop, spending more time making the code look purdy then, say, making the game a superlative gaming experience.
The people that worry about coding style don't write good code. It might look nice, but is fundamentally they don't spend enough time on functionality.
I have found consistently that the big office blowhard developer that sends out numerous emails and writes documents about the company's coding style practices is typically the person who is the worst programmer in the bunch. He only writes beautifully coded bugs.
It's TIc-Tac-Toe for intellectuals.
Don't even start to defend these guys.
These guys were responsible for 90,000 people losing their jobs and there pensions through outright illegal practices running Nortel.
These are millionaires that tried to over-inflate the value of their company to get more money, not just some hard working guys doing what it took to keep the company profitable and afloat.
Don't pull the "lets put on their other guys shoes" empathetic bullshit here. You couldn't afford the shoes these guys were putting on their feat ripping off the 90,000 people who were just doing their jobs and the millions of investors the lost their shirts investing in what they though was a strongly performing company.
OMG, it has problems sucking out cauliflower and broccoli. Is that going to be an issue for overweight people using this device? Maybe if you coat those veggies in cheese and butter the extra lubrication will aid the removal by the machine.
I am surprised Dyson didn't invent this yet. He makes products that suck all the time, I am sure cauliflower wouldn't stop it.
I've said before that the world's love affair with Apple is slowly eroding, and so it seems iPhone 5 orders are not quite what Apple was expecting. 2013 is going to be a very tough year for Apple and coming out with cheap iPhone mini's or doing minor revamps of existing products are not going to cut it. Unless Apple does something truly innovative with iOS and iPhone in general, this slow erosion of their market will pick up speed.
Cutting back screen orders because they want to introduce a new product does not make any sense, why place an order so large in the first place? Is Apple so completely out of touch they don't even have a firm release cycle for future products when they ship a new product? Like they didn't know the 5S release cycle when they shipped the iPhone 5? I would be dumping Apple stock if this is their emerging trend, release a product with ridiculous expectations on sales, cross their fingers, and when the sales don't reach their inflated estimates dump the product and rush a new version to market???
Nothing about this speaks of a company that is being run properly.
Only a person without a child would think iPotty is a stupid idea.
While I don't have a child, my best buddy has a 3 year old that has been very difficult to get potty trained. They finally did so by using the iPad as a way to entice her to stay on the potty long enough to do her business. Within two weeks she is fully potty trained.
There are two guarantees for every infant, they love iPad, and hate getting potty trained.
How is this any dumber then the geek that hangs a TV in their bathroom?
There is no inflatable product on the market today that does not eventually develop a leak or burst. Air mattresses, tires, dolls...
Been on the fence about removing Java completely from all my systems. Have a few things still requiring it, but I get tired of the frequent nagging update notices and the fact it installs 16 parallel versions. With the recent security problems I just decided to nuke java completely and refuse to use any service, tool or app that requires Java. While Java "the code" should live on, Java the "platform" should die a fiery death. Anybody still using Java as a platform for app distribution should seriously consider moving to a more 'modern" platform, or get a new career in basket weaving.
Maybe accept that your code sucks. I mean just as bad the guy that goes around assuming everyone else's code sucks is that guy who assumes he is perfect.
I think the only reason why I can consider myself a senior developer is because I learned how to finally accept criticism and improve my coding based on it, and understand I don't know everything out there so every new idea or concept that is introduced to me should be evaluated. If someone shows me a better way to do things, I adapt and bring it into my skill set. Also a senior is not "possessive" of "their" code so should not be offended when someone criticizes it. The code is about the product you are trying to produce, and making the product better, not your personal ego.
If that is not the case then ask him exactly why it sucks. People are reactionary as you said, so if he doesn't understand something and so assumes it sucks, but then can't explain why it sucks, or better yet, explain how to make it better, then he is just an ass that likes to bitch. If he stands there and can't give a reason for why it sucks then he basically sucks as a developer and should probably be turfed.