I've worked on a state office migration project before, it's no surprise for me that this kind of efforts always end up with the same outcome. The thing is that migrating a state office is a painful process, and tends to generate discomfort on many people, from the office workers to the technical staff.
Here in latin america we may have particular problems regarding that.
Many office employees don't want to fully disclose their working environment because: oh surprise! they hardly do any work at all! They just sit there in their computer and complain when their favourite radio stream which uses proprietary technology from the 90's. I wonder how much of these "propietary files" were actually mail-forwarded.ppt/mp4 files and flash games.
Technical staff has to be trained, and usually that doesn't go well, they are not cooperative and feel the migration process as a personal attack on their capacity and skills.
It doesn't help either that internal politics get involved in the process when some office workers think they're being audited, and actively seek to shut down the migration process through political means (which they usually have way more experience than the guys doing the migration work).
Overall the employees feel migration processes as a unnecessary burden, an attack to their perceived right to do what they please with the state's resources without answering anyone and a challenge to their competence. It also prevents high-ranking bureaucrats to get all those juicy commisions from propietary software vendor's.
after that don't complain about the avalanche of COD clones all with the same engine but sporting "engaging storyline" which will probably include: explosions, sex, cars and stupid stereotypes in the same line of Hollywood blockbusters. Or perhaps colored puzzles that annoy all your friends with stupid requests.
I never heard much about game developers, but it seems like GamerGate has put many of them in the spotlight, specially women.
Has the Gamergate movement somehow boosted your popularity and of other game developers and benefited you in any way? Do you regret that a big part your popularity didn't stem from the work you've made all these years in your professional life and rather from a political counter-movement?
I don't really trust online password managers for the same reason I have a set of passwords which are slight variations from each other (following the same pattern) for accounts I don't care that much about or might be insecure. I memorize a few of random generated passwords for my main important accounts and keys ( I also have encrypted them stored in a usb key in the rare case I forget them).
If a service becomes important enough to have a secure password I generate a new random password for that (but it's really rare).
Many other work related passwords are stored in encrypted files in my hard drive.
They don't have to be women, but we know (because we asked, and because of historic numbers) that women are a large, willing and untapped resource in CS.
Large? agreed (and I'll refrain of doing any "yo momma" jokes here).
Willing? it doesn't seem like it, we have tried sugarcoating projects, mentoring, boot camps and women seem largely disinterested for programming and STEM careers . Even more, there is a resurgence in the interest of traditional "women-only" careers like cooking, fashion design, child-care and elementary education.
We also know exactly how to fix that
It doesn't seem like that's the case, since each attempt to fix it ends up in a big waste of resources ( see the outcome of gnome outreach programs among others)
It's in their own interests to get more skilled programmers on board.
Yeah... filtering out potential developers by making women/trans/queer-only outreach programmes instead of opening them up to let anyone interested join it's a great way to get MORE, not LESS potential candidates./s
That's basically all MOOCs are: a way for third-worlders to try to acquire meaningless certificates without actually doing anything to earn them
Ouch as a third worlder(argentinian) this hits very near home, but I guess it's true for many people but not for me (and I bet for many others). For me personally it's about learning, I started one on cryptography and couldn't actually finish , but I downloaded every class video and I'm going to complete it on the next term ( I was doing quite good on the homeworks but the pace was too fast for someone who also works full time).
When I started I assumed the certificate is not the most important thing to get out of it but the actual knowledge, which IMHO is pretty good and almost impossible to access for most people outside from a college campus (which is also a way for senior professionals or dropouts who can't go back to college to update their knowledge) . Right now I started one on Machine Learning ( while I study the notes I took for crypto for the next term) which I always wanted to learn because of the sheer coolness of it.
Conclusion: if you only care about the certificate (whether you're a first world or a third world citizen), it sucks, if you care about the knowledge, MOOCs are a pretty good way to update your knowledge.
I've been working for more than 9 years with PHP and pretty much have seen it all. From cheap quality boilerplate code hell, to really well designed code.
The main problem with PHP is that it's lack of features sometimes forced you into using bad practices. See for example the lack of namespaces/packages way over the time every other language had an implementation for that. This is solved for now, but there is a lot of legacy code that is still out there and making other programmers pull their hair.
Nowadays PHP has evolved, and frameworks have started using the new features in an elegant and powerful way. Some of the criticisms to PHP are still valid, other don't apply anymore. I for one think that PHP has get enough good features to ditch the "you're bound to write shitty code if you use PHP" motto. There are better languages, yes! I use them and I like them, but that's not a good reason for believing that using x language makes you a shitty developer and using y language makes you a good developer. Still... some languages might make it harder to write good code, and that's why you have to be wary and consider options.
I don't love PHP, I won't marry PHP (that's why I'm currently learning other languages to expand my career or simply having fun) but I wouldn't marry any other language either. I love programming and I see each language as a tool which might or not be useful, I'll keep learning, but I won't trash what I know because bashing it becomes trending topic among IT freshman.
> The DolDoc was particularly interesting for me, mostly in a world where we have HTML everywhere plugged to a VM, DolDoc seems like a different approach (which I'm sure has plenty of flaws) to be considered at least as food for thought for future solutions.
Ok that may sound controversial or plain stupid, what I mean is that exposure to this kind of things might give new ideas about alternate approaches to the same problem, not that actually implementing this on server solutions is a good idea.
It's really interesting how people jump in the bandwagon of bashing this because of it's author. But this article really points out things that I wanted to see but I missed from running templeOS, which are the interesting part that it's author created.
It's wonderful to see how when freeing a developer of current constraints of accepted programming practices it can come up with crazy but interesting and admittedly cool ideas.
The DolDoc was particularly interesting for me, mostly in a world where we have HTML everywhere plugged to a VM, DolDoc seems like a different approach (which I'm sure has plenty of flaws) to be considered at least as food for thought for future solutions.
And last but not least, I really respect someone who can do this kind of stuff. Even if I may not agree with his ideas, I'm glad that he spends time in actually creating stuff which is more that I can say about a lot of people.
Stallman doesn't say otherwise. Stallman says proprietary software is evil and that HE doesn't use or recommend proprietary software, and tries to convince others of this. I have never heard Stallman saying the user is evil for using proprietary software, the only thing he says is that users of proprietary software are victims of it.
The big problem is that when faced with a contradicting idea millenials get their feeeelings hurt and their narcissistic way of thinking transforms it into a personal offense. They cannot stand that other people might or might not have different ethic standards and that might even be vocal about that because in some idealistic way he sees it as a way to change the world for the better.
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I've worked on a state office migration project before, it's no surprise for me that this kind of efforts always end up with the same outcome. The thing is that migrating a state office is a painful process, and tends to generate discomfort on many people, from the office workers to the technical staff.
Here in latin america we may have particular problems regarding that.
Many office employees don't want to fully disclose their working environment because: oh surprise! they hardly do any work at all! They just sit there in their computer and complain when their favourite radio stream which uses proprietary technology from the 90's. I wonder how much of these "propietary files" were actually mail-forwarded .ppt/mp4 files and flash games.
Technical staff has to be trained, and usually that doesn't go well, they are not cooperative and feel the migration process as a personal attack on their capacity and skills.
It doesn't help either that internal politics get involved in the process when some office workers think they're being audited, and actively seek to shut down the migration process through political means (which they usually have way more experience than the guys doing the migration work).
Overall the employees feel migration processes as a unnecessary burden, an attack to their perceived right to do what they please with the state's resources without answering anyone and a challenge to their competence. It also prevents high-ranking bureaucrats to get all those juicy commisions from propietary software vendor's.
and Mount & Blade, all of the Paradox Games, the Civilization series, etc.etc.
after that don't complain about the avalanche of COD clones all with the same engine but sporting "engaging storyline" which will probably include: explosions, sex, cars and stupid stereotypes in the same line of Hollywood blockbusters. Or perhaps colored puzzles that annoy all your friends with stupid requests.
So if we got one guy saying "Tomorrow the world will end" the judgement day will never come?
I'm afraid the cows are ALREADY out of the barn on this....
where is the guy who always call other people cows when you need him?
plus it has a cuter mascot.
For the interesting response.
nah.. he was a perfectly healthy fucking moron
more at 10
If they made living hell for the guy who created the game about punching a feminist, the least thing they can do is ban this.
It would be funnier if the bug was on character "Ni"
I never heard much about game developers, but it seems like GamerGate has put many of them in the spotlight, specially women.
Has the Gamergate movement somehow boosted your popularity and of other game developers and benefited you in any way? Do you regret that a big part your popularity didn't stem from the work you've made all these years in your professional life and rather from a political counter-movement?
Sorry for my lousy english.
Have you guys tried Xfburn? it works pretty well for me. It's a little basic however.
I don't really trust online password managers for the same reason I have a set of passwords which are slight variations from each other (following the same pattern) for accounts I don't care that much about or might be insecure. I memorize a few of random generated passwords for my main important accounts and keys ( I also have encrypted them stored in a usb key in the rare case I forget them).
If a service becomes important enough to have a secure password I generate a new random password for that (but it's really rare).
Many other work related passwords are stored in encrypted files in my hard drive.
What would you do if this type of situation happened to you?
I'd continue using different passwords for different accounts and not being a whiny bitch about it.
They don't have to be women, but we know (because we asked, and because of historic numbers) that women are a large, willing and untapped resource in CS.
Large? agreed (and I'll refrain of doing any "yo momma" jokes here).
Willing? it doesn't seem like it, we have tried sugarcoating projects, mentoring, boot camps and women seem largely disinterested for programming and STEM careers . Even more, there is a resurgence in the interest of traditional "women-only" careers like cooking, fashion design, child-care and elementary education.
We also know exactly how to fix that
It doesn't seem like that's the case, since each attempt to fix it ends up in a big waste of resources ( see the outcome of gnome outreach programs among others)
It's in their own interests to get more skilled programmers on board.
Yeah... filtering out potential developers by making women/trans/queer-only outreach programmes instead of opening them up to let anyone interested join it's a great way to get MORE, not LESS potential candidates. /s
That's basically all MOOCs are: a way for third-worlders to try to acquire meaningless certificates without actually doing anything to earn them
Ouch as a third worlder(argentinian) this hits very near home, but I guess it's true for many people but not for me (and I bet for many others). For me personally it's about learning, I started one on cryptography and couldn't actually finish , but I downloaded every class video and I'm going to complete it on the next term ( I was doing quite good on the homeworks but the pace was too fast for someone who also works full time).
When I started I assumed the certificate is not the most important thing to get out of it but the actual knowledge, which IMHO is pretty good and almost impossible to access for most people outside from a college campus (which is also a way for senior professionals or dropouts who can't go back to college to update their knowledge) . Right now I started one on Machine Learning ( while I study the notes I took for crypto for the next term) which I always wanted to learn because of the sheer coolness of it.
Conclusion: if you only care about the certificate (whether you're a first world or a third world citizen), it sucks, if you care about the knowledge, MOOCs are a pretty good way to update your knowledge.
Why would they do that when they can add even bigger emoticons.
Oh those aren't even animated on Linux. They could fix that too!
I've been working for more than 9 years with PHP and pretty much have seen it all. From cheap quality boilerplate code hell, to really well designed code.
The main problem with PHP is that it's lack of features sometimes forced you into using bad practices. See for example the lack of namespaces/packages way over the time every other language had an implementation for that. This is solved for now, but there is a lot of legacy code that is still out there and making other programmers pull their hair.
Nowadays PHP has evolved, and frameworks have started using the new features in an elegant and powerful way. Some of the criticisms to PHP are still valid, other don't apply anymore. I for one think that PHP has get enough good features to ditch the "you're bound to write shitty code if you use PHP" motto. There are better languages, yes! I use them and I like them, but that's not a good reason for believing that using x language makes you a shitty developer and using y language makes you a good developer. Still... some languages might make it harder to write good code, and that's why you have to be wary and consider options.
I don't love PHP, I won't marry PHP (that's why I'm currently learning other languages to expand my career or simply having fun) but I wouldn't marry any other language either. I love programming and I see each language as a tool which might or not be useful, I'll keep learning, but I won't trash what I know because bashing it becomes trending topic among IT freshman.
> The DolDoc was particularly interesting for me, mostly in a world where we have HTML everywhere plugged to a VM, DolDoc seems like a different approach (which I'm sure has plenty of flaws) to be considered at least as food for thought for future solutions.
Ok that may sound controversial or plain stupid, what I mean is that exposure to this kind of things might give new ideas about alternate approaches to the same problem, not that actually implementing this on server solutions is a good idea.
It's really interesting how people jump in the bandwagon of bashing this because of it's author. But this article really points out things that I wanted to see but I missed from running templeOS, which are the interesting part that it's author created.
It's wonderful to see how when freeing a developer of current constraints of accepted programming practices it can come up with crazy but interesting and admittedly cool ideas.
The DolDoc was particularly interesting for me, mostly in a world where we have HTML everywhere plugged to a VM, DolDoc seems like a different approach (which I'm sure has plenty of flaws) to be considered at least as food for thought for future solutions.
And last but not least, I really respect someone who can do this kind of stuff. Even if I may not agree with his ideas, I'm glad that he spends time in actually creating stuff which is more that I can say about a lot of people.
look dude you are on dilbert!
> Gentoo + OpenRC here, fuck systemd. If the rest of you enjoy having something shoved down your throats for political purposes
THANK YOU FOR TELLING US WHAT YOU USE!
Can you imagine what we would do if Arch/Gentoo/Someobscuredistro didnt enlighten us with their particular choice of software???
Keep doing god's work son.
Stallman doesn't say otherwise. Stallman says proprietary software is evil and that HE doesn't use or recommend proprietary software, and tries to convince others of this. I have never heard Stallman saying the user is evil for using proprietary software, the only thing he says is that users of proprietary software are victims of it.
The big problem is that when faced with a contradicting idea millenials get their feeeelings hurt and their narcissistic way of thinking transforms it into a personal offense. They cannot stand that other people might or might not have different ethic standards and that might even be vocal about that because in some idealistic way he sees it as a way to change the world for the better.
> This is an exclusive OR. Choose only one.
HA! I get it