What happened to the idea of a company offering a decent service at a fair price and leaving it at that?
Companies that treat their customers like the enemy. An enemy that they have to trick and deceive so they can maximizing their profits can go to hell as far as I am concerned.
I don't think the platform bears any responsibility for the ratio of good to bad programmers. Before PHP there were plenty of insecure ASP and ColdFusion website, PHP has become pretty popular and as a result has attracted lots of developers at at least its fair share of bad programmers.
I especially don't think that PHP enjoys a higher ratio of good to bad programmers because it primarily runs on linux. The OS has no impact on sql injection or xss. In fact php may have a higher ratio of bad programmer because of the larger number of free or next to free LAMP hosting services. This lower barrier to entry makes it easier for novices try their hand at programming with the expected result.
No it means that there is now a legitimate industry large enough to support a ruling class who has an interest in keeping people happy and sedate and mining lithium. Sounds like the Afgans will soon have a new stable government.
Get real. This is a case of poor development practices poor and simply.
I can think of a half dozen ways the developers could have prevented this from happening and they didn't do it because of lack of knowledge or laziness.
If someone uses a wrench as a hammer and break it is it the fault or the wrench maker? I would say it was the fault of the worker who doesn't know how to use his tools.
It's not like you have been standing still technologically. Perhaps you can take pride in the fact that you have the developed the most fearsome killing machines ever imagined.
How many countries can boast about how many teenagers they have flying predators from the safety of a carpeted office building and killing people on the other side of the globe.
Ok So take take link AAAAAAA shorten it with bit.ly, then hand it to the twitter shortener.
So user clicks twitter link that routes through twitter gateway to bit.ly. Problem solved.
Although I guess they could spend some cycles expanding the bit.ly link but them cycles cost I assume.
Ok so someone sets up an onion url shortening service. submit your URL and via API they run it through 5 consecutive shorten services and then hand it back. Call it linkTor(tm)
If I was the army or any other "the powers that be" I would scare others away from wikileaks by locking up some poor sucker so that people lose faith in the anonymity of wikileaks.
"incompetence before conspiracy" is how I have naming the rule. It has applications all over the place from 9/11 some World Bank actions and others.
However, I am not sure if I would apply it to the latest financial meltdown. It smelled a little to much like disgruntled employees pilfering as much as they can on the way out the door.
So what really your saying is that although their goals are the same, the Islamic fundies have been much more successful at realizing it then Christian fundies.
But I use OpenDNS to keep the kids away from Chat Routlette, Goatse.cx and other emotionally scarring sites. If Google DNS offered that I would switch.
Killing IE6 will force these imbeciles to stop writing these garbage ASP+VB6 ActiveX apps.
I take issue with you disparaging perfectly fine server side technologies. I write plenty of websites in ASP that use custom VB6 components both mine and 3rd party's. These sites are secure, performent and work on a very wide range of browsers (including Fangs).
And besides, since when has server side code been responsible for x-browser issues? The problem is the client side javascript and the wacky IE6 DOM. I think these companies are putting themselves at risk for the sake of some rollovers or drop down menu's that could have been, or could be re-written, in css or x-browser js.
So your saying that if Network Neutrality goes then the whole internet will be like the apple app store. You can visit whatever web site you want as long as Jobs (telcos) decide its safe for you or that it is included in your current payment plan.
Wasn't part of the problem that they neglected to drill relief wells in the first place? So the "proven" method of "averting" the disaster before it was...well before it could become a disaster was ignored. Those who made the decision to save a few bucks on that deserve much scorn.
The canadian arctic may be the only benficiary of this disaster. Apparently BP had requested an exception from the standing requirement that relief wells be installed on any operation. If they are granted this exception now after this disaster I will go from cynic to stark raving cynic.
I think the point you are missing is that there is already a cost associated with Carbon, and therefore on "evrything" as you point out. The trouble is that you are not paying that cost right now, your sort of just piling it up as debt.
So the arguement is not "should we pay or not pay" it's "should we pay as we go, or just wait for the debt to come due and then go bankrupt".
To be clear, going bankrupt in terms of carbon emmissions involve things like the oceans dying. So I would rather be responsible and pay as I go.
I think there needs to be a word for apps that are "upgraded" out of the useful, reliable and cool category, into the bloated, buggy, and cluttered category.
OK Sure. I guess my point was that you may be able to get more output from a crappy system simply by throwing more resources at it. But I wouldn't call that a system that was "designed to scale". There are so many things a developer can do to identify key bottlenecks so that only portions of the app need to scale linerally, but the overall app would scale non-linerally.
I am in the process of migrating my servers to EC2 so I am a big fan of cloud computing. I am intrigued by app engine but it would mean re-writting apps from scratch so its a non-starter for the time being.
I wasn't thinking that ease of provisioning more resources was the same as scalability.
If for every additional 10 tasks a system is required to do takes an additional 10 units of computing resources that is not "scalability" regardless of how easy it is to procrue those additional resources.
Or perhaps that is an example of an app that scales linearly, and what people really want when they want scalability is a system that scales geometrically?
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Agreed. My server finds twitter a fine way to provide me with updates about its health.
What happened to the idea of a company offering a decent service at a fair price and leaving it at that?
Companies that treat their customers like the enemy. An enemy that they have to trick and deceive so they can maximizing their profits can go to hell as far as I am concerned.
I don't think the platform bears any responsibility for the ratio of good to bad programmers. Before PHP there were plenty of insecure ASP and ColdFusion website, PHP has become pretty popular and as a result has attracted lots of developers at at least its fair share of bad programmers.
I especially don't think that PHP enjoys a higher ratio of good to bad programmers because it primarily runs on linux. The OS has no impact on sql injection or xss. In fact php may have a higher ratio of bad programmer because of the larger number of free or next to free LAMP hosting services. This lower barrier to entry makes it easier for novices try their hand at programming with the expected result.
No it means that there is now a legitimate industry large enough to support a ruling class who has an interest in keeping people happy and sedate and mining lithium. Sounds like the Afgans will soon have a new stable government.
Get real. This is a case of poor development practices poor and simply.
I can think of a half dozen ways the developers could have prevented this from happening and they didn't do it because of lack of knowledge or laziness.
If someone uses a wrench as a hammer and break it is it the fault or the wrench maker? I would say it was the fault of the worker who doesn't know how to use his tools.
It's not like you have been standing still technologically. Perhaps you can take pride in the fact that you have the developed the most fearsome killing machines ever imagined.
How many countries can boast about how many teenagers they have flying predators from the safety of a carpeted office building and killing people on the other side of the globe.
Ok So take take link AAAAAAA shorten it with bit.ly, then hand it to the twitter shortener.
So user clicks twitter link that routes through twitter gateway to bit.ly. Problem solved.
Although I guess they could spend some cycles expanding the bit.ly link but them cycles cost I assume.
Ok so someone sets up an onion url shortening service. submit your URL and via API they run it through 5 consecutive shorten services and then hand it back. Call it linkTor(tm)
If I was the army or any other "the powers that be" I would scare others away from wikileaks by locking up some poor sucker so that people lose faith in the anonymity of wikileaks.
So is this really the guy?
So headline writers suffer from "off by one" errors as well eh.
Why not. That's what they did when Bush won his second term. Many just up and moved to Canada.
"incompetence before conspiracy" is how I have naming the rule. It has applications all over the place from 9/11 some World Bank actions and others.
However, I am not sure if I would apply it to the latest financial meltdown. It smelled a little to much like disgruntled employees pilfering as much as they can on the way out the door.
So what really your saying is that although their goals are the same, the Islamic fundies have been much more successful at realizing it then Christian fundies.
But I use OpenDNS to keep the kids away from Chat Routlette, Goatse.cx and other emotionally scarring sites. If Google DNS offered that I would switch.
I am at a loss to understand which disciplines they are thinking of.
I take issue with you disparaging perfectly fine server side technologies. I write plenty of websites in ASP that use custom VB6 components both mine and 3rd party's. These sites are secure, performent and work on a very wide range of browsers (including Fangs).
And besides, since when has server side code been responsible for x-browser issues? The problem is the client side javascript and the wacky IE6 DOM. I think these companies are putting themselves at risk for the sake of some rollovers or drop down menu's that could have been, or could be re-written, in css or x-browser js.
So your saying that if Network Neutrality goes then the whole internet will be like the apple app store. You can visit whatever web site you want as long as Jobs (telcos) decide its safe for you or that it is included in your current payment plan.
I am shocked! Shocked I tell you. Apple applicants are only attracted to shiny new things? And all along I thought it was just the customers.
Wasn't part of the problem that they neglected to drill relief wells in the first place? So the "proven" method of "averting" the disaster before it was...well before it could become a disaster was ignored. Those who made the decision to save a few bucks on that deserve much scorn.
The canadian arctic may be the only benficiary of this disaster. Apparently BP had requested an exception from the standing requirement that relief wells be installed on any operation. If they are granted this exception now after this disaster I will go from cynic to stark raving cynic.
I think the point you are missing is that there is already a cost associated with Carbon, and therefore on "evrything" as you point out. The trouble is that you are not paying that cost right now, your sort of just piling it up as debt.
So the arguement is not "should we pay or not pay" it's "should we pay as we go, or just wait for the debt to come due and then go bankrupt".
To be clear, going bankrupt in terms of carbon emmissions involve things like the oceans dying. So I would rather be responsible and pay as I go.
off topic but when I read your sig I thought you might be interested in this book by Jane Jacobs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_of_Survival
How many other rigs are nearby? Hopefully the resulting shockwave propogating across the sea floor doesn't open up three more while closing this one.
By the way, the people responsible should take a lesson from the Japanese and take the honorable way out.
I think there needs to be a word for apps that are "upgraded" out of the useful, reliable and cool category, into the bloated, buggy, and cluttered category.
Sort of like the peter principal
For me PDF fell of the cliff when I they started create pdf forms. It was the thin edge of the wedge.
OK Sure. I guess my point was that you may be able to get more output from a crappy system simply by throwing more resources at it. But I wouldn't call that a system that was "designed to scale". There are so many things a developer can do to identify key bottlenecks so that only portions of the app need to scale linerally, but the overall app would scale non-linerally.
I am in the process of migrating my servers to EC2 so I am a big fan of cloud computing. I am intrigued by app engine but it would mean re-writting apps from scratch so its a non-starter for the time being.
I want Chrome OS for people who want me to support them for no pay.
I wasn't thinking that ease of provisioning more resources was the same as scalability.
If for every additional 10 tasks a system is required to do takes an additional 10 units of computing resources that is not "scalability" regardless of how easy it is to procrue those additional resources.
Or perhaps that is an example of an app that scales linearly, and what people really want when they want scalability is a system that scales geometrically?