The code you developed for your client was most likely never yours to begin with.
Bingo! Go back and read your contract. No contract or there's no language in it about who owns what, then it's theirs (If you're in the US) and they can do any damn thing they want with it. It would be straight up madness if a client hired you to do work and then they couldn't change the code without your permission. (And yeah, changing comments does fall under that.) Even if you put your own copyright notice on there, unless the contract specifically says otherwise, you've handed copyright over to them in doing work for hire. (IANAL, but I've been a contractor for 24 years.)
ALWAYS show sample code from your own depository. NEVER show code that is on a client server. They can can will change things without notice, and, as you found, they can make you look like an ass without trying. Consider a public repository like Github where it easier to audit contributions and dates if someone wants to get into an argument. (But make sure you have permission from the client/contract. Sure it's Javascript and "public" anyway, but some clients are... antique. Or anonymize the client.)
Try contacting the people who hired you and tell them to change the copyright notices to something more correct, but I doubt if you'll get any joy there. They have no reason to.
Lesson learned, move on, and for the future make a contract that reflects your wishes.
For all I know this is valid scientific research. But I can't even be bothered to find out because potheads have stigmatized hemp. "Dude, do you know hemp is 85% more efficient biomass than bacon?" "You know that hemp fibers can be turned into inferior yet expensive paper, right?" "Hemp-o-lene, it's either hemp biofuel or something you jump on." Which all are quite obviously thin excuses to grow more "medicinal"* hemp.
And hemp is a pretty great material, but every time I see an article that talks about a new industrial use I can't help thinking it comes from the same people who giggle when they hear "420" and snerk when they mention how they're into 'hydroponics'.
Seriously folks, if you want me to take you (hemp or pot smokers) seriously you need to clean up your game. Don't smoke a bowl on April 20th, instead bring to my attention how we really don't know the medical properties of cannabis because of government overregulation (or whatever, anything that has real promise to someone who has no interest in smoking pot.)
*Medicine is sold at drug stores, not in shadowy places with a bouncer at the door and punny names like "Grass Roots Clinic" or "Foggy Daze Dispensary".
There's a solution to this, it's called deprecation. A proper way to do this would be to still support Wacky Version Numbers with System.getProperty("java.version") but note that it is deprecated and list a date after it will no longer be supported.
Then you add something new like System.getProperty("java.realVersion") which is just a number from 1 to infinity. (Or something more common like Major and Minor version.) Doesn't break anything, provides a way forward. Languages that aren't thinking 10 years/revisions ahead are doomed in the present.
Contests only gather a weird, smallish subset of programmers who are good enough to win a contest, but who have the spare time[1] and will[2] to enter a contest.
[1] This means they have little internal motivation because they're not otherwise working on something that inspires them. Good employees have internal motivation, bad ones need Management to whip them, which is what you'll get here. Instead find those who contribue to open source projects or who spend free time giving stellar information to the programming community. (Blog posts, Stack Exchange, etc.)
[2] Again, motivation. What are they really trying to get by competing in the contest? Can you, as an employer, provide that same motivation on a regular basis? Probably not. So once again you'll get a pretty great programmer who underperforms.
It won't. Bitcoin is a commodity, not a currency. Commodities are inherently unstable because their method of creation is fixed. This leads to hoarding and dumping, and market speculation much beyond currency trading.
Modern currency is managed ("backed") by whoever issues it can can take steps to stabilize the currency when problems arise. This is simply not possible with Bitcoin.
If you have a botnet and can't think of anything better to do with it, you can lease it out or sell it.
Except dealing with any third-parties increases your risk. Which one of them has loose lips, poor security, is a snitch or an undercover officer? Even criminals don't want to hang out with other criminals more than they have to.
Keep in mind that as a zombie computer becomes more "obvious"- computer is slower, fan runs at 100% all the time, etc, the more likely that the malware will be noticed and removed.
I don't think you're around the typical computer user much, or their computers. You describe at least 60% of the non-technical people's computers that I know. They shrug it off. Computers suck and they'll never understand why. Eventually it will straight up die and they'll have another frustrating and expensive experience with Geek Squad. Rinse, repeat.
Are you a parent trying to keep your kids from porn? Are you a business trying to keep your workers on task? Are you a government trying to control the eyeballs of your citizens? Are you just trying to keep ads away from your personal eyeballs, malware from your personal devices?
If it's for your own personal use there are two approaches: 1) Do it on the device. This has the advantage of being easy to pause if it causes a web site or service to stop working. It has the down side of not being centrally managed. You'll have to set it up on all of your devices/browsers. It may not be available for certain mobile platforms.
2) Do it centralized through a proxy. You only have one place to set it up and you run all of your devices through the proxy. More of a pain to self tune, and you have the added overhead of running a proxy.
If you're one of the other use cases and you want to use keep your users from accessing certain kinds of content, there's really only one answer: Do it as far upstream from your users as you can get. Because the users are not going to be happy with it and some will do everything they can to circumvent it. Ideally you're on a network where you can filter all of their (non-wireless) traffic through a single controlled point where you need physical access (lock and key) and a passcode to make changes. If you can remote admin it, or if people can access the 'net at large without going through that point, you've lost the battle.
You might take a look at GitTip. It's also a microtransaction platform, but different from Flattr. Patrons pledge from $0.25 to $25 a week to another person.
I like the weekly pledge and the tiny amounts. The weekly pledge encourages people to keep up the good work while the small amounts... I can pledge $0.25 weekly to a lot of people before I miss that money from my bank account.
Good analysis. I suspect that the project was founded by... I don't know what. Guys without any experience with embedded systems is my bet. The cost difference, in bulk, of a small 16 mhz 8-bit CPU with 0.5k RAM and a 100mhz 32-bit CPU with 128K RAM is about a dollar.
If they had spent the extra dollar per unit they could have had a device that could take care of all of the I/O formatting, etc, etc and been a stand-alone device.
(Even without spending the dollar, you can get a lot of performance out of an old 8-bit CPU if you know what you're doing.)
Okay, so how about my home connection. 56K is what we pay for, but we get 41K when the weather is good. It's 1/10th the speed of my 3G phone (When I'm in range of a tower). That is no where near enough to stream even the smallest YouTube video. And that's the best we can get at any price. I'm a couple miles outside a small midwestern town. Wireless is our only option and the only wireless data that gets any rections here is a 2G tower 12 miles away. With a directional antena we can duplex that. The phone lines here are crap so no DSL, even satellite is out because we don't have an upload signal path. We're not that unusual.
With that meager bit of data we can email. (And/.). But using the web is incredibly painful. Video is straight out. Skype doesn't happen. System updates are flaky and take all day to download. Web pages aren't made for connections this slow any more, they're hundreds of K, and can take minutes to load, and some connection will often get lost, which will bork the whole page.
No one uses the internet here. They don't know what it's for. They don't know they can find out anything with it, that they can learn the skills to take them further, or talk to people all over the planet. Or get movies on demand! You won't hear much from them around here because they don't know about Slashdot. Or online discussion forums in general. The Internet is a thing that they talk about on (broadcast) TV.
So while some people might bitch about only getting 1.5mbs, there are no shortage of people in the United States who essentially can't use the modern internet.
Scientology has been doing this for years, keeping Dianetics on the top of the charts. Members buy the books in bulk then send them back to the publisher - often in their original boxes - which are then sent back to booksellers.
At least ebooks make book laundering difficult and more expensive.
Okay, lets say there's a slick, smooth-as-snot implementation. The software is perfect, it works in any browser - even mobile- without plugins. User navigation is natural and intuitive, and it has a high frame rate even on obsolete devices.
Well you still haven't described 99% of the web. What do people use the web for? 1) Interacting with people. 3D chat stinks and always will. Even fully realized 3D worlds like MMORPGs chat has nothing to do with 3D, it's essentially IRC. 3D email's a looser. Email is best navigated as a list. 2) Finding information. But most information is best displayed as a 1 or 2 dimensional list. You can read pages of information, not 'volumes'. You're already looking at a virtual screen, watching videos or reading on a virtual screen within your virtual screen is a needless and distracting abstraction. And navigating a 1D or 2D space is much faster than 3D. Seriously, try finding the entry you're after in a 3D room full of Wikipedia. You don't want to have to look behind the article on Aardvarks to find the one on Abe Lincoln. 3) Porn. And having been around the net a bit I know there's some CGI porn out there, it's creepy as hell, and that isn't changing until people want to fuck at the bottom of the uncanny valley. 4) Shop. While I'd love to have full 3D fly-through of every product I shop for, it's not going to happen for several reasons. First, preparing 3D models of products that look as good as a manufacturer wants it to is incredibly time consuming and often futile. They'd much rather customers see a heavily photoshopped glossy product image. Second manufactuerres don't want people to have full 3D models of their products. It sets the intellectual property lawyers on edge.
Those 4 cases cover 95% of web use. So no, it won't ever 'take off'. It will always be a niche.
(Source: My experience working, for various clients on an alarming number projects that tried to do the things above in 3D, dating back to 1996. All of them were embarrassing failures.)
The vast majority of people/stores in San Francisco do us paper. I haven't noticed a change in the percentage of people who use reusable bags. In fact I rarely see people using reusable bags when I go to the store. (Possibly because the stores I go to are mostly walking distance and who carries around empty bags when you walk?)
Given that a) not many people use reusable bags b) it doesn't appear that there's been a change in the percentage of people who use reusable bags, and c) a higher incidence rate of disease, I'm going to say they're probably unrelated.
Except even the number of tasks is often variable over the life of the task.
Take for example loading a web page. It starts out as 1 task: Get a page from the server. Once you've done that, how many more requests will that first request generate? Impossible to tell. It could be none. It could be hundreds, and some of those can generate their own requests. (etc, etc.)
The answer is this: Some feedback, no matter how incorrect, is better than no feedback at all.
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Bingo! Go back and read your contract. No contract or there's no language in it about who owns what, then it's theirs (If you're in the US) and they can do any damn thing they want with it. It would be straight up madness if a client hired you to do work and then they couldn't change the code without your permission. (And yeah, changing comments does fall under that.) Even if you put your own copyright notice on there, unless the contract specifically says otherwise, you've handed copyright over to them in doing work for hire. (IANAL, but I've been a contractor for 24 years.)
ALWAYS show sample code from your own depository. NEVER show code that is on a client server. They can can will change things without notice, and, as you found, they can make you look like an ass without trying. Consider a public repository like Github where it easier to audit contributions and dates if someone wants to get into an argument. (But make sure you have permission from the client/contract. Sure it's Javascript and "public" anyway, but some clients are... antique. Or anonymize the client.)
Try contacting the people who hired you and tell them to change the copyright notices to something more correct, but I doubt if you'll get any joy there. They have no reason to.
Lesson learned, move on, and for the future make a contract that reflects your wishes.
For all I know this is valid scientific research. But I can't even be bothered to find out because potheads have stigmatized hemp. "Dude, do you know hemp is 85% more efficient biomass than bacon?" "You know that hemp fibers can be turned into inferior yet expensive paper, right?" "Hemp-o-lene, it's either hemp biofuel or something you jump on." Which all are quite obviously thin excuses to grow more "medicinal"* hemp.
And hemp is a pretty great material, but every time I see an article that talks about a new industrial use I can't help thinking it comes from the same people who giggle when they hear "420" and snerk when they mention how they're into 'hydroponics'.
Seriously folks, if you want me to take you (hemp or pot smokers) seriously you need to clean up your game. Don't smoke a bowl on April 20th, instead bring to my attention how we really don't know the medical properties of cannabis because of government overregulation (or whatever, anything that has real promise to someone who has no interest in smoking pot.)
*Medicine is sold at drug stores, not in shadowy places with a bouncer at the door and punny names like "Grass Roots Clinic" or "Foggy Daze Dispensary".
There's a solution to this, it's called deprecation. A proper way to do this would be to still support Wacky Version Numbers with System.getProperty("java.version") but note that it is deprecated and list a date after it will no longer be supported.
Then you add something new like System.getProperty("java.realVersion") which is just a number from 1 to infinity. (Or something more common like Major and Minor version.) Doesn't break anything, provides a way forward. Languages that aren't thinking 10 years/revisions ahead are doomed in the present.
Contests only gather a weird, smallish subset of programmers who are good enough to win a contest, but who have the spare time[1] and will[2] to enter a contest. [1] This means they have little internal motivation because they're not otherwise working on something that inspires them. Good employees have internal motivation, bad ones need Management to whip them, which is what you'll get here. Instead find those who contribue to open source projects or who spend free time giving stellar information to the programming community. (Blog posts, Stack Exchange, etc.) [2] Again, motivation. What are they really trying to get by competing in the contest? Can you, as an employer, provide that same motivation on a regular basis? Probably not. So once again you'll get a pretty great programmer who underperforms.
Trolling question is trolling.
It won't. Bitcoin is a commodity, not a currency. Commodities are inherently unstable because their method of creation is fixed. This leads to hoarding and dumping, and market speculation much beyond currency trading.
Modern currency is managed ("backed") by whoever issues it can can take steps to stabilize the currency when problems arise. This is simply not possible with Bitcoin.
Yeah, but who's going to settle on a planet in orbit around Joe Smith's Giant Cock And Balls, or Spectacular Illumination By GoDaddy.com?
And when we finally meet the aliens from Tostitos III, how do we explain that to them?
Except dealing with any third-parties increases your risk. Which one of them has loose lips, poor security, is a snitch or an undercover officer? Even criminals don't want to hang out with other criminals more than they have to.
I don't think you're around the typical computer user much, or their computers. You describe at least 60% of the non-technical people's computers that I know. They shrug it off. Computers suck and they'll never understand why. Eventually it will straight up die and they'll have another frustrating and expensive experience with Geek Squad. Rinse, repeat.
Yeah. Right. Just like Google only cares about search results.
Are you a parent trying to keep your kids from porn? Are you a business trying to keep your workers on task? Are you a government trying to control the eyeballs of your citizens? Are you just trying to keep ads away from your personal eyeballs, malware from your personal devices?
If it's for your own personal use there are two approaches:
1) Do it on the device. This has the advantage of being easy to pause if it causes a web site or service to stop working. It has the down side of not being centrally managed. You'll have to set it up on all of your devices/browsers. It may not be available for certain mobile platforms.
2) Do it centralized through a proxy. You only have one place to set it up and you run all of your devices through the proxy. More of a pain to self tune, and you have the added overhead of running a proxy.
If you're one of the other use cases and you want to use keep your users from accessing certain kinds of content, there's really only one answer: Do it as far upstream from your users as you can get. Because the users are not going to be happy with it and some will do everything they can to circumvent it. Ideally you're on a network where you can filter all of their (non-wireless) traffic through a single controlled point where you need physical access (lock and key) and a passcode to make changes. If you can remote admin it, or if people can access the 'net at large without going through that point, you've lost the battle.
If it really is GPS then it's simply the local time, broadcast in the clear. How is that classified?
You might take a look at GitTip. It's also a microtransaction platform, but different from Flattr. Patrons pledge from $0.25 to $25 a week to another person.
I like the weekly pledge and the tiny amounts. The weekly pledge encourages people to keep up the good work while the small amounts... I can pledge $0.25 weekly to a lot of people before I miss that money from my bank account.
Good analysis. I suspect that the project was founded by ... I don't know what. Guys without any experience with embedded systems is my bet. The cost difference, in bulk, of a small 16 mhz 8-bit CPU with 0.5k RAM and a 100mhz 32-bit CPU with 128K RAM is about a dollar.
If they had spent the extra dollar per unit they could have had a device that could take care of all of the I/O formatting, etc, etc and been a stand-alone device.
(Even without spending the dollar, you can get a lot of performance out of an old 8-bit CPU if you know what you're doing.)
So that repeat robocall to my cell phone only needs to call 179 million more times before they'll take action.
Okay, so how about my home connection. 56K is what we pay for, but we get 41K when the weather is good. It's 1/10th the speed of my 3G phone (When I'm in range of a tower). That is no where near enough to stream even the smallest YouTube video. And that's the best we can get at any price. I'm a couple miles outside a small midwestern town. Wireless is our only option and the only wireless data that gets any rections here is a 2G tower 12 miles away. With a directional antena we can duplex that. The phone lines here are crap so no DSL, even satellite is out because we don't have an upload signal path. We're not that unusual.
With that meager bit of data we can email. (And /.). But using the web is incredibly painful. Video is straight out. Skype doesn't happen. System updates are flaky and take all day to download. Web pages aren't made for connections this slow any more, they're hundreds of K, and can take minutes to load, and some connection will often get lost, which will bork the whole page.
No one uses the internet here. They don't know what it's for. They don't know they can find out anything with it, that they can learn the skills to take them further, or talk to people all over the planet. Or get movies on demand! You won't hear much from them around here because they don't know about Slashdot. Or online discussion forums in general. The Internet is a thing that they talk about on (broadcast) TV.
So while some people might bitch about only getting 1.5mbs, there are no shortage of people in the United States who essentially can't use the modern internet.
Scientology has been doing this for years, keeping Dianetics on the top of the charts. Members buy the books in bulk then send them back to the publisher - often in their original boxes - which are then sent back to booksellers.
At least ebooks make book laundering difficult and more expensive.
Okay, lets say there's a slick, smooth-as-snot implementation. The software is perfect, it works in any browser - even mobile- without plugins. User navigation is natural and intuitive, and it has a high frame rate even on obsolete devices.
Well you still haven't described 99% of the web. What do people use the web for?
1) Interacting with people. 3D chat stinks and always will. Even fully realized 3D worlds like MMORPGs chat has nothing to do with 3D, it's essentially IRC. 3D email's a looser. Email is best navigated as a list.
2) Finding information. But most information is best displayed as a 1 or 2 dimensional list. You can read pages of information, not 'volumes'. You're already looking at a virtual screen, watching videos or reading on a virtual screen within your virtual screen is a needless and distracting abstraction. And navigating a 1D or 2D space is much faster than 3D. Seriously, try finding the entry you're after in a 3D room full of Wikipedia. You don't want to have to look behind the article on Aardvarks to find the one on Abe Lincoln.
3) Porn. And having been around the net a bit I know there's some CGI porn out there, it's creepy as hell, and that isn't changing until people want to fuck at the bottom of the uncanny valley.
4) Shop. While I'd love to have full 3D fly-through of every product I shop for, it's not going to happen for several reasons. First, preparing 3D models of products that look as good as a manufacturer wants it to is incredibly time consuming and often futile. They'd much rather customers see a heavily photoshopped glossy product image. Second manufactuerres don't want people to have full 3D models of their products. It sets the intellectual property lawyers on edge.
Those 4 cases cover 95% of web use. So no, it won't ever 'take off'. It will always be a niche.
(Source: My experience working, for various clients on an alarming number projects that tried to do the things above in 3D, dating back to 1996. All of them were embarrassing failures.)
The vast majority of people/stores in San Francisco do us paper. I haven't noticed a change in the percentage of people who use reusable bags. In fact I rarely see people using reusable bags when I go to the store. (Possibly because the stores I go to are mostly walking distance and who carries around empty bags when you walk?)
Given that a) not many people use reusable bags b) it doesn't appear that there's been a change in the percentage of people who use reusable bags, and c) a higher incidence rate of disease, I'm going to say they're probably unrelated.
Except even the number of tasks is often variable over the life of the task.
Take for example loading a web page. It starts out as 1 task: Get a page from the server. Once you've done that, how many more requests will that first request generate? Impossible to tell. It could be none. It could be hundreds, and some of those can generate their own requests. (etc, etc.)
The answer is this: Some feedback, no matter how incorrect, is better than no feedback at all.
Also no problems with 4S and 6.1.
I wonder if some of these 'problems' are from the same people who refuse to believe that iTunes shuffle is random.
I know why /. posts these articles, to get lots of comments. All the comments are between fanbois and trolls. Which adds nothing to nothing.
Curiosity has 17 cameras, not one.
I mean, if you're coing to criticize, get it right.
VisiCalc was the first application that made a serious case for general business use. It sold more computers to more businesses than anything.
(See also: Lotus 1-2-3 and Appleworks.)
Dude, you went mainstream! You should be happy, isn't that what you always wanted?
Also no Unicode support.
It's a tech site from the 1980's.
Why do I have a feeling that on this online gambling site there will be a higher than normal chance of playing against a bunch of bots?