Sad but true. It is similar to a death spiral. I kind of think some science geeks should just overtake the site with just science articles for a while. It could steer it back to what the site once was.
Whatever happened to the Equifax breach, oh yea, nothing... basically all Americans and a credit bureau... https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/blog/2017/09/equifax-data-breach-what-do . Looking into Google for a measly 500K, that most likely did not even get exposed to outsiders, deserves a look into, meanwhile one of the big three credit agencies can keep gathering more and more data and breaching...
I like Reddit for a general aggregator. It is whatever you subscribe to, and you can display what you want out of those subscriptions. It is pretty clean, and only gets busy on certain subreddits. It has resisted a lot of change over the past years in spite of inner turmoil.
I'm old school, but I still love Perl (5, not 6). I have never had a problem that I had Perl getting in my way of what I was trying to do. I have never even encountered a problem that I couldn't solve with it. CPAN is its big selling point, a ton of code is already written (and mostly debugged). The problem is the language (as in a real language, written by a linguist) is so flexible, anyone can write it a myriad of ways. There is bad perl, good perl, terse perl, line noise perl, and going for broke golf perl. This is not good for corporate in general, and now that most of my generation of Perl has moved on or is getting older, good programmers are hard to find. The curve for perl was steep, but thankfully, the regular expressions, and a lot of the formatting styles are the same in a lot of other languages so all is not lost. Perl is dead, long live Perl!
I like the way the site was in the old days "News for Nerds", kind of sad to see the site seemingly wither over the last 5 or so years, but maybe everyone has migrated to Reddit, or just found other sources.
People need to be accountable for their actions, heck even teenagers know that what they post might prevent them from getting a good job one day. This is the age we live in and we have to control our 'media' that we create. Everything is remembered somewhere and the internet makes it findable.
I like that the site still feels like it did when it was new. I think other sites attract all the kiddies and flamers and keep the true 'news for nerds' folks here.
I would totally agree with every site has its place. I think Reddit ownership realized that the visitors are really what was powering the site, and that they had little control over the direction of the sites future. They are now trying to control visitors and pick up some monetization, but they will lose a percent of the audience, only time will tell the balancing of control for Reditt.
A sad day in the car talk garage no doubt. His laugh alone brought a smile to my face. At least he greatly enjoyed what he did and brought laughter to a lot of people. Our thoughts are with you Tom.
I always thought that he was fairly intelligent, but where Leo really shines is his ability to talk to non-techies about technical things. I wish they would put Kate back on also.;)
I cannot let you see it as you would die laughing, but trust me it is funny. I am pretty sure that at least three people know something of the list. One has a list of the machine names, the other the domain, and the last one the TLD. A computer assembles the list so that no one(1) person knows the sites, otherwise they might try to actually see them.
Amazing, a person that does VB for 8 years and thinks he is a kernel hacker, and refers to linux as "the" linux. Some consultant. I'm sure you may have written a few VB scripts to reboot those win2k boxen every day. Meanwhile I have had a webserver that served 1Gb/3days up for over 200+ days (hardware upgrades are a bitch). Smells like someone is spilling some FUD.
X-mame could be one killer app on the dreamcast. I try to download from the ftp site and no login. Something is a miss, or is it the slashdot effect. When will they mirror this stuff so we can actually get what the articles talk about and not take down every cool project.
2001-03-17 13:13:37 , get it? 3l337, and you know those ruskie rocket scientist have to be 'leet cause they haven't got any money, but still managed to schlep that space garbage up there and maintain it for so long on so little. They should drink some champagne (or vodka) when it crashes so they can move on.
I have used Embperl and it does everything that PHP does, and doesn't require their 'inane' collage of languages syntax. Straight perl can be embedded in your html with just a few square braces. Nothing new to learn if you know perl. With a combo of Apache/mod_perl/Embperl/MySQL dynamic pages are both quick and easy to make. Just my $0.02
This guy, every other month he changes his opinions about whatever may be "newsworthy"(high hit count) just in an effort to stir people up. Don't give in. All he is is a burst of hot air.
Slashdot Mirror
Have you seen the new spiderman, very good, maybe even great, kind of going a different way than ALL the other hero movies out there.
Sad but true. It is similar to a death spiral. I kind of think some science geeks should just overtake the site with just science articles for a while. It could steer it back to what the site once was.
Whatever happened to the Equifax breach, oh yea, nothing... basically all Americans and a credit bureau ... https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/blog/2017/09/equifax-data-breach-what-do . Looking into Google for a measly 500K, that most likely did not even get exposed to outsiders, deserves a look into, meanwhile one of the big three credit agencies can keep gathering more and more data and breaching...
I like Reddit for a general aggregator. It is whatever you subscribe to, and you can display what you want out of those subscriptions. It is pretty clean, and only gets busy on certain subreddits. It has resisted a lot of change over the past years in spite of inner turmoil.
"Our engineers are aware of the problem and we have our top men on it." Maybe they should just turn it of and on again....
I remember for years the phrase was "mathematically a bumblebee can't fly". I hardly think we know all the nuances of cellular mechanics yet.
I'm old school, but I still love Perl (5, not 6). I have never had a problem that I had Perl getting in my way of what I was trying to do. I have never even encountered a problem that I couldn't solve with it. CPAN is its big selling point, a ton of code is already written (and mostly debugged). The problem is the language (as in a real language, written by a linguist) is so flexible, anyone can write it a myriad of ways. There is bad perl, good perl, terse perl, line noise perl, and going for broke golf perl. This is not good for corporate in general, and now that most of my generation of Perl has moved on or is getting older, good programmers are hard to find. The curve for perl was steep, but thankfully, the regular expressions, and a lot of the formatting styles are the same in a lot of other languages so all is not lost. Perl is dead, long live Perl!
I like the way the site was in the old days "News for Nerds", kind of sad to see the site seemingly wither over the last 5 or so years, but maybe everyone has migrated to Reddit, or just found other sources.
People need to be accountable for their actions, heck even teenagers know that what they post might prevent them from getting a good job one day. This is the age we live in and we have to control our 'media' that we create. Everything is remembered somewhere and the internet makes it findable.
i was shooting for 10000, i had that user id on freshmeat , sniff
I like that the site still feels like it did when it was new. I think other sites attract all the kiddies and flamers and keep the true 'news for nerds' folks here.
I would totally agree with every site has its place. I think Reddit ownership realized that the visitors are really what was powering the site, and that they had little control over the direction of the sites future. They are now trying to control visitors and pick up some monetization, but they will lose a percent of the audience, only time will tell the balancing of control for Reditt.
This man speaks the truth, they are mostly like puppy mills for college grads.
A sad day in the car talk garage no doubt. His laugh alone brought a smile to my face. At least he greatly enjoyed what he did and brought laughter to a lot of people. Our thoughts are with you Tom.
And it can do towers of hanoi, web browsing, email, ftp, and it even includes an editor I think.
I liked it too, and my UID says get off MY lawn....
I always thought that he was fairly intelligent, but where Leo really shines is his ability to talk to non-techies about technical things. I wish they would put Kate back on also. ;)
Bruce is a great guy though :)
Simple motto on box, 'You have it, We play it' Does MP3's on DVD, xvid, divx, mp4, etc. It just works.
I cannot let you see it as you would die laughing, but trust me it is funny.
I am pretty sure that at least three people know something of the list. One has a list of the machine names, the other the domain, and the last one the TLD. A computer assembles the list so that no one(1) person knows the sites, otherwise they might try to actually see them.
Amazing, a person that does VB for 8 years and thinks he is a kernel hacker, and refers to linux as "the" linux. Some consultant. I'm sure you may have written a few VB scripts to reboot those win2k boxen every day. Meanwhile I have had a webserver that served 1Gb/3days up for over 200+ days (hardware upgrades are a bitch). Smells like someone is spilling some FUD.
X-mame could be one killer app on the dreamcast. I try to download from the ftp site and no login. Something is a miss, or is it the slashdot effect. When will they mirror this stuff so we can actually get what the articles talk about and not take down every cool project.
2001-03-17 13:13:37 , get it? 3l337, and you know those ruskie rocket scientist have to be 'leet cause they haven't got any money, but still managed to schlep that space garbage up there and maintain it for so long on so little. They should drink some champagne (or vodka) when it crashes so they can move on.
I have used Embperl and it does everything that PHP does, and doesn't require their 'inane' collage of languages syntax. Straight perl can be embedded in your html with just a few square braces. Nothing new to learn if you know perl. With a combo of Apache/mod_perl/Embperl/MySQL dynamic pages are both quick and easy to make.
Just my $0.02
This guy, every other month he changes his opinions about whatever may be "newsworthy"(high hit count) just in an effort to stir people up. Don't give in. All he is is a burst of hot air.