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It doesn't matter what sort of clever idea Google comes up with. When it became clear that the spyvertizing industry only pretended to be cooperating with consumer advocates long enough for the govt to forget that they were threatening mandatory privacy protection it was clear a state of war existed between them and everyone using the web. From that point my willingness to cooperate with anyone serving less intrusive ads evaporated and instead of only manually blocking highly disruptive (audio, animation, or overlay) ads, I started using 3rd party feeds to block everything. Nothing short of non-opt in tracking being made illegal and violators to include all the executive management of offending companies being jailed will convince me to relent. They've poisoned the well. Let them die from it.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Google is just waiting it out until it has 95% browser market share, then it will implement a huge raft of privacy features.....that are of course simply ignored when it comes to google-related services.
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Study shows university software engineering programs focus too much on the needs of large companies They need more training in PowerPoint for presentations to potential investors?
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The article is based on an incorrect premise.
Software Engineering grads are bleeding useless to large companies, too.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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pay in peanuts and get monkies...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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In the software industry, the product development cycle is broken. It’s costly. It’s laborious. And too often, product teams fail to meet their customers’ needs. Who keeps breaking the software development?
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tl;dr: I like agile.
... But you have to spend ages and ages going through his really low-grade text to get to that point (which he doesn't actually state).
It's small wonder that adobe never gets anything useful done, if their "big brains" like this ramble on eternally without ever actually making their point.
Someone remind me not to subscribe to this blog.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Someone remind me not to subscribe to this blog. Do not subscribe to that blog
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Cheers, Mate! I'd forgotten!
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Quote: Who keeps breaking the software development?
could be those sales people..
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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My experience is that consulting companies, especially, over promise. Ironically, the same could be said of the article's author.
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Developer comes up with a new method of funding open-source projects. Community reaction not entirely favorable. That should solve the problem of its popularity
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But it's not tailored to my buying habits!
MORE VIBRANCY!
MORE VIBRANCY!
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An experiment to seek out dark energy, or the so-called "fifth force," has come up empty-handed, casting doubt over some theories related to the mysterious cosmic matter. Leeloo not available for comments
Because if you can't prove it in a London basement...
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I've given in commenting about bullsh1tters astronomers.
No matter how many times they're caught out bullsh1tting doing astronomy business as usual, they never change.
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Maybe they'll have better luck inside a pyramid in Egypt.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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No sh*t. The idea is as daft as aether was in the 19th century and served the same purpose.
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A couple of weeks back, researchers from cybersecurity firm Eclypsium revealed that almost all the major hardware manufacturers have a flaw that can allow malicious applications to gain kernel privileges at the user level, thereby gaining direct access to firmware and hardware. Or as everyone else calls it, "Tuesday"
Or Monday if you're clever (and attractive) enough to be reading this then
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PANIC!!!
UPDATE EVERYTHING!!!
Or you could just read the last line of the article first: don’t download or open any suspicious email or install any 3rd party software from an unknown vendor Okidoki.
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Much like the Spectre and Meltdown scares.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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When you start to break down clean code principles, what counts as clean code to one person may not to another. "All will come out in the washing."
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From the article:
For example, most programmers know what “i++” means, and prefer to use it to increment integers instead of writing out a more tedious phrase like “i=i+1.” But i++ is a shorthand, and shorthands breed ambiguity and uncertainty.
If "most programmers" know what it means, is it really an ambiguity? Follow-up question - at what point does an "ambiguity" fall into the realm of "common practice", and when you're classing code as ambiguous, what is the target audience for the classification?
Lastly, reasonably enforced coding standards go a long way towards developing clean code, especially in a team environment, because as a member of a team with said standards, at least you can expect the code to look a certain way.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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The author briefly touched a large topic: Excessive shorthand.
Excessive shorthand is:
- Well-known in one subculture (such as C-style language devs)
- Initially confusing to outsiders
- Problematic for far-off future devs who don't know past languages and frameworks
A better example: Lots of C# shorthand in one statement:
public long MyDistance { get; set; } = 0L; Long-time C# devs know instantly what it means. It looks like garbage to outsiders.
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to be fair, most of the stuff they've added with C# 8 looks like garbage to me.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Quote: Christopher Tozzi, who does not write code, but just looks at it, said:
Here are some guidelines that are almost universally accepted ... And then demanded that everyone follow guidelines that he prefers, and not follow "almost universally accepted" guidelines that are not to his preference.
As John said, his declaring the almost universally accepted i++ as being "ambiguous" is ridiculous -- it has one and only one meaning, and everyone knows that meaning.
Perhaps this non-coding "writer" should learn how to use a dictionary, before opening his mouth, and focus on doing his own job properly, before bitching at the way professional coders do theirs.
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