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The world's most popular programming language, according to devops biz Datree.io at least, it not Java, JavaScript, nor Python. Rather, it's YAML, a recursive acronym for "YAML Ain't Markup Language." At this rate, someone might declare ASCII the most popular programming language
Or Unicode if you're one of those people that like ligatures.
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It yaml what it yaml, and that's all what it yaml -- but it yamain't programming!
Look! up in the sky! Is it a super-programming language? Is it---
... Bugger! It was just config, flying out of control! Anyone got a Kleenex?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: someone might declare ASCII the most popular programming language
No, it's not the most popular programming language, it's the most popular encryption method. "Passwords are ASCII encrypted."
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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At one sheet thick, these new supercapacitors can bend, fold, flex, and still hold electricity. You do have to keep the capacitor kryptonite away from them though
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So the most common computer repair that I have to do will no longer involve soldering, but it will be more like fixing a photocopier paper-jam?
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Git-based code hosting project Sr.ht aims to blend the best of GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket, while sticking with a copyleft license I wonder where they store their source?
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The move, expected to roll out in 2019, comes in the aftermath of the company's botched rollout of the Windows 10 October 2018 Update. We're gonna need a bigger database
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Surely with all the dev ops and stuff the argument would be that there are no bugs since its always continuous development, ya know like they have developers working night shift and day shift on "continuous development" so there would no need to have any bug status dashboard..besides it would expose to much ... like Microsoft when the apple way few years back...
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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Security keys and Windows Hello are now options. The hackers have them all anyway
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An engineer finally got the scoop on square poop. Because we were all waiting to know
Yes, I included that in a thread elsewhere, but Bob decided it needed broader distribution.
Is the wombat the only non-deadly Australian animal? Or is the square poop poisonous?
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Fully grown wombats are kinda like furry rhinos, except they chew through and otherwise destroy anything in their path.
And they are not big on discrimination.
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Hmm. Unfortunately popsci.com has found its way into my hosts file (all zeros), because it flaunts European law by not allowing me to refuse to accept the 91 (count 'em) "unnecessary" cookies that it wants to use to manipulate/spy on me.
The law is there for very good reasons, and the Internet is big enough that I don't need to see every single site.
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JavaScript is always changing. New libraries, new frameworks, new languages… It's part of the fun, but it can also feel overhwelming sometimes. You know it's a cool site because it's white on black
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It's a shame that their div-based sidebar doesn't work properly in many browsers.
Maybe they should have used JavaScript.
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More than a few people are starting to wonder if the very nature of open-source software ― the idea that it can be used by pretty much anyone for pretty much anything ― is causing its developers big problems in the era of distributed cloud computing services. "Think of 'free' as in 'free speech,' not as in 'free beer'"
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If they'd just published their work under the AGPL license then only other open source developers would have used it and we wouldn't have any problem.
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To summarize Redis and MongoDB:
1) Write software
2) Give it away
3) Magic happens
4) Make millions
Now they whine that step 3 didn't work.
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That's a little unfair, because the magic did happen, but the corporations who made the millions are unwilling to contribute any of the money they made to the guys who did the work.
It's an unfortunate fact that if an open-source project is your only product, you're quite likely to take a fall, while others profit from your work ("others" being both users and end-users).
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I disagree quite strongly. To illustrate, say I invented and sold a widget. Someone else used my widget, combined it with a doohickey and used the new machine to create thingamajigs, which became a fad and makes her a billion dollars. Am I owed a portion of that billion?
In this case, companies chose to sell their product for $0. It doesn't matter what the purchaser used it for nor how much they made. What if they sold it for $1, does anything change?
Now, let's say a company which used Redis and/or MongoDB lost a billion dollars. Is Redis or MongoDB now obligated to assume part of that debt? What if important pull requests were submitted this company, does that increase the obligation?
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I'm surprised to hear the word "sell" used in the context of software. Licensing is a completely different thing, and AWS, etc, didn't "buy" and don't "own" the software that is under discussion.
Open source is about contributing, but almost no-one has contributed to the products in question. Instead, the "takers" have flocked in, and made an insulting mockery of the whole process.
The people who wrote (and still write) all the code should take it out of open source. They still won't get anything out of their hard work, but at least the takers will have to pay for future improvements and changes.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: I'm surprised to hear the word "sell" used in the context of software.
I used it in the context that a price was set and customers satisfied that price. What else are they supposed to do? Contribute! But what if they did? And how much are they supposed to contribute? What if the product as-is works perfectly fine, so there is nothing to contribute of interest to the users?
Years ago, I used LZ4 in a project. Turned out to have some issues with ARM and Windows CE. I communicated those issues with Yann, he responded quickly and after a few releases, it was working great. As it turns out, that project was canceled a few months later, but had it taken off and made the company billions, should Yann have whined about how unfair it was? What if ARM had already been working so I "contributed" nothing?
Mark_Wallace wrote: almost no-one has contributed to the products in question
But many did. At last count, 354 for MongoDB and 284 for Redis did commmits, many others filed bugs. Were any of them from Amazon? I have no clue, but I'll wager some of them were. But was that not good enough?
I don't think this is about fairness. Rather, it's about MongoDB and Redis being jealous of others' success.
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Joe Woodbury wrote: What if the product as-is works perfectly fine, so there is nothing to contribute of interest to the users?
Apparently, companies have made their own modifications and/or config templates, but have not committed them. That ain't playing the game -- or not the right game, at any rate.
Joe Woodbury wrote: I don't think this is about fairness. Rather, it's about MongoDB and Redis being jealous of others' success.
Sure, there's bound to be an element of that, but consider if you had spent months and years of your life creating something foer everyone to use fairly and equitably, and then someone else had come along and made a fortune out of it without so much as a nod of the head in your direction.
I know I'd be a tad pissed of about it, so I think they're entitled to a few sour grapes -- and it's not as if they've gone over the top about it.
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The number of reported vulnerabilities in 2018 is seven percent down on the same period last year, according to a new report from Risk Based Security. The other 75% have fixes, but the fixes break other stuff
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It's just nice to see that the "Patching is the Cure for All Your Problems!" trend is finally declining.
(But that's probably because MS patches are the cause of most problems.)
Hopefully, we're moving toward a "Don't leave your security up to someone else!" era.
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Any adept programmer not only needs to be good at coding but also has to stay abreast with the ongoing and upcoming happenings in the programming world. Because these are always 100% accurate, and not worth laughing at at all
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