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Re:Cargo Cult Software Engineering (2000)
on Thursday February 04, 2021 @03:51AM (#26023835)
That is a funny question (in the good sense). I would argue the VCs are cargo culting themselves, but of course another could argue that once the VC money has moved into the pockets of the programmers, then the important part of the process is done.
I just doesn't necessarily create any useful software.
Re:Silicon Valley is shutting down speech loopholes. Latest target: li...
on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @05:01AM (#25926281)
It will be easier to see who were the useful idiots when the usefulness runs out.
Re:Highly Evasive Attacker Leverages SolarWinds Supply Chain
on Monday December 14, 2020 @05:54AM (#25415609)
How did it get dead?
Re:Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014)
on Monday November 16, 2020 @03:40AM (#25109492)
There is funny business going on at manjaro, but by god do they deliver! I run 5 linux computers at home for various ends and I got tired of putting a new Ubuntu on them every now and then. At the time I looked at manjaro, other rolling distros couldn't even survive an update from the latest installation media to current (sidux). Arch is/was a hobby in itself and the opposite of what I was seeking, but it is an excellent foundation. Manjaro has kept these 5 machines for over 5 years through every possible update and it never broke them. Kernel switching is a joy. Driver installing switching is a joy. This is a very tall order.
That said I do hope endeavouros or others can fill Manjaro's immense boots.
Re:Google's Sundar Pichai says future of office is employee 'on-sites'
on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @04:47AM (#24625388)
pure noise? because you are always right, of course.
Re:92 of top 500 subreddits controlled by same 5 people
on Thursday May 14, 2020 @04:23PM (#23184895)
Funny how much a single question can be feared.
Re:92 of top 500 subreddits controlled by same 5 people
on Thursday May 14, 2020 @03:51AM (#23176676)
What was the state of r/The_Donald at the time?
Re:Exploring Bayesian Optimization
on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @03:49AM (#23088772)
Good job making all these accounts to congratulate yourself!
Re:What You'll Need to Know in 2020 That You Don't Know Now (2000)
on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @03:23AM (#23077395)
Even today the english wikipedia has articles that are full of lies, like for example the Gamergate article.
Re:Malaria 'Completely Stopped' by Microbe
on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @03:17AM (#23077352)
test
Re:What I wish I knew about React
on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @03:02AM (#23016248)
jQuery, when people stop fucking around and start making sites that work again.
Re:Doctors turn to social media to develop Covid-19 treatments in real...
on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @08:30AM (#22683903)
And that is not the only place knowledge gets locked behind:
https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/chinas-devas...
Re:Assange Hearing Day 2
on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @08:29AM (#22422673)
So shooting the messenger is now a defensible position in polite company?
Re:Javascript Object Signing and Encryption is a Bad Standard (2017)
on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @09:07AM (#22365488)
He is saying dynamic languages crash and burn in this context. Specifying "dynamic" does strongly suggest non-dynamic languages do not crash and burn in this context.
Re:Javascript Object Signing and Encryption is a Bad Standard (2017)
on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @07:26AM (#22364878)
Of course, because security issues and language pitfalls have no bearing on cryptographic implementations.
Re:Javascript Object Signing and Encryption is a Bad Standard (2017)
on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @07:10AM (#22364820)
Indeed it is much better to implement it in a language such as C or C++ that has historically had almost no security issues and has very few pitfalls.
Re:Python dicts are now ordered
on Friday February 07, 2020 @01:07PM (#22268837)
That does not matter, nothing is above criticism.
Re:How knitters got knotted in a purity spiral
on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @04:05AM (#22245167)
Teenager with Asperger’s placed under house arrest, fined over £500 for asking police officer’s gender
https://caldronpool.com/teenager-with-aspergers-placed-under...
Re:Deanonymizing Tor Circuits
on Sunday February 02, 2020 @03:51AM (#22215949)
We have our skills, and the ability to implement anything that we can imagine (with the necessary detail). They can't take that away.
Re:Deanonymizing Tor Circuits
on Sunday February 02, 2020 @02:43AM (#22215738)
People like that have no place in software or any form of engineering.
Re:Deanonymizing Tor Circuits
on Sunday February 02, 2020 @02:42AM (#22215734)
I consider Tor to be completely compromised. Consider this:
1) Political entryism by ideologues. These people stand against merit, and these are the same people who every few weeks post a lead-balloon of a thread against it in this very forum and others.
2) Recent purge of non-aligned team members on trumped up bullshit that only offends the now-dominant political ideas
3) Large, long redesign with obvious flaws
4) Unwillingness to address the reported flaws
We are not talking about ICQ here, we are talking about Tor. If the Tor team is not concerned about this, then what are they concerned about? What else are they even doing? Why is it that in this age of total surveillance, when even Torvalds had to face the wall while they purged his team, nobody in power is bothered by Tor? Ain't that the fucking shit?
Re:Google Fires Four Workers, Including Staffer Tied to Protest
on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @04:54AM (#21636883)
The problem is that the "something" that is "wrong" is wrongthing.
Re:Are We Wayland Yet?
on Monday November 25, 2019 @03:34AM (#21626385)
X has been going away for longer that the careers of most people on this site.
Re:Stallman Still Heading the GNU Project
on Friday September 27, 2019 @03:37AM (#21089418)
I guess we can soon expect them to relicense it all to free the world from the viral nature of the GPL.
Re:ORMs Are Backwards
on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @03:55AM (#20874940)
Quick reminder that advisory locks may need to be released by the same connection that acquired them...
Re:The race is on to develop new strategies for storing nuclear waste
on Friday August 02, 2019 @06:51AM (#20591983)
> Not sure whether it can be argued if it is really a better alternative.
I suppose that when you watch your children die from climate change, then you will know.
Re:Hillbillies Need No Elegy
on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @02:59AM (#20342207)
Did you ever study Latin?
Re:Show HN: A Firefox extension to leave comments on any URL
on Thursday June 27, 2019 @06:34AM (#20293205)
Not all moderation is Orwellian but there is moderation happening right now that is Orwellian.
Re:Abuses show Assange case was never about law
on Monday June 03, 2019 @03:19AM (#20081091)
Thank you but I will comment as I see fit.
Re:Huawei’s Ace in the Hole: Undersea Cables
on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @03:42AM (#20037658)
Yes, the humans.