CS is now self-aware and has started denying you access?
danixdefcon5
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RE: When did this change?
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RE: Zimbra
hehe. I'm split on Discourse ... it lacks the bugs CS had, it looks "prettier", but it brings a whole new package of ... oddities to the mix.
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RE: Java is a statically typed language which couldn't care less for type safety
Are you complaining about MS propertiary solution depending on other MS propertiary solutions? Do you complain about Ford cars not working with non-Ford parts too?
Jump into the Java world. Or pretty much anything non-MS, even the propietary world, and you'll see that they all work with stuff like LDAP without asking for "insert propietary brand here" specific implementations. As an example, IBM's Security Access Manager for Web works perfectly with Sun's DSEE and other LDAP servers. You don't need to use IBM's own LDAP.MS does seem to be an outlier in that sense.
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RE: Java is a statically typed language which couldn't care less for type safety
Also no longer the case. ASP.NET vNext, for one, is going to go full multi-platform and all its tooling and code completion is, thanks to Roslyn, capable of being opened up to other IDEs than Visual Studio.
Oooh, that's nice! The last time I meddled with C# code was back in 2012, and one of the major annoyances I've had with C# is that most of the "standard" stuff is heavily tied to the MS ecosystem and while you can do things differently, you have to DIY a lot of stuff. Quick example: try to do LDAP Authentication on IIS that isn't tied to Active Directory (MS's "I look like LDAPv3 but act strangely" LDAP implementation). I had to roll out my own MembershipProvider and RoleProvider implmentations because plain vanilla LDAPv3 isn't supported out of the box. Any Java framework will support LDAP out of the box.My other gripe has been that certain calls are actually tied directly to the Win32 APIs and thus aren't portable. Also, while Java supports many Logger implementations which are pretty straight forward, C# only supports the "Windows Logging" thing, which is incredibly hideous and obscure.
But if you strip away all of those nuisiances, C# itself is nice.
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RE: Adobe Flash Memory for the Apple IPhone
Heh. This "Adobe Flash Memory" reminds me of the heyday of the Iomega ZIP drive/cartridges. Remember those?
I had a lot of friends that thought that somehow those cartridges had > 100Mb capacity, because they stored all your files in ZIP (as in PK-ZIP) format. Oops!
TRWTF is that most people call flash memory "USB memory", up to the point that a local ISP is selling the "virtual USB" service which is actually something more akin to "online storage" service... you know, like Xdrive.
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RE: Industry leader commit website suicide
@KTC said:
Maybe I was just too sleepy, but that is how I originally read the OP.The homepages of the biggest online porn room in the world, PornStars (pornstars.com & pornstars.net)
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RE: When did this change?
You must be new here
New to Discourse. CS was really awful, pretty much the only thing I actually liked about that one was the ability to pull off Signature Guy. But reading around here, it seems there's still quite some suckage in the code, it just looks prettier. WTF, indeed.
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RE: Poll: Would you use your online Alias in real life?
I'm actually known by many people from High School and College by my handle/nickname. Even some work colleagues and developers in former workplaces can identify my code when some of the packages have some variant of my nickname in its namespace.
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RE: Woman Driver WTF
@amischiefr said:
I'm even more concerned with the "elephant race" condition. There's nothing as annoying (and dangerous) like cruising away at 120 km/h just to find two 18-wheelers blocking the 4-lane freeway because one of them is trying to overtake the other one ... at 60 km/h.I wish it was a law that you could not cruise in the left / passing / fast lane. Nothing pisses me off more than some jackass on their cellphone cruising at 60 in a 65 in the left hand lane. Makes me want to run them off the road.
I used to think that this was only seen in Mexican highways, but then I found out that the German Autobahns have the same problem (you know, the ones without speed limits!) and they even got a word for that: "Elefantrennen". I really wish that kind of overtaking was prohibited when having < 3 lanes on each direction...
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RE: Zimbra
Alex, the answer is: "what is this engineer has never used Lotus Domino?"
Hehehehe. I was fortunate enough to experience Lotus Notes without the Domino part. Lotus Notes as a content manager was pretty decent, allowing me to replicate a semester's worth of stuff on campus, then work offline at home, upload my assignments on the local replica, then replicate 'em via dialup or upon arriving on campus.I didn't have to worry about when I replicated stuff back to the main servers, as Lotus Notes would apply a timestamp on my local submit so the teacher would know I actually did finish my assignment on time, even if the upload would take 30 minutes or so (crappy dialup, late 90's, remember that?)
The system that substituted LearningSpace, BlackBoard seems to have been built with always-on broadband in mind, so it was horrible for cash-strapped college students who didn't have broadband on our apartments.
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RE: Java is a statically typed language which couldn't care less for type safety
Duck typing. As long as the "shape" of an object is correct, you can pass it anywhere that expects that shape, no bookkeeping required. This can be useful when dealing with someone else's code, especially when you have objects that can do what you want but don't have the correct shape for some reason; rather than having to wrap them and compose/decompose and other mess, just use their expando-ness to fit them to the right shape.
Java can do this and it doesn't use dynamic typing.
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RE: Zimbra
Alex, the answer is: "what is this engineer has never used Lotus Domino?"
Hehehehe. I was fortunate enough to experience Lotus Notes without the Domino part. Lotus Notes as a content manager was pretty decent, allowing me to replicate a semester's worth of stuff on campus, then work offline at home, upload my assignments on the local replica, then replicate 'em via dialup or upon arriving on campus.I didn't have to worry about when I replicated stuff back to the main servers, as Lotus Notes would apply a timestamp on my local submit so the teacher would know I actually did finish my assignment on time, even if the upload would take 30 minutes or so (crappy dialup, late 90's, remember that?)
The system that substituted LearningSpace, BlackBoard seems to have been built with always-on broadband in mind, so it was horrible for cash-strapped college students who didn't have broadband on our apartments.
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RE: Java is a statically typed language which couldn't care less for type safety
That's not because MS is evil, but because Sun was awesome. Thinking little of someone because he doesn't donate to charity is back-asswards.
Sure, Sun was awesome, but they aren't the only ones that have brand-agnostic integration. IBM, Oracle (even their pre-Sun acquisition stuff), BEA (pre-Oracle) ... pretty much everything I've seen is easily integrated. The sole exception being MS, which can be done but you have to roll out your own stuff.
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RE: Zimbra
I haven't used Zimbra long enough to form an opinion on it, but I have with Exchange. There's no way in hell I'll ever want to touch that POS ever again. One of my former employers (a pretty big financial institution) hates it so much they outsourced their email stuff to GMail rather than having to deal one more minute of Exchange woes.
I can't say who made this switch, but there's a good chance you've heard of them.
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RE: Java is a statically typed language which couldn't care less for type safety
>Using existing hardware platforms to integrate python into your dashboard
http://blogsdir.cms.rrcdn.com/8/files/2013/03/snake-on-a-car.jpg
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RE: Java is a statically typed language which couldn't care less for type safety
Are you complaining about MS propertiary solution depending on other MS propertiary solutions? Do you complain about Ford cars not working with non-Ford parts too?
Jump into the Java world. Or pretty much anything non-MS, even the propietary world, and you'll see that they all work with stuff like LDAP without asking for "insert propietary brand here" specific implementations. As an example, IBM's Security Access Manager for Web works perfectly with Sun's DSEE and other LDAP servers. You don't need to use IBM's own LDAP.MS does seem to be an outlier in that sense.
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RE: Zimbra
My business partner installed Zimbra about 5 years ago, and he told me that the UI was kinda ugly, but it worked. It was far better received by their client than the outgoing MS Exchange, so much that even though they did get issues with Zimbra, users would point out that they'd rather deal with the few kinks on Zimbra rather than going back to Outlook/Exchange.
My same business partner notices that current-version Zimbra is far more prettier and useful than the one he used. Maybe it's actually good these days?
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RE: Java is a statically typed language which couldn't care less for type safety
Also no longer the case. ASP.NET vNext, for one, is going to go full multi-platform and all its tooling and code completion is, thanks to Roslyn, capable of being opened up to other IDEs than Visual Studio.
Oooh, that's nice! The last time I meddled with C# code was back in 2012, and one of the major annoyances I've had with C# is that most of the "standard" stuff is heavily tied to the MS ecosystem and while you can do things differently, you have to DIY a lot of stuff. Quick example: try to do LDAP Authentication on IIS that isn't tied to Active Directory (MS's "I look like LDAPv3 but act strangely" LDAP implementation). I had to roll out my own MembershipProvider and RoleProvider implmentations because plain vanilla LDAPv3 isn't supported out of the box. Any Java framework will support LDAP out of the box.My other gripe has been that certain calls are actually tied directly to the Win32 APIs and thus aren't portable. Also, while Java supports many Logger implementations which are pretty straight forward, C# only supports the "Windows Logging" thing, which is incredibly hideous and obscure.
But if you strip away all of those nuisiances, C# itself is nice.
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RE: Zimbra
hehe. I'm split on Discourse ... it lacks the bugs CS had, it looks "prettier", but it brings a whole new package of ... oddities to the mix.
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RE: Java is a statically typed language which couldn't care less for type safety
Heh. Java has been much better since Generics were added. OO isn't a bad thing, as long as you don't overdo it. It is at least far better than the horrifying mess that was Visual Basic (VB6 and older), at least VB.NET is really syntax sugar for C#, the "real" .NET language. And given that C# is mostly "pirated Java" anyway, that isn't a bad thing.
I actually like some of the C# fixes made to the Java language, though. I've coded in both, and both languages have their strengths and weaknesses. C#'s downside is mostly that it's tied to the MS ecosystem, but other than that it's a fairly OK language.