I like to give my databases proper names like "Frank", "Steve", and "Bobby"
A dev that's no longer with us. It appears naming was something of a hobby. I'm not sure what happened to Franky6. It must not have deserved a place in source control.
I like to give my databases proper names like "Frank", "Steve", and "Bobby"
A dev that's no longer with us. It appears naming was something of a hobby. I'm not sure what happened to Franky6. It must not have deserved a place in source control.
What feature is made better by massive data duplication and update anomalies that most NoSQL systems will give you? Is the data model simply a giant cesspool of tweets/posts?
This is all fucking broken. And it's not about development tooling, either, though that's one of the worst offenders. It's literally everything.
So much this. The IT industry is in the business of selling old ideas as new, every 4 to 8 years or so. And it succumbs to silver bullets like no other. This is impossible to stop. It is human nature, and the nature of the systems that we build for ourselves. One must learn to live with it, which is why I am considering demanding that every developer I interview read John Gall's classic book on Systems - "Systemantics" aka "The Systems Bible". Fundamentally, I believe the problem lies with the fact that the IT industry is one of youth who believe that only they are smart enough to solve the problems that have stymied those old fogies for years. And I speak as only a 33 year old.
My favorite points (in all caps, as in the book)
Oh and the best one.
THE AUTOMATIC PILOT IS NOT MUCH HELP WITH HIGHJACKERS
I had a client where if you needed the help desk to reset your password, you were forbidden from changing it from the default 'passw0rd1' that they set it to for two weeks. Attacker just needs to lock you out because the other policy was that if you were locked out they reset your password.
Oh and instead of encrypting or tokenizing silly things like CC numbers they bought insurance in case they were hacked.
What evidence? The millions of entrepreneurs who start their own businesses, save and invest, putting off consumption ? Living like no one else now so later they can live like no one else?
If anything its the faith that somehow government makes things better for the poor, despite all the evidence to the contrary (most recently, Venezuela).
I'm not making enough money.
Or you don't live in the right place. Did they adjust for the COL in the places where most Ivy majors end up living (Cali, NY, DC)?
EA did it with Simcity on the PC too.
Games are now "Art", and the real money is now in Freemium. So we're fucked.
zero environmental carbon dioxide footprint
This cheeses me off to no end. For starters, sugar is probably already a net negative of CO2 given the vast quantities of CO2 sucked out of the atmosphere as it grows.
The second is the notion that somehow CO2 is a pollutant. But that will start a so.... forget it.
@AyGeePlus said in General Kerbal Discussion:
@blakeyrat What do you do after that?
Install Realism Overhaul and 10x Kerbin and start launching even more gigantic rockets.
@Groaner said in General Kerbal Discussion:
@blakeyrat said in General Kerbal Discussion:
(The orange tanks are just the remainder of the orbital boost. Not part of the craft. I never throw away fuel until I 100% have to, dammit.)
The high thrust in that stage will also come in handy for starting a transfer burn. 20 minute nuclear burns with multiple passes around Kerbin are annoying.
Use the Time Control Mod. Hyper warp makes those burns go by so much faster.
@Luhmann said in Dude *really* does (almost) ruin company who had never heard of proper backups:
@BaconBits said in Dude *really* does (almost) ruin company who had never heard of proper backups:
Fax isn't perfect, but email is essentially directly inferior in all ways except convenience.
Except that only a small percent of modern faxes are send from fax machine to fax machine. A lot of it is at some time or the other transmitted as a digital document. Offent inside an e-mail. That makes the 'reliability' argument rather week.
And in the US every freaking doctors office wants you to fax in paperwork. I've got a MFC scanner at home but I need to pay for a shitty online faxing service (eFax!) or else visit that wasteland, Kinkos (sorry I mean "Fedex Office")?
Oh he did. the 90s called and wants their IDE back.
You can thank Baron Baltimore for the Maryland flag. It's his coat of arms.
Also, apparently PA and Maryland had a "war".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cresap's_War
@skotl said:
I am so happy! After ten years of having to defend Java on the desktop (and that was still Java 6 and Java 7, when I left a couple of months ago) I am now 100% certified Java free!
Good for you!
Nonono! You're supposed to buy the third party tool that let a child design their brand! Hint: It starts up with a ribbbit!
@anotherusername said:
@xaade said:
The only valid responses are to declare it malfunctioning, which is what Microsoft did, or claim it has free will...
It was neither of those. It was functioning exactly as designed. It did exactly what it was programmed to do, and nothing else.
So much this. The mythical belief in "AI" just won't go away. Computers only do what they are told. You might be able to generate emergent behavior that appears non-deterministic, but it will do exactly what you tell it to do.
@Weng can't hurt to try. After all you can always get involved in a protracted legal battle because you don't exist according to the govt and "industry leaders". That sounds marginally more fun than banging ones head against the wall at @WTFcorp