Almost every software tool decision I make is one of garbage quality with features vs ok quality with no features. I can choose a text editor that does the basics but nothing else I need or an ide that does everything poorly. From browsers to package managers to debuggers to operations tools, the quality of software tools is absolutely atrocious. Why master any of this garbage when more garbage tools will be required later? It's hard to stay sane just using them. Yes, non software tools like reading and writing comprehension are useful, but for the most part, investing heavily in a tool that's bound to fail over and over again seems like a terrible idea. Then again, there simply isn't enough time to write proper versions of these tools. But amazing things have been built with much less tooling than we use today which leads me to think that the proliferation of software tools partly exists only to make the tool developers happy as they create useless rube Goldberg machines (especially in js land).
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Justice is whatever the 'justice' systems says it is. Citizens have no recourse. The 'justice' system has no checks or balances that can be accessed, except by the rich. There are no penalties for abuse or misuse, even when uncovered.
Yeah, that's exactly what I think of when I think of the concept of 'justice'. One day some people might create a just society, but it almost certainly won't be in the US.
How can you have an intelligent discussion without a lot of racism and hate thrown in? It's impossible.
You're thinking of 4chan. Reddit has never been that--it's been moderated for many years.
Auto scaling in RDS? That'd require a multi-master cluster. As far as I know, that's impossible on RDS, Aurora or not.
Couldn't agree more. If you have a monolith, you can probably get away doing dev ops as long as you don't grow too much. We have a handful of microservices and trying to keep up with the ops work has been hell, though part of that is due to AWS's tools. And this is without even a growing user base, just a growing app base. Burn out is definitely a problem in either case.
The main lesson here is to leave a company that doesn't pay you immediately. The rest of the lesson is only for the idiots who didn't do that like the author.
Docker for Mac has issues that make it unusable? You don't say!
For those whose imagination is lacking: http://www.businessinsider.com/brutal-conditions-in-amazons-...
Apple reviews every single app that makes it to the store. Does the author really think this is not intentional?
How are we supposed to have a conversation when facts no longer matter? Should I start spewing out delusions also?
Actually, I think this is much more the key: "I never would have begun my own conversations without first experiencing clear and passionate outrage to what I believed from those I interacted with."
Outrage is the only reasonable first response to what happened and must come first. If that opens the doors of discussion like it did here, great. Most likely it won't as most people are not persuaded by argument, though they are susceptible to manipulation by sympathy.
When those people choose hate over everything else, however, they deserve to be ostracized and relentlessly attacked. Hate is NOT acceptable. I'm disgusted by those who suggest otherwise, especially in the name of "understanding" the other side. It not only shows an incredible lack of understanding about the human condition, it encourages the acceptance of that hate as a legitimate part of the political process, and brings into question the morals of the person making the suggestion to acquiesce to hate.
"Also Freedom 0 is just silly I mean of course I can use the program as I wish."
Tell that to people spending time in jail for using a program in a way that was frowned upon by government. Clearly the author hasn't spent much time thinking about these topics.
So they listened to developers demands from four years ago and didn't think to upgrade the specs to what would be needed now in 2016 but left them at 2012 levels? They must have a different definition of "listened" than the rest of the world.
That's what the "flag" link is for. Please use it when you see garbage like this.
"If Zuckerberg can lock up another 1.4 billion Chinese, Facebook could feed the growth beast for at least several quarters!"
I hope this was an intentional double entendre by the author because its metaphorical meaning is brilliant and its literal interpretations chilling.
EDIT: Actually a triple entendre.
I don't think you realize the people gave up power generations ago. It doesn't matter what the people want now or even if they want or do not want to give up power. The power was given up to the government when it was formed and forever it will stay there until the government is destroyed by violence. We've seen this over and over again and know this to be the state of things. I don't understand what pretending the people have any power left gets you. The only power the people still seem to have is the power to vote (not very powerful, IMO) and of referendums and other state initiatives. These are the powers that were given to the people in exchange for people giving up the rest of their powers (except as otherwise legislated). If you want to talk about people regaining or not giving up power, you are necessarily talking about violence and rebellion on the scale of a civil war. I don't think anyone wants either of those and even for people that do, it's likely unwise to talk about it on the Internet.
As far as free speech, the original topic of this post, IMO, it doesn't exist when people are afraid to speak out and right now, many people are terrified to silence.
That's exactly why I decided to choose anything BUT Python. If it really was inconsequential, the community wouldn't be split. I'm also not going to select my programming language with a coin flip. That's ridiculous.
There are so many alternatives these days that it's simply not worth dealing with this type of bullshit.
From an outsider's perspective, the rift between Python 2/3 that's been going on now for so many years indicates that the language has completely stalled and stopped as far as progress goes. I don't see any reason to pursue a dead language that can't resolve its own problems over the course of almost a decade. Think about what that says about the community! People talk about community in the abstract, but here is a concrete example of a divided community that cannot figure out how to move forward. And that's with a dictator leading it!
I can't think of anything holding people back more from trying and adopting Python for serious projects. Before you can even begin to play with the language, you're forced to make a choice that the most experienced Python developers cannot agree on. If that's not user unfriendly, I don't know what is. Note also that it doesn't matter if my perceptions are right or wrong. You can't expect a Python beginner to have good perceptions about something he has not learned. However, I've read enough information to know that making this decision is not easy, nor is it really doable for a beginner. If I'm going to consider Python as a language for my next project, I have to be able to evaluate it properly and the rift basically now forces me to treat Python as two separate, incompatible languages that have no opportunity to grow, change, or adapt for the future.
No thanks.
"if Google were to support (1) Android apps running on Chrome for Windows and Mac"
Check out the ARC Welder extension (also works on Linux). It's obviously a developer tool, but showcases the technology:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/arc-welder/emfinbm...
I assume that the people who voted for Trump just don't care about and even actively hate their children, so they will be happy with this quite expected news.
Apple's track record with wireless is atrocious over the last five years. Over the last four OSs, over 3 different macs (07 mbpro, 12 air, 13 mbpro) the Bluetooth doesn't work for audio at all except sometimes when the speaker so close it's actually touching the laptop. (Works fine in the same space from my phone in case you're wondering if it's interference). Hell, even the Magic Trackpad 2 something they control completely and only works on OS X (currently) can't do Bluetooth without skipping (better but not fixed in Sierra). Same thing with RF dongles from Logitech which become completely unusable on OS X yet have no problems on Win/Linux. I haven't noticed WiFi problems per se, but I think two out of three wireless systems not working on Macs is enough.
Of course, Apple ignores every single problem.
"That means suppliers are on an honor system"
In other words, abuses will be rampant as having an honor system for corporations is like asking your cat not to eat that delicious fish or bird they just caught. Only idiots would think that could possibly work. That's why it's a dominant theory of economics in the US.
I didn't know EasyList had advanced AI to differentiate between 'one-line, textual "sponsorship" banner' ads and other ads, nor that its stated goal was to block some ads but not others. I'm quite sure if the latter ever becomes true, it'll stop being used by reputable ad blockers. Until then, the list is working correctly in respect to this ad like it works correctly in respect to other ads.
That's one way to kill Chrome and I wouldn't be surprised if Google pursues it. Better browsers already exist so it's irrelevant even now.
No, they're not. The author is running an ad and is complaining about it being blocked.
If he really wanted to run this ad, he should make a random CSS class name for it that changes with every page render and try to fight the ad blockers like Forbes does. At least then I wouldn't have to read this whiny complaint about programs actually working like they're supposed to.
Why do you think Apple's routers might be backdoor free but other companies' routers won't be? What makes Apple so special in this regard? I understand they challenged the government on the San Bernardino cell phone, but that's irrelevant as they also cooperate with the government like all other major companies. Is this idea simply based on some public statement or policy and if so why do you believe that given Apple's track record of cooperation that continues to this day?
Lol. I was thinking similarly. If this is what you need to do to get Kubernets up in production, Kubernetes is far from production ready. Sadly, this type of UX is the norm in the ops world and everyone is expected to build out a custom in-house solution on top even though everyone is doing the exact same thing. AWS was built on this insane model, promising companies that they don't need operations when the need was shifted from hardware onto software, not eliminated. The devops movement has decided it is also fine with this as long as they can automate the dozens of moving parts using dozens of other moving parts. Surely nothing will fail then. Even products that manage a really great UX like Docker itself fail when it comes to providing a proper UX for higher level tools like docker swarm.
I'd like to think that the industry is moving forward towards better, higher-level abstractions (like Kubernets or Heroku) but it seems to me it's only moving sideways, just like it did with the adoption of VMs.
Absolutely. Sorry if this didn't come through clearly.
Hate, oppression, and slavery: the original "great" American values the rubes can't get enough of. Staying true to our roots, indeed.