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Comment Re:My 1980+ Experience Says Modern Languages Suck (Score 1) 186

Go is not really a functional programming language; you _can_ use functional techniques in it, but Go is largely a weird fusion of C and Java with a lot of the cruft removed (maybe too much stuff removed), so it is largely an imperative programming/object oriented language

Comment Re:Engineering will produce whatever you ask for (Score 1) 54

googling medeco lock vulnerability says that they can be opened in 30 seconds

they are probably very secure, but you have to keep updating your -physical- lock if you are very lucky, and your padlock provider decides to keep up with the security community

and god help you if you put the padlock on a fence and someone jumps over the fence. all that engineering for nothing

problem with engineering is that you have to list the requirements BEFOREHAND; if someone comes up with a new way of raking your padlock, all that engineering is for nothing.

Comment Re:Agreed (Score 1) 54

Engineering has nothing to do with security.

I can assure you the World Trade Center was perfectly engineered and all the load bearing strength calculations were right.

But engineering could not save them against someone crashing planes into the side of the buildings. Engineering cannot save your padlock from being open by raking it, or stop you from being assaulted just outside of your perfeclty good house with an electric fence.

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Submission + - I no longer support IE6. Now what?

An anonymous reader writes: One of our main clients recently announced they were dropping Internet Explorer 6 support, given how their statistics showed a low percentage of use of this browser. So, after the obligatory party, we are left with the question of what can we do that we couldn't before. Obviously, we are happy to kiss goodbye the hacks to get comboboxes not appear over everything, odd display behaviour, javascript bugs, etc, but, although a less buggy platform is great, I want to know what new things we can do now that the baseline is Explorer 7.

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