Binstock says their development for OS X and Linux has been "paused" so they can focus on delivering content for Windows. They have no timeline for going back to the less popular platforms.
Go fuck yourself.
'nough said.
Adhering to all of ITIL, for example, is a really good way to ensure your production systems almost never change. The number of people and sheer volume of paperwork, tickets and meetings to get anything even scheduled for a change in a "true ITIL" system is beyond insane
What I learned in my years in IT Compliance (SOX) is two things:
a) nobody really understands these things (ITIL, SOX, Agile, take any buzzword you want), including the people charging you at high-class escort levels for consulting.
b) there are many ways to skin a cat.
SOX is actually very simple, but consulting companies are not interested in simple, they're interested in selling a lot of expensive consulting hours, so they turned it into this monster. I was the Senior Manager for SOX in a 2500 people company and I was not overworked. Another company in the same corporate structure had a room full of people doing SOX, and I dare say their compliance wasn't better than ours.
ITIL is more formalized, but I don't see why anything in it has a hard requirement for the insanity you describe. I'm fairly sure the issue wasn't with ITIL, but with the particular way it was implemented. I'm almost certain it was implemented by outside consultants, am I right?
Just like nothing in Agile prevents you from making architecture decisions early on. It just tells you to keep an open mind for changing them. And nothing in ITIL tells you that you can't change anything, it just tells you to do it in a way that properly tracks the change.
I'm not saying these things are not often nightmares in the real world. I am saying that they do not have to be. There is no "it has to be horrible" clause in ITIL.
The problem is not with Agile, but with people who believe in magic potions.
Nothing in this world ever solves all problems. Nothing in this world ever fits everyone. Agile is no exception. It might be good or bad, depending on circumstances such as your team, your culture, your project and a dozen more.
The best you can do as a leader (manager, lead dev, CTO, whatever) is to pick and choose and come up with a system that works for your company, your people. It might be Agile, or Agile with something else mixed in or something else with some Agile mixed in, or no Agile at all. It depends.
If you believe you can take something that someone else cooked up without knowing your situation, and just apply it by the book and that's it, then you are not doing your job.
It has been ringing continuously since 1840, and will probably continue for a long time.
Read all about it here: http://www.atlasobscura.com/pl...
You mean more than the cluelessness to which I responded, or that you have shown?
Nah. I'm a libertarian. I don't try to force feed people.
Oooh, same old nonsense to trot out. Haven't had a new thought in a while have you?
Was there anything like the 1787 constitution before the US created it?
Was there anything like the Wright Brothers flyer before they created it?
Everything is new at some point.
And Ayn Rand
Go, find someone else's leg to pull, and I can guarantee it won't be a libertarian's if that's the best argument you got.
You cluelessness about libertarians is typical of those who don't want to understand personal responsibility because it scares them. So much easier to assign responsibility to a bunch of strangers, and then to whine about the bad decisions they make, which really means they didn't force you to go along with a decision you haven't got the guts to make yourself.
People are building houses they want on property they own?
The infamy!
I wonder how the whiners felt about the people who lived in the area as the whiners' houses were being built. What, no retroactive self-shaming guilt trips? I am shocked, shocked! to discover egocentric whining.
And there you have the reason why almost nobody uses OpenBSD.
Yeah, well, I use OpenBSD, and I know a ton of people who use it for, say, firewalls, routers and other. And, yes, even web servers an other stuff.
Seriously, man: PHP? Really?
[...] Maybe OpenBSD could create a section on their web site that provides documentation on the advantages of BSD over Linux as well as some advice on how to avoid common pitfalls that Linux users typically make in BSD. [...] In any event, I'm curious to see what I'll miss coming from the Linux world after spending some time in OpenBSD.
On a semi-related note: what's with replacing nginx with their own http daemon? Is the NIH syndrome spreading to OpenBSD as well?
Nope, they have explained at legnth that nginx was getting too big, and its developpers too unresponsive, for it to be a part of base anymore. That was also the case with the previous web server, which was an old version of Apache with a lot of patches.You can still install nginx from ports though and Apache is in there somewhere as well.
As far as documentation is concerned, please refer to the OpenBSD FAQ:
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq...
And:
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq...
What will you miss? Probably not much, except for the eye candy. OpenBSD is a really good and complete OS, and its quality is excellent.
No, most people want to run a simple PHP website (Wordpress, Drupal, etc). But since almost every modern CMS and framework require at least a simple form of URL rewriting (rewrite every request for a non-existig file to
Err... If you are running PHP on OpenBSD, you have COMPLETELY missed the point of OpenBSD in the first place.
Seriously, though. PHP?
They are traitors and should be jailed. In fact, since they believe they're involved in a "war on terror", maybe we should try them for treason under military law.
Also, I wouldn't trust the statement that the chancellors office didn't know anything.
The argument by HFT traders is that reduces the liquidity and efficiency of the stock market.
And people still fall for that argument, which amazes me to no end.
Yes, markets need liquidity.
No, markets do not need 5000% liquidity.
Everything is toxic in overdose, even water.
The real people to throw in jail are the ones who made it possible. The guys who deregulated the markets so much, the ones in oversight of the finance system who didn't see these things approaching and the people who dissolved all the protections of the real economy against the finance market because they were greedy for quick bucks.
Politicians, mostly, but we should also go after the lobbyists and their employers who influenced them.
Of course, that will never happen. Society rarely becomes self-conscious enough to get rid of its parasites.
Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith. - Paul Tillich, German theologian and historian
