Comment Re:They likely give the Chinese govt full access (Score 1) 46
My guess is that they'll simply disable SSL for chinese users or perhaps provide a local SSL key to China, so that China's censoring system will be able to log all the traffic.
My guess is that they'll simply disable SSL for chinese users or perhaps provide a local SSL key to China, so that China's censoring system will be able to log all the traffic.
Coming from the aerospace industry, you cannot have software that has bugs.
Why do you think that you are better than us ?
This is wishful thinking:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
7 major bugs in space exploration !
Instead of "you cannot have software that has bugs", you should have said "you have to accept that there are still hidden bugs".
Then, you try to mitigate them by running 3 different programs on 3 different processors, so that if the result differs on one of them, you can suppose that the 2 others are correct.
Just because traditional consumer software always has bugs in it (which are acceptable) doesn't mean they are acceptable in other industries.
And then ?
A bug is never acceptable.
Fixing bugs has a cost, and if your project is very expensive, spend a lot of time fixing bugs is cheaper than delivering quickly.
Writing bullet-proof software is possible, but expensive, and requires a lot of code-reviews (automated and human), and code that never changes !
He developed MS more than 15 years ago, we lost sight 10 years ago (he had difficulties walking), life expectance was not very long.
I knew that since a few years.
For example, multiple sclerosis seems to be related to some bacteria, that are inoffensive in the gut, but lethal in the brain (I'm pretty sure Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases are similar).
The transfer from gut to brain is facilitated when your body loses his protections.
For example, one of my friends triggered multiple sclerosis when his mother developed a cancer, he was very shocked.
By the way, bifidobacterium is used to fatten pigs, so I would not recommend to fill yourself with yogurt.
x = new WonderfulBusinessObject();
x.Invoke("5000 lines of C that some cheap outsourced programmer wrote");
FTFY.
The rubber piece was probably to handle his sponsor's name.
It is not too late to save the site, but it won't happen through hope.
In my opinion, it's too late, and I'll explain why:
1) it seems that the beta is forced onto new users, not on older users
2) most people here are long-time users. They want to share ideas and listen to interesting points of view (I would say "political") about IT.
3) most people here don't really need new software, and they don't need to "consume" anything.
4) Dice bought Slashdot in order to monetize this community, to Facebook-ize it.
5) So they try to attract a new generation of users, by dumbing down the interface, à la Windows 8.
6) I think they'll keep the old interface for the old users, and force the beta on all the new users (this is what I would do)
7) if they remove the "power-user" interface, I'll simply stop coming here, and I'll be quite happy about that, since it will save me a few hours every week !
I guess Dice's owners don't understand that we don't come here for the articles, because they are always pretty late, compared to other news sites, and we don't come here for the site, since its interface has always been pretty minimalist.
We come here to write our own comments and read other geeks' comments, so if you remove the comments, the whole site becomes useless.
The question for Dice is: how could you make money from this site, and especially from our community ? (even though I don't feel like a member of a community !)
No, the solution is not to change the interface, try again !
Finally, I think that Slashdot died a long time ago, it's still a miracle that a few people keep putting interesting comments.
I agree with you: the paradigm can change very quickly.
The problem is that in order to succeed, you need teams.
How could you encourage teams when you use stack ranking ?
Interesting, but in companies, it's difficult to encourage altruism when the management is selfish.
In our culture, the individual is considered superior to the group, but in Saudia for example, I was surprised to discover that the family was more important than its individuals (of course, people expect that their effort towards their family will be rewarded).
I said that he was wrong on the delay.
I don't disagree, since we are saying the same thing, except that I explained how it works on a personal level
If you do it for too long, two things happen (a) you start cutting into good performers (b) people will not collaborate to make others look good
You are wrong.
As soon as stack-ranking is used (and not after "too long"), it shows that the individual performance is more important than the group's performance, so collaborating goes against your own interest.
Once everybody is focused on his own agenda, the best performers are getting tired by the competition and thus quit their job to a better living place.
Basically, stack-ranking encourages selfishness.
Slashdot needs a rewrite, a clean new technical foundation powering a new front-end design.
Let's rewrite it in Ruby On Rails, yay !
Coding is knowledge, but there are more useful knowledge than learning to code.
For example, psychology's or negotiation's skills, which will always be useful anywhere.
But but but
FTFY
It's easy:
open an online app store.
Propose a cheap devkit so that small companies could develop cheap games. For example, they could propose a cross-platform game's library for that.
Then track the best teams and offer them to develop larger games, with exclusivity on their platform.
This way, you train new developers on your platform for free (out of 100 developers, one will be really great), and you embrace new creative concepts (which seem to be lacking at Nintendo).
Of course, Nintendo will never do that, since they want to keep control on "their" market.
Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle. -- Steinbach
