The chains don't have a good supply either. You can find book #4 and #7 in a popular series, and anything else they will be happy to special order for you. But if I'm going to be ordering and waiting for things, why shouldn't I just do it myself online and save some money and avoid having to drive back to the store?
From the article summary, this is a *500* page book on the topic of using an app framework with a packaging system.
How can that topic take 500 pages? It sounds like it should be a 2 page FAQ? What does a packaging system change so much that it needs 498 more pages?
How does this jive with Google's study that higher temps didn't seem to really cause hard drives to fail in their data center? http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/labs.google.com/en/us/papers/disk_failures.pdf
I'm pretty sure their HR department has a zero tolerance policy on stealing from the company. How much money do I have to be worth before the rules don't apply to me anymore? Do you really think it's only unacceptable to steal if I'm on the bottom half of the org chart?
My 5.7L V8 gets 23 mpg average in daily driving. I figure that's good enough that I don't need to trade it in over green guilt for some lawnmower that might get 5mpg better. Further improvement gets real diminishing returns, cars are only driven so much each year. See for example http://green.autoblog.com/2009/07/23/greenlings-where-are-the-most-important-mpg-increases-at-the-u/
Do you really want them to teach you 140 characters at a time?
Aren't web pages (blogs, RSS feeds, wikis, forums) a better way to actually convey information?
Ships aren't cheap, and marine environments are rather hostile (salt, water), and data centers can already be reasonably mobile by putting it in a shipping container and moving that shipping container somewhere... so what need is this filling?
How could a software update fix a hardware problem with the antenna? Isn't basic physics involved?
I would genuinely like to know. Plenty of people here (who aren't me unfortunately) know how antennas work, anything that could be done without changing the hardware involved?
1) First, you have to protect your users. I'd say there are three things to worry about here:
- SQL Injection. "Little Bobby Tables". This one is easy - use bind variables for all sql, and don't -ever- have dynamically interpreted sql with user inputs.
- Cross Site Scripting ("XSS"). This one is harder. If you ever display something to one user that could have been entered by another user, user b can own user a with some html. It's very hard to check for bad html because it can be disguised in various ways. A whitelist filter of allowed html is safer than a blacklist, but you still have to manage to consistenly scrub input.
- The fact that passwords are essentially inadequate, but it's hard and/or expensive to come up with anything better. So force decent passwords, remind your users not to give them to their friends, and anticipate there will be some level of "my angry ex boyfriend deleted all my stuff" support requests so history logs of important actions and the ability to roll stuff back will be useful.
- There *are* more types of things that can be done ("clickjacking", "sidejacking", dns poisoning) but I think the above cover most problems you really need to plan on.
2) Next, you have to protect your game.
- Malicious users. It's particularly easy to be a malicious user with HTML - the web app provides a nice form variable "itemid=12", I can change it to "itemid=1", poof I have your super wizard staff. You can't trust your users, ever, so write your app so that impossible things aren't permitted.
- Bots - if there is any instance where user activity is rewarded, somebody will find a way to automate it. It's a problem from a purely technical server load perspective, and it's also a problem from an upsetting good users viewpoint. Good luck here.
What worked for me was my dad gave me a copy of Zork and a copy of Quick Basic.
My thought process went:
"This is fun, and doesn't seem so hard I can't even imagine where to start."
If text adventures hold insufficient appeal, some more modern versions of surmountable tasks are:
WoW mods
Neverwinter Nights module
Get the kid hooked on Eve and then make him learn VB to build profit & loss spreadsheets in Excel
Nope. Jquery isn't magic, it still follows the same rules under the hood, it is still using xmlhttprequest. The exception to the same origin policy for javascript code is you can load
Well, in the anecdote game, my car was stolen. When it was recovered beat up and broken and abandoned out of gas on the side of the road, the cops didn't even bother to check for prints. They advised me to feel lucky I got it back and then went back about their business.
I get the general impression that your positive experience is the exception, not the rule.
This article is not 'reporting' and should not be presented as 'news', not even news for nerds, stuff that matters.
There are some very interesting details, things that might perhaps be facts, but after presenting a string of them they are always followed with utterly unsubstantiated wild ass guesses that claim to be absolute facts and firmly grounded in expert opinion etc etc. While the Wild Ass Guesses may actually be true, they aren't facts, and presenting them as facts makes it impossible to believe any of the other information presented. At the end of the article all of this much vaunted expertise that the guesses are based on turns out to be this guy is some random programmer with a pond in his back yard.
This topic definitely needs some real reporting, but this sort hysterical speculation (includes quoting Revelations and speculating on this being an "Earth Extinction" event under the general premise of "they said this couldn't happen but it did so this other thing that also can't happen is obviously worth speculating about now") is downright irresponsible. Even if the premise that the news is massively underreporting the size of the spill is true, this is not the way to correct it.
What's the big deal with scribd lately? Weren't they a worthless site that nobody ever used because it was such a pain to try to read anything there? Or am I completely missing something?
Real Programmers don't eat quiche. They eat Twinkies and Szechwan food.
