Comment Re:It costs $1,000 (Score 1) 233
I really wish I had points to mod this up. Well-played.
I really wish I had points to mod this up. Well-played.
Ah, yes, security through obscurity.
I find it to be *okay* - not great, but okay. What is better? (This is a serious, non-trolling question).
Tabs vs spaces is a code style issue, and code style issues ought to be agreed upon, at least on a per-project basis if not company wide. I was thinking more along the lines of "I want to use Eclipse, you want to use NetBeans, and this other guy wants to use IntelliJ" - as long as people can conform to company standards, the choice of tools used is a personal one.
Then let them quit. OP has over a thousand devels and giving everyone admin access and the ability to select their own tools will turn into a nightmare. There will be a thousand different environments. One person quits, gets sick or goes on vacation and his cow-orkers will have to reverse engineer all of his shit to keep production running. Nobody in a shop that size is that good.
If you want free reign to select your own tools, work for yourself in your basement.
That whole statement is just silly. If you have to rely on a particular developer's "environment" to be correct, you're setting yourself up for failure. The scenario you're describing sounds like amateur hour.
In a well-run development shop, anyone should be able to check out the code from version control and be up and running relatively quickly, because everything is in version control and is well-documented.
> SO MANY problems I have seen when devs have admin rights on their boxes! If you want more reliable software, I think the first step is to make the devs run under the same OS permissions as the users.
Wrong. As long as we have the ability to test in the same environment, that is what's important. Your own machine makes a really poor test environment.
If you want more reliable software, improve your developers' skills, add QA resources, write more unit tests, do test-driven development. Don't make things more difficult for your developers.
> but that's no big deal
Actually, that very much _is_ a big deal. Using the tools you are familiar with and make you work the fastest is a huge performance enhancer.
For example: My coworkers use the Eclipse IDE. I use IntelliJ IDEA because I'm way more accustomed to it and it's faster for me. It interoperates completely with Eclipse (formats the code the same way, etc), so it's totally invisible to them that I'm using it.
Is there a particular way you disable beacons, or does that all fall under the "show remote content" option?
You can get around creating a Microsoft account on Windows 8.1 during the install.
Interestingly, you have to click on the "Create Microsoft Account" button, and then at the very bottom of the form, there's a link to skip it.
(That's what I meant by "overlaid") - but yeah that's exactly right, and that's why you'll sometimes see the last 2 seconds of another commercial - it's because the clock is off on your local cable provider's hardware.
As for the commercials, isn't the cable company just transmitting what the channel is sending?
Yes, but the commercials you see are a combination of the national commercials and commercials that are overlaid by your cable provider.
This is entirely anecdotal, but nearly all of the gun owners I know care very deeply about issues like the NSA surveillance and the TSA, and often contribute to groups that help fight against that kind of thing (like EFF).
Can you share any sources on this? I'm not saying you're wrong, but I have seen in other comments that violent home invasions have gone UP since this happened, and nobody's provided any source material to verify.
Top Ten Things Overheard At The ANSI C Draft Committee Meetings: (5) All right, who's the wiseguy who stuck this trigraph stuff in here?
