Let's consider the last piece of malware I dealt with. It searched the network for shared storage and did nasty things on the storage. The REAL storage server is used by thousands of people, so it gets many, many requests per minute. Sorting out legitimate use of the storage vs something suspicious would be nearly impossible. The honeypot storage, on the other hand, gets NO legitimate traffic. Any traffic to the honeypot is worth investigation. That makes it a much more reliable way to find malware or other traffic sources that merit investigation.

Same with the active directory, the mail server, the database ...
Do you have any idea how much traffic a corporate mail server can get? Looking for suspicious connections is worse than a needle in a haystack. An otherwise unused machine with the mail ports open quickly flags strange behaviour for investigation.

That's because here in Sweden at least, we learned from childhood to work in groups, including presentations etc, though that has changed a lot now that we've adopted more international methods. Aka, downgraded our education...

For example, when I was a kid, we had student councils in school, from age 10, where each class has 1 or 2 representatives, who then report to the rest of the class at the weekly class meetings etc. It was also a good way to teach students about democracy.

As for the difference between US and nordic culture in regards to meetings, time keeping etc, I do notice that a lot in my freelancing. US clients are more likely to call at completely idiotic times(like calling at 19:00 their local time, meaning it's middle of the night/really early morning for me), and as you say, less coordinated with materials at meetings etc.

They're not preying on gullible kids, they're taking advantage of stupid and irresponsible parents

Or parents who think that they can just let the kids do what they want now, to shut them up, and dispute the charges later with the credit card company. That way they don't "have to be the bad guy" with their kids either, by saying "no".

It's really screwed up, and I've seen it most in broken families.

My kids both have Android devices, and once in a while they'll get a gift card for a holiday, but by and large they just find stuff to do that's free. Do they have to earn their way up in games? Yep, just like we did as kids (here I'm willfully ignoring turning my paper route money into quarters at the arcade).

All TFA talks about is the hours of working, but there are more aspect of work than mere number of hours

If one really enjoys the work one will not treat the work as _work_, but rather something that is FUN - - EXCITING - - REJUVENATING

I have been in the tech field for decades and I keep seeing people who take the task they are assigned with as challenges that they want to overcome getting the job done faster, with more zeal, and produce much better code than those who take whatever they are being tasked with as "burden"

It's not the hour that you put in, it's the fun-quotient that will ultimately determine whether you will excel in the job you are in, or otherwise

Presumably you're referring to refactoring Java code in that. Refactoring support is pretty spotty across the board. It does not surprise me that the Eclipse and Netbeans have excellent java refactoring.

Vim has a bunch of different refactoring plugins in various states for various languages.

One can of course always switch to the best tool for the particular job.

Also, the point minimizing intellisense and the point about using variables before you bother to define them are both REALLY reaching.

To you maybe. I had a long project using Visual Studio recently, after years of not. It was very, very jarring and I found that I was working to satisfy the editor, rather than the editor be supporting me.

Many of us use it because it's simply more productive to do so.

You feel more productive, but the usability research showing mouse navigation is faster, and non-modal editing is faster, is older than vi. Xerox PARC found it in the seventies, Apple confirmed it in larger studies in the early eighties.

What happened to "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool"?

Yeah, illustrates nicely why it's not a good solution.

Of course, how we do things is largely a matter of habit and standards. Not entirely - for instance, there was solid usability research coming out of Xerox PARC showing that mouse-based editors were better than keyboard-only ones, and nonmodal editors were better than modal ones. Emacs was made in part in response to that research. But for the most part, one way of doing it is as good as any other.

It's just that vi and emacs (and wordstar!) lost that battle ages ago. Your browser, your IDEs, your widget libraries, your anything-that-isn't-actually-vi-or-emacs, use a standard based on IBM's CUA standard + Microsoft's defaults for cut-copy-paste (inherited from Apple). Odds are this very web from supports the old IBM shortcuts for cutting and pasting, (ctrl-insert, shift-delete, and shift insert), even though no one ever uses them.

You can keep forcing them to conform to obsolete standards with plugins if you must, but that is IMHO creating more trouble for yourself than it's worth,

Well, that is what we have. The participants are regulated through deciding who gets a bailout, and what terms they receive it under, even if they don't want the bailout (e.g. Ford.) And the prices are kept artificially high through these means as well.

That's right, you go BMW if your first goal is to have a driver's car, with good overall performance. You go to Mercedes, Maserati, Aston or Jag for luxury. And you go Audi for a car that just works... for a few years anyway

So far, absolutely no one on the planet has shown themselves to be responsible with their nuclear waste. France, often held up here as an example of the system working correctly, has been caught by just good ol' Greenpeace dumping waste in Russia. So far, no one with the funding to run a reactor is also sufficiently responsible. There are no signs that humanity is improving as a whole, so there is no reason to believe that nuclear power should ever be a safely viable option.

That is a gross misrepresentation of the situation. There are numerous problems with using mined fuels, not least the environmental impact of the mining itself. If you actually wanted to solve our problems with power generation you would be promoting solar, wind, and tidal power, and developments in power storage. These sources have the potential to provide for more than 100% of our current rate of consumption. Further, our rate of consumption could be slowed dramatically, through various improvements in efficiency.

Which requires fracking, because we're otherwise at peak production. Natural gas is going to be a tragedy worse than gasoline. Say goodbye to free clean drinking water. It will exist nowhere.

You are obviously either a troll or an idiot if you fail to take into account the number of efficiency advantages in EVs, e.g. regenerative braking. So yes, you did it just to stir up a hornet's nest, even if you're not smart (and self-aware) enough to know that.

Interestingly, Toyota has been claiming that they would deliver a Fuel Cell car within x years (x being highly variable) for about twenty years now. Ditto Honda.

Because automotive fuel cells are a completely unproven technology, and only people with too much money buy the new tech. They can afford to eat it if it fails.

I don't use notepad++ but:

Notepad++ looks amateurish,

Looks fine to me. Looks liek a bog standard GUI settings dialog.

or do you think that any professional program would name one of its tabs "MISC."

Um yes? Most actual professional programs have most of the effort put into making the program do useful stuff rather than worrying about whether it should be "misc" or "other" in a small settings dialog.

Vim and Emacs have some cool features but the keybindings are unnecessarily unintuitive.

Buy "unintuitive" you mean "different from Windows".

If those two didn't have the hacker legacy and they were invented today, no one would use them. I surely am an angry man. :D

Almost certainly not. History is a fickle thing.

Why is Kate shitty? It emulates ViM nicely, has window splitting, nice code folding, visual highlights and many other goodies. It's what gvim should have been.

Nothing against Kate, but VIM has window splitting, code folding, visual highlights and many other goodies. How is Kate what vim should have been?