What open source is really like.
Posted on 01/14/2022 7:53:49 AM PST by ShadowAce
> wrecking your code isn’t the way to persuade others to pay you.
I don’t know. I think this is sort of tough shit for corp mgrs allowing immature nerds to make important decisions.
And not taking responsibility for their own branches (which would prevent a live shutdown as described in this article).
And preventing real, trustworthy software engineers longfrom making important decisions.
The web is still to a large extenat a fool’s paradise. Whatever real smarts the inventors 25 years ago is mostly gone; certainly not carried on in the newer folks - a bunch of vain __ssies.
> wrecking your code isn’t the way to persuade others to pay you.
I don’t know. I think this is sort of tough shit for corp mgrs allowing immature nerds to make important decisions.
And not taking responsibility for their own branches (which would prevent a live shutdown as described in this article).
And preventing real, trustworthy natural-born American software engineers from making important decisions.
The web is still to a large extenat a fool’s paradise. Whatever real smarts and “vision” the inventors 25 years ago had is mostly gone; certainly not carried on in the newer folks - a bunch of vain __ssies.
# This complete reliance on Smart This, Smart That and the Cloud is Mass Suicide.
Absolutely agreed. Bruce Schneier recently published a book called “click here to kill everyone”
Here's the Aaron Swartz stuff - YMMV.
Aaron Swartz murdered? Hmmm.
That would contradict the official story line as told by the MSM liars.
Food for thought - https://chronicle.su/news/aaron-swartz-was-murdered/
I just installed a new garage door opener yesterday and they are trying to get me to install an app so Amazon can open my door. What kind of shit is this?
Of course they do. After all, if it works on their machine it must be OK, right? /s
You would be surprised at how many sheep today think it GREAT that Amazon can open their garage door STUPID PEOPLE!!
A company I worked for in the ‘90s had a guy like that. Put deliberate bugs in the code so that he could fix them later. He got fired when it was discovered.
# I just installed a new garage door opener yesterday and they are trying to get me to install an app so Amazon can open my door. What kind of shit is this?
People are dumb. My stereo keeps wanting me to allow internet access. I keep saying “not just no, but hell no!”.
I like being able to control volume and such from an app while I’m on my local lan, but there is no reason whatsoever to be able to control it from the internet itself.
Fortunately, I can restrict outbound and inbound access via my router’s ACLs and firewalls
Not in OUR corporation. We undergo rigorous SIT and UAT, and test cases are generated from Acceptance criteria in the Stories.
Also, we have a Security Scan that spans all third party libraries and any open source material.
In fact, for a deploy to even be allowed, there must be at least one test-case for every acceptance criteria bullet point, as well as a passed third-party security scan (among many other things)
You’re not quite clear of the definition of ‘hyperbole’, are you?
I had some Russian offshores, back in the late 90’s, who would write the most convoluted code possible.
I finally asked one of them why. He told me, “In the former Soviet Union, to keep your developer job, you had to be the only one who could maintain it.”
TIP. Test In Production.
There are a gazillion stations but sound quality varies. I like the German Stations because the commercials are in Deutsch and like having no commercials at all. Sometimes you hear interesting stuff.
Yeah, if you are serious you must have QA and testing processes in place. Always amazing when stuff goes live without even basic testing.
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" And, of course, nobody tests anymore... "
Now THAT is hyperbole! But that no creature of this world routinely speaks and writes using such a vast scope of expressive genres is not. Imagine a person from 200 years ago trying to understand descriptions such as "Cardinals sluggers slaughter Orioles hurler in gaining division crown." They might have thought someone lost their marbles.
What open source is really like.
Fast and right would be ideal, but in the real (non ideal) world you have to use what is the best tool for the job. For mission critical applications where a tiny bit of speed can be sacrificed (eg banking, finance..etc) a no nonsense rock solid language like Java is ideal, especially with its rich ecosystem like Spring and JEE.
For others that are heavily I/O or R/W oriented like say a microblogging site with hundreds of thousands of users logging in and out and continually posting messages, multithreaded Java would not only slow things down but also hog resources (= high cloud services bill). This is where Node with its single threaded/ non-blocking nature would shine. Gab for example used to be on a more traditional platform like .Net or Java, I don't remember which. But as users spiked, especially after Trump was banned from Twitter, they started migrating to Node because Node was best at handling their specific use case. The more tools in your toolbox and knowing which to use when, the better.
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