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yeah, all hail IBM. Not a single IBM employee should have been surprised. I worked on AIX workstations in the early 2000s writing device drivers. It was interesting work and although IBM had gutted their engineering ranks for AIX even back then, they left all of their technical information up.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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When I started my career in programming during heydays of Java Enterprise Edition (J2EE), there was a rich ecosystem of enterprise vendors hawking application servers, monitoring tools, and boxes upon boxes of other fancy solutions. Anyone have a phone number for the Bothans?
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Wow: What an eloquent take-down ! The inclusion of a reference to the classic fable of the "Emperor's New Clothes" at the end is the coup de grace.
Of course, never having used Java, Kubernetes, and other tooling he reviles ... how can I respond to ... the substance of the article ?
Puzzling: the author saqys he created Ruby on Rails, but, never uses "ruby" in the article, only "rails:" does that mean something other than framework vs. language ?
Wonder what author thinks about Python.
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Ruby on Rails is frequently referenced as simply "Rails".
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BillWoodruff wrote: Puzzling: the author saqys he created Ruby on Rails, but, never uses "ruby" in the article, only "rails:" does that mean something other than framework vs. language ?
THe best explanation I've ever seen is James Iry's:
1995 - Yukihiro "Mad Matz" Matsumoto creates Ruby to avert some vaguely unspecified apocalypse that will leave Australia a desert run by mohawked warriors and Tina Turner. The language is later renamed Ruby on Rails by its real inventor, David Heinemeier Hansson. [The bit about Matsumoto inventing a language called Ruby never happened and better be removed in the next revision of this article - DHH].
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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It's instructive to see who is behind the complexity and associated costs. They're the only ones who will profit from this.
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ChatGPT is coming to this Azure service soon, as businesses get to use new AI models in their own apps. " It becomes self-aware at 2:14 AM, Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: " It becomes self-aware at 2:14 AM, Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug." My 5 for the terminator quote.
Although I am one of the "hopefully we don't get to the point for real", for the moment, I don't think we need to worry about
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Gosling shared what he’d learned from his decades in a tech industry that eventually led him to cloud servers, in a wide-ranging talk covering everything from how programming languages evolve to how projects fail. "When I was working on Java, one of the goals was essentially to give people rocket science without knowing that it’s rocket science."
"I will use recursion instead of an array, for example." <-- and now I understand more about the design of Java
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Some artists have begun waging a legal fight against the alleged theft of billions of copyrighted images used to train AI art generators to reproduce unique styles without compensating artists or asking for consent. Numbered prints of the lawsuit are for sale in the lobby and are suitable for framing
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I think the veredict might be more interesting to be framed and sold... specially if the guy wins.
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Apostrophy AG, a software startup founded by mobile industry veterans, is headed to Davos this week to unveil a smartphone operating system that puts privacy first. Works like clockwork?
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IF it really is that good... I suppose they will get bought, put in a drawer and forgotten for a while.
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By one of the two above.
TTFN - Kent
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another scam in the making... get investors money bleed it on sex drugs and girls... and buy a bmw and a privatejet later show some crap phone to them saying this is the privacy-first OS
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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abmv wrote: get investors money bleed it on sex drugs and girls... and buy a bmw and a privatejet later show some crap phone to them saying this is the privacy-first OS
Sounds awesome, where do I sign up?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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If the OS really does put privacy first, then that means that advertisers will be put last. Therefore the OS will be unsuccessful.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Not necessarily. If licenses are cheap enough, and customization of the O/S to specific hardware is easy enough, the cost could be absorbed as part of production.
The phone OEMs get nothing from advertisers. All that revenue goes to the social media and search engine giants, with a trickle to website owners. The main drivers of Android use by OEMs are (a) that it's free, and (b) that it's based on Linux, so getting developers to customize it is relatively easy.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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The Altair 8800 arguably launched Microsoft. Now [Dave Glover] from Microsoft offers an emulated and potentially cloud-based Altair emulation with CP/M and Microsoft Basic. For all your switch-flipping, and LED-watching delights
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It's all fun and games until it's Altair that goes to Microsoft.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Developers are still gunning for higher salaries and better conditions despite recent tech layoffs and fears of recession. "Well, come on and let me know, should I stay or should I go?"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Developers are still gunning for higher salaries and better conditions Is not what every worker in the world tries sooner or later?
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That's exactly because we feel secure: we are needed, we are few, companies are in constant search. HR still treats us like disposable blue collars so we move and move and move.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Interesting how the media focuses on the big tech companies and assumes that those of us who work elsewhere fall into the same category with regards to job security.
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