I can vouch for (1) being correct since I am managing an HPC Cluster for a company right now. The way to to is modules.sf.net (or the newer and nicer Lmod which is Lua).
The usual need is for a multitude of versions being avaible and easily usable. This starts at the compiler level and goes up to stuff like I have 5 versions of Tool X. This needs Python 2.7.3 (yes exactly that version). Now make it easy for me to use it.
It has been my only touching point with TCL so far -- I. Don't. Like. It.
What I don't get is the mindset that refactoring is optional.
If I'd be the customer and people came to me to tell me "Of course we can do feature X but we also LIKE to do Y" what I hear is "We can do what you want for amount EUR x but we'd like to sell you something that costs EUR x+k".
So I'm not talking about the customer believing it's optional, I'm talking about the development teams themselves believing it's optional.
I't would sound a whole lot different to state "Sure we can do X. It's EUR x. This is what is necessary..." (the list of work packages would include refactoring, maybe worded in a way that is better understandable by my customers).
I'm going to spare you the the usual comparison to car makers or whatnot. I think the mistake is with ourselves to simply state that it is necessary and not optional to maintain quality. After all if you can take the risk of implementing features without maintaining a quality product isn't -- and thus loosing customers as implementing features only when maintaining quality -- and thus loosing customers to competitors who are willing to reduce quality for the other risk, and a possibly lower price for a single project or two?
> "We have thoroughly investigated this technology and do not find any evidence to substantiate security concerns" is a laughable statement to have issued.
Why o why does "investigated this technology" even imply that somebody (technical) looked at it?
Lead: Hey vendor, is your product secure?
Vendor: Sure it is. It helps people find products they want.
Lead: Aye! That's cool. Deal!
Vendor: Aye! Let's hand it off to the mere mortals to implement the plan...
Customer (formerly known as lead): Nice doing business with you. I like we have a relationship based on trust and honesty.
Here's a question: If some VPNs are blocked and others aren't maybe they are just blocking stuff that they can't control?
In other words: The services that are good enough to prevent eavesdropping are blocked, while the other services are "clear text" to the attacking party. Is that a possibility?
> This is mostly a sysadmin/devops issue, since all languages have the same issue.
You're kidding right? I thought that whole "devops" movement (call it what you like) was to get rid of the attitude of "other people's problem".
I live in environments that are (for the most part) regulated and demand by law that there is a strict separation between the people running and developing software, often open to interpretation is the 3rd role of people configuring the software.
The problem is that "I solve it..." just doesn't work. Either people solve it by working cooperatively together or it simply won't ever be deployed.
There's no such thing as a sysadmin problem, devops problem, developer problem. (No go downvote me for the tone of the next sentence) -- For me it's either get your ass moving, stand up, walk over to people and talk to them or get lost!
(This is not a flame or anything just my subjective impression. I know the people who built this (well 2 of them) personally. So forgive me guys)
I was asking a few times how things were going and that I could need something that sounds like what they were building -- granted on a very informal level but still I asked and expressed my interested.
Problem was: They never came back to me and told me: Hey here's the stuff! Wanna try?
I can make up reasons why, maybe because I moved to another country to take a job, or after all they don't like me or whatever. To me it boils down to: I (as in "the potential customer") was asking how far the product was and never got a real answer.
My team has about 2000 Boxes to "operate"[1] and I manage only a single team. Totaling to about 100K servers with different DCs spread over the world.
I'd think anybody who gets this kind of offer should try to get a foot in the door. Even if the deal doesn't close people have heard about the stuff.
So the essence is to me: This one little slide where you see that sales/marketing was way under represented in the team. Hell guys I know! you can build stuff, but don't expect me (the customer) to keep asking and asking and asking for wether or not it suits you to send me something I can work with...
[1]: I currently live in an enterprise environment where DevOps or agile is still something new and not to be trusted!
OT: Wtf "black customers" Kind of discriminating... (I get it's not about black people but still keeps the mindset going where non-caucasian are thought of as lesser persons)
Is that how american people phrase things? (On the bright side I now know that my native language isn't alone having very deep rooted problems when you try to be equally friendly -- its a lot easier to equally offend everyone...)
To me neither patents nor price (of the printers) are actually holding back. I just can't search for "$product print spare part $frob" on the web and get relevant results.
I fear nothing will change because a) there will never be relevant b) _standardised_ results and file formats (use with any consumer printer) c) DRMed results not any cheaper than the "real" thing. Or anu combination of those.
Maybe because Intel+Mobile isn't cool enough these days? Or it's Intel's first large field test and they don't want to risk bad publicity just in case...
Started? Not so much (I think)...rather made some stupid decisions so that it went public.
To me the real question is: Who is fighting (nationalities, companies, individuals)? AND: Are the combatants attacking who they think are their targets or just some enemy so that we are entering a circle where informational warfare is simply being carried out for the sake of being able to do it?
I can imagine one party going for another when indeed they have the same goals...
I think the spammers are trying to pollute the (publicly) available text corpus with markov-chains (or similiar stuff). My guess is the intention is to get ranking of search results near the top places. How? Well, it's on github (credible site) doesn't have links (not spam) so a corpus like this probably isn't spam elsewhere.
Of course "elsewhere" there are links in the text. But now the ranking is better and more likely to be found. So in the end it's a win for the spam blogs because now they get more hits/traffic.
I live in a country -- not Sweden -- with a "book of valid names".
What most people miss is that the list IS NOT AUTHORITATIVE.
Once you move outside the "comfort zone" (lacking better words) of this list the only thing that happens is that you have to reasonably explain the name to authorities.
This can be as simple as showing that the name was already used in another country (say the USA). This only leads to people thinking harder about naming their child "Brfxxccxxmnpcccclll mmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116"[1]
Spain (I know this from a Friend): Pretty harsh regulations, no Uber at all.