This is software its not your place or option to redefine the word realtime to mean whatever the fuck you wish it meant.
As soon as he did that tab closed. But Im sure this is typical for js programmers who dont know anything, just make it up and expect us to fawn over your incompetency.
Im really not feeling Bruce's direction here. He seems to be heading toward a copout on the mass surveillance issue.
The question isnt really transparency, its the question of whether mass surveillance represents a violation of human rights.
If 10 years from now I look out my window and see the drones circling, just because I can see them doesnt make me feel better.
Also we should be asking ourselves, if NSA is surveilling entrie populations outside the US, what happens if some other state actor decides that is an act of war? Who could blame them?
Before you guys get too high and mighty. Refactoring openSSL is pretty fucking trivial. Fixing these bugs is also massively fucking trivial.
Whats not trivial is that we as a community are using bug-ridden zero day software all the time, and we dont know because our profession is essentially a joke.
Before you write the next clever comment think about that.
You and by extension, I and by extension WE, are a total fucking joke.
ERP is the "revenge of the mainframe", and should be ignored until we can replace this. The vendors dont want you to know how it works unless you jump onto their slave boat.
Useless knowledge, somewhat functioning products which in 10 years will no longer exist.
55 MPH is nothing of the sort. My BMW reaches the same efficiency at 75 MPH as your honda does at 55 MPH. This has been debunked years, no centuries, NO EONS ago when Ronald Reagan decided to enforce a federal speed limit in exchange for provisioning interstate construction money.
Its a fallacy, its wrong, and its well known. Stop spreading the 55 MPH is efficient pablum.
I find the article and this comment to be idiotic. Nobody is "confused" about MPG. It clearly is a measure of fuel "efficiency", read the fucking label.
GPM is essentially useless for anything because mom doesnt live 3 gallons away she lives X miles away and the price of gas varies along the route as do which car/motorcycle or jetski I may use to get there.
I swear to god sometimes HN makes me want to shoot myself in the fucking head with this pretentious nonsense.
Now go back to writing your amazing app that calls a taxi.
Actually, there is no reason for any of this. What app needs my contacts to function? None, so they are just stealing my contacts.
What app needs my photos to function? None, so they are just stealing my photo library. Facebook you say? no why would I have to give an app "access to my photos" to upload a picture?
Apple has sold us all into the hand of scrapers and pretends that asking permission is an answer, and it IS, but only for the scrapers.
Why are you conflating deleting threads with deleting accounts? Its a simple matter to retain comments and delete a user. Remember we have these things called "computers"?
You just delete the account and rename the reference in the comment stream (account deleted).
I swear sometimes the puffery on here belies the imagination.
Also referring to this or any forum as a "collective work" is a nice term of art, used by people who write TOS to claim "they" own "your" information. So its really an authoritarian top down data vacuum, not a collective work.
As soon as he did that tab closed. But Im sure this is typical for js programmers who dont know anything, just make it up and expect us to fawn over your incompetency.