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> "HTTP has become the de facto standard in sharing scientific data. [...] HTTPS would cause an undue strain on limited resources that have become even more con
by rkuykendall-com 12y ago
> "HTTP has become the de facto standard in sharing scientific data. [...] HTTPS would cause an undue strain on limited resources that have become even more constrained over the past few years.
Interesting that this keeps coming up. I saw the same thing at the top of the comments on the Python 2/3 article here yesterday [1] That academia is full of people trying to do technical things and doing them poorly, so everyone else should hold back progress because they're barely managing as-is, with no engineering training or staffing, if you change anything it's all coming down.
Why is this a problem with Python or HTTPs and not a problem with the priorities of academic departments?
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9397320 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9397320
- alphapapa 12y agoRead the GitHub bug. We're talking about missions started decades ago. There is no budget and no staff to maintain the existing code, much less rewrite parts of it. But because some wonk thousands of miles away in Washington made a "HTTPS only from now on!" proclamation, all these existing projects which are working fine should be canceled? Or the staff should put in hours of unpaid overtime to learn and rewrite and test decades-old codebases? How about you volunteer to do some of that work, and then you can criticize "priorities" and "people trying to do technical things and doing them poorly."