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by static_typed 13y ago
I feel sorry for the Gnome guys - they get crucified if they do or don't advance the platform, yet look across and see other fruit flavoured platforms pull worse on their user base yet their fan base not only approves of it, but they someho
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by static_typed 13y ago
So, nowadays if a tech community puts together an event, they had better call it a gathering, a tech meet, maybe coffee code & cookies, basically anything but conference. Because once you have a conference you have to deal with feminist
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by static_typed 13y ago
Sadly, whereas tech conferences should be about the tech and the cool, interesting and rewarding things we can do with it, it instead becomes dragged down into a drama, where one woman can do more damage to other women then all the men pres
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by static_typed 13y ago
Surely choice is good? I fail to see a single use for comments that dismiss the right of optionality for others.
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by static_typed 13y ago
I think there are many great comments already on the w3 site regarding EME, but it seems the main and strongest arguments are still: 1. Why should the w3 bend, kertow, or even care about the content business model and profitability? 2. Why
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by static_typed 13y ago
The author seems to make the simple mistake of convenient for him to watch DRM content in his browser == good for the web.
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by static_typed 13y ago
Someone develops for the Mac because thinking about cross platform and making it work in the browser is too hard, so we'll just bet the farm on letting Apple handle the hard stuff, and hope that performance doesn't later drop off, and then
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by static_typed 14y ago
As you said above, "Rails Winter of Security Madness, it is be ready to patch at all times" -- sounds a lot less fun than the five minute blog or scaffolded apps that drew a lot of the Rails developers into the fold in the first place, not
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by static_typed 14y ago
Give a developer a Ruby-based web framework, and they can run for a day without patching, but give them anything else - even Prolog on Punchcards - and they run for so much longer! Stop today, and help recovering Ruby developers onto a bett
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by static_typed 14y ago
Rails became worse than the frameworks and ecosystems it laughed at in it's younger days. Remember - Rails is Omakase - meaning literally 'leave it to someeone else' - food for thought indeed.
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by static_typed 14y ago
^^ This is good advice. Maybe they should question their choice of platform - there are other options, some of which seem to have had a bit more forethought in their architecture and engineering. Remember: Ruby/Rails to pose, Python for pro
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by static_typed 14y ago
This is common in a lot of Rails shops - they are so proud of the extensive Cucumber tests, of the endless gems required just to run the tests, of the layer-upon-layer of crap, and look all the tests passed, it must be good right? Wrong. Th
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by static_typed 14y ago
Standups are a symptom of a failing software engineering disease called 'Agile', which is the real toxin to the system of all healthy developers.
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by static_typed 14y ago
Hey - they were slapped down in the US and the EU for good reason. Every day I have to use an IE only intranet portal I am reminded of muppets who question why we should remember the judgement against M$.
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by static_typed 14y ago
The article is good, to the point, highlighting tangible points well. However, I do worry it is wasted a little. The bulk of Ruby on Fails developers are too enamoured with Magic and the promise of the five-minute-blog to really think about
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by static_typed 14y ago
You are now in the place I was recently -- the decision we tool was to migrate onto Python and their web ecosystem. We haven't looked back since -- well, we have given an glance or two back since, and viewing the slow-motion car crash that
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by static_typed 14y ago
Well, if it ran any faster all those Rails sites would get compromised even quicker, so surely this is a good thing? Brogrammer security through performance woes.
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by static_typed 14y ago
Rails and security. Again. Sigh.
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by static_typed 14y ago
If this will help the brogrammers and fauxgrammers in the ruby world to take security and software engineering seriously, then it is a good thing.
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by static_typed 14y ago
I sat with a newbie programmer the other day. We sat there and made good use of third-party libraries, frameworks and code to get things moving, and concentrate on the core problem at hand. Now, we had to Google a bit to install the third-p
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by static_typed 14y ago
Yes, Django took a solid step to properly fix the underlying issue, rather than apply many small sticky-plasters over several days instead, leaving the same basic vector open in the meantime. In fact, the Django issue reported was posted on
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by static_typed 14y ago
If you love constant patching for the daily critical security holes, stick with Rails. If you love worrying where they have stuck yet another Yaml parser, and where else they are eval-ing user supplied data, stick with Rails. If you prefer
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by static_typed 14y ago
Cheapshot: Rails HAS turned into Java, in so much both are riddled with security holes. Longer-term view: Rails mocked the Java web eco-system in the early days because it was 'Enterprise', and Rails was the scrappy upstart with magic comma
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by static_typed 14y ago
I can't believe how many apology-niks are on here trotting out the old merde about how we need DRM, and won't somebody please think of the rights-holders. Here in the UK we pay the TV license fee. Now, granted most of the output it funds
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by static_typed 14y ago
Serious developers take an interest in making things as simple as possible, ideally each piece have singular responsibilities, and no magic. Software engineering is hard, and it is heartening to see more people realise and promote awareness
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by static_typed 14y ago
One particular surgeon was not too old, his glasses corrected mild myopia and a slight astigmatism. When I actually put him on the spot about the laser surgery question, his reply, which was reasonable and honest, was that surgery is a pers
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by static_typed 14y ago
Having gotten a new pair of glasses just this week, and having worn a variety of glasses and contact lens over the past 25 years, I consider laser surgery every now and then, discuss it with the eye surgeons, but then stop when I consider o
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by static_typed 14y ago
This is one of my pet peeves of late - so many tools and tutorials advise the user to curl and pipe some script of the net to install and make it work. Why aren't we teaching people to be a little cautious - to download, review and then ins
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by static_typed 14y ago
Given the constant flood of Ruby and Rails security problems of late, it would seem better to start new projects with something a bit better engineered.
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by static_typed 14y ago
At the end of the day, it is a trade-off: do I stick with a current framework full of security holes, indicative of poor design and keep the daily patch cycle fingers-crossed, or do I draw a line, migrate to a less magic less shiny but more

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