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by zizek23 9y ago
Mozilla is playing a double game of pretending to be on the users side while completely being in Google's pocket. For Google this ensures they cannot be accused of being a monopoly. And those working for Google attempting to divert att
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by zizek23 9y ago
Only the developers know why they need 150 deps, there is no way for end users or deployment to verify this chain or stay on top of this. They simply need to deploy the app and keep it updated safely. If developers and languages have not th
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by zizek23 9y ago
There is always a 'pragmatic' silence about PHP on slack discussions here. Wikipedia, Facebook, Slack. PHP has unquestionably delivered on scale.
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by zizek23 9y ago
There are a lot of constructive ways to begin to solve this but I guess you prefer the camel in sand approach. Every single Ruby post has commentators complaining about dependency hell and steering clear of Ruby apps. This was not the case
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by zizek23 9y ago
You are fighting a strawman. Either use the system package manager which has already thought about and solved these issues or if you must use a 'home brew' package manager, design a secure one. And if you can't do that limit
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by zizek23 9y ago
A package manager must at a minimum address code security, dependency hell and deployment. A json parser that wgets urls into a folder is not a package manager. These things must be thought of upfront and cannot be left vague and open to ad
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by zizek23 9y ago
The casual culture of pulling in hundred of dependencies, and mushrooming language specific package managers is ridiculously insecure and has to go. There is no way for anyone to know what all this code is doing, there is little way to veri
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by zizek23 9y ago
Some technologies empower, others disempower and if iot devices and things like self driving cars are not rolled out with proper systems of user control and privacy they will disempower people. For many in the industry this is not a concern
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by zizek23 9y ago
The business model of journals seem to be particularly perverse and artificial. The universities not only have more brand value and credibility but also the resources to publish journals themselves. It's interesting how the journals ma
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by zizek23 9y ago
No one is forcing anyone to release an open source project or make anything available for free. It's a choice. There are entitled, selfish and extremely immature users but also projects. Open source users frequently put up with extreme
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by zizek23 9y ago
These are authoritarian fascist policies that are brazenly infringing on people's personal effects, content whether a diary, phone or laptop is your inviolable personal effect. They can search the physical books and laptops all they wa