I didn't even know I was a registered member of Adobe's site until I received their password change email a couple of days ago. I don't know when I registered, it must have been at least three or four years ago while I was into Flex. Anyway, when I recieved the email I looked for information on when the breach occurred. According to krebsonsecurity.com, it happenned some time in the second half of September. This means I recieved an email prompting me to change my password about a month (!) after the breach occurred.
And that's not all. After I got the email, I wanted to close my account. Believe it or not, unless you're willing to call their US phone number (from 6 am - 8pm, Pacific time), you can't do it. Well, i'm not from the states, and I'm pretty angry that Adobe makes me jump through hoops just to close my account, especially in light of their recent security problems.
Wrong. The guidelines aren't that clear on what hacker news is, but they're quite clear on what hacker news isn't. Just because people upvote something, that doesn't automatically make it hacker news. Having said that, rest in peace Lou Reed. Your music was a big part of my life.
True, but I couldn't find it on the next five pages either. If it had received so many flags, it would have been autokilled. But it wasn't (and still isn't) [dead]. The first thing I thought of was that there may be a bug in HN code... perhaps there are other posts that aren't visible even though they aren't dead. Maybe PG should look into this.
Off topic: This is strange. This story was posted an hour ago, it has, at the moment, 24 points, yet I can only see it on /newest. It was briefly on the front page, but now I can't find it there. There's also no sign of it on the second, third, fourth or fifth page. I didn't look further. Weird. Does anybody have an explanation?
I really wish this is the last time I see a comment like this on HN. This is nothing but an angry, sarcastic rant by somebody who, I can only presume, had a really bad day. There is absolutely nothing civil in this comment.
While I completely disagree with the grandparent comment, I understand that that's his/her opinion, nothing more. What Hickey talks about may seem obvious, but only in hindsight, at least to me. It seems that most of the commenters in this thread feel the same way. However, I can accept that there are people, like Zerr, who would find Hickey's talks to be rather boring stuff, since they are already well aware of everything he talks about. So there's really no need to reply to these people with hateful comments like this one.
Why is it not clear? You pay for the license. The license grants you the right to use the binaries, and to inspect and modify the source code. If you don't pay for the license, then you do not have the right to use the binaries or to inspect and modify the source code. So anybody who possesses binaries and/or source code and can't prove that they legally obtained them (by paying the license fee) is in violation of the license. It's exactly the same as with closed source software, only here you get the additional right to use the source code any way you please.
I don't know where you got that. I never said that it's not normal for women to want to do programming. I only said that it may be that most women prefer other professions. Just as most men prefer other professions than being, for example, accountants (most accountants are women). That being said, there are quite a few women programmers I really admire. Bodil Stokke comes to mind, for example.
The suffrage movement was certainly right. As is encouraging women (or for that matter, any person, regardless of gender/race etc.) to become programmers. I'm just saying that we may have to accept the fact that different genders, while deserving equal rights, may simply have different interests.
Agreed. I always wondered whether one of the main reasons why there are less female than male programmers is that, well, most women simply prefer other professions.
Not directly related to the article, but it seems to me that a really big difference between McDonald's employees in the US and those in the countries of former Yugoslavia is that in the US, McD's employees are young people who either never went to college or who dropped out, or those who see it as a way to support themselves while they're in college (since I'm not from the US I might be wrong here, feel free to correct me). In the countries of former Yugoslavia (well, at least in my country) unemployment rate is so high that even having a college degree doesn't guarantee that you'll get a job. I have a friend who is a professor of history and geography, he's 31, and he makes a living flipping burgers at McDonald's. He simply couldn't get a job as a professor anywhere. He's not exactly thrilled with what he makes, but he doesn't have a lot of options.
And I'm surprised you made this comment. I'm no fan of Oracle, but they've done a lot more for Java then Sun did since version 6 came out in 2006. Actually, I'm interested in why you feel this way, would you care to elaborate?
Sure, you can reverse engineer a piece of software. But that's working around an obstacle. The point of free software is that there are no obstacles which would impair your ability to inspect, modify and change it in any way you see fit.
Also, I believe that most EULAs for non-free software have clauses which specifically forbid any attempt to reverse engineer it. I could be wrong, of course, but I doubt it.
If it bothers you, take the bigrss feed here and put it through an rss filter to remove the articles you do not like?
This doesn't solve the bigger problem, namely, that posting countless stories on Snowden is really killing HN. Seriously, we're one step away from having stories on what Snowden had for lunch on his flight to Moscow on the front page. I don't buy the "Let the community decide what should be on the front page" argument either. Communities tend to follow the same laws of entropy like anything else in this universe. Without a certain number of people putting in considerable effort to keep up the quality of submitted articles and discussions, they tend to devolve into places with a bunch of articles that bring nothing new to the table, and with discussions that are nothing more than long, tiresome rants or flame wars that have no real value.
I'm really, really sorry that most of today's developers (it seems) consider checked exceptions to be a bad practice. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person in the world still advocating their usage. I'm currently working on an application that uses libraries developed by people who had the same opinion about checked exceptions as you. Of course, their code still throws exceptions. Except now, I don't know whether a method I call can throw an exception and whether I should write code to handle it until it all blows up at runtime (more often than not - in production). So what do I do then? I write a try-catch to handle their exception. The exact same thing I would have done had they decided to throw a checked exception. Only now, I don't get any warning that I should handle possible exceptional behavior at compile time, I get it at some point during runtime.
Ok, HN, I'm obviously missing something so please enlighten me. Why is this on the front page? I thought that it might be a joke as some people suggested , but it's not, there's an actual app that you can download on iTunes. So... I just don't get it. Why is this important?
That said, I do support artists and research, etc, only I do it after I evaluate them and feel like I got something - similar to how I choose to upvote/downvote on HN, only there is no way to downvote a game producer after you have paid for something you didn't know in advance that you would like.
And luckily, a lot of games (this one included) come with a free demo, so that you can try them before buying them. So fortunately for all of us as customers, we don't need to download a cracked copy. We can play through the demo, see if welike it, and buy it if we do.
I'm confused as to why you think that you're not a programmer. I think it's awesome that you've become such a master with your development environment that you're able to integrate various functionalities not normally found in mere text editors into it.
I'd be genuinely interested in reading a paper on what impact these methodologies have on software development. Does anybody know of any research on this topic?
You're confusing hypothesis with theory. Hypothesis is a proposed explanation that can be tested (i.e. is falsifiable). Theory, on the other hand, is a hypothesis that has undergone extensive testing and has been proven to be a plausible explanation for observed phenomena. Quantum mechanics has undergone rigorous testing, and has proven time and time again that it can accurately explain many of the properties of our universe.
I just had to check which rules apply to some other words, like 'stadium' and 'forum'. Turns out that both 'stadiums' and 'stadia' are valid plurals of 'stadium' while 'forums' is the preferred plural of 'forum', although 'fora' is not incorrect.
Every time a new version of LT playground gets released I feel like a kid in a candy store, looking for all the cool new stuff Chris and the rest of the team put in :). Awesome work, and it just keeps getting better. To be honest, since there weren't any updates in a while, I started having doubts about whether they'll be able to deliver, but I'm glad to see that the project is alive and well.
Judging by the comments I see that there's a lot of people who haven't yet heard of Light Table, which surprised me a bit because posts about LT frequently hit the front page of HN. If you're one of those people, you should take a look at their kickstarter page: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/306316578/light-table
Finally, while there's a lot of people bemoaning the fact that some more popular languages (than Clojure) aren't supported out of the box, I, for one, am glad that somebody's developing such an awesome tool with Clojure in mind.
The point is that you need to be well acquainted with the problem that you're trying to solve. If you're developing a new network protocol then yes, you don't need to know what kind of information is going to flow through the network, you need to know about network protocols. On the other hand, if you're developing a business application then you better know how that business works.