reality_czech

What they got right was shutting down.

If only AMP would do the same.

If none of the big tech companies will step up to adopt openssl, we should put it down, like in a real pet shelter.

If a project becomes inactive, Apache puts it into the Attic and development ceases.

I'm sitting here waiting for you to realize "unsecure" is not a word.

If Oracle gets its way, code smells will be copyrightable as well.

"Post-modern" C++? Finally someone admits that the language was all a huge prank.

> The problem with traditional operator overloading is that you have to > memorize which symbol corresponds to which magic method name.

That's not even in the top 5 problems with operator overloading.

> How many years or decades will those "formalities" take? Java language > enhancements have a history of taking much longer than originally claimed.

Almost certainly a shorter amount of time than it would take to migrate our codebase away from Java. Oracle has actually been moving pretty fast with Java recently, for better or worse.

> [XML is...] Already moved into an optional library, being dropped entirely in > the next version.

And this illustrates another problem: Scala is constantly breaking backwards compatibility. Which is a real-world problem, unlike "I want the latest gee-whiz language feature."

> Put that together and you get a language where you never need the magical > frameworks that (real-world) Java needs.

Scala has plenty of "magical frameworks": scalaz, akka, shapeless, the list goes on.

Newer Java libraries like Jackson don't need a type registry (or at least, not one that have to manually set up.)

I won't try to defend J2EE or Hibernate, but also, I don't use them.

> I think he's getting downvoted because the Washington Post is, almost unquestionably, not a cult.

And with that simple statement of fact, "pacifist" has been "intellectually pantsed."

LOL.

* The health plan is really expensive, since your co-workers' body parts keep falling off.

* The only thing the cafeteria serves is BRAAAAAAINS.

* Your noncompete agreement is still valid even after you die.

Aside from that, it's pretty similar to working at Google.

> There are model airplane pilots, they have FAA regulations, they have a community that is very serious about education, training, mentor-peer relationships and self monitoring and reporting.

Right. And that community, the Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA) is probably doomed if these new rules pass. A lot of their models can go faster than 100 MPH and higher than 400 feet. A lot of their fields are in controlled airspace where they won't be allowed to fly.

Friends don't let friends depend on Google products.

Wow. I don't even know where to start on this one.

My experience with academia is that everyone is scrambling to get grants and get published. Nobody ever asked questions about where the grants came from. A lot (probably even the majority at the time) was from the department of defense, and explicitly targetted to create weapons.

Professors spent a huge amount of their time writing grant proposals. It's like pitching to a bunch of VCs, only you do it every month, and the amounts of money are much smaller.

And this is the reward for a lifetime of achievement. If you're starting at the bottom today, conditions are positively Dickensian. The average (not the maximum, the average!) PhD in CS took 6 years. During that time you'll be paid almost nothing, no matter what the cost of living is around you. And you are essentially an indentured servant of the professor. If he wants you to do a routine task that has nothing to do with your research, you have to do it. Cumulatively these tasks could add up to years of delays. After you graduate, you'll probably have to take multiple postdoc jobs, often at very low salaries, in hopes of getting a faculty position. Sometimes the hopes come true, but very often not.

And from what I understand, CS is actually one of the "good" subjects to go to graduate school for. Things are much, much worse in the humanities.

It's truly incredible that anyone would hold this up as a better system than how industry works. Hmm, let's see... a two week interview process, after which the company will tell the applicant whether they're hired. Or, a two year postdoc after which the university may choose to throw them away like garbage. Spending half your time writing grants, versus spending a few minutes a week writing a status report. Come on.

Also, the section about how "the students will suffer" from industry partnerships reads like a bad joke. Students suffer because the most universities hire faculty purely based on research, and not at all based on teaching. Full stop. The top research schools have contempt for teaching undergrads; that's why they hire adjuncts to do it at minimum wage. (Well, they also dump some of the burden on graduate students, too.)

Expect an insta-shutdown in a few months.

Yahoo hasn't had its own search engine for years. In 2010, they became essentially a frontend for Bing. In a later 2015 deal they switched the backend to using Google.

Duckduckgo is a metasearch engine, technically, but mostly it delegates to Bing.

As far as I can tell, there are only two and a half real search engines that still exist: Bing, Google, and Wolfram Alpha. (I count Alpha as a half because it's not really what most people are looking for.) I'm curious if anyone else knows of other real search engines still in existence.