Posts by Jonathan 27 451 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Jun 2010
It's if you store any CC data. In the theoretical event that I wrote a site that used exclusively a 3rd party to process payments I would never record any of the information locally to get around having to have PCI compliance. You can also hand off the details to a second, more secure storage system that you also write and maintain, then only that needs to be PCI compliant.
This is of course definitely a theoretical situation.
£150.50 seems like a lot just for over the air TV, and even then only 4 channels. Here in Canada all over the air signals are free (in fact it is illegal to charge for over the air TV or radio). Because I like downtown in the largest city in Canada I get 17 channels, which are a mix of domestic and US. Although I rarely watch them. Obviously, it's mostly ad-supported (except for a few "member supported" channels) but I can definitely see why you guys wouldn't want to pay £150.50 A YEAR for the BBC. That's more than Netflix!
If it makes you feel better, DNA couldn't determine which "breed" a dog's ancestors were. Breeds are an artificial concept created and maintained by humans. They're regularly inbred, interbred and re-hybridized to maintain the required look and generally are only concerned with a very small number of genes.
That's ridiculous logic, you can't fully trust software you wrote yourself either. To do so is to assume you're perfect and the software has no bugs. I code all day every day and while my performance reviews are stellar, I still make plenty of mistakes that I'm constantly fixing.
I'd put open source software you're reviewed the code for (and compiled yourself) to be on the same level as software you wrote yourself. Mostly safe.
This lawsuit is idiotic. Even if he wins the most they can award him is the price of a copy of Windows 7. Which, if the PC shipped with Windows 7, he already has a license for, he just needs a copy of the media.
Which you can get here:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows7
"DevOps" is what everyone is doing now, outside of your standard 20-years behind the times bloated IT departments. I know this site is particularly filled with older neckbeards stuck in dead-end IT support jobs, but that's just reality now.
I'm a developer and when I went looking for a job last year there wasn't a single job description that didn't contain the phrase "agile" or "DevOps". I'm not saying this is a good thing, just that it is now the reality we live in.
And yes, if NPM or Nuget falls over, so does our build process. We're also totally dependent on a big cloud service provider for everything. No I don't think this is good, but it's not up to me.
The last short-haul flight I was on an Embraer 190, which is the sort of little jet that makes you wonder if you'll make it at all. I had a better time of it than on recent Boeing and Airbus jets because there was more legroom and only 2 seats on each side. I don't think the actual size of the plane matters as much as the seating layout.
Yeah, it's not "spreadsheets on a laptop" that we're worried about here. I'm pretty tall, and if the person in front of me reclines their seat it will slam directly into my knees. There is no reason at all for economy seats to recline, it's a practice from back when there was actually space to do so. If I'm on a flight I now jam the recline mechanism of the seat in front of me (if I'm unable to get a bulkhead seat, as I attempt to immediately at booking time every time, but quite often they're booked up somehow, months and months in advance). The other option is to splay my legs into the lap of the people beside me, which is heaps of fun as you can imagine.
But, I hear you say, why don't you book a more expensive seat? Well, quite often there is no option, or if there is it's only first class for 10x the price. But I will say, no economy seat should be reclining unless they're actually putting them far enough apart to accommodate the passengers behind. I'm not sawing my legs off to fit on a plane.
P.S. 6' is not that tall, you're only slightly over average height.
How can it compete with Linux or the BSDs? Mac OS requires expensive, proprietary hardware and the cost adds up. You end up with a server OS that only appeals to people who want to use it as the back-end for their Mac desktops, large server deploys just don't make any sense. Mac OS server was always destined for failure.
I genuinely thought Mac OS Server was discontinued back in 2010 when they discontinued the server hardware. I've quite literally never seen an installation of Mac OS Server, ever. Any company I've ever been involved in with Macs as their only clients has used Linux servers and mixed environments often use Windows servers.
"Surely overtaking on the wrong side is a problem for wetware with one set of eyes but no different for a self-driving car?"
No, that's not illegal in the USA. Failing to yield to faster traffic is illegal, it's basically the opposite. If someone can pass you on the right legally, you're breaking the law.
I was just about to post the same thing. There hasn't been a legitimate need for iFrames since XHR (AKA Ajax) requests were developed. At the moment they only seem to be be used for nefarious purposes. Yes, there will be a cost associated with getting rid of them for some legacy applications. But that's pretty much par for the course when it comes to web applications.
I've updated two systems with the full set of microcode and Windows patches, a Dell XPS 9550 and a desktop with a Gigabyte Z170-Gaming 7 and niether has experienced any blue screens. It's a pretty small sample however, and both systems have derivatives of the same CPU design i7-6700k and i7-6700HQ (sky lake 4 core). Those are my personal machines, we're leaving the business ones a while to see.
It depends, can you process transactions without verification? Some schemes I'm familiar with like Secured by Visa/Mastercard Securecode only work if supported by the vendor, so they'd just use your card at an unsupported vendor. If it doesn't require vendor support (unsupported vendors would have to be deined), and you can't use the card to make point of sale transactions on a magnetic (not chip) card, then you're probably safe. But it would be my guess, that is probably not the case.
I'd call your credit card provider and ask them to cancel and replace that card.
If I was his supervisor I would have bitched him out on the first comment-less and whitespace-less commit and if he continued cancelled his contract for poor code quality. If you're a contractor, everything you produce belongs to the company, they're paying you for your time, not whatever you feel like giving them.
"What's more, this laissez-faire approach makes JavaScript fairly forgiving, which in turn makes it more appealing to inexperienced programmers."
And also a terrible choice for inexperienced programmers, a language with strict typing is much easier to debug and therefore a better choice for inexperienced programmers.
As for semi-colons, I always put a semi-colon on the end of every line in JavaScript. You can really kill yourself looking through code forever just to find an error caused by a missing semi-colon. Making them a language requirement will prevent a few errors, but it will also not be backwards compatible. Is the small benefit worth the small risk for existing code bases? I'd say it's defendant on what your existing code looks like. For mine, it looks just fine.
The just demonstrates the major weakness with NPM and integrating it so deeply with your development. It falls over and your build chain falls over. Sadly, it's very difficult to avoid these days. My company does primarily .NET web apps, but we're still reliant on NPM for bower, grunt and some other tools from NPM (and bower for front-end components, which is just as bad). It's really difficult to avoid these days, even if you don't like or trust it. The one plus is that at least deployed systems still work, it's not like using a CDN where if that does down EVERYTHING does down.
That's not true, it just requires Android to be a more platform-agnostic OS. Google is working on that, but as soon as you can update the OS without needing to update the whole system platform underneath there is no technical reason Google couldn't just ship updates out to every Android phone on the planet.
If Google was smart they'd rebrand all of HTC's phones to Google. Keep the Pixel as the top of the line and bring in a few lines under it, They could even reuse Nexus for mid-range phones. Google has the good mindshare that HTC doesn't. Maybe they're waiting until they have some products that Google had design influence over first, that sounds like a brilliant move. Maybe they'll just do what they did with Moto.
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