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Exactly!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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No, the problem is a daft company who released an IoT app without proper security procedures - user's should have immediately been prompted to change the admin login.
A classic case of victim-blaming. Remember, not everyone is exceedingly IT literate.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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The smartness total of a person and its objects is constant, therefore the more smart appliances one does own...
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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That comment shows amazing insight.
Really
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There is some worrying trends within automation where one feels they can absolve themselves of all responsibilities.
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This is part of the way that brains work too - they are discovering. Basically, as you allow other things to think, you think they are thinking for you and forget to think. 
So, yes, as things get smarter, we get dumber. My computer typed this and I didn't check it, so if it's wrong...
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You know what pisses me off?
All these fly-by-night companies are selling webcams and remote light switches and calling them "smart homes".
It is insulting and gives people who build REAL smarthomes a bad name.
I once actually heard "smart homes, oh yeah, I saw that at Home Depot".
I think i threw up a little.
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Did you throw up in the house? Did you throw up on a mouse?
Did you throw up in your mouth? Did you throw up on the couch?
Did you throw up in your hand? Did you throw up in a pan?
Did you throw up in a container? Where you able to sort it later?
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I threw up in my "home theater". Well, it's just a tv.
We built a real home theater back in the 90's. Floor suspended on rubber cushions to absorb vibrations. Seating, lighting, projection. Over $100k. THAT's a home theater.
Now people put a bluetooth soundbar below there TV and that's a home-theater.
barrffff. Sorry. There i go again.
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Basildane wrote: Over $100k
Gaaaahhhh! That's some serious cash!
Basildane wrote: Floor suspended on rubber cushions to absorb vibrations.
Now why would you want to do that??? Didn't that reduce the surround-sound effects from the subwoofer of the movies watched?
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote: Now why would you want to do that??? Didn't that reduce the surround-sound effects from the subwoofer of the movies watched?
It's so that when you're watching a sportsball game with your friends you don't have to hear the chickflic your wife and her friends are watching elsewhere in the house and vice versa.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Ah, I was wondering if that was the purpose: not to cause disturbance to the other home occupants.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Basildane wrote: Well, it's just a tv.
But could you turn it on while on vacation?
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Bernhard Hiller wrote: standard username and password (admin/admin)..
Wait a second...How'd they get my password? Gotta go make some changes. 
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I guess it wasn't so "smart"...
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Are they really "smart" homes or lazy homeowner enablers?
(Once interviewed at a smart home device maker. All I saw were complicated thermostats and the ability to turn on appliances remotely. Their stuff was very cool, but I failed to see the "smart" aspect of it all.)
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Google has said it will not fix a potential security flaw that could trick a user into downloading malware from its login window. Fortunately no one ever needs to log into Google, right?
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If users have trouble articulating what it is they need, how are they ever supposed to code it themselves? Unless, of course, what they really mean is Excel spreadsheets...
This is like when I were a nipper and fixed engines for a living. My favorite customers were the ones that tried to fix their own engines. Oh how I laughed when they forgot to prime the oil pump and filter.
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The yawning gap in tech skills has gone on for so long that it’s creating some surprising shifts in supply and demand. The most ferocious appetite for software development talent, for instance, is no longer in Silicon Valley. And now, in many companies, developer jobs aren’t even reserved for developers. Giggle
Yeah, pretty much an advertisement, but I figured if I have to see this nonsense, you get to as well.
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That’s because a relatively new technology, known as low-code or no-code platforms
The irony to that is what is missing. The selling point of OO and every other "architectural" tech:
Code re-use.
You would think that by now, we would have small, stable, portable, cross-platform, documented, tested libraries for just about everything generic that you can think of.
You would think by now that we would have ways of gluing these things together, without resorting to these "low-code" platforms, but as actual developer tools.
But no. Software development is still in Kindergarten, leading to the "yawning gap", not in technical skill per se, but in decent tooling.
Ideally, re-use and developer tools should be why we need less programmers. But because of the plethora of half-baked frameworks, open source projects for every variation on a theme, and the nightmare of doing web development on an architecture that originally had no Javascript and only 5 HTML tags, yeah, you get a yawning gap and a definite market niche (hardly a niche, more like an impact crater the size of the moon) to fill the gap created by the chaos of software development.
Marc
modified 30-Aug-16 20:51pm.
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On top of that, almost every project I had to do with had some silly 'requirements' that will not so easily be done with any 'no code' thingie. Perhaps so ething that needs massive multithreading and complex synchronization and still is not as fast as some dum... ... ... manager thought it should be.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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If you substitute QuickBase with SharePoint, will it still be valid?
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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Excel spreadsheets. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dont need to recode what is already available. Not if you have to pay for it than what is open source code for. 
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