Using this might give you a warm feeling inside, but if anything, it has the potential to cause harm by providing confidence in an entity that is being compelled to continue issuing the canary.
"The legal theory behind warrant canaries is based on the concept of compelled speech. The First Amendment protects against this in most circumstances."
These things are pointless if they compel surrender of the key. Does anyone think even for a moment that "constitutional rights" will be considered?
>compared to the average doctor the average nurse is an idiot.
After that statement, I'll assume you don't know what you're talking about or you're in some odd part of the planet where nursing is taught on the job.
Around here, nursing requires years of training. Psych, biology, pharmacology and I don't know what. We have different level of nursing qualifications, with the longest being a nurse practitioner, capable of legally prescribing medication.
It is a field regulated by the same governing body as doctors, and is not trivial in any way.
I have to admit, I've made number of commits with "." as the message.
No excuse, beyond it usually being a minor change well documented in the code ( I always write comments ) and me being utterly buried under work... You know, start the day with 20 things to do, crack off 4 of them and have 23 things in queue at the end of your day.
The "." was sort of a placeholder for "Fuck This, I'm ready to quit." ( and I did eventually )
That's when I prefer to use `git amend` or rebasing. I'll make "WIP doing things" commits, and then later squish a few together before making the code more public.
imrworldwide.com ... I might have missed the rest because I block JS and 3rd party requests by default, so I only see the initial requests, not those subsequently loaded.
lots of websites pull shit from 20+ 3rd party domains.
An obnoxious number of sites block/don't render completely ( or at all ) without allowing shit from all over the web to load.
Whoever made this, please take the criticism constructively. It was good information ( thank you for posting it ), but should have been presented better.
Using light blue, blue, grey blue and slightly lighter blue was not good design. I do understand it would be hard to use clearly defined colours with so many languages. My suggestion:
This would have been better presented if the user could select a language's icon and see its' data highlighted.
( I know you can't do that simply with an infographic - you'd need to create transparent overlays, or something. )
I use plain text editors mainly and agree with the author's premise about cutting the cruft/using a focused tool. The cost complaint doesn't really fly though.
Those times When I need something to be in Doc format, I use libre office - https://www.libreoffice.org/ It used to be called "openoffice". It's free. You can verify the documents look right in the free word viewer provided by Microsoft if you're planning to mail it to someone who will open it in Word.
Not GP, but LibreOffice is much more actively developed than OpenOffice.org currently. Any more it looks like OO.org is just getting maintenance from a few IBMers [1]. It's rather a shame, with all of the brand recognition that was built up in OpenOffice before being acquired by Oracle.
It's only mostly-dead, but that mostly is enough. Basically, LO is where all the action is, and even IBM has effectively given up on AOO. See the LWN article linked by rpcope1.
First: not all uses of Word can substitute other tools. In particular, if you're writing for business or publication and are working with organizations using a Word-based workflow and tools based around it, you may well find yourself stuck with Word. Charlie Stross has vented spleen on this recently:
Secondly: Microsoft updates its software from time to time. It has also, generally, updated its document formats correspondingly. Old software doesn't work with new formats. Retaining access to both old and new works means stepping onto that upgrade treadmill. And because the software doesn't run on old operating systems or hardware, upgrading your word processor means upgrading your OS and hardware as well.
That does add up.
Oh, and you've got to update all of it. At the same time. Use a desktop, laptiop, and mobile device? That's a threefold hit.
Which adds up even faster.
Contrast with textfile-based tools. Not only are most free, but you don't require your build environment on every platform. Just the editor and whatever bits are necessary to sync.
I think it belongs - What he is suggesting carries over to technical endeavours as well.
1. Learning to cut mercilessly improved clarity of my emails and documentation.
2. Learning to put my head down and carry on till a project is first draft complete, warts and all improved my ability to actually _complete_ things.
3. Peer review as a bullshit detector is good.
I'll take Poe or Lovecraft over King any day for entertainment, but I might just crack 'on writing' after reading this article. The man sounds pretty dialed in.
"The legal theory behind warrant canaries is based on the concept of compelled speech. The First Amendment protects against this in most circumstances."
These things are pointless if they compel surrender of the key. Does anyone think even for a moment that "constitutional rights" will be considered?