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Comment The horror of Ruby (Score 0) 148

When I hear "Ruby on rails" I imagine a girl called Ruby, tied to the train rails, shouting in horror. Hence, It's a poor name selection.

Also, Ruby On Rails is related to the demise of one of the companies I worked at. They started a new project and some new employee decided to do it in Ruby. Bad idea since he was the only one in the company who was familiar with it! After a while that employee flipped out and left the company. The company had to hire some another company to finish that project, which wasted a lot of money. That started the downward spiral, which began with delayed salaries and ended with total bankruptcy.

Also I don't like that the tool for installing Ruby packages is called gem. Why pollute the namespace like that? It should have been called ruby-gem instead.

So while I don't have much idea how Ruby is good or not, I just have mostly bad experience with it. Bye Ruby!

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Submission + - Slashdot Alum Samzenpus's Fractured Veil Hits Kickstarter

CmdrTaco writes: Long time Slashdot readers remember Samzenpus,who posted over 17,000 stories here, sadly crushing my record in the process! What you might NOT know is that he was frequently the Dungeon Master for D&D campaigns played by the original Slashdot crew, and for the last few years he has been applying these skills with fellow Slashdot editorial alum Chris DiBona to a Survival game called Fractured Veil. It's set in a post apocalyptic Hawaii with a huge world based on real map data to explore, as well as careful balance between PVP & PVE. I figured a lot of our old friends would love to help them meet their kickstarter goal and then help us build bases and murder monsters! The game is turning into something pretty great and I'm excited to see it in the wild!

Comment Re:Relativity (Score 5, Insightful) 385

A perfect solution would be the ability to subscribe to a moderator that aligns with your interpretation of the rules. Any posts he purges are purged for all his subscribers. This also means if he becomes "corrupt" you can put him out of sight and out of mind with the click of a button.

I'd ask perfect for whom? That sounds like a perfect echo chamber, which while pleasing to the ear is not healthy. Imagine as a thought experiment a teacher that only ever gave lessons that pleased their pupils. I'd still be playing with the giant wooden blocks from Kindergarten... I wonder if Amazon sells those... I'll be... NO CARRIER

Comment Re:Alter world relationship to surveillance foreve (Score 5, Interesting) 99

> I'm sorry to disappoint you Edward, but nothing's changed.

I have to respectfully disagree - setting aside any personal political views on Mr Snowden, as someone who's been inside infosec for years, encryption has become a Thing in the wake of the disclosures. Consider a project to encrypt all the data flows INSIDE your datacenter. Prior to the Snowden leaks, that's have been a non-starter in most large firms: "Dear Board of Directors, please approve this multimillion dollar project that provides no user-visible benefits, is only really advocated by a few cypto-geeks and is only hypothetically going to protect us from some un-proven risks - Signed the tinfoil hat brigade"

Now if you're selling serious product to a listed publicly traded company, encryption WILL be on the list of questions their security department will be asking you prior to signing off on the purchase. Let's Encrypt is a thing now. Hell even the Feds want your internal data center network to be fully encrypted for Fedramp certification.

Remember the conversations about Zoom e2e encryption? Thank Snowden for those.

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