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Re: Mainframes Are Having a Moment

vruz — Sat, 18 Apr 2020 19:45:53 -0000

The author of this article doesn't appear to know SQL is not exactly a recent creation.

Re: Para la autocrítica

vruz — Sat, 07 Dec 2019 11:16:50 -0000

Faltó una: autocrítica como reforma de la dirigencia que a todas luces falló en sus objetivos electorales, falló en sus métodos de proceso democrático interno, y como consecuencia falló también en los objetivos políticos de toda la fuerza.

Re: Time to Explore Alternative Ownership Structures for Network Effects Businesses including Twitter

vruz — Sun, 30 Apr 2017 19:54:33 -0000

Nice! Good to be coming around, good on you.

Re: Pasajes sentidos | Universal Channel Latam

vruz — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 01:46:02 -0000

Esto no funciona para clientes de DirecTV.

Alguien lee esto?

Re: Pasajes sentidos | Universal Channel Latam

vruz — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 07:00:50 -0000

No funciona nada. En distintos navegadores tengo distintos mensajes de error. No hay modo de reportar los problemas o guias para solucionarlo.
Hace un par de dias vi el primer episodio que publicaron perfectamente, y no demandaba ni SIlverlight ni nada extrano. Hoy no funciona siquiera el episodio que ya vi hace unos dias, sin haber cambiado nada en el navegador ni en el PC.
Ahora me aparece un mensaje de error diciendo que estoy viendo el contenido en muchos dispositivos simultaneos. Solo lo estoy intentando ver en uno, y dejé solo un dispositivo listado entre los autorizados.

Esto no es ni version Beta, es una version Alfa, con mucha suerte.

Muy, muy, mala calidad de servicio. No me dan ganas de pagar por esto, mucho tiempo perdido intentando hacerlo funcionar.

Re: Hillary Clinton Backs Israel’s Gaza War After Bernie Criticism

vruz — Sun, 10 Apr 2016 11:38:50 -0000

I'm not a fan of either Bernie or Hillary, but truth is that Bernie corrected his erroneous figure shortly after. He was confused with the number of casualties including wounded people (who reach approximately 10,000). It didn't take long for him to correct himself, which is more than can be said of other candidates routinely spweing falsehoods, insulting our collective intelligence 24/7/365.

Re: Review: “Joey Santiago” Kontakt Library by Spitfire Audio

vruz — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 21:30:56 -0000

This is great, but could you please interview Joey, show how the samples are applied and how they sound?

Keep on rocking, Joey!

Re: Así es la nueva camiseta de Uruguay, a estrenar con Brasil el viernes

vruz — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 18:08:59 -0000

Me gusta el celeste más intenso. Las franjas negras no me gustan, podrían haberlas hecho blancas, o negras pero con un dibujo distinto.
Las rayas de la camiseta blanca de alternativa, aunque son evidentemente las 4 franjas azules de la bandera uruguaya, son de una tonalidad de celeste que me recuerda a la camiseta de Argentina o a Racing de Avellaneda.
Ta bien, nadie se va a enojar, pero para la próxima iteracion hay que laburar un poco más el diseño.

Re: Privacy Absolutism

vruz — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 12:49:58 -0000

There is no argument to be had.
Mathematics and civil rights are not negotiable.

It may not be offensive to you, but I take this kind of fascistic doublespeak as a personal insult.

Such statements are portrayed as the "reasonable" and "moderate" thing, when it's in fact crazy unscientific extremism, all the while the civil libertarian position that holds privacy as a fundamental right is portrayed as "totalitarianism".

I can't be insulted like this.

Re: Privacy Absolutism

vruz — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 10:48:35 -0000

Extremism is not something to be lukewarm about.

Re: Privacy Absolutism

vruz — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 10:45:25 -0000

I wouldn't want to be rude to you.

Re: Privacy Absolutism

vruz — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 10:43:20 -0000

I can negotiate anything.

Doublespeak warfare is extremism, an attack and an offence I don't take lightly.

Re: Privacy Absolutism

vruz — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 10:34:41 -0000

It's not an attack, I feel very offended, and it's not my right or place to attack Fred at his own home.

Consider it an expression of massive disappointment for someone I used to hold in high esteem.

Good bye.

Re: Privacy Absolutism

vruz — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 10:31:43 -0000

Thank you.

I'm right and I'm massively intellectually offended.

Re: Privacy Absolutism

vruz — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 10:29:06 -0000

Curious whether you think I'm wrong in anything I said?

Re: Privacy Absolutism

vruz — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 10:18:55 -0000

Fred, this is insane.

This is the very definition of doublespeak.

Absolutism is, if you care to look in a dictionary, the exact opposite of what you say privacy rights activists are doing.

Various definitions:

-- Absolutism is the principle of complete and unrestricted government power, usually in the hands of one person, a dictator or despot.

-- A political theory holding that all power should be vested in one ruler or other authority

-- A political theory that absolute power should be vested in one or more rulers

"Privacy absolutism" is pernicious surveillance state doublespeak at its finest.

The president is wrong. His policy is destructive and a zealous attack on civil liberties.
Not to mention that his actions for a while have been at times at odds with any sense of legality and judicial restraint.

Right now my opinion of you is the lowest possible, and I don't consider you a serious person anymore.

You are condoning and promoting fascism, you are not my friend.

It was a good ride, and I enjoyed your welcome here for more than 10 years, but I don't feel comfortable sharing anything with you anymore.

Shame on you.

Re: Carl Rahn Griffith

vruz — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 00:02:23 -0000

This is sad news. We weren't friends but he was someone whose powers of observation mattered.
Rest in peace, Carl.

Re: What’s Next In Computing

vruz — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 12:20:04 -0000

I think along the same lines, but I'm in the choir and you already know that :-)

With a little luck business people will pay attention to genuinely interesting things instead of the next fad.

Re: The Future of Programming

vruz — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 19:41:24 -0000

I used Bizagi once too, I had forgotten its name, thanks for adding it.

Regardless, it's not that I'm recommending the use of BPM tools, but that programmers should learn a few core ideas from BPM.
Nothing too extraordinary for anyone who understands graphs and finite state machines.

It's just a cultural problem, really.

Some cloud guys are already doing something like this I suggest, I expect best practices to permeate to the cowboy web designers that run most of the web today.

Re: The Future of Programming

vruz — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 05:10:28 -0000

To get started with.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...
http://www.businessballs.co...
http://www.jboss.org/produc...

There's plenty of commercially available software from big guns... SAP, Oracle, IBM and the like.
Of course, their mammooth implementations turn "real programmers" off, but there's important ideas behind the concept, which are being applied more recently to cloud computing management.
I think that this will eventually reach the lower stratus of the rest of us mere mortals.

I don't mean that programmers have to go back to designing workflows, what I mean is that there has to be an intermediate unambiguous, formal language between the user interface and the computation, and that it doesn't have to be something that only programmers can consume.
There's plenty of non-coding people who are super smart and can't be bothered to learn programming languages.
Our narcissism is an industry-wide failure to acknowledge the fact that there's intelligent life forms on this planet other than programmers.

Of course, as open source things go, everything is in flux.

A randomly compiled list of start pointers.
http://activiti.org/
http://www.bonitasoft.com/p...
http://www.jbpm.org/
https://camunda.org/bpmn/tu...
http://searchsoa.techtarget...
http://bpelscript.org/
http://www.processmaker.com/
http://searchsoa.techtarget...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...

All of these things tie in with the ongoing trend of moving everything from monolithic applications to swarms of microservices.

But that's another story......

Re: End To End Encryption

vruz — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 04:00:53 -0000

There's no scientific case for a backdoor that opens for "the good guys" only.
If you create a backdoor, the backdoor potentially opens for all "the bad guys" too.

When Comey makes the case for "golden keys" that's just plain unscientific bullshit.
There's no two opinions on this. Ask any serious computer scientist.

Backdoors make people less safe. Law enforcement still have plenty of tools at their disposal, and they keep spying on every call and every email if they want.

They don't need more power, and they certainly don't need more toys at the expense of further erosion of the rule of law.

I might add that any suggestion of a "golden keys" approach is plain disingenuous, even malicious, unscientific bullshit, since Comey, President Obama, the Attorney General, the Director of National Intelligence (who has committed perjury before the Senate, by the way) all have access to the best minds in the planet who will tell them exactly the same.

Find me one serious computer scientist or cryptographer who thinks otherwise and is able to prove it.

Find me *** one ***.

These are not good people trying to do the right thing.
These are people of the belief that might mkes right, and in their delusion grandeur are now making the aphorism extensible to the idea that might makes fact.

It is not so. Charlatans and fascists must be met with the fiercest resistance.

Re: The Future of Programming

vruz — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 14:04:10 -0000

There's this thing called BPM. Most programmers hate it. Most business process architects hate programming. They don't talk to each other.
That's the layer that goes between natural language and the code, but people keep running around in circles.

Yes, I've also worked on that.

Re: Video Of The Week: Scott Galloway on Facebook, Amazon, Apple & Google

vruz — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 13:21:13 -0000

Advertising is anti-ethical to attention, and a zero-sum game.
It's a dead end.

Re: Global Venture Capital Distribution

vruz — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 23:37:07 -0000

Yes, indeed.
I think I recall Fred has reflected here on incremental changes that have been happening in the last few years, and how VC as we know it has its days numbered.
I pretty much agree with him on that.

I think a genuinely global kind of VC (that may not be easily recognisable as VC) is just about to dawn in the next few years.

Re: Global Venture Capital Distribution

vruz — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 14:40:28 -0000

If venture capital can't see opportunity in Africa and South America, venture capital needs new glasses.
Or really, eye transplants.