gopowerranger

It may be due to the quality of the clay, or the lack of clay at all, for making the bricks. I saw a documentary on this just a few months ago aired by our local PBS station on this very subject.

http://ninenet.org/archives/pressroom/st-louis-brick-buildin...

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/brick

When you add salt to bread, and the recipe calls for one teaspoon, a teaspoon of kosher salt is not the same as table salt or sea salt. So how much is it? (It's significantly different.)

When something calls for three cups of flour, and it's a humid day, or a dry day, does that affect the quantity? Yes it does. Significantly enough to affect bread.

Both of the above reasons are why bread bakers weigh all their ingredients, including water.

What you just said is this new thing isn't as good, and probably never will be, but you imply we should use it, even though the current tools are better.

See my complaint? If they are going to introduce a new tool, it must be better than the current tool. It's not and it's worse and not as mature.

It's awful. I thought HN just didn't care. Why is this so hard? I do this every day for work and HN should be dead simple. Is this saying HN doesn't have anyone who knows how to do this?

EDIT: My initial post was from my phone. Now I'm on my workstation and I see the markup here is antiquated, pre-1998 HTML. No wonder this is so horrid. You should be ashamed but, still, I could do better.

So your trying to say this thing does a better job?

Make existed long before npm and make is the basis of all our package management in our company and our operating systems.

But doing this in C already exists and works well. I don't understand the point of it. Although, in this day and age, rather than use the standard Unix toolset, people invent their own tools as if they are new. "Make" versus "npm" for example.

Hmm. So for people who don't know how to use Unix/flex/yacc?

This is just reinventing an existing wheel.

As a business owner, sometimes it can't be helped, and sometimes you have to think that way cause firing someone is never a pleasant task.

Sometimes you know it must be done but you know the person is nice enough but just not competent, or can't do the job, or the job has changed and they're getting fired for no fault of their own.

There are those times when you fire someone but you feel guilty that, as their manager, maybe you could have done better with them but you didn't have time, were too distracted, too tired.

In companies that get big enough, the percentage of people getting fired for cause gets higher. Then firing people becomes part of a routine. If you let your feelings get involved, it will drive you crazy, so you try not to let that happen.

And now on to the topic!

I look at this and it reminds of drawings from the late 1800s of people doing things with mechanical devices that we now use electronics for. It just seems very contrived and impractical.

That's not why he was fired.

He "blew up," yelling and cursing at Rasmussen. He remembers saying to Rasmussen, "I'm going to PDR [public disclosure request] the shit out of you."

And you want to say the PD could have handled that better? Go into your boss right now and do the same thing. Let us know how he handled that from the unemployment line.

In a government agency that has sensitive information about ongoing investigations about criminal activity and personal information, you can't put up a web page for ANYTHING without approval.

Also, he admits that when that happened, he "blew up," yelling and cursing at Rasmussen. He remembers saying to Rasmussen, "I'm going to PDR [public disclosure request] the shit out of you."

That alone will get you escorted out of a LOT of companies who will say you definitely "did something wrong".

And it's on the front page of HN?

By "OP" you mean the author of the article then, no, the article is not about web apps.

Not too long ago, I lost a job cause I didn't know Fortran.

Part of my comment was about his statement that the Unix philosophy is something of the past, which is false. Parts of the rest of my comment dealt with what he said about the plethora of "one size fits all" tools people are using now instead of the simple tools.

Can you not make the connection?

"That philosophy was great, but hasn’t survived into the Web age."

As one who still writes shell scripts for my work that do such a thing, and programs, too, I disagree as every Unix and BSD coder I know still does these things. It still serves us very well; far better than the glut of so-called package managers that pretend they can do better than 'make'.

I chalk a large portion of this up to those creating web pages without any real programming knowledge, training or background. Those who only know how to cut/past/npm everything they do. These are the same who think Unix is old and not modern.

I took an interview with a small company yesterday. There the creative director asked me what tools I knew and spewed out everything but the kitchen sink that they use. I was aware of all of them but questioned why he needed any of them.

You see, I've been running a web dev company for 11 years and have never found an advantage to any of it. He asked how we survived without npm or bower or etc. but, when I asked him if he knew how to write a Makefile, he didn't even know what it was or what it did.

A lot of the tools we use are things we built up over time ... or last week. Today's "modern" tools may be "instant on" for those who can't write a Makefile either but that's a fault and not a feature. If you need npm or bower to manager these things then what happens when something breaks, goes away, or becomes unsupported?

I stuck with npm and bower cause, when I tried to write about Angular and other things it got too long winded.

One of my points is, all the tools you need are already built into any Unix/BSD system so why look elsewhere? Those who do are only looking for quick fixes, as I pointed out earlier, and not interested in the science behind it. Creatives who want to build a web site but have no interest in the technology. They can get it to work, eventually, but "it works" is good enough.

No it's not. That's why smart companies hire mine.

You skipped this part:

“Five years ago, [a suspect] could have physically walked into a bank and carried out a transaction. We could have put a surveillance team on that but now, most of it is done online. We just want to know about the visit.”

Willie sutton robbed banks cause "That's where the money is". When bad guys use the internet to do bad things, you have to go 'where the money is' or suffer the consequences if you don't.

Has nothing to do with what he said.

You still don't get his point. You're trying to think up solutions but that has nothing to do with what he said.

You still don't get it. It's the pedestrian doing the wrong, not the driver.

He's saying pedestrians will take advantage of cars auto-braking for them.

And another Windows user who runs "p0wned" shell scripts on his system. Or believe everyone does this on a regular basis. "Just like Windows!"

And now ... on to the topic!

Microsoft has the enterprise market. True. Google and Apple have everything else. Don't minimize that.

ChromeOS is based on Linux so, please, let us hear just how bad you are saying Linux is.

That shows just how great the concept is.

Define "you". By "you" do you mean criminals and others who are evading, resisting or shooting at cops? Or do you mean the majority of law-abiding citizens without issues that involve the police coming after you?

I'm in the latter. So is my whole family, friends and, afaik, co-workers. So do I think that 8x number applies to any of us? No.

It's a test and a research project, as stated in that article. They found 10,000 ways that don't work. Edison would be proud.