I lost my grandfather (father really, he raised me) and I felt the same way, I signed his DNR and if nobody was looking, I would have turned off all measures to keep him stable myself. Watching somebody you love pass is entirely heartbreaking, it's satisfying to see them cross the line into the unthinking. If I had the talent of Scott Adams, the words I would have emitted would have been similar.
Gosh. If I could laugh I would have been doubled over. Does the author really think that Apple put this much thought into not letting certain journalists into new coverage. This is pretty much a thought of a conspiracy theorist, Apple surely doesn't think about communist conspiracies from the 1940s, they merely think you're either a bad journalist or one who is consistently unfair. The detail in which the linked article puts forth is ridiculous. It's over-analysis at it's most laughable.
If you know anything about big companies and PR, you would know that much of what he says is true. They do indeed monitor what various media outlets say and create an "enemies list" that will be starved.
Even big and influential media may not escape. Apple doesn't need to cooperate with the normal reporters on the New York Times who ask hard questions about conditions in Chinese factories, they just need to court David Pogue.
Companies do maintain black lists in the same way that Hollywood did in response to McCarthy and there is a small industry of "research" to did out info on peoples political and other activities eg raising H&S issues
The construction industry has been doing this for decades in the UK and I bet companies like walmart do it in the USA as well.
If you dont see the problem you need to read up on the industrial history of the USA
I absolutely assume any company even close to as big as Apple spends 'that much thought' on managing their PR, absolutely. I'd be shocked if they did not.
That doesn't neccesarily mean they maintain a blacklist or whatever. But 'that much thought'? Certainly. Of course they do. It's bizarre to suggest that they don't spend 'that much thought' on PR.
So, are you saying that Apple, probably one of the most secretive and PR savvy companies in the world, doesn't give much thought about its relations with the media? Really?
The article wasn't talking about a conspiracy, read it again. It's just what you said, Apple doing PR control.
If they think that criticisng Apple or its products makes someone a bad journalist or unfair and they are blacklisted, then in actuality they do care a lot about journalists.
A tech journalist is at a disadvantage with the rest if he is denied early access to products, and he won't get that unless he writes pretty things about Apple. We have a word for that: blackmail.
If there is one tech company today that is obsessed with managing its PR, from every angle, it has to be Apple. I don't find it far-fetched at all the Apple has put a lot of thought into how to get early favorable reviews from big media. It's the same reason they basically invented the modern theatrical press event: a huge part of what they sell is an image. Managing that image is paramount to their business.
"Does the author really think that Apple put this much thought into not letting certain journalists into new coverage. "
Dunno about the author, but me? Absolutely, yes.
Not just Apple either. Probably every large business with a half functioning marketing and PR operation.
Quite right as well. Its their job. Present the product in the best light possible to maximize profits of the owners or share holders. That is the purpose of business.
I make no moral judgement. Its just raw capitalism. The trick is to know this and to never accept a single source, then make a judgement.
There's nothing about why you're moving your clients to static blogging engines, except maybe because you're trying to sell themes to them. I'd downvote this, if my karma was sufficient to render the downvote.
GitHub shows the file size and SLOC for each file individually. If you want see the SLOC for an entire project, you could clone it and run something like the following from the root of the project directory:
They probably did something to piss him off and he walked instead of bowing to their demands, and now they're screwed and it's starting to dawn on them. (Have we not seen this movie before? Have they not learned yet?)
The comment is the only thing in a monospace font. It's a criticism, and a valid one, of your choice of programming font. Nobody in their rightest of minds programs in Times New Roman. I'm convinced you must be trolling us.
I also use proportional fonts for Java to make the code look like it's taken from an algorithms textbook. Also, idiomatic Java as produced by IDEs usually doesn't align variables, so the code looks OK as long as the space characters themselves all are of the same width.
The C++ code I work with usually has more strenuous alignments which are only possible to get right in monospace fonts.
The two most common methods, md5 and sha-1 are
both susceptible to collisions, or birthday attacks.
As of writing this, I would recommend using
SHA-3-256 which has no known attacks.
Don't do that. Hashing algorithms without salt and iteration counts is a bad idea. Thankfully, languages and frameworks are starting to take this responsibility away from the programmer (or at least they're making it easier) – consider using has_secure_password in Rails, password_hash in PHP 5.5, etc. Don't use standard hashing algorithms.
