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syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

Panty Saluter posted:

lol if u use anything but literal language aropund fishmech

okay so roof trusses are all prefab, all the time

fishmech vanquished again :sweatdrop:

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Munkeymon
Aug 14, 2003

Motherfucker's got an
armor-piercing crowbar! Rigoddamndicu𝜆ous.



duTrieux. posted:

how... why would anybody do the first one?

because it's silly and so conveys the respect I think the term deserves

triple sulk
Sep 17, 2014



Smythe posted:

have you ever stood in your bedroom window while your wife sleeps, silently and listlessly gazing at the silhouette of of your neighbors loving through their silky drapes. have you ever pulled one out to completion while youb watched hoping, just hoping they'd notice your big dick and invite you over. have you ever watched your neighbors wife walk their portuguese water dog and fantasize about being on the leash. about looking up at her nice firm tits and she pulled on the choke chain and called you a human being. have you ever dreamed about eating from her dog bowl. about taking her up to your wifes dads cabin in veil and beating your neighbors wife to death. have you imagined the life draining from her eyes and your cock ripped her pussy up? do you work at an enterprise software vendor? you might live in a mcmansion

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

peed on;
sexually

Smythe posted:

have you ever stood in your bedroom window while your wife sleeps, silently and listlessly gazing at the silhouette of of your neighbors loving through their silky drapes. have you ever pulled one out to completion while youb watched hoping, just hoping they'd notice your big dick and invite you over. have you ever watched your neighbors wife walk their portuguese water dog and fantasize about being on the leash. about looking up at her nice firm tits and she pulled on the choke chain and called you a human being. have you ever dreamed about eating from her dog bowl. about taking her up to your wifes dads cabin in veil and beating your neighbors wife to death. have you imagined the life draining from her eyes and your cock ripped her pussy up? do you work at an enterprise software vendor? you might live in a mcmansion
smythe are you feeling ok?

theflyingexecutive
Apr 22, 2007

I like to think smythe irl has a perfectly stable vanilla relationship with his long term girlfriend and also has no body image issues

sat on my keys!
Oct 2, 2014

i'm a self taught "programmer" (hpc for grad school) and i think ti would be good if i had to take a test or pass a course before i'd be allowed/required to write code futzing with people's identifying information or financial things.

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

bartlebyshop posted:

i'm a self taught "programmer" (hpc for grad school) and i think ti would be good if i had to take a test or pass a course before i'd be allowed/required to write code futzing with people's identifying information or financial things.

yeah i mean at least this sort of thing needs a barrier to entry or qualification test of some kind. feel free to make apps that put hats on cats or whatever with your awful garbage code but some of the poo poo that is actively running the economy and handling very important (and probably life-critical) things is really shamefully bad and that needs to change and it probably won't until breaches get so bad that companies have to carry massive and expensive hacker insurance and the insurance requires them to do bare minimum security things to qualify.

pr0zac
Jan 18, 2004

~*lukecagefan69*~


Pillbug

Smythe posted:

do you live in a housing development? are the streets in an orderly grid? does your sheriff shoot niggers, spics, beaners, fags and kykes on sight? you might live in a mcmansion

dis good but mcmansionvilles never have gridded streets, it's always the meandering "scenic" roads that make getting anywhere in the neighborhood take twice as long

Elder Postsman
Aug 30, 2000


i used hot bot to search for "teens"

Parallel Paraplegic posted:

where do you live that you've only been to one once? i mean i live in Florida which is kinda a special case since our housing market was the most idiotic right before the bubble popped so they're all over the place here. and yeah they're super weird and probably impossible to come home drunk to and still find your house.

what's creeper though are all the big empty expanses of land that went unused after the bubble popped but were already under development, there are a bunch of them around and they'd put in the roads and the streetlights and the front gate first and then the money ran out so you just have this creepy giant empty overgrown field with roads regularly placed through it and streetlights all over the place.

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

in it, voted 5

PokeJoe
Aug 24, 2004

hail cgatan



me, playing sim city

sat on my keys!
Oct 2, 2014

Parallel Paraplegic posted:

yeah i mean at least this sort of thing needs a barrier to entry or qualification test of some kind. feel free to make apps that put hats on cats or whatever with your awful garbage code but some of the poo poo that is actively running the economy and handling very important (and probably life-critical) things is really shamefully bad and that needs to change and it probably won't until breaches get so bad that companies have to carry massive and expensive hacker insurance and the insurance requires them to do bare minimum security things to qualify.

can't wait until some idiot C++ doer like me finally writes the code that allows hackers to turn all Chevys everywhere into bombs

Elder Postsman
Aug 30, 2000


i used hot bot to search for "teens"


related: http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2014/10/landscape-redacted.html

Munkeymon
Aug 14, 2003

Motherfucker's got an
armor-piercing crowbar! Rigoddamndicu𝜆ous.



pr0zac posted:

dis good but mcmansionvilles never have gridded streets, it's always the meandering "scenic" roads that make getting anywhere in the neighborhood take twice as long

shorter sight lines also trick drivers into going slower which is good for reducing traffic fatalities in a neighborhood full of understimulated, overindulged children (and their offspring)

Farmer Crack-Ass
Jan 2, 2001

this is me posting irl

Parallel Paraplegic posted:

yeah i mean at least this sort of thing needs a barrier to entry or qualification test of some kind. feel free to make apps that put hats on cats or whatever with your awful garbage code but some of the poo poo that is actively running the economy and handling very important (and probably life-critical) things is really shamefully bad and that needs to change and it probably won't until breaches get so bad that companies have to carry massive and expensive hacker insurance and the insurance requires them to do bare minimum security things to qualify.

so when someone with certification fucks up are you envisioning like a process to decertify them or what

Sniep
Mar 28, 2004

All I needed was that fatty blunt...



King of Breakfast

north las vegas same thing

i think in vegas there were a lot of 80% completed modulars done where tweakers inhabited one by one to burn the carpet for heat just destroying them down a line

nobody caught it cuz no electricity no alarms

Farmer Crack-Ass
Jan 2, 2001

this is me posting irl

Farmer Crack-rear end posted:

so when someone with certification fucks up are you envisioning like a process to decertify them or what

also just because i'm a spiteful bastard, i'm curious


if no amount of regulation/certification/insurance stemmed security breaches, would your breaking point be "gently caress it, cost of doing business" or "gently caress computers, failed experiment, we're all going back to paper records"

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde

Trabisnikof posted:

Nah, because one could use a native lawn/xenomorph that has lower water usage than the same square footage of home

idk man those xenomorph nests always look moist as hell

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Farmer Crack-rear end posted:

also just because i'm a spiteful bastard, i'm curious


if no amount of regulation/certification/insurance stemmed security breaches, would your breaking point be "gently caress it, cost of doing business" or "gently caress computers, failed experiment, we're all going back to paper records"

yeah i guess there'd be decertification if it's a glaringly bad fuckup or if it's repeated, i don't know exactly how it works in other fields but we somehow can build massive skyscrapers without them falling over from being designed by literal children i'm sure we can figure it out.

i mean i don't think anything will fully stop breaches, but as pointed out before the breaches we keep seeing in this thread tend to be really remedial stuff that exists due to true systemic incompetence rather than rare coding mistakes or "these hyper-sophisticated master criminals broke down our cyberbrain firewall!"

i mean it's not like we don't have entire industries that build massively complex things that are life-critical yet made out of millions of parts made by hundreds of thousands of people working for completely different companies in completely different countries that somehow magically don't explode constantly.

MeruFM
Jul 27, 2010
considering the smartest programmers/mathematicians willing to work instead of stay in academia are already actively loving over the economy with models that will eventually destroy the world's money in an instant, asking programmings to pass a "i know the difference between a float and an int" test will not be very useful.

MeruFM
Jul 27, 2010
i solemnly swear i will adhere to Keynesian economics and not make as much money as possible during the bull market nor sell all i can at the sign of a bear

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde

Parallel Paraplegic posted:

yeah i guess there'd be decertification if it's a glaringly bad fuckup or if it's repeated, i don't know exactly how it works in other fields but we somehow can build massive skyscrapers without them falling over from being designed by literal children i'm sure we can figure it out.

fines, publication and tracking of ethics/professional violations, suspension of licensure, more fines, and in extreme cases lawsuits and jail time

also having a continuous educational requirement means that the really big fuckups get examined over and over again as teaching moments for everyone in the industry at the required yearly professional conference or monthly luncheons or w/e

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem
there will always be new and novel security flaws getting exploited. just like the history of construction involves quite a number of buildings falling over due to deficient designs.

the important thing is to stop having the exact same flaws over and over again, which is something that construction has mostly solved but that computer nerds just can't quite figure out.

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Jabor posted:

there will always be new and novel security flaws getting exploited. just like the history of construction involves quite a number of buildings falling over due to deficient designs.

the important thing is to stop having the exact same flaws over and over again, which is something that construction has mostly solved but that computer nerds just can't quite figure out.

yeah that's what i'm getting at, there will be unforeseeable serious issues with even the best design, there are in every field, but that makes up maybe like 2% of all actual corporate breaches these days and the rest is people leaving default credentials publicly accessible, people not knowing how the hell to write things that aren't full of SQL injections, and people getting calls that ask them for their password and being fine with that, etc. i get arguing about where the standards would actually stop and them not being 100% useful in every situation but christ there's a lot of low-hanging fruit that could be knocked out by even the most basic of tests and accountability methods.

jony ive aces
Jun 14, 2012

designer of the lomarf car


Buglord

qirex posted:

that was my whole point, how can you have a "union" when literally nobody does the same thing as anyone else

the modern tech industry evolved a) organically and b) really, really fast so the differences way outstrip the commonalities no part of the dude who writes php to manage as cookies on a porn site, the woman who writes realtime video processing for live TV or someone who hacks at a 30 megabyte pile of excel macros for a hedge fund is in common but they're all "developers" or "programmers"

their commonalities are: they type on a keyboard, and, um...
the computer people should be in the same union as the non-computer workers for the same company

qirex posted:

I'd say the biggest challenge to labor organization isn't the work it's the fact that there aren't clear demarcations between "workers" and "bosses" in most modern companies, it's more of a slow gradient
this is true though

but then if someone higher isn't directly responsible for hiring, firing and setting the pay grades of those lower than them it's really not a big deal

ArmedZombie
Jun 6, 2004

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

fines, publication and tracking of ethics/professional violations, suspension of licensure, more fines, and in extreme cases lawsuits and jail time

also having a continuous educational requirement means that the really big fuckups get examined over and over again as teaching moments for everyone in the industry at the required yearly professional conference or monthly luncheons or w/e

all of this already exists

note that you can be a "real" "engineer" who does real engineering work and you don't need a PE. industrial/manufacturing exemption etc. Many engineers that have PEs don't actually need them to do their current job.

Stringent
Dec 22, 2004


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i used to hear good things about red hat's certifications, are they actually any good?

Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006

Parallel Paraplegic posted:

yeah that's what i'm getting at, there will be unforeseeable serious issues with even the best design, there are in every field, but that makes up maybe like 2% of all actual corporate breaches these days and the rest is people leaving default credentials publicly accessible, people not knowing how the hell to write things that aren't full of SQL injections, and people getting calls that ask them for their password and being fine with that, etc. i get arguing about where the standards would actually stop and them not being 100% useful in every situation but christ there's a lot of low-hanging fruit that could be knocked out by even the most basic of tests and accountability methods.

a programmers union would be actively opposed to all of these things cause it would mean more work and theres no way you'd be able to get people to agree on what and how to do things. it would also be nearly impossible (and wrong) for the government to regulate certain standard mechanisms or processes since they will go out of date pretty much instantaneously.

the right solution is to do what we've done in every other industry and put the liability on the companies housing the data. If there are actually harsh penalties for breaches then either the company does its best to manage risk and this works most of the time or the company is breached and they get penalized and victims are compensated.

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
lol. how long do you think programmers will need to get poo poo on before this whole it can't work in tech, these lessons don't apply to us, it's different here mentality finally goes away?

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
standards? we're too busy disrupting for standards!

Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006
the difference in capabilities across languages is enough to obliterate any attempts at standardization.

unless you're saying java and c# only which then ok maybe that's a good starting point.

Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006
Its not a "programming is art" thing its a "php litterrallly is designed for insecurity and instability but people still use it everywhere and you cant stop them" thing

Bhodi
Dec 9, 2007

Oh, it's just a cat.
Pillbug

Stringent posted:

i used to hear good things about red hat's certifications, are they actually any good?
they were when i got mine, but that was um, maybe 5 years ago now

Stringent
Dec 22, 2004


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Shaggar posted:

the difference in capabilities across languages is enough to obliterate any attempts at standardization.

unless you're saying java and c# only which then ok maybe that's a good starting point.

i think the only realistic certification system would have to be in individual frameworks/languages/technologies. if you tried to certify general development ability you just end up with fizzbuzz and implement a linked list.

which is probably still better than not having anything, but vOv

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

fines, publication and tracking of ethics/professional violations, suspension of licensure, more fines, and in extreme cases lawsuits and jail time

also having a continuous educational requirement means that the really big fuckups get examined over and over again as teaching moments for everyone in the industry at the required yearly professional conference or monthly luncheons or w/e

maybe we should start this with cars? you basically don't need to be a PE to do anything that doesn't involve a fixed structure

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

Shaggar posted:

the difference in capabilities across languages is enough to obliterate any attempts at standardization.

unless you're saying java and c# only which then ok maybe that's a good starting point.

i'm referring to professional standards

you don't see anyone advocating building a high rise with toothpicks now do you? likewise, you wouldn't get many people building mission critical systems with php if you didn't let every cs undergrad dipshit call themselves a programmer

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

Shaggar posted:

the difference in capabilities across languages is enough to obliterate any attempts at standardization.

unless you're saying java and c# only which then ok maybe that's a good starting point.

you can either test on fundamentals (algorithms, concepts, ethics, etc) or make domain specific tests



its like someone saying that since sandstone and granite are sooooo different how could we ever standardize or test masons on their skills

Hurt Whitey Maybe
Jun 26, 2008

I mean maybe not. Or maybe. Definitely don't kill anyone.
i work in a professional field with widely diverse material, yet somehow they manage to test and certify the professionals in a way that allows the profession a large degree of self regulation.

idk maybe computer "professionals" should realize that they need a governing body as part of their recognition of their duty to the public at large.

GameCube
Nov 21, 2006

so did subjunctive finally give up on convincing us that he's one of the good ones

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GameCube
Nov 21, 2006

because http://violetblue.tumblr.com/post/130440543695/why-im-sitting-at-home-crying-on-a-saturday

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