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Google HR boss Laszlo Bock hit the best-sellers' lists earlier this year with Work Rules!, a management book full of tips and stories about how the company maintains its data-driven, fast-moving work environment. You just need a few billion dollars and a near monopoly to make it work
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If you’re looking for a job and possess some awesome open source chops, Microsoft might be looking for you. No, the interview is not being held in an abbatoir
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Ceylon is a rather ambitious programming language, so sometimes when people ask us to summarize its advantages, it can be a bit difficult to know where to start! 25C, Clear with periodic clouds (but there is rain in the forecast)
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IoT is about to explode, perhaps literally, if privacy and security issues aren't fixed. Or get rid of all the things
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Old models of computing always tend to linger too long, but client-server was based on a fallacy -- and needs to go away sooner rather than later. Put it on the pile with OOP and structured programming.
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Yes, let's do distributed domains, distributed IM, distributed remote-desktop.
Put your silver bullet away before you shoot in your foot.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet. - Henry Minute
I'm still looking (eagerly) for wisdom in terms of best practices in OO design; and I doubt I'll ever quit looking. - BillWoodruff
Programming is a race between programmers trying to build bigger and better idiot proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots, so far... the universe is winning. - gavindon
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Maybe I'm old, grumpy and in need of coffee - but I wouldn't call that article a rigorous and compelling argument.
Client-Server doesn't scale down very well is, perhaps, an argument for cloudy VM based goodness but genuinely distributed data is a good deal harder than the article allows for which means that the data itself will probably be centrally located in - let's say "a server" and since almost no business need requires more than a very small subset of data for any given need we will deliver only the data needed and process it on - let's call it a "client".
We may end up with a heterogenous set of clients connecting to a server farm with routing/brokering/load balancing in between but that is fundamentally client-server.
Or have I missed the point? ![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
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I'm actually still wondering if there's a point to find.
This article leaves me the impression of an evangelist's show, promising better tomorrows and sunny mornings with everything put in the cloud.
I liked its first comment, though.
And of course you're right, that's not an architecture modification, but a displacement of responsabilities.
I never finish anyth
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Hmmm... no.
In the environment I work in, data is stored on separate servers because of a business or legislative requirement to keep is that way.
I can use a single vendor supplied 'client' tool to connect to multiple systems, but the client-server model works.. repeatedly.. and will continue to work.
Perhaps if the talking heads spent more time working, they might realize how industry actually functions.
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Let's all not forget that the World Wide Web is actually considered "second-generation client/server"...
Plus if client/server dies then what the h#ll am I gonna change my CP name to?
... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet. - Henry Minute
I'm still looking (eagerly) for wisdom in terms of best practices in OO design; and I doubt I'll ever quit looking. - BillWoodruff
Programming is a race between programmers trying to build bigger and better idiot proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots, so far... the universe is winning. - gavindon
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clientSurfer wrote: Plus if client/server dies then what the h#ll am I gonna change my CP name to?
cloudSurfer? That would be almost unnoticeable, and could advantageously make think that you're some kind of super hero.
I never finish anyth
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heheh well Fartman it is then
... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet. - Henry Minute
I'm still looking (eagerly) for wisdom in terms of best practices in OO design; and I doubt I'll ever quit looking. - BillWoodruff
Programming is a race between programmers trying to build bigger and better idiot proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots, so far... the universe is winning. - gavindon
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It sounds like he's only railing against things we've already pretty much eliminated. Business as usual then.
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Typical buzzword crazed article: Stop using Client-Server, in favour of Client-Server.  Same as saying - stop using a remote computer with a dumm terminal, in favour of the cloud model! Or just as silly ... stop using relational DBs in favour of no-SQL and then define all the business rules manually in your code (i.e. throw away a perfectly good extremely well optimized piece of program just so you can us a new buzzword while re-implementing everything that was already available to you - only now you do it much worse, far away from the data, increasing lag times as throughput is greatly increased)!
Even his suggestion of "distributed" Client-server isn't "new", it's the same old stuff - one of its examples is referred to as load balancing. I was hurting so much after falling out my chair from reading this load of Elephant dung! Please someone try to explain to the poor fellow that he's contradicting himself!
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irneb wrote: Stop using Client-Server, in favour of Client-Server
OK now that's f'n funny
... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet. - Henry Minute
I'm still looking (eagerly) for wisdom in terms of best practices in OO design; and I doubt I'll ever quit looking. - BillWoodruff
Programming is a race between programmers trying to build bigger and better idiot proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots, so far... the universe is winning. - gavindon
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Here’s an idea: Let’s set our computers to defend our computers. Let’s build a computer strong enough, fast enough and smart enough to defend us all from hackers on its own. Can we do this? Probably not; and if it turns out that we can… we’ll end up in a be-careful-what-you-wish-for scenario. Let’s explore why artificial intelligence will probably never be smart enough to end cybercrime.
I'll be happy when my computer doesn't crash, let alone defend itself from cyber attacks
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Christopher Shields wrote: Let’s build a computer strong enough, fast enough and smart enough to defend us all
Hmmm? We can call it "Colossus"
"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."
- G.K. Chesterton
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From the developer’s perspective, the Internet of Things might well appear as a nebulous blob of a million SDKs all layered on top of one another and manifesting in droplets of code everywhere.
For the manager, it can mean lots of little projects and orphaned items running around in the corners, as single items enter the market, become obsolete, and are replaced.
The Internet of Annoying Things.
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Alongside a few other features, three major ones are described: pattern matching, tuple syntax and nullable references. C# continues swallowing the Python (and every other language's features)
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Couvillon et al. show that naturally occurring caffeinated forage tricks honeybees into acting as if nectar quality, measured by bees as sugar content, is higher than it really is. Workers increase foraging and recruitment behaviors, which ultimately quadruples colony-level recruitment, tempting the colony into sub-optimal foraging strategies. Beware of free coffee in your office!
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You’ve heard it before: In space, no one can hear you scream. That’s because sound doesn’t move through a vacuum, and everyone knows that space is a vacuum. The thing is, that’s not completely true. "This garden universe vibrates complete. Some we get a sound so sweet."
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In this past year, HTML5 adoption has gone into overdrive, with more and more companies moving to HTML5 to deliver rich cross-platform web applications. Sorry if you still have to support IE8
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Citizen developers can produce valuable businesses applications quickly, but is speed to market worth the risk of security and compliance considerations flying out of the window? We, the coders...
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I find equating business employees (who don't work for the formal IT center in companies) with "citizens" a bit strange. As I find this excerpt:
" ... Helm Incorporated. It uses a cloud-based citizen development platform called Intuit QuickBase. Michael Wacht, the company’s vice president of operations and a former CIO, says he wants to give business users the capability to develop their own applications to fill the gaps between the applications offered by the IT department. ...
As we are a service business we have lots of unique needs, and we were so frustrated with the backlog of applications we were waiting for that we decided to let our teams develop them themselves," he says. "It turns out we can develop an application faster than we can document a process." "
Is that a good thing ? To have applications cranked out that handle undocumented processes, or to have applications which multiple users may have very different assumptions about the implementation of the process ?
Turns out, if you read further, that Helm has all the employees locked into doing everything in Intuit's QuickBase, and that the IT department can control QuickBase in consistent ways ... that's quite a different scenario than having people cranking out "apps" in C# inter-opping with Excel, etc.
By the end of reading the article, I came to the conclusion that what is described as "citizen developers" is actually "power users" who can pursue limited tasks in a context constrained by the hegemony of the one true application 
Your mileage may vary !
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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