rdavl's comments

So basically all criticism is bad?

Even if content is no good?

Maybe I am, but really stressful environments are stressful for everyone.

If you are unable to cope with some levels of stress it is not the coding that is the problem, it is you. Or do we just go around blaming everything else for our problems?

Should I blame you or me for my karma score? Come on...

True, I also use his work, and I am not saying he personally is a bad person, but these burn out posts come so often lately that it makes me wonder if people even know any definition of it.

Quick google search tells me this: > ruin one's health or become completely exhausted through overwork.

And the only thing the post saysis

> It happens to everyone that writes code all day long — the sudden feeling of "I'd rather do anything else than this right now" — even though writing software is one of your favorite activities in the world.

This is not burn out... I'd rather do something else does not mean your health is ruined from overwork... But maybe I am just nitpicking...

> Having burned out a number of times

So this more like a being sick of doing things temporarily?

What you are doing and the effort you have to put in is what puts stress on you isn't it?

> ("bomb technician," huh?)

Huh what? Wrong term? Are you seriously saying that job that puts your life in danger causes the same amount of stress as grading papers? Sure, grading papers can take effort, but come on... That is just plain wrong... Have you ever been in life or death situation? Not much compares to it...

If your employer demands near-impossible targets and you are aware of this and not living in the country where it is impossible to find another job you are the fault.

Maybe I am seem like arrogant arse but you seem like you are totally disconnected from reality.

Platform has nothing to do with it. If you keep reading unrealistic marketing stories and believe what they say... well you are the problem...

A lot of people read the same things, should we all burn out?

> Burnout is, unfortunately, a very real phenomena in software development

These people sound like they are bomb technicians not software developers...

> "I'd rather do anything else than this right now" — even though writing software is one of your favorite activities in the world.

So? Does this mean you have burnt out? How does this compare to jobs like algorithmic trading or mission critical software?

Burning out over stress of writing a web site? I call BS on all these burn out blog posts.

You have other problems in your life that make you depress, coding might be little part of it but I don't see what levels of stress can you be under while doing mostly non interesting jobs.

Some languages actually have standard libraries so don't need bazookas..

Fair point, I am not pretending that everyone will have same requirements and oppinions. But even with SSL at least the domain is still visible. And in some cases there are ways to infer what URL you actually visited.

I also see companies using MITM successfully in a way that unless you check the cert your self it seems legit. I still use HTTPS when I go to Google but I can see the cert is spoofed.

And what about the people that don't care and are effectively prohibited from using a public data site at all since the site decided to use HTTPS only? Do way say we don't care about them? Since few years back we wanted our sites to be available to everyone, on old browser new browsers, mobiles and so on.

And having people smarter then me (like Roy Fielding) agreeing this does not do much for privacy rather content confidentiality (and actually making communication less private) is not making me any more convinced.

Bottom line, and I don't expect everyone to agree, is that I am all for using SSL even by default, but for public data I would still want to have access to it over plain HTTP.

I want/need that choice, otherwise we are hindering corporation employees and people living in the countries in which governments do massive surveillance. I think it is important for people to realise that SSL is not the ultimate solution for data integrity and specially privacy as it is often posed to be.

Thanks to all expressing your views in comments.

And with that I absolutely agree.

So what is the level of paranoia that SSL is useful for? Since this is what the article says:

> Encryption makes it more difficult for governments and other third parties to monitor your traffic. It also makes it harder for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to censor access to specific Wikipedia articles and other information.

And we agree it doesn't really help with government surveillance?

Do ISPs randomly censor access? Or do they again do it on government requests. Cos if government finds that your site needs censorship why would they not just block the whole site? Another thing that is harder for ISPs to do with SSL is caching.

Maybe I'm not brightest child on the block so I'm still struggling to figure out what is a benefit of having HTTPS everywhere.

And having the likse of Google punishing non SSL sites just makes this fad worse. I don't need SSL on StackOverflow, Django or Python documentation. Does anyone?

This is all great, and I can see the benefit of having HTTPS available for all the sites.

That being said, various documentation has started serving docs on HTTPS only which means I can not access it from work.

There are a lot of scenarios where having HTTPS will just impede people doing their work.

And finally, how are we to trust that for example Version or Thawte are not influenced by the likes of NSA and make possible for them to decript our traffic with ease?

Yes that probably helps, since our countries suck to do any real business. (and don't make me quote, this is a known fact here).

I do hope you do very well, I just can't seem to get over the fact you had to go back to Balkans, sucks for you and your business but I do wish you all the best with your enterprise.

But don't take my comment to negatively either, if nothing food is great and people are full of humor! At least something to make you feel better ;)

I'm just eager to see how long will it take him to fail in Bosnia (not because he's not capable but the Bosnian legislature is shit for anyone not doing illegal work, same goes for Serbia, Croatia and maybe even Kosovo.)

I think what you are looking for is called "common sense".

You won't be going around murdering people since it is common sense and you are brought up this way.

Murder and dirty joke is not the same thing if you have any common sense and that's why usually murder has priority over dirty jokes in court. You usually don't get sued for dirty joke. That's why we don't call dirty jokes a murder nor we call murder a joke.

And the common sense is what should set our priorities. Who would you rather see in court first mass murderer or a thief? And on what grounds do you decide this? How do YOU decide which is more offensive? Do we have scales for it?

Hehe, yeah, he should be fired for saying "Fk you nvidia" on school premises.

Hmm, I always saw each of them as an answer to completely different problem, so I have hard time contemplating this scenario.

How exactly would CPU be more like GPU? What would happen to branching and out of order execution pipelines? Do you see today's complex superscalar cores so cheap and small in the future that you could have thousands of them on single die? What other way is there get vector computations to work as well as scalar computations on same hardware? Would you rather have few superscalar cores and a lot of SIMD's around it? Or do you envision a completely new architecture?

I'm just trying to get a picture of how this would be done. Any reading material would be welcome.

So nobody argues that scientific papers should be free for everyone to use?

Mass killing is perhaps a bad choice of words, but you really shouldn't be allowed to own any kind of automatic firearms, silencers, military sniper rifles.

Nor should anyone be allowed to keep home any amount of explosive substances or explosive devices, unless for professional use, or any kind of chemical or biological weaponry.

Also, you could not own any kind of firearm if you have criminal record, poor eyesight, mental retardations and such.

No ownership is possible without having a licence issued by the government.

Those are basically regulations in Croatia for example.

Well, maybe I am being silly, but you can make all the carts you want there will still be a hungry child on each corner, there will still be a beaten wife in some household etc. and the only reason I can see for all this is that we failed as civilisation. Not something easily remedied by putting more quote in news papers owned by the people with power.

Hmm, if someone made a chart of how many man/women had given birth I wonder what would the ratio be? I dislike people wanting their rights in cases where those rights have been made up by other people. It's not about whether you are a man or a woman, the problem is that we are corrupted as a species. We are nothing more that virus on this planet, why do you feel that no one quoting you is a bad thing? People that have power come up with these "rights" for other people so they could oppress/reward them when they do as they say without thinking of gender or age or anything else for that matter. And the people that have power are first of all animals then people and after that they male and female. It's not like aliens are in control...