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I keep seeing this in my feed, but I haven't responded, because pretty much all my tweets are this way.
For example, IPv6 isn't about increasing the IP address space (we have NAT for that), but is instead is trying to cling to the outdated end-to-end principle.
For example, IPv6 isn't about increasing the IP address space (we have NAT for that), but is instead is trying to cling to the outdated end-to-end principle.
Net neutrality isn't some technical principle that techies "get". Quite the reverse: the more experience you have with how packets are routed on the backbone, the less you want government bureaucrats regulating it.
Everyone should write their own X.509 parser.
Of the legacy programming languages, C++ is by far the most obsolete and should be actively avoided for any new code. It's worse for low-level systems work than C, and is worse for anything else due to unchecked buffer overflows.
Among the things that should be used instead of C++ is Java, which is an excellent language as long as you aren't using it to build something that runs in the browser.
At the height of the dot-com era when companies were investing heavily in Sun hardware for their webservers, Pentium Pro computers running WinNT where faster, more scalable, more reliable, and more secure.
Open-source is no better than closed-source.
Closed-source is no better than open-source.
Closed-source is no better than open-source.
JavaScript is a better functional language than Haskell.
