'Not Even Student Work': MyPillow CEO's Social Media Site Botches Rollout (salon.com) 191
"Salon reports amateur-hour mistakes in the attempted rollout of FRANK, a social media site envisioned by Mike Lindell of MyPillow," writes Slashdot reader Tom239. "A Drupal expert described the code as 'not even student work.'" From the report: Speaking to Salon on Thursday afternoon about Lindell's site, one "Acquia Certified Drupal Grand Master," who oversees a technology firm that employs numerous other "grandmasters," said that Lindell's site was set up for failure from its inception, noting that its developers -- whom Lindell compared to Navy SEALs -- had failed to carry out basic "Drupal 101" tasks. One coder who spoke to Salon in great detail explained the potential shortcomings of the pillow maven's program code and the patchy work done by his developer team. "Drupal can power high powerful websites, sites with lots of traffic," the expert said, adding that it isn't the right software to build a social media site with, since it's not designed to handle a large amount of user-generated content. "Lindell's website was basically trying to make soup for scratch for everybody," said the expert, who claimed more than 25 years of experience in the IT field.
"In my professional opinion, it will be extremely unlikely, if not impossible, for Lindell to accomplish his vision with Drupal and his own servers," the expert told Salon. "Despite how much I love it, Drupal simply isn't the right tool for the number of users with the features that he wants to provide. It would take a massive effort of 12 to 18 months to build out the needed hosting setup and application architecture, and this would come with an enormous degree of risk. The idea that he could do this in just a couple of months is patently absurd, and I think the results speak for themselves."
"When I was looking at the code, in the browser, they basically launched the site while it was still in development mode," one expert told Salon, citing the fact that developers had failed to check a box to aggregate files on the platform as the first red flag he ran across. "Their files were not aggregated, and by the way, that's a check box in Drupal -- you literally check a box and click save, My jaw dropped when I saw that. I was like, 'They did not try to launch this thing without aggregation turned on!'" The second major red flag another Drupal expert found was that Lindell's site was spitting out coded error messages to users, which leaves the platform vulnerable to attacks. "This is a shit show," the expert said, calling this an "obvious" issue that coders learn how to prevent in "Drupal 101."
Elsewhere it was reported that Lindell's supposed free-speech haven will not allow swearing, pornography, or the use of 'god's name in vain'.
"In my professional opinion, it will be extremely unlikely, if not impossible, for Lindell to accomplish his vision with Drupal and his own servers," the expert told Salon. "Despite how much I love it, Drupal simply isn't the right tool for the number of users with the features that he wants to provide. It would take a massive effort of 12 to 18 months to build out the needed hosting setup and application architecture, and this would come with an enormous degree of risk. The idea that he could do this in just a couple of months is patently absurd, and I think the results speak for themselves."
"When I was looking at the code, in the browser, they basically launched the site while it was still in development mode," one expert told Salon, citing the fact that developers had failed to check a box to aggregate files on the platform as the first red flag he ran across. "Their files were not aggregated, and by the way, that's a check box in Drupal -- you literally check a box and click save, My jaw dropped when I saw that. I was like, 'They did not try to launch this thing without aggregation turned on!'" The second major red flag another Drupal expert found was that Lindell's site was spitting out coded error messages to users, which leaves the platform vulnerable to attacks. "This is a shit show," the expert said, calling this an "obvious" issue that coders learn how to prevent in "Drupal 101."
Elsewhere it was reported that Lindell's supposed free-speech haven will not allow swearing, pornography, or the use of 'god's name in vain'.
How long until hacked (Score:3, Funny)
Re:How long until hacked (Score:5, Informative)
Maybe Lindell can finally post the "mountain of evidence" [newsweek.com] he has about the 2020 election fraud on his new site too -- before Dominion Voting Systems get into their $1.3B lawsuit against him for slander and libel -- because we're all *still* waiting to see it.
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Since he used to be an actual crackhead, I'm betting on a relapse.
Drupal? (Score:4, Insightful)
I didn't even know that people still used Drupal for new sites. If you want to make a social media site from the ground up, I understand using some sort of existing framework, but there are many better choices. For a site with those type of ambitions, you would think it would make more sense to code a lot of things from scratch rather than utilize a bunch of modules that may not be the perfect fit for everything you want to do.
It appears that they were more worried about getting it done fast than getting it done right. At least they didn't use Wordpress.
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It appears that they were more worried about getting it done fast than getting it done right. At least they didn't use Wordpress.
The last few years, there have been more major vulnerabilities in Drupal's core than in Wordpress' core.
Wordpress plugins, on the other hand, are still like the Wild West.
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> I didn't even know that people still used Drupal for new sites.
It was very popular among some of my age peers. It allows a great deal of flexibility over every detail, but it's true that it does _not_ scale well.
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I remember a lot of sites switching over to Drupal...but that was 10+ years ago.
Nowadays, everyone wants JAMstacks.
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There are just so many ways to do a social media site right. If someone who had a lot of cash wanted to do it "right", the code would be open sourced, with the focus being on how things are implemented, maybe taking suggestions on how to improve stuff, be it better design of the app/database/rendering layers, what makes the social network some place for people to actually create accounts for, and so on.
Of all the frameworks to build on, Drupal is close to the bottom of the list. I'd look at Django or Flas
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They would have if Brad Parscale was available.
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I didn't even know that people still used Drupal for new sites. If you want to make a social media site from the ground up, I understand using some sort of existing framework, but there are many better choices. For a site with those type of ambitions, you would think it would make more sense to code a lot of things from scratch rather than utilize a bunch of modules that may not be the perfect fit for everything you want to do.
It appears that they were more worried about getting it done fast than getting it done right. At least they didn't use Wordpress.
WordPress would have been a much better choice, actually.
Drupal is way too clunky. It used to be a good security choice, but since Drupalgeddon I and II things are a tad different.
WordPress is much more widely supported, has way more plugins, way more guides and documentation for how to do things right, much more out there about how to solve problems, a much nicer architecture for custom plugins ... just a better choice all around these days.
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No he's dead serious. https://www.vox.com/policy-and... [vox.com]
Re:Drup some? (Score:5, Funny)
You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know morons.
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Oh it's twooo, it's twooo, it's twooo.
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Moor-ons. People living on the moors.
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One of the things that has really worked against the American right in their struggle to dominate politics is their comparative incompetence on all things programming,,, the left has a rather insurmountable advantage in these matters.
From the New York Times:
Trump’s Digital Advantage Is Freaking Out Democratic Strategists [nytimes.com]
Here's the subtitle: Left and right agree on one point. The president’s re-election campaign is way ahead online. (this is obviously from 2020).
In 2008 Team Obama was "firing on all cylinders" as far as campaign technology went, Team Hillary not so much in 2016, and in 2020 Trump found 75 million voters in no small part because of his tech infrastructure.
Re: incompetence in programming? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re: incompetence in programming? (Score:5, Interesting)
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Re: incompetence in programming? (Score:4, Insightful)
Huh? So you think that incredibly botched rollout of the Healthcare.gov site under Obama was due to a bunch of right-wingers who coded the whole thing?
Do you realise pointing to a counter example from a government run website in no way invalidates any of the parents comments about the wider American right being incompetent in general, especially in the private sector which is what we're actually talking about right? I mean it's quite telling you go on the attack showing someone else's failings rather than instead pointing to your borderline nonexistent successes.
Analogy: You're a moron. Pointing out someone else is an idiot doesn't make you less of a moron. If you want to actually not be a moron you need to show evidence that your moronic post here actually had some intelligence to it.
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The funny part about the comment about healthcare.gov comment is that everyone should know the government did just what they always do. They hired companies like IBM/Oracle to develop the website and these companies excel at taking a $100M government contract and turning it into a $2B contract through delays and failure, usually because the specification document is written by 200 people and has holes you can drive a truck through. And these large companies know how to exploit those holes to maximize revenu
Re: re: incompetence in programming? (Score:3)
It's certainly not proof, but I know a great number of left-of-republican programmers and IT staff in general. I know none with views aligned with the republican party or anything more right than than.
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Huh? So you think that incredibly botched rollout of the Healthcare.gov site under Obama was due to a bunch of right-wingers who coded the whole thing?
That comment is ridiculous. There's no reason people code better just because their political affiliation leans to the Left.
This is how they think though. There can be no legitimate disagreements with them; you must be an evil racist or a idiot if you don't march lockstep with them.
Re: incompetence in programming? (Score:4, Insightful)
Huh? So you think that incredibly botched rollout of the Healthcare.gov site under Obama was due to a bunch of right-wingers who coded the whole thing?
No, I think a company made of non-partisan programmers (with some politically connected sales/management) took on a project with a hard deadline and missed it. Hardly the first time that's happened.
That comment is ridiculous. There's no reason people code better just because their political affiliation leans to the Left.
The Healthcare.gov comparison is ridiculous. But as to the broader point it's not that political affiliation affects coding ability, but that the most prominent conservative organizations have been overtaken by the far right and are increasingly incompetent and unhinged to the extent they can't attract talent.
Trump's legal team was a joke, Fox New's leading commentator is a barely closeted bigot [thehill.com] and racist [cnn.com], the NRA is collapsing in corruption and assisting foreign intelligence agencies [wikipedia.org].
And yeah, the MyPillow CEO is another joke who got elevated by Trump.
Now consider who's actually going to work at one of these organizations? Not only are they probably toxic workplaces due to all the political BS, but the organizations themselves are so toxic that you might want to leave them off your resume if you want to work at anything but heavily conservative firms in the future.
I think Bernie Sanders and AOC are a bit nutty, but I wouldn't turn down a coding job at a PAC supporting one of them, nor would I be ashamed to work for one. But if someone came to me with a resume showing they'd just worked for the MyPillow guy I'd turn and run, not because I don't like their politics, but because I don't trust their judgment working for him and I'd worry they'd be an HR lawsuit waiting to happen.
Navy Seals don't make websites. (Score:5, Funny)
This is the "Spite Site" from Curb your Enthusiasm (Score:5, Insightful)
All these "conservative" social media sites are quite similar. When you open a business out of spite, folly will ensue. Running a scalable site is hard...really hard. It takes devotion to your craft and years of experience to rival Twitter or Facebook, even for a user base a mere 1% of their size. People with those skills are usually pretty intelligent and no intelligent person would turn down Twitter, Facebook, Google, or even just a major tech company to go work for a startup for Mike Lindell or Peter Thiel or whichever nutsack says..."Hmmm, let me open up a business...it'll be just like $someSocialMediaSite but for 'people like me.'"
If you're good enough to make "FRANK" scale, you're good enough to get hired by a tech giant for a huge salary. Look folks, I know many of you are upset at Twitter or Facebook for some reason. I personally don't get it. As long as you don't post fake election fraud posts or get linked to violent domestic terrorism, they seem to let all sorts of vile shit fly...maybe you fear they'll get stricter in the future and you'll be next, but I know a lot of terrible people who say a lot of terrible things on these sites...really some vile racist shit in the name of not being politically correct and they seem to have no problem expressing their views....so not sure what the fuss is, but that is neither here nor there. Ignoring politics for a moment...
Any politically motivated alternative to a tech company is going to suck. They're the "spite stores" from Curb your Enthusiasm. They're run as side projects by egomaniacs with more dollars than sense, like Mike Lindell. They don't personally know how to run a tech business and NO ONE who knows what they're doing will work for them. If you give them your info, it will get stolen...not by ANTIFA, but by some rando in Asia who knows how to craft a basic SQL injection attack. These people are clueless with technology and not willing to pay to hire someone who knows what they're doing...if they can even find someone who wants to be hired to build "the next Twitter, only with more hate crime."
Really smart people are neither liberal nor conservative. I know you "conservatives" think anyone who doesn't buy into your unsubstantiated bullshit about election fraud or whatever crap Trump said is "liberal," but we're not. We see through the bullshit. We don't have a high opinion of the green new deal and will tell a real liberal to shove their entire drum circle up their ass. I know many geniuses and they're kind of above the whole Democrat vs Republican thing. You either are good for their bottom line or you're not.
So...anyone who knows what they're doing who will work for you is either really really blinded by ideology, which most techies aren't....or somehow you're in their bottom line interest, which you aren't...because you don't pay better than Google and you have no future. Your business plan is SHIT whenever it can be summarized as "like $x but without $y" Few businesses have ever succeeded by making a carbon copy of one business but REMOVING a single feature (in this case, moderation?). Everyone in the industry knows this. I wouldn't work for an AOC-backed social media site for hippy dipshits either. I value my career and paying my mortgage a lot more than I value anyone's stupid political ideology. Feeding my family is far more important than some idiot's political fight. Parler, Gab, FRANK, they're all run by idiots who will and have gotten your data stolen. Smart engineers, even those who may share your views, would never risk their careers for those amateur operations. I'd avoid those sites like the plague, just from a data safety perspective.
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I don't know. If you're only interested in the money you could [paypal.com] do [facebook.com] worse [palantir.com] than a Thiel startup.
Meanwhile, your "bothsidesism" sucks. Yes, you are so uniquely smart. Both sides suck. Trumptards and liberals are equally stupid. Meanwhile, the only people I've ever heard that oppose the green new deal got summaries of it off Fox News. Just admit you are a non-Trump Republican.
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I know many geniuses and they're kind of above the whole Democrat vs Republican thing. You either are good for their bottom line or you're not.
Not following this one. Please elaborate.
Re:This is the "Spite Site" from Curb your Enthusi (Score:4, Informative)
Larry David had a genius last season when he opened a "spite store" in Curb your Enthusiasm. He decided he wanted to spite a local business and open up a coffee store right next to it. Needless to say, since it was a comedy, his store failed catastrophically because he had no clue what he was doing.
Here's a better example, ripped from recent headlilnes:
David Hogg launching pillow company to 'put MyPillow out of business' [nbcnews.com]
David Hogg drops out of ‘progressive pillow company’ he started to compete with MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell [msn.com]
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What conservatives really want (Score:5, Insightful)
will not allow swearing, or the use of 'god's name in vain'
It's funny how there's so much support from Slashdot nerds for the Republicans, forgetting that they're the party of Christianity and would take away actually important free speech like swearing and blasphemy, and not to mention ultimately banning Darwin, divorce and freedom of belief and association.
Strawman "wokeness" has nothing compared to what conservatives really want to do with censorship and controlling people's lives. How easily Slashdot alt-right nerds forget that.
I like to think that most of these (Score:5, Insightful)
My experience is they fall into two categories. First, racists. About 15% of the population is racist, if polls and research can be believed. The GOP welcomes them.
Second, folks who never grew out of teenage angst where you don't like being told what to do. Republicans do a great job of marketing to these types. The narrative of personal responsibility and small gov't fits in well with this type.
That said, I really don't think they're the majority. The majority leans left, but are scared of losing what they have, making them act (i.e. vote) conservative but think liberal.
That's the trick, keep us all on the edge of poverty so we're forever at each other's throats. How else could 1% of the population hoard 50% of the wealth?
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Second, folks who never grew out of teenage angst where you don't like being told what to do. Republicans do a great job of marketing to these types.
Um, seriously? This from the party of "a boy can become a girl just by wishing it"?
You need to read up on brain chemistry (Score:3)
Trans people have genitalia that doesn't match their brain structure. That's what's meant by Gender Dysphoria. It's a well documented medical condition, with the only debate being what we do about it. The left want to accommodate people with the issue as much as possible, the right wing, largely on the basis of a specific and narr
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Never mind the bathroom bills, the Arkansas anti-trans law, the Florida genital checks, all from the party of "I just want to government to stay out of my business"
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That's the trick, keep us all on the edge of poverty so we're forever at each other's throats. How else could 1% of the population hoard 50% of the wealth?
You mean the vastly wealthy tech company CEOs, all of whom colluded with the Democrats and "meddled" with the election?
See, this is exactly what I'm talking about (Score:2)
All 3 are functionally identical, but we can work on improving our society to eliminate the latter 2.
Re:I like to think that most of these (Score:4, Insightful)
Did you read your link? It was mostly credible critiques of math education wrapped up in a worksheet about how this is better for minority students. Although about 1/2 the time when saying that it legitimately meant minority and half the time it meant poor.
It said, basically - 1) Try to figure out why students/parents might not fit your typical ideas of a good student/parent (maybe they don't have free time to help with homework or electricity at home). 2) Don't focus so much on exclusively giving credit to European make mathematicians, point out that great mathematicians come from everywhere and use both bathrooms. The example there is the Pythagorean theorem which was invented in Mesopotamia, Egypt, India and China before it Pythagoras was born. 2a) Make sure students, especially minority students, learn about possible STEM careers for their future. 3) Recognize that there are multiple ways to solve a math problem, and that multiple ways are valid.
I only skimmed through about 2/3 of it (which is easy because, as a workbook, like 2/3 of the pages are "fill me out") but other than being poorly written and claiming to be about social justice, it seems mostly like a valid critique of poor math education.
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will not allow swearing, or the use of 'god's name in vain'
It's funny how there's so much support from Slashdot nerds for the Republicans, forgetting that they're the party of Christianity and would take away actually important free speech like swearing and blasphemy, and not to mention ultimately banning Darwin, divorce and freedom of belief and association. Strawman "wokeness" has nothing compared to what conservatives really want to do with censorship and controlling people's lives. How easily Slashdot alt-right nerds forget that.
It's not a strawman who de-platforms people. It's not a strawman who falsely accuses people of racism. It's not a strawman who can't tolerate any dissent, gets you fired, sends mobs to your house, etc. It's not a strawman who literally invents a murder and propagandizes the hell out of it, even using it for a charge in impeachment trial of the week #32 or whatever, ignoring the family of the "victim" who says the guy died from natural causes long after the event. I could go on ... and on ... and on ...
We're not trying to destroy right-wing sites (Score:3)
...we're trying to mock them. Did you see anyone call for prohibiting this MyPillow site?
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I think we call this "confession by projection".
Funny, because that's exactly what I'd call your entire comment.
Note that in the context of this one story, it isn't a strawman. Lindell is explicitly trying to make a site where people are expected to behave according to his standards. But, no one is expecting you to use his site.
Irrelevant. I'm saying it shows us what they'd really want if they get even more power.
Can you name a single censorship movement from your own lifetime that came from the right?
I just named them - the Christians. What, you think they're done? Creationism is still being actively pushed in schools, and they're desperately trying to limit all sorts of information that reaches their "flock" by trying to suppress it on a large scale outside of their churches.
The logical conclusion is that the left was never in favor of free speech as an ideal, they just used it as a cudgel to get what they really wanted all along: power.
Republicans have been doing exactly that. They pander to you free-speech slogane
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I just named them - the Christians
That's a pretty broad brush you're wielding there, and your statement has about as much validity as saying that all Muslims are in favor of terrorism to achieve their goals.
Re:What conservatives really want (Score:5, Insightful)
Yes, they stamp out speech whenever that speech oppresses others [wikipedia.org] and takes away their free speech.
Do you mean like when Trump banned dozens of reporters from the White House for asking tough questions?
Which side do you think videogame bans originate from?
Who do you think purged years of climate change research from government web sites during Trump's term, and even banned the term "climate change"? [theguardian.com]
So are you joking, or do you just have a really really bad memory?
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Video game bans came from the left as much as the right. Tipper Gore was at the forefront in the 80s and 90s. Same with "explicit" albums.
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So learn history then: in 2007 Gov Schwarzenegger appealed the overturning of the rule and in 2009 he appealed again to keep the rule in place. Sounds to me that he backed the law.
But as I wrote in my first post, that the law was passed by Gov Schwarzenegger was just a small fyi since there never was a ban, it was only an age restriction on sales.
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Can an arms trafficker honestly be called a liberal?
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Dr. Seuss?
Can you point to a study on if Dr. Seuss's publisher is right or left? I don't know the company honestly but I do know that if you think the Democrats or the government had anything to do with it, or if you think Dr Seuss is "banned", then my friend you're are a truly gullible idiot and really need to turn off Fox News.
I pulled a project off Github that was stale and never had any hits early last year. Clearly this was the republicans censoring you. Why didn't you fight back against your "oppressors" then?
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Mike Lindell's site claims to be "The Home of Free Speech" but you aren't allowed to take the lords name in vain. I'll bet you'd get banned pretty quickly for saying you support two men getting married. He's as full of shit as Ted Cruz when he blamed his Mexican vacation on his daughters.
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He's as full of shit as Ted Cruz when he blamed his Mexican vacation on his daughters.
You mean Rafael Edward Cruz.
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There is no mass support for censorship on the right., and there hasn't been for decades. Can you name a single censorship movement from your own lifetime that came from the right?
In the 1950s and 1960s, the left pretended to be in favor of free speech so that they could spread Marxism on college campuses. That worked because fundamentally, the right was uneasy with the censorship that existed at the time. (Note that my analysis starts in the 1950s - I don't know enough about prior generations to understand their politics, so I don't know if the censorship that existed at the dawn of the 1950s came from the left or the right. I do know that whoever supported it in the 1930s and 1940s have been dead for a long time now.)
A couple of examples:
Sen. Joe McCarthy would like to have a word with you.
Banning books, or at least attempting to, because they are "bad" has been around for a long time, and if yo look at the lists they expose ideas the right thinks should be silenced. Not in this example reasons given for wanting to ban the books falls in with right wing ideology. ALA Banned book list [ala.org]
That doesn't mean the left is also guility of censorship, but the right certainly practices it as well; or as Nate Hentoff put it "Free
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I would agree with you but then we'd both be wrong.
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Perhaps you should ask god why he allowed Stalin and Mao to do what they did? Sounds like he's just as bad.
Acquia Certified Drupal Grand Master ?? (Score:2, Interesting)
So this guy passed an exam, and that makes him an expert of some sort?
In the real world, if you need a certificate to prove you know what you're doing, you are "proving" your knowledge to the wrong people.
Re:Acquia Certified Drupal Grand Master ?? (Score:4, Informative)
So this guy passed an exam, and that makes him an expert of some sort?
Sure, I guess that's what you read from the summary. Nothing about the fact that he has been in the industry for most of his life, owns a firm which specialises in Drupal. You only read certification and tuned out.
I think Slashdot editors need to remember that the typical slashdot reader these days doesn't have the attention span to read more than one sentence in TFS.
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Actually, I read the page the certification link led to. Owning a firm that gives people certifications with names like "Grand Master" is clearly selling something. Maybe the guy has been doing Drupal for a long time, perhaps the summary should have listed that, but the certification itself means nothing.
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Yes. (Score:2)
That is literally what the word means, demonstrating skill in or knowledge
https://www.thefreedictionary.... [thefreedictionary.com]
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I know some people who needed certifications not for their boss, but for CYA from HR or their clients. Legal/regulatory/procedural hoops around certifications are there to ensure a skill floor, not to show that someone is a good hire.
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You mean, good luck finding a tech job without a certification, from an employer that doesn't know how to identify actual skills. I've been in software development for 32 years, I've never had nor needed a certification, other than my college degree. And when I've hired people who prominently listed certifications on their resume, I quickly learned that they didn't actually know how to code, they just knew how to pass a test.
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jhylkema's lament (Score:2)
The people who do this kind of awful work have full-time, good-paying jobs with benefits.
(Curls up into the foetal position on the floor and cries)
The guy can't even make pillows (Score:4, Informative)
His pillows are seriously uncomfortable and sub-standard. His TV ads are hyper-targetted at old, poor, rural, uneducated white people:
1. the "factory floor" where sacks are pumped full of his "patented fill"
2. the entirely white "workforce" and example "customers"
3. the conspicuous cross around his neck
4. the 1950s time-warp jingle
5. the deceptive "special" offers
The severe reactionary nature of his ads may make his customers feel the comfort of reactionary nostalgia, but his pillows won't give them any comfort, unless they were laying their heads down on gravel before.
Why is it a surprise his website would be rubbish? (And why hasn't he been arrested for treason yet?)
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The right wing has become a circular firing squad of con artists looking to cash out on boomers who are so afraid of losing the wealth they have hoarded they will give it just about any huckster who promises to "own the libs".
The upside of PHP is its downside. And vice-versa. (Score:2)
Any n00b can get productive in 10 Minutes. When it comes to server side web development, PHP gets the job done in record time, there is no two ways about that. The flip side is anyone can feel as if they know what they're doing even though they absolutely positively don't have the faintest clue. Using Drupal as a platform for a larger social media service is questionable at best and even then you have to be prepared to strip everything down to pure accelerated PHP once the prototype phase is over. You migh
Say it isn't so! (Score:2)
The last link is the best (Score:2)
Further, Mr Lindell added: “You don’t get to use the c-word, the f-word, the n-word, or god’s name in vain free speech is not pornography. Free speech is not ‘I’m going to kill you’. It’s very well-defined in our mission statement.”
Well, there goes Trump's account.
pillow guy - fountain of brilliance (Score:2)
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What intellectual standing does a pillow salesman have, to launch a platform for discussion about - supposedly - intellectual topics? OMG
You equate "platform" with "content" - Do people join Facebook to follow the musings of Mark Zuckerberg or join Twitter to bask in the brilliance of Jack Dorsey? No. The provide a platform that relies on strangers to generate compelling content (cat videos, political mems, family photos, etc.).
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Ha ha! (Score:2)
People deprived of service (due to their beliefs) by a cartel of professionals had to use amateurs, ha ha, what maroons!
Now we can finally get back to focusing on "unity".
Blame the libtards (Score:2)
No doubt he will follow the standard practice of pointing the finger of blame at others, just like he did with the libtards.
Drupal dev not as smart as he thinks (Score:3)
Bundling assets is something you had to do a decade ago. Now we have HTTP 2. Bundling your assets can lead to worse performance than straight HTTP 2 if you're not very careful about where your bundles split. If you end up with two bundles sharing code, you're sending the client the files twice. Standard HTTP 2 already handles this efficiently.
The mistake was using Drupal (Score:3)
Frank? (Score:2)
In terms of website roll-outs... (Score:2)
This roll-out was profoundly more successful than the Federal Government's roll-out of the Federal Health Exchange, and cost several billion dollars less.
Re:Guess he got fucked in the ass (Score:5, Funny)
But Lindell hires the best people and makes the best deals, and this was a really terrific deal, believe me! Top results with a bottom dollar, saved tons, everyone says so! I know sites, I invented Al Gore! Millions, no Billions with a bigly B will come to our grand site; it's the 9th Wonder of the World! [fastcompany.com] #MDGA!
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Yup exactly just like Trump. I mean Trump after all had to admit his incompetency in hiring when he had to fire many of his own top hires -- like John Bolton (an admitted clown, whose best achievement was singing "when a man loves a woman"), or Rex Tillerson (whose life highlight was starring in the movie "My Fair Lady".) Remember when Trump called Bush an idiot for choosing John Roberts, well his own Supreme Court nominees voted against him. So what about competence in other areas? Fail there too. He got
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Re:Guess he got fucked in the ass (Score:4, Insightful)
It's a good Trump impression, but this topic is only peripherally related to Trump. I think you would have done better to imitate Lindell for the joke to land properly.
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Re:Yeah, we get it. You hate Trump supporters. (Score:4, Interesting)
Probably because they are all cowards who hide behind their mommies. I mean, Trump supporters should be proud white supremacists and not click post anonymously because they live in fear of being outed.
I was a white supremist until I got some Asian friends.
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Familiarity is the best cure for white supremacy.
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I was a white supremist until I got some Asian friends.
Those crafty asians can turn even the best of us into a weeb :-)
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Probably because they are all cowards who hide behind their mommies. I mean, Trump supporters should be proud white supremacists and not click post anonymously because they live in fear of being outed.
I was a white supremist until I got some Asian friends.
Statistically, nobody is a "white supremacist". It's like congratulating yourself on not being Emmanuel Goldstein [wikipedia.org].
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Probably because they are all cowards who hide behind their mommies. I mean, Trump supporters should be proud white supremacists and not click post anonymously because they live in fear of being outed.
Believing that everyone who disagrees with you is a "white supremacist" is insane. I mean that literally. There is mass hysteria going on. Mass insanity.
There is a vanishingly small number of "white supremacists" in existence. Pretending that they influence anything or that they are your real opponents is as silly as railing against Emmanuel Goldstein [wikipedia.org].
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Re: Yeah, we get it. You hate Trump supporters. (Score:5, Interesting)
I mean Hillary really? She had little chance of winning and only got the number of votes she did because people a larger number of people hate her more than they hate trump.
What? If a larger number of people hated Hillary more than Trump then why did Hilary win the popular vote [nytimes.com] [65,853,625 votes (48.0%) for Hillary vs 62,985,106 votes (45.9%) for Trump]?
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Hillary screwed up the electoral calculus. She assumed certain states were surefire wins that turned out to not be. She also underestimated how many people disliked her and would rather stay home and not vote. Her ego was nearly as big as Trump's (of course, you can't be in politics without an ego, but some take it too far).
Re: Yeah, we get it. You hate Trump supporters. (Score:5, Insightful)
Nixon had his Southern Strategy, which was collecting the former White Democrats who felt threatened by the American Declaration of Independence declaring all men were created equal.
The Republicans continued cultivating the stupid with Reagan. They bought his Morning in America and then pointed to the economy...the economy he got going with deficit spending. They continued on campaigning against government, screwing up government any way they could. Then they campaigned on government doesn't work.
After Reagan came Bush Sr. and the Willie Horton ads, which his campaign manager Lee Atwater eventually apologized for after he was diagnosed with terminal cancer.
After Bush Sr. came Bush Jr. who was handed a growing economy and a shrinking deficit with budget surpluses "as far as the eye can see". Apparently that wasn't very far after the tax giveaways. Then his administration took their eyes off the ball and handed the American people the Great Recession because they believed in "small government" which basically meant not regulating the banks who merrily sold everything not tied down and everything they could uproot.
After that came the former alleged president who thought injecting bleach was a viable option and thought the Covid virus was a Chinese plant to make him look bad. He lost track of that lie and started blaming the Democrats for it. It will magically disappear, he knowingly said. And Republicans continued to believe him. Then he took credit for the vaccine which only arrived because Feds had continued to fund vaccine research even as they tried to cut science research. Some foresight: gee we have a virus on the loose. . . I know, let's get the drug companies to develop a vaccine. . . I'm a fucking stable genius. He denied a free and fair election and convinced his voters to believe it as well, as he promulgated his next scam of Stop the Steal. He raked in the gulliables' cash not unlike one of the Prosperity Preachers. He had one, Paula White, as his "spiritual leader".
Now the Republicans are campaigning on Replacement Theory where Democrats are supposedly encouraging immigration to collect immigrant votes. If the Republicans succeed, they'll look forward to having their Social Security and Medicare cut because there won't be enough White Folk to pay for them since White Folk are screwing the way they used to.
The Republicans were never the bright sparks on the tree.
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You never did answer how a virgin can have a lover.
Ask Joseph.
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You never did answer how a virgin can have a lover.
Ask Joseph.
Joseph had a wife...
And as many married men could tell you, these are not necessarily one and the same.
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They dont get that the real world demands real work done by real professional, and not bullshit. You cant bullshit a computer.
In this case they probably hired on the basis of ideological purity rather than expertise.
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