Over my years of experience, this issue isn't with the skill of the Indians, but the culture of India. You take this person, ship them to America have them work in an American office, and get paid a competitive rate that the others in that office for that job, within a few weeks they are as productive as any other employee.
But the work culture in India, and even with the price parity difference they are getting paid less, and are really expected to do less. So they will do exactly what is told to them, without putting in any context on what they are doing.
Working with a developer in India, I had asked them to make a function that will take any random person in the database, and give me their info back. My mistake was using the random person vs. telling them, to use the person_id value as a parameter.
So after a few days, I went back to check on his status, as this should had only taken a day. And he was still trying to figure out how to load random people from the database. So I was annoyed in three areas. 1. They didn't bother thinking for the reason of the feature I was asking for, and comprehended I wanted a parameter. 2. It took them so long to figure out how to pull a Random patient from the database (that would be an easy thing to do) 3. They never communicated with me that they had a problem.
If they were in the office with me, they would see that our team was open to helping others in the team, and there was a lot of discussion back and forth on the specs given to make sure goals were clear, and while I was the boss (Lead Architect), my word wasn't final, especially if what I said wasn't clear to them, and I was open to discussions and sometimes bigger changes.
Reporting false information to the SEC is really a bad idea. And such fraud if not found out immediately will be reflected in the future. For example what was common back in the 1990's was a company who as near at finishing a sale that was near certain, Would put the product on the truck and count it as a sale for the day before they have to report their revenue. This was all fine and good, until the tech bubble popped, and a lot of these sales didn't go threw. So they needed to record an inflated loss the next quarter. And if caught, doing this a lot of bad legal problem will occur.
Facebook is an advertising company. There is a ton of add revenue for all the Facebook people to post that they are quitting Facebook.
I don't think a lot of people really knows what it means to boycott something. Boycotting something actually puts you in a disadvantage to prove your point. I have heard people say they are boycotting whatever, 80% are boycotting something they wouldn't get anyways. "I will boycott Roles Royce, because ummm they are the car of the wealthy who do not pay their taxes". then 10% will boycott something until they don't. "I boycott all internet ads, except for the ones selling products I want to buy". 5% say they are boycotting something just because they don't want the product. "I am boycotting all Apple Products.... I am a Samsung fan, and I have never bought an Apple produce and never will" Only leaving a small percentage of people boycotting something for a cause, and their boycott will actually harm the business because it was actually lost business.
Unless a Scandal has a long term effect on its customer base, its stock will be high, no matter how bad they are.
Apple stock rose yesterday too. Also their earnings were less then what was expected, they were better then what the investor feared. So the stock went up.
Oddly enough this is how I am rating world affairs, things are worse today then I expected them to be years ago, however it is better then my worse fears on what could go wrong. But for some reason I am not happy about it.
Americans no matter their political leaning, really don't like the idea of legal suits over small and silly things, where the lawyer then exaggerates the amount of suffering caused. Often shown on TV with the "victim" in a neck brace trope.
Accidents occur and people get hurt. But the line between frivolous vs necessary legal action is needed. You go to a restaurant, and you get ill the next day, and sue the restaurant, that is frivolous, if you go to the restaurant and dozens of folks get ill the next day, then there is a problem.
Suing for the quick money grab, will often hinder a businesses ability to do good things, because they have to walk on eggshells and be sure not to break the rules. You may notice this effect if you are at a hospital, and the x-ray tech will not comment if you arm is broken or not, but you wait a half an hour and the doctor walks in glances at the X-Ray and says yep its broken. The reason for this, isn't because the doctor will get paid more for doing this, but because if the tech explains this to a patient, then they are doing a diagnosis that they are not qualified to do. And if the patient does something stupid from that initial diagnosis from the unqualified individual, then the hospital is legally responsible for this.
From a previous Slashdot article. Apple knew about it for about a week. before they closed down the service. A week seems like a long time, for us who work in small development shops, but for a company the size of Apple, a Week to decide to turn off the feature is indeed a rapid response to a problem. Being that they have millions of users, doing things willy-nilly just isn't good policy.
Lawyers, like Medical Doctors, Engineers and Computer Programmers, seem to think because they are an expert in their field, they are an expert in all things, which is false, but then they start doing stupid things and not listening to the experts in such fields.
Who in their right mind would use any internet service especially any one that isn't peer to peer for dealing with critical and sensitive. Apple is in the Business to Consumer market. and Facetime group chats are Consumer to Consumer communicated with each other. If you are in Legal, Healthcare, Defense, or any other sector that requires high levels of security. You better be sure you are working with a vendor who will setup your own contract and personally deal with your security concerns, and not just the basic EULA that you hit OK because you want your multi-hundred dollar product to work out of the box.
Maybe a little. Someone who has immune system problem is sick a lot, so would probably like to have a cat as company. Such cat may have the parasite, and then the person get schizophrenia and inhibits a lot of the "Crazy" like symptoms.
The biggest thing that needs to be done is stopping Caller ID Spoofing. If you have a legitimate reason to spoof your caller ID, say your a doctors office, and your automated appointment reminder call should seem like it is from your doctors office, and the number would bring you to the receptionist desk. Then the company would need to register that change with their telecom, and have them make sure the return number will go to a valid return number for that company.
I think having the Robo-callers forced to deal with call backs of angry people would make it more expensive for them to operate, and insure that it isn't just some get quick rich scheme.
So your counter action of me calling out An Anonymous Coward post as being a partisan political talking head, is then attacking me for being a partisan talking head for the other side.
I never said "ALL" I was targeting the Anonymous Coward post. But I have experience people who seem to be going off changes to what ever crazy thing that doesn't really negatively effect anyone, for the most part the reason is because some conservative talk show host decided to rant about it.
I have no problem with such delivery services and refund and recycling services. The key reason why glass delivery of milk was phased out, was mostly due to problems with cleaning the glass bottles safely (my father was in the Milk industry for many decades), People would be using these glass bottles to hold gasoline, and other chemicals, which may not be able to safely washed with the standard methods. It is actually safer to recycle the products by melting them down and reforming them again, then washing and reusing them.
Not all republicans and not all democrats fit the stereotypes on what they are suppose to be. But the key point is people with political leanings needs to recognize their rage, on if it is actually something important, or just something someone told you was important, and that you woulsn't have cared otherwise.
I myself is actually rather politically moderate, I often have equal amount of people calling me Liberal and Conservative. But I strongly hate it when people start going on some rant over a small things.
Most of them are from home made robotics enthusiast, not a commercial for sell product. The biggest hurtle I see is legal vs technological. What happens if this mower mows over your cat, your dogs tail, or your kids favorite toy. Now a company like iRobot we would hope would have enough safety features to prevent harm, and if they did they would have insurance to help compensate for your damage.
Now if I had one of these things, I would not try to push its safety features to its limits (bring in the pets, make sure the lawn is clear of stuff), but there are a lot of stupid people out there.
The problem is the lack of easy recycling options for electronics and batteries. So people will toss them in the trash and figure no one will notice. My community has a Single Stream Recycling, granted it isn't as good as separating your products by plastic, glass and paper. And about 2/3 of what I put in the recycle bin, gets put into a landfill anyways. But I am recycling 3 times as much product, so the overall benefit of what is being recycled is much higher.
To improve the environment we need to make things easy, because the lazy way will often win.
Plastic straws have a replacement of wax paper straws.
Being that plastic straws advantages over paper really do not counteract their overall disadvantages. Why do you think there should be so much outrage from banning a hazardous product, when there is an overall useful alternative.
Or was there some conservative talk show host, who wanted you to get angry about something really minor and wouldn't really affect your live in any noticeable way.
I expect you just hate Apple because they are Apple. However, this is a case where this Enterprise Developer Program which was given to trusted sources, and I expect were told to play by the rules, with their elevated rights and freedom, which Facebook abused.
It is like you welcomed a friend into you home. They are allowed to get some food out of the fridge if they were hungry or thirsty. They took the dessert you had made for after dinner, and it was rather obvious that was its intent. So this person abused the privilege they were granted, and you have the right to kick them out of your house or not invite them back in again.
From Star Trek VI: Let us redefine progress to mean that just because we can do a thing, it does not necessarily mean we must do that thing.
As display technology improves the less we need to use everything it can offer, and because the technology is so common place there is no need to show it off.
Early Video games and applications really tried to push the capabilities of the display technology of the time. Which first consisted of two subgroups of upgrades. 1. High Resolution displays (that had a goal of a clean 80 column display) 2. More color display, lower resolution but more colors.
The High Resolution monitors were usually monochrome (as Color bleeding was a problem, making text blurry and hard to read), with tall rectangular pixels because the text needed to be more narrow.
Color displays for the longest time on PC supported all their colors with a low resolution 320x200 screen. Now these color applications from the 1980's - around the late 1990's really tried to use everything the display could handle. If you game used EGA graphics (or less common composite CGA), all 16 of these colors will need to be used. there we see a lot of 3d ish buttons because you had white, gray and dark gray. and two shades of Blue,Green, Cyan, Red, Magenta and Yellow(brown). Apps of the early 90's especially were very colorful. With VGA displays 256 colors games were excessively colorful. Primary just to show off the graphics. Around the mid-late 90's with the introduction of the high resolution SVGA displays We started seeing a more subdued approach to graphics design.
Now the SVGA 1024x768 was a long time standard, and higher resolutions just meant a bigger monitor. We have been on the around 70dpi displays for about 20 years, and they are still popular today. Now this is rather good resolution. However we are getting 4k displays, even on small devices like phones.
These now called ultra high resolution displays allow for very crisp easy to to read smaller text to be displayed on the screen. Giving more space for white space to show a separation vs. using a hard line or change of color to compensate with an unnatural small margin area. The OLED displays with near true black and bright white, really makes the smaller text pop and become more easy to read then before, so that allows for all the white space more easier to read and for people to comprehend the layout.
The thing is we need responsible adults in charge of nuclear power. But because of the political visibility of it we have elected politicians putting their hand in it. So instead of these power sources being controlled and managed by experts and people with in depth knowledge of the risks and advantages, with careful planning and solid execution. There is someone at the top who won a popularity contest, often because they are either the best spoken, or relates well with the common man. Not because they are a smart humble public servant, who is looking out for the well fair of their constituents over their next election cycle.
In Americas two party system both parties are bad for nuclear power. The Republicans, want to spend less money, forcing Nuclear power company to cut corners. Which normally goes into safety first, then will then go into reliability. They will stand up and support Nuclear power, but try to cut out expenses that are needed for a long term success, and regulations to make sure things are being safe. The Democrats, generally want to stop nuclear power. So they will not go out of their ways to make such companies succeed. They will be more apt to shutdown a power plant then spend millions of dollars for needed upgrades, even if shutting it down will cost twice as much.
Then we have the political parties swapping back and forth regaining and loosing power. Which is forcing an industry that really needs a long term consistent plan, spanning multiple generations, to be hit with rapidly changing methods and rules. It is like bending a wire back and forth, after a while it will snap.
This is one aspect of "Modern Languages" which I hate. npm, cargo, pip... These package managers for additional libraries are really a step back. I like to avoid 3rd party libraries as much as possible, because they become a weak part in the long term support of your application.
When developing, especially if the language is new to you, trying different variants to see which library works best for you means you may have 2 or 3 libraries that do the same thing installed, and if you are not doing proper documentation, you may forget which ones you need to run when deploying. Secondly some of these are not long term supported, so after a couple of years, you have to use a different libary and need to re-code portions of your application.
I much rather have a language with a large default set of libraries that covers most of the tasks at hand. Database connections, file i/o, secure ftp, ssh, https... then trying to hunt and peck and find 3 ssh libraries, where 2 of them just doesn't jive to my way of thinking about it, and the 3rd one hasn't been touched in 2 years.
Your favorite or best language rarely ever makes it to the top of the list. For the primary reason that your favorite is often most closely connected to how you want to work, which is suggestive. The winning languages tend to be mediocre but doesn't completely suck. If you have to code with other developers the choice of language is a compromise with the other developers on your team. So no one gets what they want but they get with what they live with.
Being most schools teach their Computer Science classes with Java for about 20 years now, it makes sense that Java has been #1 for a while.
Java is not my favorite language and I really do not like it that much. However as an Application Architect when given a task to design an enterprise level application. I really need to fall back to recommend Java J2EE for its design. For the following reasons.
1. Platform Independence, with.NET you are stuck with a Microsoft Server back end, which isn't horrible, however a Linux servers don't have the big license cost, and can be configured to give far more resources to my App. And if we need Windows servers, it will still work. 2. Developer base, we can always find developers who can code in Java, and if an employee leaves the turn over pain is lessen. 3. General Industry support, Unlike Python or Node.JS where you normally write you web server as part of your program, J2EE works off well supported Application Servers such as Tomcat or Glassfish. Where having to reinvent a lot of communication protocol isn't needed, and we can find Administrators who can deal with such systems. 4. It is easier on your marketing team. Java is the safe bet that will not get you into a holy war. 5. It has most of the modern features implemented. So unlike Node.JS where I hit my head into a wall when I find out it isn't multi-threaded, and I needed the App to ramp up, or needing a driver to connect to the database I don't need to go and install a third party add-in. Making installing and deploying after many years easier.
Now that said, I don't care for coding in Java that much, I actually prefer python myself. However if given a task such as an enterprise solution I will normally fall to Java, or.NET if it is a strictly Windows Shop.
Javascript, being #1 now doesn't surprise me at all. First off Node.JS is becoming rather popular so you are coding your server side in JS. And for nearly all Web Based (and many mobile apps that are web based as well) will use Javascript for the front end, then you have your pick what to do in the back end. It is much like how the more popular political party will loose the election because of a 3rd party candidate. The competition may hurt your overall rankings.
Where is the line between a valid political belief, and just fear mongering, portraying falsehoods, trying to scam people out of the money and property?
Congratulations! For nitpicking and pointing out that I suffer from dyslexia. And discrediting the points I have made, because of such disability.
When writing my Masters Thesis, I needed to spend extra weeks reviewing the spelling and correct word use, and needed others to review it, because of it. Now to make a point on Slashdot, I have 5 minutes to express my idea. And sometimes spelling will get lost, especially using a GNU spell checker.
Reading and Writing to the file system always seems like a good idea to the Web App Developer, because their Web App can do everything a normal App can... However this is the same problem that opened the door in the early 2000's with Microsoft Active X technology and automatic plugins. Active X was meant to compete against Java Applets. With two key benefits, they ran faster, because they were just an executable binary that ran in a browser (or other application) window, and it could write to the file system.
Sun Microsystems wanted Java to be platform independent (so they can sell more Sun Workstations) without scaring off those windows users. So interpreting the byte code was slow (especially on the slower late 1990's and early 2000's PCs) and not writing to the file system, was a conscious decision because they didn't want Java Applets to be the gateway to security problems. (like how Active X became)
Unfortunately Microsoft got some popularity with these Active X, mainly because most people (including Microsoft) thought about Personal Computers in the mindset, of the single process, single user (normally with Admin access), systems of old. Considered security problems to be a matter of a personal attack on your PC, to get into your PC. Not from general attacks and phishing and get what they can get. Your locked down C:\Windows folder was considered more important then you c:\Users\login folder. However after system got hooked up with networking the reverse became true. You home folder needs to be more secure then you system folders, because reinstalling you PC is easy, getting you work data back is hard.
For a corporate environment, you should be happy that you are not stuck on IE. With a bunch of Active X and Sliverlight crap.
But for your case, I wouldn't complain about Mozilla vs Chrome. It is the IT staff, needs to get these pages out quick, and will only test with the supported platform.
If Firefox was a supported platform and chrome wasn't. I expect you would see the Apps work in Firefox, but fail out in chrome.
I haven't ran into many problems with using Firefox to access webpages. But part of IE security issues that hit them back in the early 2000's was part because their HTML engine was forgiving to bad html and javascript.
Developers really need to get off their favorite browser high horse, and think cross platform. If the HTML/JS/CSS works in chrome but fails in Firefox. Perhaps you are not doing something right, and should recheck the standards. Granted Chrome follows the standards better then Firefox. But not by that much that would hinder most websites.
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Over my years of experience, this issue isn't with the skill of the Indians, but the culture of India. You take this person, ship them to America have them work in an American office, and get paid a competitive rate that the others in that office for that job, within a few weeks they are as productive as any other employee.
But the work culture in India, and even with the price parity difference they are getting paid less, and are really expected to do less. So they will do exactly what is told to them, without putting in any context on what they are doing.
Working with a developer in India, I had asked them to make a function that will take any random person in the database, and give me their info back. My mistake was using the random person vs. telling them, to use the person_id value as a parameter.
So after a few days, I went back to check on his status, as this should had only taken a day. And he was still trying to figure out how to load random people from the database. So I was annoyed in three areas.
1. They didn't bother thinking for the reason of the feature I was asking for, and comprehended I wanted a parameter.
2. It took them so long to figure out how to pull a Random patient from the database (that would be an easy thing to do)
3. They never communicated with me that they had a problem.
If they were in the office with me, they would see that our team was open to helping others in the team, and there was a lot of discussion back and forth on the specs given to make sure goals were clear, and while I was the boss (Lead Architect), my word wasn't final, especially if what I said wasn't clear to them, and I was open to discussions and sometimes bigger changes.
Reporting false information to the SEC is really a bad idea. And such fraud if not found out immediately will be reflected in the future.
For example what was common back in the 1990's was a company who as near at finishing a sale that was near certain, Would put the product on the truck and count it as a sale for the day before they have to report their revenue. This was all fine and good, until the tech bubble popped, and a lot of these sales didn't go threw. So they needed to record an inflated loss the next quarter.
And if caught, doing this a lot of bad legal problem will occur.
Facebook is an advertising company. There is a ton of add revenue for all the Facebook people to post that they are quitting Facebook.
I don't think a lot of people really knows what it means to boycott something.
Boycotting something actually puts you in a disadvantage to prove your point.
I have heard people say they are boycotting whatever, 80% are boycotting something they wouldn't get anyways. "I will boycott Roles Royce, because ummm they are the car of the wealthy who do not pay their taxes". then 10% will boycott something until they don't. "I boycott all internet ads, except for the ones selling products I want to buy". 5% say they are boycotting something just because they don't want the product. "I am boycotting all Apple Products.... I am a Samsung fan, and I have never bought an Apple produce and never will"
Only leaving a small percentage of people boycotting something for a cause, and their boycott will actually harm the business because it was actually lost business.
Unless a Scandal has a long term effect on its customer base, its stock will be high, no matter how bad they are.
Apple stock rose yesterday too. Also their earnings were less then what was expected, they were better then what the investor feared. So the stock went up.
Oddly enough this is how I am rating world affairs, things are worse today then I expected them to be years ago, however it is better then my worse fears on what could go wrong. But for some reason I am not happy about it.
Or are you just a pure Apple Hater?
Americans no matter their political leaning, really don't like the idea of legal suits over small and silly things, where the lawyer then exaggerates the amount of suffering caused. Often shown on TV with the "victim" in a neck brace trope.
Accidents occur and people get hurt. But the line between frivolous vs necessary legal action is needed. You go to a restaurant, and you get ill the next day, and sue the restaurant, that is frivolous, if you go to the restaurant and dozens of folks get ill the next day, then there is a problem.
Suing for the quick money grab, will often hinder a businesses ability to do good things, because they have to walk on eggshells and be sure not to break the rules. You may notice this effect if you are at a hospital, and the x-ray tech will not comment if you arm is broken or not, but you wait a half an hour and the doctor walks in glances at the X-Ray and says yep its broken. The reason for this, isn't because the doctor will get paid more for doing this, but because if the tech explains this to a patient, then they are doing a diagnosis that they are not qualified to do. And if the patient does something stupid from that initial diagnosis from the unqualified individual, then the hospital is legally responsible for this.
From a previous Slashdot article. Apple knew about it for about a week. before they closed down the service. A week seems like a long time, for us who work in small development shops, but for a company the size of Apple, a Week to decide to turn off the feature is indeed a rapid response to a problem. Being that they have millions of users, doing things willy-nilly just isn't good policy.
Lawyers, like Medical Doctors, Engineers and Computer Programmers, seem to think because they are an expert in their field, they are an expert in all things, which is false, but then they start doing stupid things and not listening to the experts in such fields.
Who in their right mind would use any internet service especially any one that isn't peer to peer for dealing with critical and sensitive. Apple is in the Business to Consumer market. and Facetime group chats are Consumer to Consumer communicated with each other. If you are in Legal, Healthcare, Defense, or any other sector that requires high levels of security. You better be sure you are working with a vendor who will setup your own contract and personally deal with your security concerns, and not just the basic EULA that you hit OK because you want your multi-hundred dollar product to work out of the box.
Maybe a little.
Someone who has immune system problem is sick a lot, so would probably like to have a cat as company.
Such cat may have the parasite, and then the person get schizophrenia and inhibits a lot of the "Crazy" like symptoms.
The biggest thing that needs to be done is stopping Caller ID Spoofing.
If you have a legitimate reason to spoof your caller ID, say your a doctors office, and your automated appointment reminder call should seem like it is from your doctors office, and the number would bring you to the receptionist desk. Then the company would need to register that change with their telecom, and have them make sure the return number will go to a valid return number for that company.
I think having the Robo-callers forced to deal with call backs of angry people would make it more expensive for them to operate, and insure that it isn't just some get quick rich scheme.
So your counter action of me calling out An Anonymous Coward post as being a partisan political talking head, is then attacking me for being a partisan talking head for the other side.
I never said "ALL" I was targeting the Anonymous Coward post. But I have experience people who seem to be going off changes to what ever crazy thing that doesn't really negatively effect anyone, for the most part the reason is because some conservative talk show host decided to rant about it.
I have no problem with such delivery services and refund and recycling services. The key reason why glass delivery of milk was phased out, was mostly due to problems with cleaning the glass bottles safely (my father was in the Milk industry for many decades), People would be using these glass bottles to hold gasoline, and other chemicals, which may not be able to safely washed with the standard methods. It is actually safer to recycle the products by melting them down and reforming them again, then washing and reusing them.
Not all republicans and not all democrats fit the stereotypes on what they are suppose to be. But the key point is people with political leanings needs to recognize their rage, on if it is actually something important, or just something someone told you was important, and that you woulsn't have cared otherwise.
I myself is actually rather politically moderate, I often have equal amount of people calling me Liberal and Conservative. But I strongly hate it when people start going on some rant over a small things.
Most of them are from home made robotics enthusiast, not a commercial for sell product.
The biggest hurtle I see is legal vs technological. What happens if this mower mows over your cat, your dogs tail, or your kids favorite toy. Now a company like iRobot we would hope would have enough safety features to prevent harm, and if they did they would have insurance to help compensate for your damage.
Now if I had one of these things, I would not try to push its safety features to its limits (bring in the pets, make sure the lawn is clear of stuff), but there are a lot of stupid people out there.
The problem is the lack of easy recycling options for electronics and batteries. So people will toss them in the trash and figure no one will notice.
My community has a Single Stream Recycling, granted it isn't as good as separating your products by plastic, glass and paper. And about 2/3 of what I put in the recycle bin, gets put into a landfill anyways. But I am recycling 3 times as much product, so the overall benefit of what is being recycled is much higher.
To improve the environment we need to make things easy, because the lazy way will often win.
Plastic straws have a replacement of wax paper straws.
Being that plastic straws advantages over paper really do not counteract their overall disadvantages. Why do you think there should be so much outrage from banning a hazardous product, when there is an overall useful alternative.
Or was there some conservative talk show host, who wanted you to get angry about something really minor and wouldn't really affect your live in any noticeable way.
I expect you just hate Apple because they are Apple.
However, this is a case where this Enterprise Developer Program which was given to trusted sources, and I expect were told to play by the rules, with their elevated rights and freedom, which Facebook abused.
It is like you welcomed a friend into you home. They are allowed to get some food out of the fridge if they were hungry or thirsty. They took the dessert you had made for after dinner, and it was rather obvious that was its intent. So this person abused the privilege they were granted, and you have the right to kick them out of your house or not invite them back in again.
From Star Trek VI: Let us redefine progress to mean that just because we can do a thing, it does not necessarily mean we must do that thing.
As display technology improves the less we need to use everything it can offer, and because the technology is so common place there is no need to show it off.
Early Video games and applications really tried to push the capabilities of the display technology of the time. Which first consisted of two subgroups of upgrades.
1. High Resolution displays (that had a goal of a clean 80 column display)
2. More color display, lower resolution but more colors.
The High Resolution monitors were usually monochrome (as Color bleeding was a problem, making text blurry and hard to read), with tall rectangular pixels because the text needed to be more narrow.
Color displays for the longest time on PC supported all their colors with a low resolution 320x200 screen.
Now these color applications from the 1980's - around the late 1990's really tried to use everything the display could handle.
If you game used EGA graphics (or less common composite CGA), all 16 of these colors will need to be used. there we see a lot of 3d ish buttons because you had white, gray and dark gray. and two shades of Blue,Green, Cyan, Red, Magenta and Yellow(brown). Apps of the early 90's especially were very colorful.
With VGA displays 256 colors games were excessively colorful. Primary just to show off the graphics. Around the mid-late 90's with the introduction of the high resolution SVGA displays We started seeing a more subdued approach to graphics design.
Now the SVGA 1024x768 was a long time standard, and higher resolutions just meant a bigger monitor. We have been on the around 70dpi displays for about 20 years, and they are still popular today. Now this is rather good resolution. However we are getting 4k displays, even on small devices like phones.
These now called ultra high resolution displays allow for very crisp easy to to read smaller text to be displayed on the screen. Giving more space for white space to show a separation vs. using a hard line or change of color to compensate with an unnatural small margin area. The OLED displays with near true black and bright white, really makes the smaller text pop and become more easy to read then before, so that allows for all the white space more easier to read and for people to comprehend the layout.
The thing is we need responsible adults in charge of nuclear power. But because of the political visibility of it we have elected politicians putting their hand in it.
So instead of these power sources being controlled and managed by experts and people with in depth knowledge of the risks and advantages, with careful planning and solid execution. There is someone at the top who won a popularity contest, often because they are either the best spoken, or relates well with the common man. Not because they are a smart humble public servant, who is looking out for the well fair of their constituents over their next election cycle.
In Americas two party system both parties are bad for nuclear power.
The Republicans, want to spend less money, forcing Nuclear power company to cut corners. Which normally goes into safety first, then will then go into reliability. They will stand up and support Nuclear power, but try to cut out expenses that are needed for a long term success, and regulations to make sure things are being safe.
The Democrats, generally want to stop nuclear power. So they will not go out of their ways to make such companies succeed. They will be more apt to shutdown a power plant then spend millions of dollars for needed upgrades, even if shutting it down will cost twice as much.
Then we have the political parties swapping back and forth regaining and loosing power. Which is forcing an industry that really needs a long term consistent plan, spanning multiple generations, to be hit with rapidly changing methods and rules. It is like bending a wire back and forth, after a while it will snap.
For those who do not like the Ubuntu UI.
The same question can be asked for any distribution.
This is one aspect of "Modern Languages" which I hate.
npm, cargo, pip...
These package managers for additional libraries are really a step back. I like to avoid 3rd party libraries as much as possible, because they become a weak part in the long term support of your application.
When developing, especially if the language is new to you, trying different variants to see which library works best for you means you may have 2 or 3 libraries that do the same thing installed, and if you are not doing proper documentation, you may forget which ones you need to run when deploying.
Secondly some of these are not long term supported, so after a couple of years, you have to use a different libary and need to re-code portions of your application.
I much rather have a language with a large default set of libraries that covers most of the tasks at hand. Database connections, file i/o, secure ftp, ssh, https...
then trying to hunt and peck and find 3 ssh libraries, where 2 of them just doesn't jive to my way of thinking about it, and the 3rd one hasn't been touched in 2 years.
I wouldn't call it a good learning language. But it doesn't require additional tools to be installed.
Your favorite or best language rarely ever makes it to the top of the list. For the primary reason that your favorite is often most closely connected to how you want to work, which is suggestive.
The winning languages tend to be mediocre but doesn't completely suck. If you have to code with other developers the choice of language is a compromise with the other developers on your team. So no one gets what they want but they get with what they live with.
Being most schools teach their Computer Science classes with Java for about 20 years now, it makes sense that Java has been #1 for a while.
Java is not my favorite language and I really do not like it that much. However as an Application Architect when given a task to design an enterprise level application. I really need to fall back to recommend Java J2EE for its design. For the following reasons.
1. Platform Independence, with .NET you are stuck with a Microsoft Server back end, which isn't horrible, however a Linux servers don't have the big license cost, and can be configured to give far more resources to my App. And if we need Windows servers, it will still work.
2. Developer base, we can always find developers who can code in Java, and if an employee leaves the turn over pain is lessen.
3. General Industry support, Unlike Python or Node.JS where you normally write you web server as part of your program, J2EE works off well supported Application Servers such as Tomcat or Glassfish. Where having to reinvent a lot of communication protocol isn't needed, and we can find Administrators who can deal with such systems.
4. It is easier on your marketing team. Java is the safe bet that will not get you into a holy war.
5. It has most of the modern features implemented. So unlike Node.JS where I hit my head into a wall when I find out it isn't multi-threaded, and I needed the App to ramp up, or needing a driver to connect to the database I don't need to go and install a third party add-in. Making installing and deploying after many years easier.
Now that said, I don't care for coding in Java that much, I actually prefer python myself. However if given a task such as an enterprise solution I will normally fall to Java, or .NET if it is a strictly Windows Shop.
Javascript, being #1 now doesn't surprise me at all. First off Node.JS is becoming rather popular so you are coding your server side in JS. And for nearly all Web Based (and many mobile apps that are web based as well) will use Javascript for the front end, then you have your pick what to do in the back end. It is much like how the more popular political party will loose the election because of a 3rd party candidate. The competition may hurt your overall rankings.
Where is the line between a valid political belief, and just fear mongering, portraying falsehoods, trying to scam people out of the money and property?
Congratulations! For nitpicking and pointing out that I suffer from dyslexia. And discrediting the points I have made, because of such disability.
When writing my Masters Thesis, I needed to spend extra weeks reviewing the spelling and correct word use, and needed others to review it, because of it. Now to make a point on Slashdot, I have 5 minutes to express my idea. And sometimes spelling will get lost, especially using a GNU spell checker.
Thank you for being a jerk.
Reading and Writing to the file system always seems like a good idea to the Web App Developer, because their Web App can do everything a normal App can... However this is the same problem that opened the door in the early 2000's with Microsoft Active X technology and automatic plugins. Active X was meant to compete against Java Applets. With two key benefits, they ran faster, because they were just an executable binary that ran in a browser (or other application) window, and it could write to the file system.
Sun Microsystems wanted Java to be platform independent (so they can sell more Sun Workstations) without scaring off those windows users. So interpreting the byte code was slow (especially on the slower late 1990's and early 2000's PCs) and not writing to the file system, was a conscious decision because they didn't want Java Applets to be the gateway to security problems. (like how Active X became)
Unfortunately Microsoft got some popularity with these Active X, mainly because most people (including Microsoft) thought about Personal Computers in the mindset, of the single process, single user (normally with Admin access), systems of old. Considered security problems to be a matter of a personal attack on your PC, to get into your PC. Not from general attacks and phishing and get what they can get. Your locked down C:\Windows folder was considered more important then you c:\Users\login folder. However after system got hooked up with networking the reverse became true. You home folder needs to be more secure then you system folders, because reinstalling you PC is easy, getting you work data back is hard.
For a corporate environment, you should be happy that you are not stuck on IE. With a bunch of Active X and Sliverlight crap.
But for your case, I wouldn't complain about Mozilla vs Chrome. It is the IT staff, needs to get these pages out quick, and will only test with the supported platform.
If Firefox was a supported platform and chrome wasn't. I expect you would see the Apps work in Firefox, but fail out in chrome.
I haven't ran into many problems with using Firefox to access webpages.
But part of IE security issues that hit them back in the early 2000's was part because their HTML engine was forgiving to bad html and javascript.
Developers really need to get off their favorite browser high horse, and think cross platform. If the HTML/JS/CSS works in chrome but fails in Firefox. Perhaps you are not doing something right, and should recheck the standards. Granted Chrome follows the standards better then Firefox. But not by that much that would hinder most websites.