Mozilla has been copying everything Chrome does for years.
I've come to rue every time I upgrade FF because every time I do, some extension I've used for years no longer works or I can no longer trick FF into letting it work. I'm writing this in FF33 right now; my laptop is still on FF29.
The last good complete theme died with FF 3.5. Almost everything on the addons site is abandoned, and only the few most popular addons keep up with the relentless release cycle.
Mozilla has been damaging itself and its entire product line since the day Mitchell Baker stepped down as CEO. Messed up priorities, time-driven releases, and thoughtless "me too" feature strategy are killing a once-great web innovator.
XUL had such potential, but now they're abandoning that too. Is anyone really surprised by this announcement?
$35/unit retail is too expensive for embedded systems? Maybe some, but not for those where an old Windows is already deployed. There's a rPi B+ among the equipment in the box on my house that my ISP put there.
The true purpose of it is for embedded vendors to pay bulk for licenses for it, otherwise MS wouldn't bother at all (they really fear losing all the embedded markets to Linux). Win10IoT may be free to makers, but it serves them next to no purpose. The bone MS is throwing at makers has no marrow in it.
Win10IoT isn't for hobbyists, it's for embedded system vendors.
This is the play by MS to prevent all the ATMs, kiosks, and point of sale systems that still run XP/Vista/7 from getting replaced with Linux solutions. There's already one airline running rPi+Raspian on their airport gate screens. And if you've been wondering how the hell Redmond has any chance of hitting their "1 billion Win10 devices" goal, this is the lion's share of it. No way they sell that many PC/Surface/Xbone/WinPhone units and get that many people to upgrade from 7 and 8.x.
MS has never cared about hobbyist developers, and they never will. Everything they do is from a B2B perspective.
Slicing PSDs is crude, antiquated (even though most shops still do it), and reinforces the fallacy that web design begins in Photoshop.
Modernize your curriculum to teach progressive enhancement of wireframe layouts in the browser. At some point you teach about creating the individual image assets for what they are (backgrounds, icons, etc) rather than treating a PSD as a giant slab of source material. For this, you can use GIMP, Inkscape, or anything else Free.
You are perpetuating Adobe's dominance by furthering a bad workflow that benefits them. Your course isn't about Photoshop, that shouldn't be the keystone of it.
Slicing PSDs is the equivalent of beginning a construction project from a child's crayon drawing of the not-yet-existing building.
I was brought onto a small web startup project as a co-lead. By this time the project was already 2.5 years old and had been rewritten at least three times by progressively less lousy developers. The final iteration was built on CodeIgniter (MVC framework), a decent choice in 2013.
My first day I'm browsing the codebase to see what's what, and a grep finds something like "UPDATE my_table set foo=" . $_POST['bar']. Not in a controller... not in a model... in a view.
So I immediately told the other leads that we needed to do a security audit on the entire codebase; it took a few days for the owners to consent. The audit revealed three different mechanisms for database queries (the standard CI driver and two other crude home-grown libraries, all used inconsistently) and that one of the devs, who not conicidentally had resisted the audit, was actually AFK for 20%-50% of the hours he billed every week. It took two months to do the audit and resolve the redundant code (no one was full time, mind you). Finally the owners told us "give us two weeks to decide whether or not we want to proceed". After six weeks of silence they pulled the plug and abandoned it entirely.
It's becoming more obvious that the purpose of the JSF program isn't to produce a next-gen fighter jet, but rather to waste money under the pretext of producing a next-gen fighter jet. If they skinned it with bacon weave and built the airframe from ribs, the plane would still be less porcine than the program itself.
The pilot can't turn their head? Dozens of people involved in the program should have identified that fundamental problem long before any component was physically built.
Speaking as someone who's primary machine runs Mint KDE with a hosts file that has ~130,000 lines of crap hosts mapped to 0.0.0.0, I say hosts is the better solution. Lots of adblockers still make the requests for mal-content and drop it on receive... hosts prevents the requests from being made at the system level.
It's too bad I can only use a fraction of it on my Win 7 laptop where it's more necessary, because modern Windows really doesn't like having a hosts file more than 768k in size. Took me months to figure out why it booted to a completely blank, unresponsive screen (background color and a mouse cursor that did nothing but move)... turns out it takes Windows about 45 minutes to process that 3.6Mb hosts file before it gets around to launching explorer and the desktop.
This saga illustrates exactly what the H1-B program is designed to accomplish: disenfranchise highly skilled US workers and replace them with cheaper foreign workers.
If corporations still treated employees as value-adding assets rather than cost liabilities, crap like H1-B wouldn't exist.
The list I use is the result of merging three separate adserver blacklists about a decade ago. It honestly doesn't require all that much maintenance... if I see an ad, I find the hostname it came from and add it to the hosts file. I think I've made 3 such edits in the past year or so.
But those only work in FireFox. If you really want to increase your privacy, add those hostnames to your hosts file. Mine contains ~131k tracker/adserver hosts mapped to 0.0.0.0 (there's even about a dozen for facebook). This doesn't just drop the served mal-content, it prevents requests to those hosts at the system level for all browsers or other software.
As a consequence I rarely see any ads on the internet and my browser ad-blocking/privacy plugins have a very light workload.
Stop trying to say that it is. It happens with Node, Angular, and other stuff to a lesser extent, but jQuery seems to be the de facto JS gap-filler that everyone insists is part of core JS skills.
But even worse are the feckless noobs who say they don't know JS, but know jQuery instead. That's like saying "I don't know English, but I know its verbs."
Yeah, I don't get why every Win10 post has to mention rPi. I understand MS wants a seat on the IoT hype train, but I don't see how the current Win10 rPi strategy will get them that. Especially since what they showed last month was basically useless.
I don't want Windows on my Pi's, I don't understand why anyone would. Unless Win10 rPi ends up being a headless, SSH-enabled PowerShell environment. I understand the draw of PowerShell for Windows people (because they know nothing better), but it seems morbidly bloated, heavy, and verbose to me.
Games could be prep for programming, but not for most of the very few who realize "Games are programs... I could write them, too".
Most of them will still lack logic, critical thinking, and math skills necessary for even most basic programming, let alone the often complex tasks required in modern games. Let's face it, we're not talking about simple games, we're talking about FPS games. Say "rendering engine", "frame buffer", "shader", or "vector" to them, and their eyes glaze over in sudden confusion and disinterest. The games they'd want to make don't give an accurate impression of what it takes to produce them, and the video card specs they obsess over are just numbers to them. Aside from that, there are many distinct roles involved with producing a game, which they could realize if they ever bothered to look at the game's credits.
Sure, there are "game programming" degrees available, but to me they sound pretty crap, with more focus on visuals than code. I know someone who got that degree from DeVry, and they didn't cover threading or networking. He came out as more of a digital artist than a programmer.
And its comments. In the past few months there has been a dramatic rise in AC shitpost comments. Not the usual/. level of garbage comments, but 4chan level.
I also wonder if there is anyone left at/. that knows how to run a website... it seems to have some issue about every other day. Also, fuck autorefresh.
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Mozilla has been copying everything Chrome does for years.
I've come to rue every time I upgrade FF because every time I do, some extension I've used for years no longer works or I can no longer trick FF into letting it work. I'm writing this in FF33 right now; my laptop is still on FF29.
The last good complete theme died with FF 3.5. Almost everything on the addons site is abandoned, and only the few most popular addons keep up with the relentless release cycle.
Mozilla has been damaging itself and its entire product line since the day Mitchell Baker stepped down as CEO. Messed up priorities, time-driven releases, and thoughtless "me too" feature strategy are killing a once-great web innovator.
XUL had such potential, but now they're abandoning that too. Is anyone really surprised by this announcement?
$35/unit retail is too expensive for embedded systems? Maybe some, but not for those where an old Windows is already deployed. There's a rPi B+ among the equipment in the box on my house that my ISP put there.
The true purpose of it is for embedded vendors to pay bulk for licenses for it, otherwise MS wouldn't bother at all (they really fear losing all the embedded markets to Linux). Win10IoT may be free to makers, but it serves them next to no purpose. The bone MS is throwing at makers has no marrow in it.
Win10IoT isn't for hobbyists, it's for embedded system vendors.
This is the play by MS to prevent all the ATMs, kiosks, and point of sale systems that still run XP/Vista/7 from getting replaced with Linux solutions. There's already one airline running rPi+Raspian on their airport gate screens. And if you've been wondering how the hell Redmond has any chance of hitting their "1 billion Win10 devices" goal, this is the lion's share of it. No way they sell that many PC/Surface/Xbone/WinPhone units and get that many people to upgrade from 7 and 8.x.
MS has never cared about hobbyist developers, and they never will. Everything they do is from a B2B perspective.
Slicing PSDs is crude, antiquated (even though most shops still do it), and reinforces the fallacy that web design begins in Photoshop.
Modernize your curriculum to teach progressive enhancement of wireframe layouts in the browser. At some point you teach about creating the individual image assets for what they are (backgrounds, icons, etc) rather than treating a PSD as a giant slab of source material. For this, you can use GIMP, Inkscape, or anything else Free.
You are perpetuating Adobe's dominance by furthering a bad workflow that benefits them. Your course isn't about Photoshop, that shouldn't be the keystone of it.
Slicing PSDs is the equivalent of beginning a construction project from a child's crayon drawing of the not-yet-existing building.
How much you wanna bet Cortana is just a branded front end for Siri? You know, like how Bing used to scrape Google for results?
Hardware QWERTY keyboard. This is the only reason why I haven't upgraded from my Epic 4G.
This is why the forced automatic updates are a horrible idea: one bad update adversely affects many machines automatically.
I wonder how many times this will happen before MS once again allows home users to choose how and when to update.
Will Chris Carter make any reference in the show to how the Lone Gunmen presaged 9/11?
Who benefits from government-mandated backdoors?
It would be pronounced "President Rump" on SNL, and played by a roast in a wig.
Ahem, Beorat cluster.
I was brought onto a small web startup project as a co-lead. By this time the project was already 2.5 years old and had been rewritten at least three times by progressively less lousy developers. The final iteration was built on CodeIgniter (MVC framework), a decent choice in 2013.
My first day I'm browsing the codebase to see what's what, and a grep finds something like "UPDATE my_table set foo=" . $_POST['bar']. Not in a controller... not in a model... in a view.
So I immediately told the other leads that we needed to do a security audit on the entire codebase; it took a few days for the owners to consent. The audit revealed three different mechanisms for database queries (the standard CI driver and two other crude home-grown libraries, all used inconsistently) and that one of the devs, who not conicidentally had resisted the audit, was actually AFK for 20%-50% of the hours he billed every week. It took two months to do the audit and resolve the redundant code (no one was full time, mind you). Finally the owners told us "give us two weeks to decide whether or not we want to proceed". After six weeks of silence they pulled the plug and abandoned it entirely.
It's becoming more obvious that the purpose of the JSF program isn't to produce a next-gen fighter jet, but rather to waste money under the pretext of producing a next-gen fighter jet. If they skinned it with bacon weave and built the airframe from ribs, the plane would still be less porcine than the program itself.
The pilot can't turn their head? Dozens of people involved in the program should have identified that fundamental problem long before any component was physically built.
Speaking as someone who's primary machine runs Mint KDE with a hosts file that has ~130,000 lines of crap hosts mapped to 0.0.0.0, I say hosts is the better solution. Lots of adblockers still make the requests for mal-content and drop it on receive... hosts prevents the requests from being made at the system level.
It's too bad I can only use a fraction of it on my Win 7 laptop where it's more necessary, because modern Windows really doesn't like having a hosts file more than 768k in size. Took me months to figure out why it booted to a completely blank, unresponsive screen (background color and a mouse cursor that did nothing but move)... turns out it takes Windows about 45 minutes to process that 3.6Mb hosts file before it gets around to launching explorer and the desktop.
This saga illustrates exactly what the H1-B program is designed to accomplish: disenfranchise highly skilled US workers and replace them with cheaper foreign workers.
If corporations still treated employees as value-adding assets rather than cost liabilities, crap like H1-B wouldn't exist.
Almost everyone has a local password manager... it's commonly referred to as a brain.
Remember when Windows only needed 3 keys?
The list I use is the result of merging three separate adserver blacklists about a decade ago. It honestly doesn't require all that much maintenance... if I see an ad, I find the hostname it came from and add it to the hosts file. I think I've made 3 such edits in the past year or so.
But those only work in FireFox. If you really want to increase your privacy, add those hostnames to your hosts file. Mine contains ~131k tracker/adserver hosts mapped to 0.0.0.0 (there's even about a dozen for facebook). This doesn't just drop the served mal-content, it prevents requests to those hosts at the system level for all browsers or other software.
As a consequence I rarely see any ads on the internet and my browser ad-blocking/privacy plugins have a very light workload.
Stop trying to say that it is. It happens with Node, Angular, and other stuff to a lesser extent, but jQuery seems to be the de facto JS gap-filler that everyone insists is part of core JS skills.
But even worse are the feckless noobs who say they don't know JS, but know jQuery instead. That's like saying "I don't know English, but I know its verbs."
Yeah, I don't get why every Win10 post has to mention rPi. I understand MS wants a seat on the IoT hype train, but I don't see how the current Win10 rPi strategy will get them that. Especially since what they showed last month was basically useless.
I don't want Windows on my Pi's, I don't understand why anyone would. Unless Win10 rPi ends up being a headless, SSH-enabled PowerShell environment. I understand the draw of PowerShell for Windows people (because they know nothing better), but it seems morbidly bloated, heavy, and verbose to me.
The photos of Obama at the 2008 Bilderburg meeting.
Games could be prep for programming, but not for most of the very few who realize "Games are programs... I could write them, too".
Most of them will still lack logic, critical thinking, and math skills necessary for even most basic programming, let alone the often complex tasks required in modern games. Let's face it, we're not talking about simple games, we're talking about FPS games. Say "rendering engine", "frame buffer", "shader", or "vector" to them, and their eyes glaze over in sudden confusion and disinterest. The games they'd want to make don't give an accurate impression of what it takes to produce them, and the video card specs they obsess over are just numbers to them. Aside from that, there are many distinct roles involved with producing a game, which they could realize if they ever bothered to look at the game's credits.
Sure, there are "game programming" degrees available, but to me they sound pretty crap, with more focus on visuals than code. I know someone who got that degree from DeVry, and they didn't cover threading or networking. He came out as more of a digital artist than a programmer.
Did you look at my UID?
And its comments. In the past few months there has been a dramatic rise in AC shitpost comments. Not the usual /. level of garbage comments, but 4chan level.
I also wonder if there is anyone left at /. that knows how to run a website... it seems to have some issue about every other day. Also, fuck autorefresh.