welcome to the world of "professional" software development.
No kidding. This is from the second paragraph of the guy's pathetic message-to-Panasonic-turned-fourm-post-turned-Slashdot-article:
Essentially, jQuery implements a Javascript class “$”,
Yeah, we're not dealing with even a minimally competent "developer" here. Judging from the rest of the thread, he's not the exception.
Perhaps you should drop your plex client project and work on something more professional.
How about moving to something corporate friendly and doing some ASP.NET development!
Oh, wait. ASP.NET relies heavily on jQuery as well. Nevermind.
sometimes Excel is my whole work environment, hitting on huge databases, downloading chunks into pivot tables, using spreadsheet calcs to create masses of UPDATE statements that then change the same database.
All you need to do now is have Excel read email and you would have emacs as if it had been developed by Microsoft!
That's it entirely, but you say it like it's something small. That's like saying, "what's to fix on the Pontiac Aztek other than the butt-ugly exterior?" Or, "what's to fix in the New Jersey government other than all the corruption?"
The Aztek is actually a bad comparison. Other than it's hideous appearance it was actually a pretty good vehicle. (Particularly for a GM product of it's era) If the blueprints hadn't of fallen out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down it would have been seen as a pioneer of the crossover SUV rather than an epic failure of design.
As somebody who has worked in the software industry for decades now, I find it stunning that the Slashdot beta project has not been terminated yet. It's a failure in every single sense. The users here almost all absolutely hate it. It looks worse than the existing site. It functions worse than the existing site. I think it's slower than the existing site. There is so much wasted empty space. The fonts are harder to read. The discussion is much, much more difficult to follow. It's harder to post a comment. Being forced to use it unexpectedly affects users trying to use the existing site!
Completely screwing up something that has worked fine for years for no apparent benefit. That works for Microsoft, Google, Apple and others. Sound's like it's good to go.
Depends what you mean by better tech. Betamax traded picture quality for running time. VHS had longer running tapes that you could fit an entire movie on from day one. Betamax didn't get that till later. Sony probably made the tapes too short for a movie deliberately as a form of DRM (that's a joke)
That was before Sony became a content provider. It was also when Sony made good stuff, easily worth the price premium over its competitors.
Sony's downfall corresponds to about the time they got involved in the movie and music production buisness.
I remember back in the day you could get numerous channels of streaming music service 100% free. It worked reliably in your home, car, or even just walking around. You'd hear brand-new music just released, and you could even make requests to hear something specific, and it was all totally free. It was called broadcast radio. Of course we still have that but it's a shadow of it's former self (thanks Internet!).
Clear Channel and others were messing up broadcast radio before the internet had any significant impact.
The problem with broadcast radio, and the music industry in general, is the lack of diversity in what is generally promoted. If you don't listen to mainstream pop, country, R&B or hip-hop good luck finding anything of interest on the radio. (Much of that goes back to the radio conglomerates like Clear Channel wanting to play the same crap on hundreds of radio stations)
Most of the music I have purchased over the last couple of hears is a result of hearing the artist on a streaming service. In most cases I would not have even heard of them (or if I had heard of them, not become familiar with their music) if it hadn't been for the various music streaming services.
I tend to agree it's probably too little too late for SimCity, but hopefully EA and other game companies will learn a lesson from this disaster. The fact that they are willing to release an offline mode hints that such hope is not completely unrealistic.
Or more likely, "Hey, we've made about all the money we can off of Sim City but it's costing money to run those servers for online play. We had better release a fix for offline play before we shut them down to avoid a nasty class-action suit."
Sounds like the underlying issue is that some people (who should know better) still believe security through obscurity is a viable way of business.
This also reminds me of the case of Julian Harris. A man in Brisbane who was recently fined $44 for leaving his car window down while he was away from the car. The reason, is because it makes it easier for a thief to steal things from the car or steal the car itself. So clearly, Australian authorities understand that leaving oneself vulnerable (aka. "security negligence") should be punished even if you're not taken advantage of.
Keeping your car secure isn't always in your best interest.
I once had a $1000 convertible top cut in order to steal a (broken) $150 radio.
Since then I made it a practice to never lock the doors on a convertible. (and never leave anything of value inside)
I'm not sure where the OP is coming from. Australia has always been about the suburbs. There's nothing like NYC in Australia (for example) where a chunk of the population actually lives in the city rather than in the surrounding suburbs.
New American Dream: I want a job that pays more than the one I have at Starbucks so I can start paying off my student loans and perhaps someday move out of my parent's house.
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welcome to the world of "professional" software development.
No kidding. This is from the second paragraph of the guy's pathetic message-to-Panasonic-turned-fourm-post-turned-Slashdot-article:
Essentially, jQuery implements a Javascript class “$”,
Yeah, we're not dealing with even a minimally competent "developer" here. Judging from the rest of the thread, he's not the exception.
Perhaps you should drop your plex client project and work on something more professional.
How about moving to something corporate friendly and doing some ASP.NET development!
Oh, wait. ASP.NET relies heavily on jQuery as well. Nevermind.
February 2014 will be forever known as Snuff February, when Dice Killed Slashdot.
I haven't heard such negative response to a new product since the first Windows 8 previews without the start menu!
You should stop feeding the trolls. It's making them fat.
Keep feeding them, Perhaps they will have a heart attack and die.
'Death Shark?'
I'm thinking that somewhere in this thread we will stumble across the plot for Sharknado II.
Death metal? This thing has Disaster Area written all over it. They must be scheduled for a gig on Earth soon!
Oh joy. I can just hardly wait for the race to get .obama, .clinton, .christie, .huckabee, etc.
What a wonderful advance for the intarwebs...
(sarcasm warning for the insight impaired)
For some reason my .christie domain seems to be blocked. I guess I should have endorsed him.
wrong.
i think the US government is incredible at building roads, and it's military seems rather well managed.
also, library's kick ass.
It's amazing what you can do when you spend as much on your military as the rest of the world combined.
sometimes Excel is my whole work environment, hitting on huge databases, downloading chunks into pivot tables, using spreadsheet calcs to create masses of UPDATE statements that then change the same database.
All you need to do now is have Excel read email and you would have emacs as if it had been developed by Microsoft!
Not the cobbled together monster!
I thought Frankenstein was an Edgar Winters Group song.
... we want educated people at slave wages.
Signed,
Bill gates.
s/Bill Gates/Steve Balmer/
And not Washington. Holy crap, the map would just be red, highlighted by ultra red around congress.
Yeah, yeah. But seriously, have you been in a big city and seen the swarms of rats? Chilling.
At least they got rid of that Bloomberg rat.
their new game series is "The Need For MPG". I've sense a hit!
Perhaps you're saying Google has a monopoly on search? Microsoft's Bing division will be sad to hear that they don't exist.
You mean Bing does exist? I'll have to google it to verify.
Can we combine antihydrogen with antioxygen and find out if antiwater is dry?
I'm going to call it 'Monster Candy'. I don't see any potential legal issues.
That's it entirely, but you say it like it's something small. That's like saying, "what's to fix on the Pontiac Aztek other than the butt-ugly exterior?" Or, "what's to fix in the New Jersey government other than all the corruption?"
The Aztek is actually a bad comparison. Other than it's hideous appearance it was actually a pretty good vehicle. (Particularly for a GM product of it's era) If the blueprints hadn't of fallen out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down it would have been seen as a pioneer of the crossover SUV rather than an epic failure of design.
You're not alone.
As somebody who has worked in the software industry for decades now, I find it stunning that the Slashdot beta project has not been terminated yet. It's a failure in every single sense. The users here almost all absolutely hate it. It looks worse than the existing site. It functions worse than the existing site. I think it's slower than the existing site. There is so much wasted empty space. The fonts are harder to read. The discussion is much, much more difficult to follow. It's harder to post a comment. Being forced to use it unexpectedly affects users trying to use the existing site!
Completely screwing up something that has worked fine for years for no apparent benefit. That works for Microsoft, Google, Apple and others. Sound's like it's good to go.
But when you're a large company in America, the rules don't really apply to you.
Sure they do, Just a different set of rules.
The Pinto Memo was famously quoted in 'Fight Club' which is what I believe the AC is referencing here.
Depends what you mean by better tech. Betamax traded picture quality for running time. VHS had longer running tapes that you could fit an entire movie on from day one. Betamax didn't get that till later. Sony probably made the tapes too short for a movie deliberately as a form of DRM (that's a joke)
That was before Sony became a content provider. It was also when Sony made good stuff, easily worth the price premium over its competitors.
Sony's downfall corresponds to about the time they got involved in the movie and music production buisness.
I remember back in the day you could get numerous channels of streaming music service 100% free. It worked reliably in your home, car, or even just walking around. You'd hear brand-new music just released, and you could even make requests to hear something specific, and it was all totally free. It was called broadcast radio. Of course we still have that but it's a shadow of it's former self (thanks Internet!).
Clear Channel and others were messing up broadcast radio before the internet had any significant impact.
The problem with broadcast radio, and the music industry in general, is the lack of diversity in what is generally promoted. If you don't listen to mainstream pop, country, R&B or hip-hop good luck finding anything of interest on the radio. (Much of that goes back to the radio conglomerates like Clear Channel wanting to play the same crap on hundreds of radio stations)
Most of the music I have purchased over the last couple of hears is a result of hearing the artist on a streaming service. In most cases I would not have even heard of them (or if I had heard of them, not become familiar with their music) if it hadn't been for the various music streaming services.
I tend to agree it's probably too little too late for SimCity, but hopefully EA and other game companies will learn a lesson from this disaster. The fact that they are willing to release an offline mode hints that such hope is not completely unrealistic.
Or more likely, "Hey, we've made about all the money we can off of Sim City but it's costing money to run those servers for online play. We had better release a fix for offline play before we shut them down to avoid a nasty class-action suit."
Sounds like the underlying issue is that some people (who should know better) still believe security through obscurity is a viable way of business.
This also reminds me of the case of Julian Harris. A man in Brisbane who was recently fined $44 for leaving his car window down while he was away from the car. The reason, is because it makes it easier for a thief to steal things from the car or steal the car itself. So clearly, Australian authorities understand that leaving oneself vulnerable (aka. "security negligence") should be punished even if you're not taken advantage of.
Keeping your car secure isn't always in your best interest.
I once had a $1000 convertible top cut in order to steal a (broken) $150 radio.
Since then I made it a practice to never lock the doors on a convertible. (and never leave anything of value inside)
You have that pretty much exactly backwards.
Sure these are wikiepedia but you can follow the darn references if you hate that:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Dream - Freedom and opportunity to move upwards in society through work.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Dream - I want to own me a house.
I'm not sure where the OP is coming from. Australia has always been about the suburbs. There's nothing like NYC in Australia (for example) where a chunk of the population actually lives in the city rather than in the surrounding suburbs.
New American Dream: I want a job that pays more than the one I have at Starbucks so I can start paying off my student loans and perhaps someday move out of my parent's house.
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