This is being done every day (I have worked with GIS applications with that level of complexity, and many of the in browser games have that level of complexity too.). Granted, the environment has its flaws, but for the most part performance is good enough (it could be better - especially on older versions of IE.), and you generally have nowhere near the same amount of deployment problems as with C++ application or java applet.
As always, choose the right tool for the right job - If you are part of a team creating a AAA title where you need cutting edge graphics an performance - then javascript is probably not what you should be using for your games engine. But with the right tools and discipline it can be used to very rapidly create UIs and logic for systems where this is not the primary concern
Could you use the wayback machine to show that the original version of the site was in fact written by you? You could even diff new files against old ones to show that the new author simply stole credit for your work.
It seems odd to pull you in for an interview only to spring that on you - most companies would not let you in the door.
On a further note - could the site have been through a major rewrite? Maybe the code in question is not actually yours.
None that I have ever been on seem to have this - the bus service where I live always felt dirty, crowded, and smell like wet dog when it rains. I would imagine the experience in most large cities is similar - HEPA filters wont help you if there is an infected person wedged up against you breathing on you.
Why offer an all you can eat buffet and then complain when somebody tries to stay at a table for days on end?
Any sane individual realises "all you can eat" means "all you can eat within reason".
Same principal with unlimited data. (Unlimited within reason).
IMHO, the ISP acted well above and beyond the call of duty here, giving hum until July to find an alternative rather than simply saying "We don't want your business - as a customer you cost us more than we could possibly make from you in profit."
PS: I am loath to praise any ISP given that I hate mine with the fire of a thousand suns, but have no other choice. I am really surprised he got 72 terabytes out of them - I mean compared to mine they look like saints...
In real poker, if you see that your opponent has a 'tell' and use that against them, does that make you guilty of fraud? No. IMHO, mame thing applies here
Here's an example of a bad standard, as prescribed by the W3C - the original CSS box model - Specifically the fact that borders,padding and margin are considered additional to the width and height declarations for an element. Engineers at microsoft developing IE4 took a look at this and decided that it made no sense, and decided that the width and height should include borders, margin and padding. From a purely engineering perspective (absent of politics) the MS way actually made a lot more sense, since otherwise it is a lot harder to specify widths and heights as a percentage of available space. The was also one of the main reasons for the quirksmode was introduced in browsers. The W3C stuck to their guns even though MS had over 90% market share at the time, and the result was all those websites in the early 00's that only used 800 pixels of width no matter what the screen size. It was only in CSS3 that this glaring issue was finally cleared up.
Could this also be to do with the general level of interest in gaming as an activity among the sexes? I would be willing to bet that as a percentage, less women play games, less still would be considered "hard core". As a child, I thought it would be cool to work as a game dev, because I love video games. As an adult, I see it as long hours and hard work, requiring a level of obsession with the games that most people don't have. (men or women)
Just like assassins are not evil - it's the people who hire them that are evil.
I am not saying that all lawyers are "evil", but if a person does something morally bankrupt then "I was getting paid for it" is no excuse.
That password is not much more secure than "idisagreewithyouwholeheartedly" (And I would argue much more difficult to remember) - brute force systems have long ago incorporated the "leet" dialect.
Then they buy the cheapest waterway they can find and dump as much crap in it as they can - they could even start charging other people for the service of dumping crap in the water. Pity for anybody that lives anywhere near it, trying to prove their symptoms are due to the pollution.
I don't know about where you live, but in my area it seems that there is a significant number of roads that seem to have a low speed limit only for the purpose of generating revenue via speed traps - I can think of two stretches of road within a mile of my home that are wide, straight, have excellent visibility, no significant foot traffic, no housing or businesses with entrances leading directly onto the road, where it is illegal to turn across the road, and yet still with a speed limit of 60 KPH (36 Miles per hour to Americans!). When the cops are out, they catch driver after driver after driver because the limit makes no sense. (For the record I have never had a speeding ticket, but find it very annoying nonetheless.)
A lot of people open music playlists on youtube / music sites and play them as background tabs - muting background tabs by default would annoy these people. (Unless there was some kind of white list you could add them to - but maybe that is overcomplicating the situation...)
The problem I have with this is that a breech of contract is a civil, not criminal matter. There should be clauses in the contract that cover this, and the effect should be similar to if you stop paying on a credit card - you don't get thrown in prison, but a debt collecting agency will chase you down.
There is already a legal framework in place for this, and additional more draconian laws only serve to erode consumer rights - in this case the right to determine what gets done with things I have purchased.
This is definitely not a case of copyright infringement - that law has been bastardised to serve a function different from what was originally intended.
How long before this gets extended even further to the point where we start hearing things like: "Using your own cushions with the chair you just bought is copyright infringement, and will result in jail time!"
In short, this puts us on a dangerous road.
3.) If you were able to do this and still be considered a good programmer (let alone the "best programmer in the building"), then the standard would have to be terrible.
This story sets off my bullshit radar. Too many things about it don't make sense:
1.) Why would "Bob" give full access to company resources to subcontractors? Were I to subcontract a job, at the very least I would want to review everything before it was committed - especially if I was taking responsibility for it.
2.) What would happen if a colleague asked "Bob" about his code? Or as regularly happens on all but the smallest of tasks he had to collaborate closely with another fellow developer? There is a level of knowledge that you get from being part of a development process that you don't get otherwise.
This sounds to me like an advertisement for outsourcing services.
A DDOS attack is like stealing a massive number of mannequins and filling wallstreet with them - aside from the theft, I bet it violates some zoning ordnance and litter laws...
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This is being done every day (I have worked with GIS applications with that level of complexity, and many of the in browser games have that level of complexity too.). Granted, the environment has its flaws, but for the most part performance is good enough (it could be better - especially on older versions of IE.), and you generally have nowhere near the same amount of deployment problems as with C++ application or java applet. As always, choose the right tool for the right job - If you are part of a team creating a AAA title where you need cutting edge graphics an performance - then javascript is probably not what you should be using for your games engine. But with the right tools and discipline it can be used to very rapidly create UIs and logic for systems where this is not the primary concern
Could you use the wayback machine to show that the original version of the site was in fact written by you? You could even diff new files against old ones to show that the new author simply stole credit for your work. It seems odd to pull you in for an interview only to spring that on you - most companies would not let you in the door. On a further note - could the site have been through a major rewrite? Maybe the code in question is not actually yours.
None that I have ever been on seem to have this - the bus service where I live always felt dirty, crowded, and smell like wet dog when it rains. I would imagine the experience in most large cities is similar - HEPA filters wont help you if there is an infected person wedged up against you breathing on you.
Why offer an all you can eat buffet and then complain when somebody tries to stay at a table for days on end?
Any sane individual realises "all you can eat" means "all you can eat within reason".
Same principal with unlimited data. (Unlimited within reason).
IMHO, the ISP acted well above and beyond the call of duty here, giving hum until July to find an alternative rather than simply saying "We don't want your business - as a customer you cost us more than we could possibly make from you in profit."
PS: I am loath to praise any ISP given that I hate mine with the fire of a thousand suns, but have no other choice. I am really surprised he got 72 terabytes out of them - I mean compared to mine they look like saints...
In real poker, if you see that your opponent has a 'tell' and use that against them, does that make you guilty of fraud? No. IMHO, mame thing applies here
Here's an example of a bad standard, as prescribed by the W3C - the original CSS box model - Specifically the fact that borders,padding and margin are considered additional to the width and height declarations for an element. Engineers at microsoft developing IE4 took a look at this and decided that it made no sense, and decided that the width and height should include borders, margin and padding. From a purely engineering perspective (absent of politics) the MS way actually made a lot more sense, since otherwise it is a lot harder to specify widths and heights as a percentage of available space. The was also one of the main reasons for the quirksmode was introduced in browsers. The W3C stuck to their guns even though MS had over 90% market share at the time, and the result was all those websites in the early 00's that only used 800 pixels of width no matter what the screen size. It was only in CSS3 that this glaring issue was finally cleared up.
Could this also be to do with the general level of interest in gaming as an activity among the sexes? I would be willing to bet that as a percentage, less women play games, less still would be considered "hard core". As a child, I thought it would be cool to work as a game dev, because I love video games. As an adult, I see it as long hours and hard work, requiring a level of obsession with the games that most people don't have. (men or women)
If fear of a fiery death doesn't reduce speed, does fear of getting a ticket really make a difference?
Just like assassins are not evil - it's the people who hire them that are evil. I am not saying that all lawyers are "evil", but if a person does something morally bankrupt then "I was getting paid for it" is no excuse.
Or it is blatant trolling
Exactly - you can't spend a bitcoin full stop.
Apple's critics like to say the company's ideas are obvious, but as some pundits have noted, those very ideas once seemed unimaginable.
Apparently, rounded corners are unimaginable...
That password is not much more secure than "idisagreewithyouwholeheartedly" (And I would argue much more difficult to remember) - brute force systems have long ago incorporated the "leet" dialect.
Then they buy the cheapest waterway they can find and dump as much crap in it as they can - they could even start charging other people for the service of dumping crap in the water. Pity for anybody that lives anywhere near it, trying to prove their symptoms are due to the pollution.
I don't know about where you live, but in my area it seems that there is a significant number of roads that seem to have a low speed limit only for the purpose of generating revenue via speed traps - I can think of two stretches of road within a mile of my home that are wide, straight, have excellent visibility, no significant foot traffic, no housing or businesses with entrances leading directly onto the road, where it is illegal to turn across the road, and yet still with a speed limit of 60 KPH (36 Miles per hour to Americans!). When the cops are out, they catch driver after driver after driver because the limit makes no sense. (For the record I have never had a speeding ticket, but find it very annoying nonetheless.)
A lot of people open music playlists on youtube / music sites and play them as background tabs - muting background tabs by default would annoy these people. (Unless there was some kind of white list you could add them to - but maybe that is overcomplicating the situation...)
Maybe you wouldn't have to give so much support if you didn't try to charge people for things they did not ask for.
No - they will settle because of not being able to afford to do that.
The problem I have with this is that a breech of contract is a civil, not criminal matter. There should be clauses in the contract that cover this, and the effect should be similar to if you stop paying on a credit card - you don't get thrown in prison, but a debt collecting agency will chase you down. There is already a legal framework in place for this, and additional more draconian laws only serve to erode consumer rights - in this case the right to determine what gets done with things I have purchased. This is definitely not a case of copyright infringement - that law has been bastardised to serve a function different from what was originally intended. How long before this gets extended even further to the point where we start hearing things like: "Using your own cushions with the chair you just bought is copyright infringement, and will result in jail time!" In short, this puts us on a dangerous road.
3.) If you were able to do this and still be considered a good programmer (let alone the "best programmer in the building"), then the standard would have to be terrible.
This story sets off my bullshit radar. Too many things about it don't make sense: 1.) Why would "Bob" give full access to company resources to subcontractors? Were I to subcontract a job, at the very least I would want to review everything before it was committed - especially if I was taking responsibility for it. 2.) What would happen if a colleague asked "Bob" about his code? Or as regularly happens on all but the smallest of tasks he had to collaborate closely with another fellow developer? There is a level of knowledge that you get from being part of a development process that you don't get otherwise. This sounds to me like an advertisement for outsourcing services.
Except that they collected the data from me, and charged me for doing so. In the EU at least, you are considered the owner of your own medical data.
Kinda sounds like internet porn...
A DDOS attack is like stealing a massive number of mannequins and filling wallstreet with them - aside from the theft, I bet it violates some zoning ordnance and litter laws...
That's what he said - one or two days salary!