I have been an active and paying member of Slashdot for the better part of 15 years. I am already mourning its demise, as I view it is on its deathbed in terminal condition.
Please, please don't make the beta live for everyone, even if there is a (let's face it) temporary classic mode;(
This reminds me too much of FastMail's UI disaster of October 31st 2012:(
Bruce, once Slashdot Beta goes Live, I am OUT OF HERE, after frickin 15 years (most of it as a paying supporter), I am done. I have had 6+ months to mourn Dice's decision. Now I am looking for a new home.
Lol: Slashdot in 2014 will be an example of how to Kill a thriving, decades-old community INSTANTLY (the day it goes live) by combining major Waterfall project planning and femme designers who have sway over the developers.
I've said it MANY times. IF the current beta comment UI and main page goes live and I am forced to jump through hoops to get out of it, the likelihood I will visit Slashdot again goes to 50/50% (I've been a daily reader / commenter for FIFTEEN YEARS NOW!)
IF this current UI is discarded, I can GUARAN-FUCKING-TEE you that I will NEVER visit beta.slashdot.org in its current ugliness. It is a User Interface DISASTER! Just look at the frickin comment boxes, how much wasted space, non-thick feminine fonts that are hard to see, etc.
Thanks to your warning, I have been able to mourn Slashdot's inevitable demise since the first beta.slashdot post many months ago. I have been on slashdot literally my entire adult life. I WILL mourn it.
But I will NOT EVEN VISIT beta.slashdot until the UI is substantially redone in a more masculine, clean cut way, like the current slashdot.org.
Hmm. I'm neither liberal nor conservative, and I do not see the evidence for Anthropogenic Global Warming (tho it does seem as though the Solar system is warming), however, I also see tons of evidence that genetically modified foods are deletrious to the biosphere, human health, etc.
The SEC is only involved in *publicly traded* companies, so I don't see how kickstarter qualifies, UNLESS they're registered as S-Corps, which would be really really stupid, as they only allow 100 max investors.
They were undoubtedly "told" by their NSA rep, "We at the NSA *KNOW* security. Better than you guys in fact. For the benefit of our country, and indeed, the entire world, we want to sell you the MOST ADVANCED RNG we can design! Please, please consider buying it from us, so that we may fund additional security improvements for you in the future. It can only make your users safer!"
I work in Houston, make ~$100,000, don't pay any state income taxes, have a 7% sales tax rate in my city, and a $800 two bedroom apartment 15 minutes from work. I doubt I could have all that in very many other states.
Oh, and we have sun like 230 days a year (compared to Seattle's ~100), and it's never really cold (it snows maybe once every 7 years).
Really?/. still doesn't have UTF-8 support? That was a € sign. Are you fucking kidding me?
It's their fucking database. Their website is in the UTF-8 charset, but their database's character set is apparently ISO-8859-1 which doesn't even have the € symbol. Their front-end attempts to compensate by converting everything it can into HTML special chars, like & euro (e.g., €uro vs. €uro).
Slashdot Mirror
You should check out http://www.realityshifts.com/ for a possible explanation.
He's not dead, yet, fool.
He just gave his thoughts about Slashbeta to the Washington Post yesterday, for christ's sake! [he hates it, and laughs]
I think I may have been banned... My last comment had a blank subject and a single "?" in the comment box.
I had said:
Nah, I don't think Stallman had anything to do with it ;-)
Nah, I don't think Stallman had anything to do with this ;-)
Today I Learned: TTSIA!!
I have been an active and paying member of Slashdot for the better part of 15 years. I am already mourning its demise, as I view it is on its deathbed in terminal condition.
Please, please don't make the beta live for everyone, even if there is a (let's face it) temporary classic mode ;(
This reminds me too much of FastMail's UI disaster of October 31st 2012 :(
Fuck Beta! Fuck Beta
My Lord! The peasants are revolting!
Bruce, once Slashdot Beta goes Live, I am OUT OF HERE, after frickin 15 years (most of it as a paying supporter), I am done. I have had 6+ months to mourn Dice's decision. Now I am looking for a new home.
Slashdot is the abusive husband, it's users, the battered wife.
Slashdot says, "We're listening, we're listening."
As they bash our heads against the wall with such a horrible new system.
Slashdot: Your gaslighting is just not working!
No sigs in the beta, either.
Lol: Slashdot in 2014 will be an example of how to Kill a thriving, decades-old community INSTANTLY (the day it goes live) by combining major Waterfall project planning and femme designers who have sway over the developers.
Fuck slashdot beta!
Amen, Brother!
So I tried loading this story on beta.slashdot.org, and this is what I got in the comments section, instead of comments:
Shazbot! We ran into some trouble getting the comments.
Try again... na-nu, na-nu!
Um WHAT THE FUCK?! Is that English or *BABY*?! See? That's just way too immature for me. What are you developers? 5 years old?
I am very glad I turned down the Senior Slashdot Dev position offer in 2009.
I've said it MANY times. IF the current beta comment UI and main page goes live and I am forced to jump through hoops to get out of it, the likelihood I will visit Slashdot again goes to 50/50% (I've been a daily reader / commenter for FIFTEEN YEARS NOW!)
IF this current UI is discarded, I can GUARAN-FUCKING-TEE you that I will NEVER visit beta.slashdot.org in its current ugliness. It is a User Interface DISASTER! Just look at the frickin comment boxes, how much wasted space, non-thick feminine fonts that are hard to see, etc.
Thanks to your warning, I have been able to mourn Slashdot's inevitable demise since the first beta.slashdot post many months ago. I have been on slashdot literally my entire adult life. I WILL mourn it.
But I will NOT EVEN VISIT beta.slashdot until the UI is substantially redone in a more masculine, clean cut way, like the current slashdot.org.
Hmm. I'm neither liberal nor conservative, and I do not see the evidence for Anthropogenic Global Warming (tho it does seem as though the Solar system is warming), however, I also see tons of evidence that genetically modified foods are deletrious to the biosphere, human health, etc.
What does that make me?
Wow! That means as a software developer, I must self-plagiarize all the time!
The SEC is only involved in *publicly traded* companies, so I don't see how kickstarter qualifies, UNLESS they're registered as S-Corps, which would be really really stupid, as they only allow 100 max investors.
They were undoubtedly "told" by their NSA rep, "We at the NSA *KNOW* security. Better than you guys in fact. For the benefit of our country, and indeed, the entire world, we want to sell you the MOST ADVANCED RNG we can design! Please, please consider buying it from us, so that we may fund additional security improvements for you in the future. It can only make your users safer!"
They possibly even believed it.
Get. The. Fuck. Out of here. You motherfucking Bully!
It's not like we haven't had to deal with your ilk elsewhere!
STAY THE FUCK OUT OF SLASHDOT!
Man, Texas ain't half that bad!
I work in Houston, make ~$100,000, don't pay any state income taxes, have a 7% sales tax rate in my city, and a $800 two bedroom apartment 15 minutes from work. I doubt I could have all that in very many other states.
Oh, and we have sun like 230 days a year (compared to Seattle's ~100), and it's never really cold (it snows maybe once every 7 years).
10k Ãuros
Really? /. still doesn't have UTF-8 support? That was a € sign. Are you fucking kidding me?
It's their fucking database. Their website is in the UTF-8 charset, but their database's character set is apparently ISO-8859-1 which doesn't even have the € symbol. Their front-end attempts to compensate by converting everything it can into HTML special chars, like & euro (e.g., €uro vs. €uro).
The devs should be shot.
Ther'es a book about this form of economy! Accelerando, by Charles Stross. Boring read, however, after the first 1/3rd.
I have several times walked around with $800 fiat-value American Gold Eagles ($50 fiat each) in my pocket.
Of course, the price of gold was then around $1,500 Federal Reserve Notes (FRNs; e.g., "USDs")/oz, so that's $24,000 FRNs.
They were in my pocket, of course. My next goal is to have 25 American Gold Eagles in my pocket :-)
Which you could then use statistical analysis on...
It's nearly 2014 and Slashdot *still* munges UTF-8 at the database layer.
What incompetents!!!
Wow! What an incredibly low bar you set!