So AMP is a reduced HTML standard to make mobile websites load faster and less bloated that the bullshit we see today spewed into the public web by people who can't tell a server from a client and shouldn't be let near a keyboard of a connected computer, let alone in the lead position of some web project. Pagecalls weigh in twice to three times as heavy as an entire Amiga operating system these days. If your would delivered such a thing 18 years ago people would've beat you up and for good reasons too.
So Google wants to cache my website with AMP? Nice. Go right ahead. If they update the content in their cache whenever I do I'm all for it. The more I can tell clients that their crappy bloated piece of shit they call a website is going to be deranked into unseen depths of Google if they don't use sensible unbroken web presentations, AMP is a good thing and it will be a part of my optimisation strategy for professional websites.
I've been doing web development for nearly 20 years now and have finally decided to actually stay in the field despite the douchebag quota in the industry being through the effing roof. Stuff like PWAs and browser vendors finally getting their shit together and bring mostly standards compliant keep it interesting for me. Plus an abundance of new and neat technologies to keep things interesting. I'll just be looking for better teams in the future. You develop a thick skin and a acute sense of smell for shitty gigs and crappy web-shops.
I live in NRW and have never owned a car. I think it's safe to say that in urbanised and semi-urban/suburb areas in Germany it's nigh pointless to own one these days. Germans love their cars, but standing at an intersection at 7:30 on a regular morning will show you that this private owned ICE car thing is little more than some German mass psychosis or something. 20 years ago people would call me crazy for not having a driver's license - it's somewhat of a regular rite of growing up in Germany - but that has changed in the last 15 years. Today's generations are pretty much where I was 25 years ago: many really don't get the point of owning a car.
As for PT it's basically what you would expect smack center in Europe on German soil: I can fall out of bed and land at a bus-stop. The tram is 10 minutes away and I can travel the entire state on my PT subscription. For me that comes for free, as I'm a college student and a state wide PT ticket is included in being that.
With the ever increasing mega-sprawls PT will be the way to ride for most people in the future, no doubt about it. Regular motorised traffic is at the beginning of collapse in Germany, and I expect it to get worse.
... are a tough bunch. They usually have a left leaning socio-political agenda and quite often sympathy with regular citizens. And they can hold out for a loooooong time. ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...ÃYe )
Google perhaps should consider some other place to set up camp.:-)
Post-scarcity society. Post-scarcity economy. The worth of money degenerates and disappears - ECB negative interest is almost a standard now and Jeff Bezos wears the same jeans I do and has the same phone. The worth of knowledge however suddenly rises because in a functioning post scarcity society is the only thing left that counts. Hence people are starting to notice the nerd camp who value knowledge above popularity actually on to something.
Seems very fitting to me. I'm just wasn't expecting that to happen that fast and I'm my lifetime. But then again, nobody did, so that's a pleasant surprise.
All in all, the consequence is logical. Capitalism has run its course, knowledge and culture are King. We need more of this, and fast, so people stop fighting stupid wars and accruing useless tat.
... belongs behind ssh or, at least, behind http access and SSL. If I catch you doing otherwise for anything other than FOSS software I'll smack you. Hard.
A proposition that is a tad awkward, since they've already basically taken over the web.... Whatever.
If you want to replace URLs, your basically replacing the web. If you want to do that, good luck. It better be a really good replacement, with open standards and premium reference implementations and some really awesome stuff like meshing, state and offline built right in. Plus some amazing programming language to build and run things on it.
In short: Good luck with that.
Google could do it, but I doubt even they can muster the discipline it takes to undergo such a massive project without having others jumping ship to stay on the old web.
... first computer. Protable and programmable was more important to me than gaming. You could say I've been doing mobile development since 1986.:-) It still uses its third set of batteries.
[Disclaimer: Early signer of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development and Scrum Master speaking]
"Agile Software"?! What crack have these guys been smoking?
A software development process can be agile in a way that it provides flexible and frequent kinda-sorta "on-demand" interaction with the customer. Usually customers who don't know what they want until they see it but somehow know exactly what it may cost and when it has to be finished. Classic corporate and web software stuff that is. The aim of such a development process is agility in software development. The actual process itself often is very rigid (Scrum being one of those),
"Agile" as a nown is a huge part of the "agile" bullshit we've been hearing in the last 10 years. And there is no such thing as Agile Software. Morons writing about some other moron bullshit that "didn't pan out".... Well, no shit, buster.
I wish we could wrap all these douchebags into barbed wire and shoot them into the sun. That would be progress on the front of agile software development.
Bottom line: Idiots babbling non-sense. Nothing to see here, please move along.
Windows: Pay to get observed. Chrome OS: Get observed but get something for it. For free.
Disclaimer: I'm typing this on a Chromebook. That is basically unheard of here in Europe, especially in Germany. I wanted to test having big brother observe me all time every time at all I do to the fullest extent and see what the trade-in for that is. Since I exclusively do web development and have all my everyday stuff in the web and mostly with Google anyway the benefit is palpable. Linux is a close second, but mostly because the disto landscape is a mess and you can't get a neat ARM laptop for 450 Euros that runs 10 hours on one charge and boots in less than 10 seconds and has everything pre-installed. Everything meaning also my entire setup and history with Google. (I'm using an Acer R13 Chrombook, it has replaced my 2011 MB Air).
It's not all disadvantages that Google watches over you is my point. Right now the Google ecosystem is what I recommend to anyone who knows nothing about computers and has little or no budget. My other Chromebook costed 120 Euros and the new 11" ones from Dell come 199 Euros a pop. New and without firesale.
Add in that a n00b using big brother doesn't have to think for a second how he will get his pictures from his phone on to his laptop or the printer and wether his stuff is lost if his notebook shatters and you easyly understand why we all happyliy carry our high-end televisor around with us and even love it.
Google is your friend. Google watches over you. Everybody loves Google. Trust Google.
Googles model is that of the future and MS and others are going to have long-term problems competing with that unless they somehow manage to establish a solid "Cloud brand" with their presence. Which I don't really see happing. Windows only still has some traction because office people do wee-wee in their panties if they don't get their outlook, and MS office. Other than that Google owns, by convenience and by price, many times over.
That's my impression anyway. Many an expert in my field that I know are actually using Chromebooks and enjoy the enablement that comes with going all-out cloud, surveillance be damned.
So, yes, Chrome OS is a threat to Windows. And a big one.
The Linux Kernel is the most valuable piece of software on the planet, by a wide margin. It powers the vast majority of all computing devices and work on it was started when C was a perfect choice for system programming. Now finally some new system languages are coming along, but they are decades behind C and even more behind on big software projects like the kernel. Before rust or anything other can take over we are more likely to see a shift in CPU architecture. Rust or something like that will probably take over when some new purpose built FOSS kernel come around and does away with truckloads of legacy stuff Linux has to deal with.
C is basically assembler in "a tad more readable" with assembler being nothing other than opcode in "a tad more readable". That the kernel still works seems to prove that their choice of sticking with c can't be all that wrong. And should c eventually be replaced, the whole kernel will be replaced, that just about a no brainer. Linux thinks you shouldn't be using a debugger, because of you're doing kernel code you should know what your are doing at all times and if it turns out you didn't you should backtrack manually to find every aspect of the fault. This is hardcore shit not intended for wussies, this is the foundation those wonderful python applications run on. And I for one trust that the kernel team knows what it's doing. Their installbase seems to agree.
I would second that conclusion. I'm a grand-master at doing nothing "productive" and that correlates heavily with my creative drive which in turn correlates strongly with my nerd qualities and the notable need to do something useful when I'm compelled to do something. Nothing has me procrastinate more than having to deal with nonsense cause by others or circumstance.
That's also why my karma here is through the roof.;-)
No surprise here. For ages China and India have treated women as second and third grade citizens to the point that anyone who can afford it aborts pregnancies with female babies, because the dowry and other duties coming with female offspring are a measurable burden on families.
China has a male to female ratio of two to one in some places due to the one child policy having everyone aim for a male son. Same thing in India.
I've seen this coming for decades and it's going to get worse. A lot worse, amplified by male sexual frustration. That has been my hunch for quite some time now anyway.
I've been programming for over 30 years and have used switch less than 10 times in that entire time. It's completely pointless IMHO. How Go could inlcude switch but no foreach is totally beyond me.... Although I sort of like Go.
... when it's presented in an article posted on what must be the shittiest technews website ever. Running slower that the most degraded WordPress installation I've seen or worked with, loading north of 30 external trackers, codesnippets and such.
Who uses Dropbox aside from some clueless PEBKACs? Definitely not that many from the Linux camp, that's for sure. We know how to handle ssh and scp. Seriously, I'm surprised they even offered a client in the first place. Didn't know until now, couldn't create less either way too. I bet it's the same for most Linux users.
... into n00b territory when people are discussing the professional branding value of Hotmail vs. Gmail.:-) It goes like this: MyFristname@mylastname.tld, contact@mylastname.tld, etc. or contact@mydomain.tld,... etc.... huge gap... bladiblah@gmail/Hotmail/whatever.
Everyone contributes what they want, everyone takes what they need and the world improves over it. You can only have that with digital goods that can be multiplied instantaniously with basically zero cost.
That's why proprietary software always dies out in the long run and loses over to FOSS eventually.
This looks like an extended suicide "I I'll go out with a flash and a bang" type thing. Any reasons for that? Was his star dwindling? Did he have other troubles?
A lazy slob on the basement wastes resources by binding others that need to take care of him. Not the best premise for survival. In fact a society ready to ditch lazy slobs might actually be more likely to survive.
However, if I'm lazy and at the same time manage to survive or even be attractive by being effektive where it counts, that is an essential skill. Especially in environments that don't charge to rapidly over a long time.
Check my emails twice a day private and at work - which is 3*5 hours per week -whenever a mail comes in, which, in my case, is roughly 3 times a day. I write an absolute maximum of 10 (ten) emails per week, mostly it's one or two. My *entire* email communication is easily done with 60 minutes per week.
How people can even maintain their sanity with 200+ emails per day is beyond me. My strong suspicion is that most of that is totally superfluous bullshit anyway. An the occasional glimpse I get from full-quote mail threads written by the unwashed masses appears to confirm that suspicion.
No steam lock-down installer bullshit, no DRM, awesome games, great deals, an abundance of great old and new games, a website not built by complete morons... All in all a very, very good e-commerce offering for digital goods.
This is how it should be done. I'll probably support their initiative for that reason alone.
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... and, AFAICT, a good and useful one.
Why should I resist that?
So AMP is a reduced HTML standard to make mobile websites load faster and less bloated that the bullshit we see today spewed into the public web by people who can't tell a server from a client and shouldn't be let near a keyboard of a connected computer, let alone in the lead position of some web project. Pagecalls weigh in twice to three times as heavy as an entire Amiga operating system these days. If your would delivered such a thing 18 years ago people would've beat you up and for good reasons too.
So Google wants to cache my website with AMP? Nice. Go right ahead. If they update the content in their cache whenever I do I'm all for it. The more I can tell clients that their crappy bloated piece of shit they call a website is going to be deranked into unseen depths of Google if they don't use sensible unbroken web presentations, AMP is a good thing and it will be a part of my optimisation strategy for professional websites.
I've been doing web development for nearly 20 years now and have finally decided to actually stay in the field despite the douchebag quota in the industry being through the effing roof. Stuff like PWAs and browser vendors finally getting their shit together and bring mostly standards compliant keep it interesting for me. Plus an abundance of new and neat technologies to keep things interesting. I'll just be looking for better teams in the future. You develop a thick skin and a acute sense of smell for shitty gigs and crappy web-shops.
Disclaimer: German citizen here.
I live in NRW and have never owned a car. I think it's safe to say that in urbanised and semi-urban/suburb areas in Germany it's nigh pointless to own one these days. Germans love their cars, but standing at an intersection at 7:30 on a regular morning will show you that this private owned ICE car thing is little more than some German mass psychosis or something.
20 years ago people would call me crazy for not having a driver's license - it's somewhat of a regular rite of growing up in Germany - but that has changed in the last 15 years. Today's generations are pretty much where I was 25 years ago: many really don't get the point of owning a car.
As for PT it's basically what you would expect smack center in Europe on German soil: I can fall out of bed and land at a bus-stop. The tram is 10 minutes away and I can travel the entire state on my PT subscription. For me that comes for free, as I'm a college student and a state wide PT ticket is included in being that.
With the ever increasing mega-sprawls PT will be the way to ride for most people in the future, no doubt about it. Regular motorised traffic is at the beginning of collapse in Germany, and I expect it to get worse.
... are a tough bunch. They usually have a left leaning socio-political agenda and quite often sympathy with regular citizens. And they can hold out for a loooooong time. ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...ÃYe )
Google perhaps should consider some other place to set up camp. :-)
Seriously. The lead has an appointment clash. Whatever the reason.
Of course the crew adjusts. This is SOP in every team.
On top of that, Linus isn't just some mid-range lead in a kinda so so software team.
This is the kernel and he basically has demigod status and for good reasons too, so I presume the crew is happy to adjust.
Post-scarcity society. Post-scarcity economy. The worth of money degenerates and disappears - ECB negative interest is almost a standard now and Jeff Bezos wears the same jeans I do and has the same phone. The worth of knowledge however suddenly rises because in a functioning post scarcity society is the only thing left that counts. Hence people are starting to notice the nerd camp who value knowledge above popularity actually on to something.
Seems very fitting to me. I'm just wasn't expecting that to happen that fast and I'm my lifetime. But then again, nobody did, so that's a pleasant surprise.
All in all, the consequence is logical. Capitalism has run its course, knowledge and culture are King. We need more of this, and fast, so people stop fighting stupid wars and accruing useless tat.
My 2 cents. Errrm, "knowledge points". :-)
... belongs behind ssh or, at least, behind http access and SSL.
If I catch you doing otherwise for anything other than FOSS software I'll smack you. Hard.
A proposition that is a tad awkward, since they've already basically taken over the web. ... Whatever.
If you want to replace URLs, your basically replacing the web. If you want to do that, good luck. It better be a really good replacement, with open standards and premium reference implementations and some really awesome stuff like meshing, state and offline built right in. Plus some amazing programming language to build and run things on it.
In short: Good luck with that.
Google could do it, but I doubt even they can muster the discipline it takes to undergo such a massive project without having others jumping ship to stay on the old web.
My 2 cents.
... first computer. Protable and programmable was more important to me than gaming. :-)
You could say I've been doing mobile development since 1986.
It still uses its third set of batteries.
Hows that for battery time, hmmm?
[Disclaimer: Early signer of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development and Scrum Master speaking]
"Agile Software"?! What crack have these guys been smoking?
A software development process can be agile in a way that it provides flexible and frequent kinda-sorta "on-demand" interaction with the customer. Usually customers who don't know what they want until they see it but somehow know exactly what it may cost and when it has to be finished. Classic corporate and web software stuff that is.
The aim of such a development process is agility in software development. The actual process itself often is very rigid (Scrum being one of those),
"Agile" as a nown is a huge part of the "agile" bullshit we've been hearing in the last 10 years. And there is no such thing as Agile Software. ... Well, no shit, buster.
Morons writing about some other moron bullshit that "didn't pan out".
I wish we could wrap all these douchebags into barbed wire and shoot them into the sun. That would be progress on the front of agile software development.
Bottom line:
Idiots babbling non-sense. Nothing to see here, please move along.
Windows: Pay to get observed.
Chrome OS: Get observed but get something for it. For free.
Disclaimer: I'm typing this on a Chromebook. That is basically unheard of here in Europe, especially in Germany. I wanted to test having big brother observe me all time every time at all I do to the fullest extent and see what the trade-in for that is. Since I exclusively do web development and have all my everyday stuff in the web and mostly with Google anyway the benefit is palpable. Linux is a close second, but mostly because the disto landscape is a mess and you can't get a neat ARM laptop for 450 Euros that runs 10 hours on one charge and boots in less than 10 seconds and has everything pre-installed. Everything meaning also my entire setup and history with Google. (I'm using an Acer R13 Chrombook, it has replaced my 2011 MB Air).
It's not all disadvantages that Google watches over you is my point. Right now the Google ecosystem is what I recommend to anyone who knows nothing about computers and has little or no budget. My other Chromebook costed 120 Euros and the new 11" ones from Dell come 199 Euros a pop. New and without firesale.
Add in that a n00b using big brother doesn't have to think for a second how he will get his pictures from his phone on to his laptop or the printer and wether his stuff is lost if his notebook shatters and you easyly understand why we all happyliy carry our high-end televisor around with us and even love it.
Google is your friend.
Google watches over you.
Everybody loves Google.
Trust Google.
Googles model is that of the future and MS and others are going to have long-term problems competing with that unless they somehow manage to establish a solid "Cloud brand" with their presence. Which I don't really see happing. Windows only still has some traction because office people do wee-wee in their panties if they don't get their outlook, and MS office. Other than that Google owns, by convenience and by price, many times over.
That's my impression anyway. Many an expert in my field that I know are actually using Chromebooks and enjoy the enablement that comes with going all-out cloud, surveillance be damned.
So, yes, Chrome OS is a threat to Windows. And a big one.
My 2 eurocents.
The Linux Kernel is the most valuable piece of software on the planet, by a wide margin. It powers the vast majority of all computing devices and work on it was started when C was a perfect choice for system programming. Now finally some new system languages are coming along, but they are decades behind C and even more behind on big software projects like the kernel.
Before rust or anything other can take over we are more likely to see a shift in CPU architecture. Rust or something like that will probably take over when some new purpose built FOSS kernel come around and does away with truckloads of legacy stuff Linux has to deal with.
C is basically assembler in "a tad more readable" with assembler being nothing other than opcode in "a tad more readable". That the kernel still works seems to prove that their choice of sticking with c can't be all that wrong. And should c eventually be replaced, the whole kernel will be replaced, that just about a no brainer.
Linux thinks you shouldn't be using a debugger, because of you're doing kernel code you should know what your are doing at all times and if it turns out you didn't you should backtrack manually to find every aspect of the fault. This is hardcore shit not intended for wussies, this is the foundation those wonderful python applications run on. And I for one trust that the kernel team knows what it's doing. Their installbase seems to agree.
My 2 eurocents.
I would second that conclusion. I'm a grand-master at doing nothing "productive" and that correlates heavily with my creative drive which in turn correlates strongly with my nerd qualities and the notable need to do something useful when I'm compelled to do something. Nothing has me procrastinate more than having to deal with nonsense cause by others or circumstance.
That's also why my karma here is through the roof. ;-)
No surprise here. For ages China and India have treated women as second and third grade citizens to the point that anyone who can afford it aborts pregnancies with female babies, because the dowry and other duties coming with female offspring are a measurable burden on families.
China has a male to female ratio of two to one in some places due to the one child policy having everyone aim for a male son.
Same thing in India.
I've seen this coming for decades and it's going to get worse. A lot worse, amplified by male sexual frustration. That has been my hunch for quite some time now anyway.
My 2 eurocents.
... with that of Kotlin or TypeScript.
Then I'll consider it viable for a checkout.
And I'm not even joking.
I've been programming for over 30 years and have used switch less than 10 times in that entire time. It's completely pointless IMHO. How Go could inlcude switch but no foreach is totally beyond me. ... Although I sort of like Go.
... when it's presented in an article posted on what must be the shittiest technews website ever. Running slower that the most degraded WordPress installation I've seen or worked with, loading north of 30 external trackers, codesnippets and such.
Un-fucking-believable, that's what.
Who uses Dropbox aside from some clueless PEBKACs? Definitely not that many from the Linux camp, that's for sure. We know how to handle ssh and scp. Seriously, I'm surprised they even offered a client in the first place. Didn't know until now, couldn't create less either way too.
I bet it's the same for most Linux users.
... into n00b territory when people are discussing the professional branding value of Hotmail vs. Gmail. :-) ... etc. ... huge gap ... bladiblah@gmail/Hotmail/whatever.
It goes like this:
MyFristname@mylastname.tld, contact@mylastname.tld, etc. or contact@mydomain.tld,
Why is this even on Slashdot?
Everyone contributes what they want, everyone takes what they need and the world improves over it.
You can only have that with digital goods that can be multiplied instantaniously with basically zero cost.
That's why proprietary software always dies out in the long run and loses over to FOSS eventually.
This looks like an extended suicide "I I'll go out with a flash and a bang" type thing.
Any reasons for that? Was his star dwindling? Did he have other troubles?
That many people don't know how to have a good time without alcohol is part of the problem.
Not the laziest.
A lazy slob on the basement wastes resources by binding others that need to take care of him. Not the best premise for survival. In fact a society ready to ditch lazy slobs might actually be more likely to survive.
However, if I'm lazy and at the same time manage to survive or even be attractive by being effektive where it counts, that is an essential skill. Especially in environments that don't charge to rapidly over a long time.
Check my emails twice a day private and at work - which is 3*5 hours per week -whenever a mail comes in, which, in my case, is roughly 3 times a day. I write an absolute maximum of 10 (ten) emails per week, mostly it's one or two. My *entire* email communication is easily done with 60 minutes per week.
How people can even maintain their sanity with 200+ emails per day is beyond me. My strong suspicion is that most of that is totally superfluous bullshit anyway. An the occasional glimpse I get from full-quote mail threads written by the unwashed masses appears to confirm that suspicion.
My 2 cents.
No steam lock-down installer bullshit, no DRM, awesome games, great deals, an abundance of great old and new games, a website not built by complete morons ... All in all a very, very good e-commerce offering for digital goods.
This is how it should be done. I'll probably support their initiative for that reason alone.
My 2 eurocents.