Contrary to MS in the 90ies, Chrome (Chromium) is FOSS. Everyone can use it, everyone can fork it, everyone can deploy it to their platform. Even MS. (sic) The technology and the core software itself is objectively good, while MSes was objectively evil.
Googles tactics were probably neccessary to prevent MS from doing their MS-threestep. Given, Google, like no other, profits from a strong web, especially because they own it with their key product, Google Search, but no one is preventing MS from building their own video streaming site that competes with youtube.
That one's easy. I'm a poweruser but giving up a smartphone for 12 months for 100 000$ sounds like a very good deal to me. No sweat. I'll check if I can apply as a non-USian.
WP is a messy blob of spaghetti code, albeit one with 160 million active installs. That means a bug like this that would go undetected for months on any other System comes up with a fix two days after its release. And that in turn makes for some pretty relyable security.
We were supposed to reach that 25 years ago or so. So I'm not holding my breath. Besides: what about recycling? Do that correctly, including taxes for electronics that go faulty too fast and you've fixed some of the problems with resources.
... doubleplusungood. Comply in shutting them down, adjusting them according to the standards of the ministry of love or be collected for immediate recycling at the biomatter tanks in your district.
Thank you for your cooperation citizen. And remember: Big Mao is watching you.
... about this but the data on this problem is pretty clear: If we don't get a handle on this problem and make it snappy, humanity and the ecosystem as we know it is pretty much screwed.
Here's what I would want as a long-time professional web developer who initially was very sceptical of the Web and in some ways still is:
1.) DNS - Fix DNS. Distributed, with no single center of control. Conceptually "Namecoin" is the right approach. Use that or find something better.
2.) Offline - Make "offline" a first-class concept. This is where the Web sucks bit time, to this very day. In this regard Fidonet is still ahead of todays puplic Internet and the Web. And Fidonet is from 1989 or something. Make referrers optional for the *user*. Preferably with mesh-networking in the mix (this lies lower than the Web, I know, but still).
3.) Client-side Application Logic - Keep the Web primarily document based but offer a turing-complete application runtime environment as a well spec'd first-class solution. JavaScript actually isn't all that bad, but maybe there's a better way. Perhaps TypeScript or something similar. Canvas and timeline control should be a zero-fuss affair.
4.) Protocols - Clean out, streamline, simplify and fix HTML and CSS. Absolute sizes, no more pixels or PTs, completely independant of screen resolution. Zero-fuss layout control. Make encryption at application-protocl level a must. Make the specification more strict. Broken HTML? Errormessage.
That's what I would want and I think it would fix most problems we have today.
I'm an Emacs guy. It was the editor most likely to handle large files when everything else failed. Until VS Code - an electron/atom based editor, built by MS (yeah, really) came along. It's my main editor on Manjaro i3 Linux today. I repeat: An MS-lead open source project today provides my main editing tool. Search and replace is faster than Emacs over large files and it's way more usable with truckloads of features and extensions that don't need a CS degree to assemble.
Yes, back on my iBook G4 VSCode wouldn't even find enough memory to launch and emacs rules for files 30MB and larger. But today is different. When I'm not programming, I'm using a Chromebook. A friggin' Browser with a keyboard and touchscreen. And it's *more* open than Apple or MS, because - you guessed it - it's built on toy technologies that nobody control on their own.
You can rant all you want about toy languages and toy technologies, but they usually win. Precisely *because* no one takes them seriously. Back in the 80ies IBM introduced a toy computer because Homecomputing was becoming a thing. They gave the specs away for free because "we don't sell toys, we sell real computers. Go ahead and copy it if you want, we don't care."
Today the toy architecture x86 rules the planet.
It's the exact same with JavaScript.
Yeah, real men use C, we get it. JS is a toy language for making little effects on website. You're absolutely right. But JS won the PL wars. True thing. That's a cold hard fact you will have to get over.
Every new PL that comes along better have a JS transpiler and offer some neat web-solutions or it will have a tough time gaining mainstream attention.
... is what happens if people insist on doing their own platform and inflating the development process for it with loads of ceremony. Electron is the extension of this concept. And for most scenarios it makes perfect sense, as it offers useful solutions that run everywhere without too much hassle for the developer.
It should have native platformers thinking twice about their toolchain when the guy of developing desktop apps with awkward web technologies actually less of a hassle than using their native tools.
I don't like PHP all that much but it pays my bills and gets the job done. Say what you want but it's the only domain specific language in widespread use that has a proven record of delivering. I also like the document driven approach. PHP doesn't memory leak, it simply timeouts. Most of the time that is. A simpleton can program and add some logic to his documents within minutes and it's powerful enough to build large applications that work as advertised. I will be sticking with PHP as a main PL for the time being and PHP 7.3 once again looks like a promising and useful update.
Burning fossil fuel. And eventually killing the ecosystem and itself. Not entirely unlikely. Scientist have been toying with this thought. Ours really isn't that old and we're screwing up the planet already, big time.
I've been pondering a new hardware update cycle in the last 2-3 years. Waiting for the cheap viable Apple option to come around. Didn't happen with Apple lately. I'm in the process of moving away from Apple hardware and basically finished with that. I'm typing this on a refurbushed ThinkPad X220 in which I just upgraded the SDD to 1TB yesterday (runs Manjaro i3 Linux) and got meself a Chromebook a few months back to try out the cheap ARM-based secure "Lord-Google-watches-over-me" option. Not sure if that test will come out positive, still carefully evaluating. The suddenly increasing (!) price in Chromebooks lately isn't helping though IMHO.
Long story short: The articles assessment is spot on. Apple is an all-out fashion brand for people who care for a high minimum of quality but not about objective price-performance. That has Apple earning obscene amounts of money. Good for them. I'm out however. I've been eyeing the new iPad Pro - a truely amazing device - but it's just too damn expensive and too much Apple-service lock-in with iOS.
Only at work am I still using a neat retina 27" iMac with a bunch of FOSS software (homebrew, iTerm, Gimp, Inkscape, etc.) added. Nice. But if a work HW upgrade is due, my next one will inlcude a fanless custom Linux box and a extra-wide 4k display and some luxury KB & Mouse. And still be cheaper than the sub-par Apple option.
I had that suspicion. That in some hyper-clean futuristic world neo-hippster-compliant retro chique would be en-vogue again. Mark my words: Once elctric cars automated become commonplace, you'll be able to order them build in some retro style for those who have extra cash and want to distinguish themselves from the unwashed masses.
And I'm a stoic minimalist that lives in a 35m^2 apartment. I could move all my stuff in 4 hours or less.
But it takes time and effort to build a social network (a real one) and once I've settled in and found new friends it sucks to move. So the new job better pay, big time and offer interesting perspectives and/or projects. Since it usually doesn't, go screw yourself and quit wasting my time Mr. Recruiter.
... in the "decommissioning ICE" department. Much unlike some other German carmakers that wil get a huge kick in the balls in the next few years, loss 100 000+ high quality German industry jobs included. Our politicians deserve a clobbering for this bullshit, inlcuding sucking up to the auto-industry over here for so long, with the current Diesel scandal and all.
Dart was one of the interesting transpiles-to-JavaScript things of the JS hype of the last 10 years, but it lost out to typescript like all the rest. The Flutter toolkit is Darts last chance of serving in a potentially viable ecosystem before it drops of the radar.... I'm not holding my breath. Although Dart has some really cool things. An own VM for own runtime niceties and a trivially ready mechanism for pseudo-concurrency and multi core programming that you can instantly grasp and use after reading the description for the compute() function.
If you like checking out awesome new PLs just for kicks, Dart is smack center in your ballpark.
I have been thinking lately that IMHO Firefox would be an ideal candidate for a co-op with MS. They could do a little more good, regain some of that long lost karma, FF quantum would get the attention it deserves and MS would still be giving Google and Apple the finger. That works be a win win win Situation for both MS and Mozilla IMHO.
Then again, I live in Germany where college is not only free but actually in some ways cheaper. My student ID gives me free public transport and I get rebates on public events.... College in the US OTOH is a totally different deal.
Quite literally.
Doing that as a non-rich hetero male? Raking up large five digit sums in debt? At risk of being sued to kingdom come and have my vita destroyed because I made the wrong compliment to some prudish US chica?
Nope.
That whole package sounds like a really bad idea. If I were in the US today I'd steer clear of colleges like the plague.... I'd probably do freelance development, build my own microhouse and go hiking, snowboarding or surfing all day or something. Not much space our freedom for all that here in Germany.
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They built a compelling service that people like to use.
Contrary to MS in the 90ies, Chrome (Chromium) is FOSS. Everyone can use it, everyone can fork it, everyone can deploy it to their platform. Even MS. (sic) The technology and the core software itself is objectively good, while MSes was objectively evil.
Googles tactics were probably neccessary to prevent MS from doing their MS-threestep. Given, Google, like no other, profits from a strong web, especially because they own it with their key product, Google Search, but no one is preventing MS from building their own video streaming site that competes with youtube.
By a wide margin. I'd argue that the Fidonet even was/is superior to some aspects of the internet and its services.
That one's easy. I'm a poweruser but giving up a smartphone for 12 months for 100 000$ sounds like a very good deal to me. No sweat. I'll check if I can apply as a non-USian.
No joke.
WP is a messy blob of spaghetti code, albeit one with 160 million active installs. That means a bug like this that would go undetected for months on any other System comes up with a fix two days after its release. And that in turn makes for some pretty relyable security.
We were supposed to reach that 25 years ago or so. So I'm not holding my breath. Besides: what about recycling? Do that correctly, including taxes for electronics that go faulty too fast and you've fixed some of the problems with resources.
... doubleplusungood. Comply in shutting them down, adjusting them according to the standards of the ministry of love or be collected for immediate recycling at the biomatter tanks in your district.
Thank you for your cooperation citizen. And remember: Big Mao is watching you.
... about this but the data on this problem is pretty clear: If we don't get a handle on this problem and make it snappy, humanity and the ecosystem as we know it is pretty much screwed.
Just saying.
Here's what I would want as a long-time professional web developer who initially was very sceptical of the Web and in some ways still is:
1.) DNS - Fix DNS. Distributed, with no single center of control. Conceptually "Namecoin" is the right approach. Use that or find something better.
2.) Offline - Make "offline" a first-class concept. This is where the Web sucks bit time, to this very day. In this regard Fidonet is still ahead of todays puplic Internet and the Web. And Fidonet is from 1989 or something. Make referrers optional for the *user*. Preferably with mesh-networking in the mix (this lies lower than the Web, I know, but still).
3.) Client-side Application Logic - Keep the Web primarily document based but offer a turing-complete application runtime environment as a well spec'd first-class solution. JavaScript actually isn't all that bad, but maybe there's a better way. Perhaps TypeScript or something similar. Canvas and timeline control should be a zero-fuss affair.
4.) Protocols - Clean out, streamline, simplify and fix HTML and CSS. Absolute sizes, no more pixels or PTs, completely independant of screen resolution. Zero-fuss layout control. Make encryption at application-protocl level a must. Make the specification more strict. Broken HTML? Errormessage.
That's what I would want and I think it would fix most problems we have today.
I'm an Emacs guy. It was the editor most likely to handle large files when everything else failed. Until VS Code - an electron/atom based editor, built by MS (yeah, really) came along. It's my main editor on Manjaro i3 Linux today. I repeat: An MS-lead open source project today provides my main editing tool.
Search and replace is faster than Emacs over large files and it's way more usable with truckloads of features and extensions that don't need a CS degree to assemble.
Yes, back on my iBook G4 VSCode wouldn't even find enough memory to launch and emacs rules for files 30MB and larger. But today is different. When I'm not programming, I'm using a Chromebook. A friggin' Browser with a keyboard and touchscreen. And it's *more* open than Apple or MS, because - you guessed it - it's built on toy technologies that nobody control on their own.
You can rant all you want about toy languages and toy technologies, but they usually win. Precisely *because* no one takes them seriously. Back in the 80ies IBM introduced a toy computer because Homecomputing was becoming a thing. They gave the specs away for free because "we don't sell toys, we sell real computers. Go ahead and copy it if you want, we don't care."
Today the toy architecture x86 rules the planet.
It's the exact same with JavaScript.
Yeah, real men use C, we get it. JS is a toy language for making little effects on website. You're absolutely right.
But JS won the PL wars. True thing. That's a cold hard fact you will have to get over.
Every new PL that comes along better have a JS transpiler and offer some neat web-solutions or it will have a tough time gaining mainstream attention.
Welcome to 2019 my friend.
... is what happens if people insist on doing their own platform and inflating the development process for it with loads of ceremony. Electron is the extension of this concept. And for most scenarios it makes perfect sense, as it offers useful solutions that run everywhere without too much hassle for the developer.
It should have native platformers thinking twice about their toolchain when the guy of developing desktop apps with awkward web technologies actually less of a hassle than using their native tools.
My 2 cents.
... when your try to make sense of Wordpresses application model.
Poor young fellow.
I don't like PHP all that much but it pays my bills and gets the job done. Say what you want but it's the only domain specific language in widespread use that has a proven record of delivering. I also like the document driven approach. PHP doesn't memory leak, it simply timeouts. Most of the time that is. A simpleton can program and add some logic to his documents within minutes and it's powerful enough to build large applications that work as advertised.
I will be sticking with PHP as a main PL for the time being and PHP 7.3 once again looks like a promising and useful update.
My 2 eurocents.
Burning fossil fuel. And eventually killing the ecosystem and itself. Not entirely unlikely. Scientist have been toying with this thought. Ours really isn't that old and we're screwing up the planet already, big time.
... about using a major player smartphone. Eyeing and considering Sailfish and old Blackberry on a regular basis.
I've been pondering a new hardware update cycle in the last 2-3 years. Waiting for the cheap viable Apple option to come around. Didn't happen with Apple lately. I'm in the process of moving away from Apple hardware and basically finished with that. I'm typing this on a refurbushed ThinkPad X220 in which I just upgraded the SDD to 1TB yesterday (runs Manjaro i3 Linux) and got meself a Chromebook a few months back to try out the cheap ARM-based secure "Lord-Google-watches-over-me" option. Not sure if that test will come out positive, still carefully evaluating. The suddenly increasing (!) price in Chromebooks lately isn't helping though IMHO.
Long story short: The articles assessment is spot on. Apple is an all-out fashion brand for people who care for a high minimum of quality but not about objective price-performance. That has Apple earning obscene amounts of money. Good for them. I'm out however. I've been eyeing the new iPad Pro - a truely amazing device - but it's just too damn expensive and too much Apple-service lock-in with iOS.
Only at work am I still using a neat retina 27" iMac with a bunch of FOSS software (homebrew, iTerm, Gimp, Inkscape, etc.) added. Nice. But if a work HW upgrade is due, my next one will inlcude a fanless custom Linux box and a extra-wide 4k display and some luxury KB & Mouse. And still be cheaper than the sub-par Apple option.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
... weren't all to far off.
I had that suspicion. That in some hyper-clean futuristic world neo-hippster-compliant retro chique would be en-vogue again. Mark my words: Once elctric cars automated become commonplace, you'll be able to order them build in some retro style for those who have extra cash and want to distinguish themselves from the unwashed masses.
And I'm a stoic minimalist that lives in a 35m^2 apartment. I could move all my stuff in 4 hours or less.
But it takes time and effort to build a social network (a real one) and once I've settled in and found new friends it sucks to move. So the new job better pay, big time and offer interesting perspectives and/or projects. Since it usually doesn't, go screw yourself and quit wasting my time Mr. Recruiter.
My 2 eurocents.
... in the "decommissioning ICE" department. Much unlike some other German carmakers that wil get a huge kick in the balls in the next few years, loss 100 000+ high quality German industry jobs included. Our politicians deserve a clobbering for this bullshit, inlcuding sucking up to the auto-industry over here for so long, with the current Diesel scandal and all.
Dart was one of the interesting transpiles-to-JavaScript things of the JS hype of the last 10 years, but it lost out to typescript like all the rest. The Flutter toolkit is Darts last chance of serving in a potentially viable ecosystem before it drops of the radar. ...
I'm not holding my breath. Although Dart has some really cool things. An own VM for own runtime niceties and a trivially ready mechanism for pseudo-concurrency and multi core programming that you can instantly grasp and use after reading the description for the compute() function.
If you like checking out awesome new PLs just for kicks, Dart is smack center in your ballpark.
I have been thinking lately that IMHO Firefox would be an ideal candidate for a co-op with MS. They could do a little more good, regain some of that long lost karma, FF quantum would get the attention it deserves and MS would still be giving Google and Apple the finger. That works be a win win win Situation for both MS and Mozilla IMHO.
Jesus HB Crickey. Screw autocorrect. LOL.
Then again, I live in Germany where college is not only free but actually in some ways cheaper. My student ID gives me free public transport and I get rebates on public events. ...
College in the US OTOH is a totally different deal.
Quite literally.
Doing that as a non-rich hetero male? Raking up large five digit sums in debt? At risk of being sued to kingdom come and have my vita destroyed because I made the wrong compliment to some prudish US chica?
Nope.
That whole package sounds like a really bad idea. If I were in the US today I'd steer clear of colleges like the plague. ... I'd probably do freelance development, build my own microhouse and go hiking, snowboarding or surfing all day or something. Not much space our freedom for all that here in Germany.
My 2 rudiments.
By code. Fast. 3 weeks in and they have a new meaning Just like Fuck has at least two. Goes to show that compelled speach is nonsense.