And yet the communication majors will be producing something relatively more worthwhile than the drivel we continually see coming out of these developers.
Please give us just one example of each. Seriously. Let's see it.
So, I invoke a variation of the Fermi Paradox in relation to black holes. If they were all over the place "lurking" as the article suggests we should see evidence of that through Gravitational Lensing. Random points in space where suddenly we see a 'smear.' Other evidence would be through objects moving in odd was as we see at the center of our own galaxy. I've never read about any of that.
Last time I checked, we only see lensing where there is a defined galaxy, which then explains the lensing effect. And there we have it.
I realize things move fast in cosmology so perhaps my information is dated already. I always welcome a chance to learn something new.
The province of Nova Scotia is actively petitioning [...].
Yeah but... Nova Scotia... a place one plane ride away from having a Caribou as a girl friend. A mean rough girlfriend at that. (Of course, there are those who like that, I guess.)
If this is where user interfaces are going we could have stopped at the Athena Widgets in 1990 and saved ourselves a lot of trouble. If they really wanted something retro they could have used that. I concur with your observation.
+1 ( I wish I had points. )
I get the whole minimalist thing, but as usual, it's been taken the the point of absurdity. I predict the next step will be a single white word on a white background with a barely visible graphic of a puff of smoke. That's it. And that will be after a year of "work" by a team of UX "geniuses." I happen to know most of that year is spent playing Clash of Clams and telling each other how smart they are to not actually provide any evidence of any actual effort and still get paid.
Google is intentionally bricking hardware that I own. That's a pretty blatant "fuck you" to every person who trusted in them and bought their hardware.
How many times has Google said "fuck you" to people who trusted them and how many times have those people returned to Google for more? Who actually trusts Google anymore?
When consumerism is turned into religion people start worshiping companies. They then kick in post-rationalization and employ a heavy need to validate their decisions. You then get rather far-fetched rational like we see here with a number of posts. Like the "it was Alphabet not Google!" type. "A rose is still a rose by any other name." A Google is still a Google by any other name. Evidence can be right in front of their face and they will still try to deflect it and rationalize it away.
I think history has proven once a company (like Comcast) figures out it can screw its "customers" over and over, it will never stop. Hubris rules at that point.
There are many possible "internets", networks of interlinked networks. The "Internet" is one of them, by far the largest. That is, "Internet" is a proper noun, in the same way that "Bill", "Associated Press", and "Monica" are.
There is nothing Proper, and never has been, about Bill or Monica. Ever.
**Once again, a UX Genius at work. And once again, proving they are the dumbest people in high-tech.
**My lawyer, Mr. Douchesniff has informed me I need this disclaimer: My response is predicated on the assumption this is an April Fools article thing. If it isn't, it should be, if it was, it was meant to be, if it wasn't, then it's not, but and including the option that it might have been until its proven that it was. Or not. Caveat Emptor You Fool. And so on and some such. (It's the best $4,000 I've ever spent.)
First, it seems very clear this article is a 'projection' attempt by/. 'editors' to cover for their atrocious and sloppy practices. We are all jerks, you see. As agreed upon by 83 people. Eighty three. Okay.
Second, I suspect this thread has had the highest ratio of correct (self conscious) spelling and grammar than any thread EVA!. Perhaps in the entire history of Slashdot? And there you have it.
Irregardless, as this study learns us, peeple who point out errors of any kind are all complete jerks, so I bet you're both undoubtably really a literal pain in the ass.
I can't help myself. A software company I worked at hired a condescending little twerp who on his first day declared his development equipment and work space beneath him, (sniff-sniff) and so on. He was a jerk. Yet he constantly and endlessly said "irregardless" even when he didn't need to. And no one, not a single person, pointed it out to him. He was so smug. What was really strange though, we would openly snicker, roll our eyes, out right laugh, "irregardless" we would even reuse the word incorrectly in front of him, and he never noticed. He kept doing it. It was weird.
It was soon discovered he was writing a 1000 lines of code and pulling in 4 unneeded libraries to do simple tasks that only required ~100 lines at best. As well as lobbying the Boss to put him in charge. After a few months he was shown the door. I had never quite seen anything or anyone like that. Ah, good times.
Remember "Embrace , Extend, Extinguish" and "Developers, Developers, Developers".
Microsoft just needs to pull off those developers with new ideas from Linux to Windows.
Bingo! I wish I had mod points. If anyone thinks Microsoft has fundamentally changed, they are in for a big surprise.
Microsoft's persona is no longer that sweaty coke-fueled guy throwing chairs. It's now the kindly Grandma coming up and offering sweets, then when you are distracted, she sticks a stiletto in your back and twists, and smiles as she watches the life drain from your eyes. EEE indeed.
Last paragraph is Pathetic Click-Bait by some clueless Internet Dude who sniff's and licks Elon Musk's ass. "Ain't nobody got time for that." Off to a real news site.
If one studies Earth's history long term, say for example, ancient Egypt and the Nile over thousands of years, it is clear the weather and it's impact on the Earth has changed many, many times. Kingdoms rose and fell based on long term drought and hot weather; long term cooling and wet weather. It is true of all the Earth. It's a cycle. Many of those cycles are far longer than a persons lifetime.
The so-called Environmentalists and all their hysterical loony-bin predictions, of which all were totally wrong, have caused certain words to be trigger words, like 'heat wave.' An example of loony was Al Gore claiming in 2005 sea levels would rise by a meter or more in 10 years unless we did what he told us and made him a billionaire. Times up and he was dead wrong. Should I even bring up East Anglia and Climategate? Thankfully most smart people have figured out the scam that would have made a select few very rich.
And here's another, it also benefits websites who want a lot of "click-throughs" and responses. Now when I hear or read about a 'heat wave' in these situations I always think of South Park's episode about Global Warming. They nailed it.
If this method can be used to provide a probability of knowing that short term warmer weather might happen soon, fine. But the person who wrote the headline was being completely disingenuous.
Scientists believe there was no darkness before humanity and their CFC pollutants came along. Modeling shows conclusively that temperatures were milder, bowling scores were much higher, golf scores much lower, and waterslides were much more excellent in the pre-Phanerozoic eons.
They also think that humor was funnier.
But, but... Fred, Barney, Wilma and... and Barney's wife! Dino get me off this crazy thing!
Or is there a problem pointing to where it is wrong and illustrating that?
Yes, there is a very big problem with that. People pay attention to slick films peddling easy and absolute answers. They don't pay near as much attention to cautionary statements about a lack of correlation in articles published in boring scientific journals.
Oh. So you mean like "An Inconvenient Truth"? You mean like that? Of course you do. Sure.
Lies have a big advantage over the truth. They can be simple, clean, and confident, and concise enough to fit on a bumper sticker or a tweet. The truth is always messy, complicated, and couched in doubt.
Oh. So you mean like Climategate? You mean like that? Like East Anglia and all that they did? Like that? Of course you do. Sure.
I also say an even worse problem has been added with these 'new' so-called UX 'experts.' As a software engineer I strive to give the user what they want within the context of the software itself. I say; "They are the ones who use it everyday, I just program it."
I've literally heard these UX twits exclaim; "I tell the users what they want!" Hubris and stupidity like that are as exactly as the OP said. It's the ruin of a lot of what would otherwise be good software. One need look no further than Firefox, were the UX Idiots think taking away features is a good thing.
Because of an unfortunate thing called 'freedom of religion'. So many right wing hardcore bible thumpers drilled religion into a freedom that now us lefties give it a free pass. I'm not allowed to judge the christian holy book for condoning incest and pedophilia so when I hear Muslims condone the same thing, why should I feel any different?
Wow, blinded by your own self-loathing, butt-hurt "religion of hate" you can't see that Radical Islam desires to slit your throat - it's in the Quran, or blow people into oblivion or decapitate children because they are 'infidels.' That is one hell of a difference over Sister Mary whacking your delicate little knuckles with a ruler. (Still haven't gotten over that eh?)
It seems you are unable to differentiate some basic facts here. (PS: I'm an atheist, but I recognize current reality.)
In the US, many teachers are not even competent enough to pass tests at the grade level they are teaching. (Yep, not kidding.)
So who are going to teach these kids CS? Are the teachers going to stand there with a Basic for Dummies book and (in a bored monotonous tone) "teach" by rote, a subject they don't understand to a bunch of bored kids who aren't even listening?
Huh, I just realized, there would be no better way to destroy a nations interest in programming than that. The Law of Unintended Consequences. And we have a live example. Look what has been done to mathematics in the US. And there you have it.
How about making sure kids can actually do, let's see, addition, subtraction and multiplication first. Wouldn't that be a good first step. And since the US 'education system' cannot even do that, this is just another 'hype and change' move.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
When I decide I need to hire someone, I seek out applicants on my own, based on reputation in industry, published works, patents, and other factors. When I identify someone I want to hire, I send my talent team to make contact in person (i.e. stalk them haha), often literally with a tap on the shoulder.
Google is making sure they only have employees that think a certain way by using their hiring process. But is that the only kind of employee they need to be healthy long-term?
Yep, it's the kind of "engineer" (ha!) that has replaced engineering principles with religion. The kind that has to worship Google first and foremost. I learned long ago just because someone has a PhD. or a fancy degree from an Ivy league college, does NOT mean they are smart or talented.
Given people who work for Google really work for an Advertising Company and everything they do is driven by and for that, kind of proves the above. Add in the fact most of them think they are doing humankind some kind of favor by working for an Advertising Company and we come back to Religion.
I hear ya'. I currently write software for large multi-server real-time systems. We noticed a huge performance drop. Loooong story short. The hardware systems guys had over 20 VMs running on a single server. Oh... my... gawd. They actually believed the total bull-crap that VMs run free with little over head.
It makes me sad my profession, once 'ran' on engineering principles, but has now been turned into a Religion by Script Kiddies working for Facebomb, Googler and Twits-a-plenty.
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Yeah I hear you on the fake Hitler quotes. Why do people feel the need to make things up, [...]
Bzzzt. You lose. Yeah, why do people make things up? No one, repeat, no one mentioned Hitler except you.
Irony meet thyself.
And yet the communication majors will be producing something relatively more worthwhile than the drivel we continually see coming out of these developers.
Please give us just one example of each. Seriously. Let's see it.
All these hysterical headlines.
So, I invoke a variation of the Fermi Paradox in relation to black holes. If they were all over the place "lurking" as the article suggests we should see evidence of that through Gravitational Lensing. Random points in space where suddenly we see a 'smear.' Other evidence would be through objects moving in odd was as we see at the center of our own galaxy. I've never read about any of that.
Last time I checked, we only see lensing where there is a defined galaxy, which then explains the lensing effect. And there we have it.
I realize things move fast in cosmology so perhaps my information is dated already. I always welcome a chance to learn something new.
The province of Nova Scotia is actively petitioning [...].
Yeah but... Nova Scotia... a place one plane ride away from having a Caribou as a girl friend. A mean rough girlfriend at that. (Of course, there are those who like that, I guess.)
If this is where user interfaces are going we could have stopped at the Athena Widgets in 1990 and saved ourselves a lot of trouble. If they really wanted something retro they could have used that. I concur with your observation.
+1 ( I wish I had points. )
I get the whole minimalist thing, but as usual, it's been taken the the point of absurdity. I predict the next step will be a single white word on a white background with a barely visible graphic of a puff of smoke. That's it. And that will be after a year of "work" by a team of UX "geniuses." I happen to know most of that year is spent playing Clash of Clams and telling each other how smart they are to not actually provide any evidence of any actual effort and still get paid.
Google is intentionally bricking hardware that I own. That's a pretty blatant "fuck you" to every person who trusted in them and bought their hardware.
How many times has Google said "fuck you" to people who trusted them and how many times have those people returned to Google for more? Who actually trusts Google anymore?
When consumerism is turned into religion people start worshiping companies. They then kick in post-rationalization and employ a heavy need to validate their decisions. You then get rather far-fetched rational like we see here with a number of posts. Like the "it was Alphabet not Google!" type. "A rose is still a rose by any other name." A Google is still a Google by any other name. Evidence can be right in front of their face and they will still try to deflect it and rationalize it away.
I think history has proven once a company (like Comcast) figures out it can screw its "customers" over and over, it will never stop. Hubris rules at that point.
There are many possible "internets", networks of interlinked networks. The "Internet" is one of them, by far the largest. That is, "Internet" is a proper noun, in the same way that "Bill", "Associated Press", and "Monica" are.
There is nothing Proper, and never has been, about Bill or Monica. Ever.
**Once again, a UX Genius at work. And once again, proving they are the dumbest people in high-tech.
**My lawyer, Mr. Douchesniff has informed me I need this disclaimer: My response is predicated on the assumption this is an April Fools article thing. If it isn't, it should be, if it was, it was meant to be, if it wasn't, then it's not, but and including the option that it might have been until its proven that it was. Or not. Caveat Emptor You Fool. And so on and some such. (It's the best $4,000 I've ever spent.)
What could possibly go wrong? Okay, this is the Aprils Fools joke article. Right? Right. Even MIT isn't that stupid.
First, it seems very clear this article is a 'projection' attempt by /. 'editors' to cover for their atrocious and sloppy practices. We are all jerks, you see. As agreed upon by 83 people. Eighty three. Okay.
Second, I suspect this thread has had the highest ratio of correct (self conscious) spelling and grammar than any thread EVA!. Perhaps in the entire history of Slashdot? And there you have it.
For all "intensive" purposes, "your" a great guy.
Irregardless, as this study learns us, peeple who point out errors of any kind are all complete jerks, so I bet you're both undoubtably really a literal pain in the ass.
I can't help myself. A software company I worked at hired a condescending little twerp who on his first day declared his development equipment and work space beneath him, (sniff-sniff) and so on. He was a jerk. Yet he constantly and endlessly said "irregardless" even when he didn't need to. And no one, not a single person, pointed it out to him. He was so smug. What was really strange though, we would openly snicker, roll our eyes, out right laugh, "irregardless" we would even reuse the word incorrectly in front of him, and he never noticed. He kept doing it. It was weird.
It was soon discovered he was writing a 1000 lines of code and pulling in 4 unneeded libraries to do simple tasks that only required ~100 lines at best. As well as lobbying the Boss to put him in charge. After a few months he was shown the door. I had never quite seen anything or anyone like that. Ah, good times.
And in the rest of the world?
Under what rationale could any court justify the hijacking of one persons private resources in order to enrich another?
I think that's called taxes. I'm fairly certain that's applied and enforced by every 'government' in the world.
Remember "Embrace , Extend, Extinguish" and "Developers, Developers, Developers".
Microsoft just needs to pull off those developers with new ideas from Linux to Windows.
Bingo! I wish I had mod points. If anyone thinks Microsoft has fundamentally changed, they are in for a big surprise.
Microsoft's persona is no longer that sweaty coke-fueled guy throwing chairs. It's now the kindly Grandma coming up and offering sweets, then when you are distracted, she sticks a stiletto in your back and twists, and smiles as she watches the life drain from your eyes. EEE indeed.
They tried and that's why SCO filed the appeal, apparently they own the rights to 'kill', 'killall' and derivatives.
I think Shakespeare said it best: "The first thing we do, let's killall the lawyers."
I suspect by now, with all the parasitic legal fees, SCO is now mostly owned by blood-sucking 'lowya's.' Where is Van Helsing when we really need him.
Last paragraph is Pathetic Click-Bait by some clueless Internet Dude who sniff's and licks Elon Musk's ass. "Ain't nobody got time for that." Off to a real news site.
If one studies Earth's history long term, say for example, ancient Egypt and the Nile over thousands of years, it is clear the weather and it's impact on the Earth has changed many, many times. Kingdoms rose and fell based on long term drought and hot weather; long term cooling and wet weather. It is true of all the Earth. It's a cycle. Many of those cycles are far longer than a persons lifetime.
The so-called Environmentalists and all their hysterical loony-bin predictions, of which all were totally wrong, have caused certain words to be trigger words, like 'heat wave.' An example of loony was Al Gore claiming in 2005 sea levels would rise by a meter or more in 10 years unless we did what he told us and made him a billionaire. Times up and he was dead wrong. Should I even bring up East Anglia and Climategate? Thankfully most smart people have figured out the scam that would have made a select few very rich.
And here's another, it also benefits websites who want a lot of "click-throughs" and responses. Now when I hear or read about a 'heat wave' in these situations I always think of South Park's episode about Global Warming. They nailed it.
If this method can be used to provide a probability of knowing that short term warmer weather might happen soon, fine. But the person who wrote the headline was being completely disingenuous.
Scientists believe there was no darkness before humanity and their CFC pollutants came along. Modeling shows conclusively that temperatures were milder, bowling scores were much higher, golf scores much lower, and waterslides were much more excellent in the pre-Phanerozoic eons.
They also think that humor was funnier.
But, but... Fred, Barney, Wilma and... and Barney's wife! Dino get me off this crazy thing!
Or is there a problem pointing to where it is wrong and illustrating that?
Yes, there is a very big problem with that. People pay attention to slick films peddling easy and absolute answers. They don't pay near as much attention to cautionary statements about a lack of correlation in articles published in boring scientific journals.
Oh. So you mean like "An Inconvenient Truth"? You mean like that? Of course you do. Sure.
Lies have a big advantage over the truth. They can be simple, clean, and confident, and concise enough to fit on a bumper sticker or a tweet. The truth is always messy, complicated, and couched in doubt.
Oh. So you mean like Climategate? You mean like that? Like East Anglia and all that they did? Like that? Of course you do. Sure.
Hipsters can ruin UIs like nobody else
I gave all my points to this post.
I also say an even worse problem has been added with these 'new' so-called UX 'experts.' As a software engineer I strive to give the user what they want within the context of the software itself. I say; "They are the ones who use it everyday, I just program it."
I've literally heard these UX twits exclaim; "I tell the users what they want!" Hubris and stupidity like that are as exactly as the OP said. It's the ruin of a lot of what would otherwise be good software. One need look no further than Firefox, were the UX Idiots think taking away features is a good thing.
Because of an unfortunate thing called 'freedom of religion'. So many right wing hardcore bible thumpers drilled religion into a freedom that now us lefties give it a free pass. I'm not allowed to judge the christian holy book for condoning incest and pedophilia so when I hear Muslims condone the same thing, why should I feel any different?
Wow, blinded by your own self-loathing, butt-hurt "religion of hate" you can't see that Radical Islam desires to slit your throat - it's in the Quran, or blow people into oblivion or decapitate children because they are 'infidels.' That is one hell of a difference over Sister Mary whacking your delicate little knuckles with a ruler. (Still haven't gotten over that eh?)
It seems you are unable to differentiate some basic facts here. (PS: I'm an atheist, but I recognize current reality.)
I've not seen this covered yet.
In the US, many teachers are not even competent enough to pass tests at the grade level they are teaching. (Yep, not kidding.)
So who are going to teach these kids CS? Are the teachers going to stand there with a Basic for Dummies book and (in a bored monotonous tone) "teach" by rote, a subject they don't understand to a bunch of bored kids who aren't even listening?
Huh, I just realized, there would be no better way to destroy a nations interest in programming than that. The Law of Unintended Consequences. And we have a live example. Look what has been done to mathematics in the US. And there you have it.
How about making sure kids can actually do, let's see, addition, subtraction and multiplication first. Wouldn't that be a good first step. And since the US 'education system' cannot even do that, this is just another 'hype and change' move.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
When I decide I need to hire someone, I seek out applicants on my own, based on reputation in industry, published works, patents, and other factors. When I identify someone I want to hire, I send my talent team to make contact in person (i.e. stalk them haha), often literally with a tap on the shoulder.
Who do you think work for? The CIA?
Porn sites. You just KNOW IT man.
Google is making sure they only have employees that think a certain way by using their hiring process. But is that the only kind of employee they need to be healthy long-term?
Yep, it's the kind of "engineer" (ha!) that has replaced engineering principles with religion. The kind that has to worship Google first and foremost. I learned long ago just because someone has a PhD. or a fancy degree from an Ivy league college, does NOT mean they are smart or talented.
Given people who work for Google really work for an Advertising Company and everything they do is driven by and for that, kind of proves the above. Add in the fact most of them think they are doing humankind some kind of favor by working for an Advertising Company and we come back to Religion.
I hear ya'. I currently write software for large multi-server real-time systems. We noticed a huge performance drop. Loooong story short. The hardware systems guys had over 20 VMs running on a single server. Oh... my... gawd. They actually believed the total bull-crap that VMs run free with little over head.
It makes me sad my profession, once 'ran' on engineering principles, but has now been turned into a Religion by Script Kiddies working for Facebomb, Googler and Twits-a-plenty.