I feel I should highlight StartCooking as a great guide for a beginner looking to do a little more cooking than the above "can into a pan" style. It assumes knowledge of almost nothing, and helped bootstrap my own cooking years ago. Highly recommended.
[The CEO, Tim Poultney,] confirmed that he'd not involved any technical staff in the decisions he'd made about the Python product brand
Seriously? I know a lot of CEOs have more branding experience than many developers but making single-minded decisions about your company's future, with no input from those who are likely to be affected most by those decisions, does not sound like the thinking of a leader.
Ubuntu has already lost the power users (of which I am one). Now we continue for the too-slow shift to something else. I've seen this happen many times: piss off the power users and you'll eventually lose everyone.
1. Lawmakers look for any excuse to be "tough on crime". 2. Hackers are a small minority group that scare most people.
Combine these two things and one can see that hackers are an "acceptable target" for both the lawmakers and their constituencies, especially with the recent Chinese red scare going on.
The irony is thick in Ron Paul going to the UN for anything. Personally I feel he should probably get the domain but everything in it is the property of those who Built It, so he should get a domain with no mailing list and no content.
2) Mobile apps can take advantage of specific mobile platform and hardware features.
And what mobile, native-only features would you include in Slashdot?
3) Mobile apps are generally designed with a better UX than their web counter parts.
It's that "generally" thing that kills this point, and besides, whether or not an app / web app is well-designed is a function of the designer, not the medium.
I understand where you're coming from; badly-written mobile sites can have issues that native apps appear to fix, but that's because those web apps are poorly designed, not as a result of being rendered through the browser. If there's a case for lots of native functionality, or high render speed is required, I could see making it a native app, but in a content-centric site like this, I don't think it would be worth the additional cost and developer time.
He should have done what Blender did and open-sourced only after getting enough donations to make it worth his while.
Planning your business model in advance is generally preferred over just trying something and seeing what works, at least when you're talking about your livelihood, or all at once as in this case.
By the way, I can say this with some authority; we use localStorage (and sessionStorage) on a mobile web app here at my work, and it works fine on my phone there.
I suggest you guys look into using store.js for a consistent interface even when localStorage doesn't work.
Please, please, please let me know if a group comes together to make a new Slashdot. I'm a professional web developer, mostly backend PHP but I know Rails, wouldn't mind learning Python, am actively learning Node, and I'm very experienced with frontend stuff (jQuery, HTML 5, CSS 3, etc. etc.)
I'm thinking keep the karma system almost exactly the same if not exactly the same, and shift to more crowdsourced article posting. Keep editors, but their job wouldn't be to choose the articles to post, their job would be to, well, edit the submissions for clarity, spelling, grammar, etc.
Maybe even open source the base code? I know Hacker News did that, keeping a little bit of the secret sauce back (mostly anti-voting ring stuff). That would let us benefit from the open source community at large (which would fix problems in this new mobile site pretty quickly I would imagine).
I can confirm I see this popup on every page of the classic mobile site, on Android 4 stock and Chrome Mobile. This is definitely a coding issue on your side.
I can also confirm the problem of one of the siblings here that if you scroll down, the buttons in the fixed position chooser dialog become unclickable. They have to be clicked while it's still at the top of the page. (This is probably a bug in the Android browsers' interpretation of fixed positioning, but still.)
For tech books, I have been buying a lot from O'Reilly recently; they have fully DRM-free ebooks and half off sales about every month or so. It takes a little more time to get them to my Kindle (you have to email them to a special Kindle address or sideload them directly) but it's worth it.
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I feel I should highlight StartCooking as a great guide for a beginner looking to do a little more cooking than the above "can into a pan" style. It assumes knowledge of almost nothing, and helped bootstrap my own cooking years ago. Highly recommended.
[The CEO, Tim Poultney,] confirmed that he'd not involved any technical staff in the decisions he'd made about the Python product brand
Seriously? I know a lot of CEOs have more branding experience than many developers but making single-minded decisions about your company's future, with no input from those who are likely to be affected most by those decisions, does not sound like the thinking of a leader.
Ubuntu has already lost the power users (of which I am one). Now we continue for the too-slow shift to something else. I've seen this happen many times: piss off the power users and you'll eventually lose everyone.
This flies in the face of everything I understood about patents previously. Can someone in the know explain what's going on here?
The CFAA has immense penalties for two reasons:
1. Lawmakers look for any excuse to be "tough on crime".
2. Hackers are a small minority group that scare most people.
Combine these two things and one can see that hackers are an "acceptable target" for both the lawmakers and their constituencies, especially with the recent Chinese red scare going on.
Hackers need a PR firm.
Yup. And if I had wheels, I'd be a wagon.
Kids are a huge market, if not the biggest. My wife manages a teen drop-in center; they all drink Monster like it was water.
The irony is thick in Ron Paul going to the UN for anything. Personally I feel he should probably get the domain but everything in it is the property of those who Built It, so he should get a domain with no mailing list and no content.
Science!
1) With mobile apps I can see cached data when not connected to the internet.
HTML 5 + localStorage + cache manifest = offline web apps. I <3 HTML 5!
2) Mobile apps can take advantage of specific mobile platform and hardware features.
And what mobile, native-only features would you include in Slashdot?
3) Mobile apps are generally designed with a better UX than their web counter parts.
It's that "generally" thing that kills this point, and besides, whether or not an app / web app is well-designed is a function of the designer, not the medium.
I understand where you're coming from; badly-written mobile sites can have issues that native apps appear to fix, but that's because those web apps are poorly designed, not as a result of being rendered through the browser. If there's a case for lots of native functionality, or high render speed is required, I could see making it a native app, but in a content-centric site like this, I don't think it would be worth the additional cost and developer time.
He should have done what Blender did and open-sourced only after getting enough donations to make it worth his while.
Planning your business model in advance is generally preferred over just trying something and seeing what works, at least when you're talking about your livelihood, or all at once as in this case.
What are you doing on the site where you can't respond to both click and tap at the same time?
I prefer dedicated mobile apps over opening a mobile web page.
Why?
Store.js is tiny, it basically detects if localStorage is available and falls back to cookies if it's not.
I have Javascript on; it doesn't change my point.
So have a minimum karma threshold for participating in the article selection.
By the way, I can say this with some authority; we use localStorage (and sessionStorage) on a mobile web app here at my work, and it works fine on my phone there.
I suggest you guys look into using store.js for a consistent interface even when localStorage doesn't work.
I'll say it here too, your code is broken. It's not working. I get the popup on every page.
Please, please, please let me know if a group comes together to make a new Slashdot. I'm a professional web developer, mostly backend PHP but I know Rails, wouldn't mind learning Python, am actively learning Node, and I'm very experienced with frontend stuff (jQuery, HTML 5, CSS 3, etc. etc.)
I'm thinking keep the karma system almost exactly the same if not exactly the same, and shift to more crowdsourced article posting. Keep editors, but their job wouldn't be to choose the articles to post, their job would be to, well, edit the submissions for clarity, spelling, grammar, etc.
Maybe even open source the base code? I know Hacker News did that, keeping a little bit of the secret sauce back (mostly anti-voting ring stuff). That would let us benefit from the open source community at large (which would fix problems in this new mobile site pretty quickly I would imagine).
In that case, it should have a noscript element telling you to turn on Javascript, at the least.
I can confirm I see this popup on every page of the classic mobile site, on Android 4 stock and Chrome Mobile. This is definitely a coding issue on your side.
I can also confirm the problem of one of the siblings here that if you scroll down, the buttons in the fixed position chooser dialog become unclickable. They have to be clicked while it's still at the top of the page. (This is probably a bug in the Android browsers' interpretation of fixed positioning, but still.)
...for an employer interviewing a candidate. Not so much for the candidate.
For tech books, I have been buying a lot from O'Reilly recently; they have fully DRM-free ebooks and half off sales about every month or so. It takes a little more time to get them to my Kindle (you have to email them to a special Kindle address or sideload them directly) but it's worth it.
But forgive me if I take his public policy suggestions with a gigantic grain of salt. He's known to be... extreme.
Yep, hence my "beyond a certain point". If you can qualify as drunk, you're beyond that point.