Okay, so this one time I was typing a report for school, and my computer was like "beeeeep beep beep beeeep beepbeep beeep" and then my report was gone. Then I switched to Linux and smoked some reefer.
You're looking for senior Java people. Assuming you're serious about that, then you're looking in a very small pool. Most people who aren't totally unemployable douchebags and really know Java are academics, already making a pile of money in one of the rare "good jobs", or have realized what a clusterfuck Java is and refuse to work with it anymore.
Note, I am not one of these people. I wouldn't admit to it if I were. I just know where some of them are hiding. No, I'm not telling.
Oh yes, evil Blizzard is exploiting their poor addicted playerbase. How dare they, compelling these tortured souls to spend their hard-earned money on useless in-game items.
Here's an idea! Don't buy them!
Jesus Christ... I'm probably as much of a WoW addict as most anybody who reads/., but I'm not going to be blowing $900+ for an item, no matter how good it is. Nobody should be.
If you do, and you're not so rich that it's just a joke for you to spend that kind of cash, then it's not that you have an addiction that your mean pushers are exploiting. It's that you're a moron, or you have some kind of major chemical imbalance that's probably fucking you in all sorts of other ways too. That's it. Plain and simple.
Poopsock your time away all you want. Get HWL/GM 2-3 times. Raid Naxx until your eyes fall out. But don't blow your fucking mortgage payment on a video game. Show a little bit of intelligence, or at least the basic will to survive so you can keep playing your goddamn game.
Something like Prototype gets a load of testing and bug fixing beyond what you could ever hope to do in your own framework. With the subtle undocumented differences in behavior between the various popular and not-so-popular browsers, this is an important thing.
Personally, I don't like the frameworks that attempt to emulate desktop GUI toolkits with JavaScript widgets and such, but I do think that starting from scratch rather than using a nice library basically amounts to asking for a series of long and painful bugfixing sessions you could have easily avoided had you not been so stubborn.
Since I started using Prototype and Behaviour, I've found that my code works a whole lot more often across a whole lot more browsers. It's shorter, better looking, easier to read, and easier to maintain as well.
Meanwhile, even iPod aficionados might turn their nose up at the new device. Today, more than half of Americans with music-capable phones also carry MP3 players. That's an indication that "it's a nice feature to have, but people aren't that interested in it," says Bill Hughes, an analyst with consultancy In-Stat.
Wrong, jackass. People who carry cell phones that can play music also carry MP3 players because those cell phones suck at being music players.
The majority of all software isn't used by the public at large. For a program designed to perform tasks similar to Photoshop (of course, as someone will point out if I don't say it myself, The GIMP is not Photoshop) having a small, loyal user base is probably exactly what they want.
If you want to draw simple shapes, an industrial-strength piece of image manipulation software probably isn't what you want.
Saying no to features that don't fit the intended purpose of the program is also a fundamental element of good UI design. If you were rightly advised to use Inkscape to draw your circles, why would you continue to use The GIMP? Do you also expect The GIMP to play your MP3s, manage your photos, and balance your checkbook?
Why are you people so afraid of Fox News? Is it because they don't toe the same line that NBC/ABC/CBS/CNN/MSNBC and the national newspapers toe?
It's less fear, more anger. It's less about Fox News, and more about mainstream "news" in general. Fox is just easiest to pick on, because they're the most obvious example of what's wrong with TV news (and because Rupert Murdoch is probalby the most evil man on the face of the planet).
News programs nowadays keep trying to present "both" sides of an issue. Well... not everything has two sides.
You're lucky to get one side out of any issue from most major networks. Unless you're talking about Fox, in which case you still only get the one side, but at least they aren't shy about it.
In their struggle to maintain relevance in the face of Google, Yahoo has really done a complete 180 from the days when their main service was a manually-reviewed index of websites. They've had the good sense to keep their noses out of (e.g. Flickr), and they've made some cool products/technologies available to the developer community for free.
Google gets all the press nowadays, but Yahoo's been pretty cool lately as well. Props!
More AJAX-like? People wish Java were more like a website that uses a browser's XMLHTTPRequest object to make asynchronous requests to a backend server? What the fuck?
Are Java programmers so desperate for attention that they just rub two buzzwords together and hope a fire starts?
Seriously! I've been lamenting for years that the only time I can't watch porn is when I'm in meetings at work. I'd jump at the opportunity to finally bridge this terrible gap. My coworkers would like, nay, they deserve to see me watching and/or masturbating to quality porn all day.
Indeed. I think it's so funny that people focus on the "omigosh beta" aspect of Google's software. It's only beta because they don't want you to bother them about it if you can't get it to work for some reason. Is it enough to make you want to keep a backup of your GMail account because you're afraid they might just decide to discontinue the service some day (even though they won't)? Good! You should be doing that anyway, beta or not, Google or not.
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Okay, so this one time I was typing a report for school, and my computer was like "beeeeep beep beep beeeep beepbeep beeep" and then my report was gone. Then I switched to Linux and smoked some reefer.
I'm sure many other people have similar stories.
You swap #1 and #2.
A mortuary?
You're looking for senior Java people. Assuming you're serious about that, then you're looking in a very small pool. Most people who aren't totally unemployable douchebags and really know Java are academics, already making a pile of money in one of the rare "good jobs", or have realized what a clusterfuck Java is and refuse to work with it anymore.
Note, I am not one of these people. I wouldn't admit to it if I were. I just know where some of them are hiding. No, I'm not telling.
Oh yes, evil Blizzard is exploiting their poor addicted playerbase. How dare they, compelling these tortured souls to spend their hard-earned money on useless in-game items.
/., but I'm not going to be blowing $900+ for an item, no matter how good it is. Nobody should be.
Here's an idea! Don't buy them!
Jesus Christ... I'm probably as much of a WoW addict as most anybody who reads
If you do, and you're not so rich that it's just a joke for you to spend that kind of cash, then it's not that you have an addiction that your mean pushers are exploiting. It's that you're a moron, or you have some kind of major chemical imbalance that's probably fucking you in all sorts of other ways too. That's it. Plain and simple.
Poopsock your time away all you want. Get HWL/GM 2-3 times. Raid Naxx until your eyes fall out. But don't blow your fucking mortgage payment on a video game. Show a little bit of intelligence, or at least the basic will to survive so you can keep playing your goddamn game.
Are you suggesting that I'm fapping my way to femininity?
Makes sense.
Something like Prototype gets a load of testing and bug fixing beyond what you could ever hope to do in your own framework. With the subtle undocumented differences in behavior between the various popular and not-so-popular browsers, this is an important thing.
Personally, I don't like the frameworks that attempt to emulate desktop GUI toolkits with JavaScript widgets and such, but I do think that starting from scratch rather than using a nice library basically amounts to asking for a series of long and painful bugfixing sessions you could have easily avoided had you not been so stubborn.
Since I started using Prototype and Behaviour, I've found that my code works a whole lot more often across a whole lot more browsers. It's shorter, better looking, easier to read, and easier to maintain as well.
Wrong, jackass. People who carry cell phones that can play music also carry MP3 players because those cell phones suck at being music players.
Fin.
I take full responsibility for the fact that I work maybe 45 mins/day.
The majority of all software isn't used by the public at large. For a program designed to perform tasks similar to Photoshop (of course, as someone will point out if I don't say it myself, The GIMP is not Photoshop) having a small, loyal user base is probably exactly what they want.
If you want to draw simple shapes, an industrial-strength piece of image manipulation software probably isn't what you want.
That's the problem with disagreeing with developers when you're not paying them. They automatically win.
Saying no to features that don't fit the intended purpose of the program is also a fundamental element of good UI design. If you were rightly advised to use Inkscape to draw your circles, why would you continue to use The GIMP? Do you also expect The GIMP to play your MP3s, manage your photos, and balance your checkbook?
Wireless headphones, baby. You can stay in the living room with mom, while I'm in the basement.
... in research that could get me a larger monitor at my employer's expense?
Thanks.
It's not violent videogames that have made me want to kill Jack Thompson...
Was Jeff Goldblum involved? Did it disable his shields? Was there a nuclear explosion shortly thereafter?
Has the prophecy come true?!
Because I would have skewed those numbers way up.
It's less fear, more anger. It's less about Fox News, and more about mainstream "news" in general. Fox is just easiest to pick on, because they're the most obvious example of what's wrong with TV news (and because Rupert Murdoch is probalby the most evil man on the face of the planet).
You're lucky to get one side out of any issue from most major networks. Unless you're talking about Fox, in which case you still only get the one side, but at least they aren't shy about it.
"regime"
There, now doesn't that... make sense?
In their struggle to maintain relevance in the face of Google, Yahoo has really done a complete 180 from the days when their main service was a manually-reviewed index of websites. They've had the good sense to keep their noses out of (e.g. Flickr), and they've made some cool products/technologies available to the developer community for free.
Google gets all the press nowadays, but Yahoo's been pretty cool lately as well. Props!
More AJAX-like? People wish Java were more like a website that uses a browser's XMLHTTPRequest object to make asynchronous requests to a backend server? What the fuck?
Are Java programmers so desperate for attention that they just rub two buzzwords together and hope a fire starts?
Seriously! I've been lamenting for years that the only time I can't watch porn is when I'm in meetings at work. I'd jump at the opportunity to finally bridge this terrible gap. My coworkers would like, nay, they deserve to see me watching and/or masturbating to quality porn all day.
Indeed. I think it's so funny that people focus on the "omigosh beta" aspect of Google's software. It's only beta because they don't want you to bother them about it if you can't get it to work for some reason. Is it enough to make you want to keep a backup of your GMail account because you're afraid they might just decide to discontinue the service some day (even though they won't)? Good! You should be doing that anyway, beta or not, Google or not.