The fact is, for web shops tasked with doing a "mobile app" because it's the next f**king Web 2.0 buzzword-compliant "we're serious - we have an app and everything", being able to do a shovelware mobile app without having to learn 2 new languages is great. Our customers go away happy, we don't have to spend the time becoming experts in yet more arcane single-use dev frameworks, and we can go on to the next project.
Great for everyone, but the users. The majority of apps that use these frameworks are very lazily done, and will typically make the app match the iPhone look and feel, and then push that crap out to everyone else. Nothing tells me quicker that an Android app is going to be absolute shit than seeing a title bar with a Back button in it, lifted from iOS.
No, we're not. I think we should have a push for developers actually heeding the design guidelines of the platform they're developing for. No more of this iOS back button in Android apps bullshit.
Here's the thing: Is your thing a website, that I access through the browser, or is it an app I purchase (or just download) in the platform's market? If it's the first, then ok. If it's the second, then that will just suck ass.
No, I want people writing apps for my platform to be following the platform's guidelines. It's not going to kill them, and it makes the experience better for everyone.
And us doing those jobs gives them an actual product/service to sell. You've just explained why it should be a symbiotic relationship, not why they should call all the shots.
If you're gonna do cross platform app development, at least make the effort to follow the platform's UI guidelines. As an Android user, nothing irks me more than having an app with the iOS icons and navigation buttons simply copied over. I'm sure the same is true for users of other platforms.
Reduce the unions' lock-in entitlements and anti-competitive control
And in the meantime, give even more power back to the employers. No thanks.
I shouldn't have to say that, but you don't seem to believe that there are any non-good regulations that can be separated out from those that should be kept.
No, there are. Its just that people like you who complain about regulation typically are hammering about the good regulation we have as well. For them, a regulation that causes a business to spend money is a bad one, regardless of whether it's effective or not. There are many who believe that safety regulations for coal mines (like the ones that were ignored in the Massey Energy mine collapse a few years ago) are "bad" regulation.
We still need complete education overhaul
I didn't argue this; I've been saying for years that we need to study the education systems of those countries that are kicking our asses and take what we can from them.
They kind of are shying away from them because they're hard. Not because they're hard alone, but because they're hard and have little payoff. In contrast, someone who would do well in engineering could probably do just as well in finance, and be paid a whole lot more.
Having a "made in the US" label on every employee might sound cool to America in times of high unemployment but it would kill businesses or force them overseas.
No, I didn't. However, I disagree with most of the shit you said. Busting unions? Busting "bad" regulation? Yeah, that's definitely not going to be abused by employers at all.
If you're going to bitch about unions, then you need to be bitching about their employers as well. Most of them are just as bad, if not worse.
I think the reason most people are annoyed at the loss of high tech/high education jobs is actually mentioned in one of your paragraphs: Smart people will decide not to go into engineering, or medicine, where they could actually make something of a positive impact on the world. No, now they'll go into finance, where they will orchestrate a global financial meltdown.
With the loss of these jobs goes the loss of the incentive for the smart people to actually go into those fields.
Loans also seem to be something against "SOCIALIZM!!!!1!!!". Many Scandinavian countries have free or extremely low cost tuition for their schools. Their populations are extremely educated as a result. But just mention the idea here, and you get branded a communist who wants to steal from the "job creators".
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Yes, it should. Having limits in the buyers can have just as adverse affects on the markets as limits in the providers.
Wrong, as this violates my Right to Work.
The fact is, for web shops tasked with doing a "mobile app" because it's the next f**king Web 2.0 buzzword-compliant "we're serious - we have an app and everything", being able to do a shovelware mobile app without having to learn 2 new languages is great. Our customers go away happy, we don't have to spend the time becoming experts in yet more arcane single-use dev frameworks, and we can go on to the next project.
Great for everyone, but the users. The majority of apps that use these frameworks are very lazily done, and will typically make the app match the iPhone look and feel, and then push that crap out to everyone else. Nothing tells me quicker that an Android app is going to be absolute shit than seeing a title bar with a Back button in it, lifted from iOS.
If you've got the time to make the app, you've got the time to do it right.
No, we're not. I think we should have a push for developers actually heeding the design guidelines of the platform they're developing for. No more of this iOS back button in Android apps bullshit.
Here's the thing: Is your thing a website, that I access through the browser, or is it an app I purchase (or just download) in the platform's market? If it's the first, then ok. If it's the second, then that will just suck ass.
No, I want people writing apps for my platform to be following the platform's guidelines. It's not going to kill them, and it makes the experience better for everyone.
In this case, it appears to be fairly warranted. Although I agree with the Innocent until Proven Guilty thing.
There's absolutely no sense of entitlement at all. A country should be putting the employment of it's citizens ahead of those of other countries.
No, that's bullshit. That's like saying you're free to kill anyone you like, as you haven't signed anything saying you agree to laws against murder.
NOTE: I am not comparing copyright infringement to murder. I am simply comparing choosing to disobey one set of laws to another.
The ways that the US are being criticized are not constructive. They imply that the job is done when the US is finished off.
Absolute bullshit.
Despite what others will try to have you believe, the US still offers a highly educated workforce.
And us doing those jobs gives them an actual product/service to sell. You've just explained why it should be a symbiotic relationship, not why they should call all the shots.
Ok, denied because of foreign students. I agree that cost can be a huge factor in deciding whether or not someone can actually go to school.
If you're gonna do cross platform app development, at least make the effort to follow the platform's UI guidelines. As an Android user, nothing irks me more than having an app with the iOS icons and navigation buttons simply copied over. I'm sure the same is true for users of other platforms.
Reduce the unions' lock-in entitlements and anti-competitive control
And in the meantime, give even more power back to the employers. No thanks.
I shouldn't have to say that, but you don't seem to believe that there are any non-good regulations that can be separated out from those that should be kept.
No, there are. Its just that people like you who complain about regulation typically are hammering about the good regulation we have as well. For them, a regulation that causes a business to spend money is a bad one, regardless of whether it's effective or not. There are many who believe that safety regulations for coal mines (like the ones that were ignored in the Massey Energy mine collapse a few years ago) are "bad" regulation.
We still need complete education overhaul
I didn't argue this; I've been saying for years that we need to study the education systems of those countries that are kicking our asses and take what we can from them.
They kind of are shying away from them because they're hard. Not because they're hard alone, but because they're hard and have little payoff. In contrast, someone who would do well in engineering could probably do just as well in finance, and be paid a whole lot more.
Do you really love this country, or do you have some wish to have the US bow before the world?
Quit being an idiot. Pointing out problems does not give any indication as to whether someone doesn't like the country or not.
Having a "made in the US" label on every employee might sound cool to America in times of high unemployment but it would kill businesses or force them overseas.
I don't buy this argument for a second.
Well, there is that whole "Pursuit of Knowledge" thing. And while things might be on the move, they haven't left yet.
If you graduate high in your class and get a job, many, if not most, companies will sponsor you for citizenship.
No, I didn't. However, I disagree with most of the shit you said. Busting unions? Busting "bad" regulation? Yeah, that's definitely not going to be abused by employers at all.
If you're going to bitch about unions, then you need to be bitching about their employers as well. Most of them are just as bad, if not worse.
I'm not saying he shouldn't be able to do so, and clearly he can. I'm saying why would you want to do so?
And ePub is just as open as PDF. And both can easily be DRMed.
I think the reason most people are annoyed at the loss of high tech/high education jobs is actually mentioned in one of your paragraphs: Smart people will decide not to go into engineering, or medicine, where they could actually make something of a positive impact on the world. No, now they'll go into finance, where they will orchestrate a global financial meltdown.
With the loss of these jobs goes the loss of the incentive for the smart people to actually go into those fields.
Loans also seem to be something against "SOCIALIZM!!!!1!!!". Many Scandinavian countries have free or extremely low cost tuition for their schools. Their populations are extremely educated as a result. But just mention the idea here, and you get branded a communist who wants to steal from the "job creators".