If you're writing a lot of JavaScript to make your page responsive, you're doing it wrong. Your responsiveness should be handled by CSS and Media Queries. You might have a little bit of JavaScript to manage a few things, but the bulk of it should be done with styles.
Yeah....most of the talk isn't that great, either. Which is why I gravitated toward podcasts. More variety and generally better content (especially more targeted towards my interests).
Actually, I tend to listen to more AM than FM when I listen to the radio because I prefer talk radio over music (granted, most of that sucks, even)...... So I'll just stick to the various podcasts I listen to.....better content and downloaded over wi-fi so I don't use up my data.
Not true at all.....your Gamertag is tied to your Xbox Live account whether Gold (paid) or Silver (free). You can switch to Silver and as long as you stay active, keep your tag.
You do know that you can unpin the ribbon if that little bit of screen space is at such a premium, right? Most of the time, I'm not running Word full screen and I'm zooming out so that fonts don't look so huge......the space the ribbon takes up isn't really that big of a deal to me. Maybe you need a new laptop with something more than 1366x768 resolution.
The ribbon has been the interface since 2007. It's 2016. Look at how much Android has changed in that time (picking a non-Microsoft product). As the industry learns more, things get refined and improved......if it's disliked, they revert (Win8 --> Win10). The Ribbon is still around.....probably because it's not as terrible as you think it is. Move on....you've lost this fight.
SSDs.......everyone should consider upgrading to an SSD if they want to see a bang-for-the-buck performance improvement over a spinning drive. Granted, that can be done without doing a full computer upgrade, but if you are considering an upgrade, I wouldn't get anything without an SSD.
But which Linux and which desktop? Linux is like all of those third-party political parties.....there are too many of them without a fully concerted effort to win against the incumbents. OSX is the most likely secondary candidate, but the company holding those reigns doesn't want it on any hardware but their own. Like the Libertarian party, Linux is finally maknig enough noise to be worrisome, but not enough to win the presidency. So, Windows is still the dominant desktop.
While fundamentally I agree with you --- it's really a fault of whoever wrote the image parsing logic......I'll counter to say that some languages have a different set of defaults when parsing data, so at a theoretical level, switching languages can help or hinder parsing code. But in the end, those default behaviours can be overridden and still ultimately fall on the developers shoulders to understand and either accept or not.
I pay $99 for 5 instances of all of that and consider it well worth it. 5 installs of Office. 5TB of cloud storage. 5 hours of Skype minutes. etc. I consider it the second best deal in tech....Amazon Prime being the first.
Actually, Google *doesn't* allow you to use any service on any platform you want. They've actively blocked efforts to make some of those services be available on Windows Phone......in spite of allowing the exact same technique be used on another platform (YouTube....WP vs iOS).
But one of the biggest complaints about the current Facebook implementation is that the "latest post" sort order doesn't hang around enough. Of course, Facebook is more interested in "top stories" because it allows them to pretend that all of that promoted / sponsored content is "top". Regardless, that's a sort feature that people WANT to use (but can't). Lots of people hate their content being completely controlled by someone else --- give me recommendations (the 80%).....but also let me see everything for the instances where the recommendations aren't what I'm looking for (the 20%).
So far, Windows Phone hasn't shown enough signs of any uptick, so I'm comparing my platform choice as those Mac users who benefitted from lack of hacks due to lack of popularity. If Windows Phone sees any uptick, then obviously it means that the chance of my phone being attacked goes up.....but it also means that all of the other negatives about the platform (lack of interest from app developers) also goes away --- so, I win either way.
Good luck trying to scan my Windows Phone! Bwaahahahaha! Sometimes being the oft-ignored sector has its benefits. The phone may be crackable, but no one bothers to try.
References: All of those arguments about Linux and Mac being super secure back before there was enough market share for people to care to try to attack them.
I agree. Facebook has the ability to create and manage groups, but it's always been a pain to maintain. The metaphor and controls Google+ created make so much more sense. The problem that Google+ has always faced is that they started too late.....Facebook already had all of the people, and it was really hard to convince people to leave it because "that's where all of my friends already are"
Just take a look at the USB Rubber Ducky sold by Hak5 (https://hak5.org/store). It'll emulate a keyboard and has a lot of available scripts for "penetration testing". I don't recommend going to that site from work since many businesses will treat it as a hacking site (even if the information is pertinent to your work).
Also, look for "fulfilled by Amazon" products. If Amazon fulfills it, it will ship quickly.....otherwise, it's up to the seller to ship it and it could take a while (even worse when it's from China).
I'm not worried about ads because I'd rather see/ignore an ad than pay for the content on sites like Slashdot (nebulous quality). I practice safe browsing (i.e. nothing shady outside of a locked down VM, stick to known-good sites, etc.) and recommend everyone else do the same. Known malware sites and sketchy ads are blocked at the firewall so that my less-tech-savvy family are protected as well.
Why should I rely on a browser with a specific extension when I can protect EVERY browser (including mobile and tablets) with a single configuration update?
This is actually one of the reasons that I don't install any extensions in my browsers. If you run bare-bones, you don't get accustomed to extensions that aren't available when you use other computers......you also don't have to worry about the quality or security of the add-on.
When Firefox first came out, people raved about how good of a browser it was.....but then they rattled off a list of extensions you needed to add to make it great. Bare-bones IE was actually still better than bare-bones Firefox at the time [as a developer, I have and use all of the major browsers --- each without extensions]. If you compare them that way, you'd be surprised at how your ranking would change.
VMWare is a different company than EMC. EMC owns a large percentage of it (controlling interest). Dell's offer (at least originally) would continue the separation of the companies. Obviously, with controlling interest, it would be easy enough to make the vote of the VMWare board go in whatever direction they wanted. But short-term, you shouldn't have to worry.......it will be at least a year after the EMC deal closes before they make many drastic changes.
I agree. I have one (well, I bought it for my wife, but she doesn't really use it much) and I have it cycle through news articles while I get dressed in the mornings.
I just wish they'd release the code so people can play with it outside of their service since Sony doesn't really care much about the device any more. Let me throw a nice Angular dashboard client on it that will hit more than the few widgets that are developed for it.
It's not just women. I find that developers who lack the passion to continuously learn and play with technology (not necessarily directly related to their day job....just technology in general) tend to be the ones that are middle of the pack in large companies. They aren't necessarily bad at their job, but they are never the ones that leap ahead of the pack. For them it's just a "job".
The question becomes: how many "average" developers can you get away with and still be a successful company? The "rock stars" are expensive, so you want to have as few of them as you can and have them cover for the rest of the team......and they'll do it willingly because they love what they do. It's the reason that I left my last job......I was tired of covering for everyone else.
It's even worse when the "average" developers are in a different country.
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If you're writing a lot of JavaScript to make your page responsive, you're doing it wrong. Your responsiveness should be handled by CSS and Media Queries. You might have a little bit of JavaScript to manage a few things, but the bulk of it should be done with styles.
Yeah....most of the talk isn't that great, either. Which is why I gravitated toward podcasts. More variety and generally better content (especially more targeted towards my interests).
FM sucks. AM or nothing.
Actually, I tend to listen to more AM than FM when I listen to the radio because I prefer talk radio over music (granted, most of that sucks, even)...... So I'll just stick to the various podcasts I listen to.....better content and downloaded over wi-fi so I don't use up my data.
Unless you know whether it was being word ironically or legitimately, it still doesn't matter......that still isn't consent.
Not true at all.....your Gamertag is tied to your Xbox Live account whether Gold (paid) or Silver (free). You can switch to Silver and as long as you stay active, keep your tag.
You do know that you can unpin the ribbon if that little bit of screen space is at such a premium, right? Most of the time, I'm not running Word full screen and I'm zooming out so that fonts don't look so huge......the space the ribbon takes up isn't really that big of a deal to me. Maybe you need a new laptop with something more than 1366x768 resolution.
The ribbon has been the interface since 2007. It's 2016. Look at how much Android has changed in that time (picking a non-Microsoft product). As the industry learns more, things get refined and improved......if it's disliked, they revert (Win8 --> Win10). The Ribbon is still around.....probably because it's not as terrible as you think it is. Move on....you've lost this fight.
SSDs.......everyone should consider upgrading to an SSD if they want to see a bang-for-the-buck performance improvement over a spinning drive. Granted, that can be done without doing a full computer upgrade, but if you are considering an upgrade, I wouldn't get anything without an SSD.
But which Linux and which desktop? Linux is like all of those third-party political parties.....there are too many of them without a fully concerted effort to win against the incumbents. OSX is the most likely secondary candidate, but the company holding those reigns doesn't want it on any hardware but their own. Like the Libertarian party, Linux is finally maknig enough noise to be worrisome, but not enough to win the presidency. So, Windows is still the dominant desktop.
While fundamentally I agree with you --- it's really a fault of whoever wrote the image parsing logic......I'll counter to say that some languages have a different set of defaults when parsing data, so at a theoretical level, switching languages can help or hinder parsing code. But in the end, those default behaviours can be overridden and still ultimately fall on the developers shoulders to understand and either accept or not.
I pay $99 for 5 instances of all of that and consider it well worth it. 5 installs of Office. 5TB of cloud storage. 5 hours of Skype minutes. etc. I consider it the second best deal in tech....Amazon Prime being the first.
Actually, Google *doesn't* allow you to use any service on any platform you want. They've actively blocked efforts to make some of those services be available on Windows Phone......in spite of allowing the exact same technique be used on another platform (YouTube....WP vs iOS).
But one of the biggest complaints about the current Facebook implementation is that the "latest post" sort order doesn't hang around enough. Of course, Facebook is more interested in "top stories" because it allows them to pretend that all of that promoted / sponsored content is "top". Regardless, that's a sort feature that people WANT to use (but can't). Lots of people hate their content being completely controlled by someone else --- give me recommendations (the 80%).....but also let me see everything for the instances where the recommendations aren't what I'm looking for (the 20%).
So far, Windows Phone hasn't shown enough signs of any uptick, so I'm comparing my platform choice as those Mac users who benefitted from lack of hacks due to lack of popularity. If Windows Phone sees any uptick, then obviously it means that the chance of my phone being attacked goes up.....but it also means that all of the other negatives about the platform (lack of interest from app developers) also goes away --- so, I win either way.
Good luck trying to scan my Windows Phone! Bwaahahahaha! Sometimes being the oft-ignored sector has its benefits. The phone may be crackable, but no one bothers to try.
References:
All of those arguments about Linux and Mac being super secure back before there was enough market share for people to care to try to attack them.
I agree. Facebook has the ability to create and manage groups, but it's always been a pain to maintain. The metaphor and controls Google+ created make so much more sense. The problem that Google+ has always faced is that they started too late.....Facebook already had all of the people, and it was really hard to convince people to leave it because "that's where all of my friends already are"
Just take a look at the USB Rubber Ducky sold by Hak5 (https://hak5.org/store). It'll emulate a keyboard and has a lot of available scripts for "penetration testing". I don't recommend going to that site from work since many businesses will treat it as a hacking site (even if the information is pertinent to your work).
You can do something similar with GMail using a + instead of a .
Periods are ignored completely, so kenneth.facebook is the same as ken.neth.face.book.
Plusses make everything past the plus be ignored. So kenneth+facebook is the same as kenneth.
Two things:
Pay for Prime if you order a lot.
Also, look for "fulfilled by Amazon" products. If Amazon fulfills it, it will ship quickly.....otherwise, it's up to the seller to ship it and it could take a while (even worse when it's from China).
What a horribly wrong assumption.......
I'm not worried about ads because I'd rather see/ignore an ad than pay for the content on sites like Slashdot (nebulous quality). I practice safe browsing (i.e. nothing shady outside of a locked down VM, stick to known-good sites, etc.) and recommend everyone else do the same. Known malware sites and sketchy ads are blocked at the firewall so that my less-tech-savvy family are protected as well.
Why should I rely on a browser with a specific extension when I can protect EVERY browser (including mobile and tablets) with a single configuration update?
This is actually one of the reasons that I don't install any extensions in my browsers. If you run bare-bones, you don't get accustomed to extensions that aren't available when you use other computers......you also don't have to worry about the quality or security of the add-on.
When Firefox first came out, people raved about how good of a browser it was.....but then they rattled off a list of extensions you needed to add to make it great. Bare-bones IE was actually still better than bare-bones Firefox at the time [as a developer, I have and use all of the major browsers --- each without extensions]. If you compare them that way, you'd be surprised at how your ranking would change.
I'm hoping for a high Fiber ISP.......
VMWare is a different company than EMC. EMC owns a large percentage of it (controlling interest). Dell's offer (at least originally) would continue the separation of the companies. Obviously, with controlling interest, it would be easy enough to make the vote of the VMWare board go in whatever direction they wanted. But short-term, you shouldn't have to worry.......it will be at least a year after the EMC deal closes before they make many drastic changes.
I agree. I have one (well, I bought it for my wife, but she doesn't really use it much) and I have it cycle through news articles while I get dressed in the mornings.
I just wish they'd release the code so people can play with it outside of their service since Sony doesn't really care much about the device any more. Let me throw a nice Angular dashboard client on it that will hit more than the few widgets that are developed for it.
It's not just women. I find that developers who lack the passion to continuously learn and play with technology (not necessarily directly related to their day job....just technology in general) tend to be the ones that are middle of the pack in large companies. They aren't necessarily bad at their job, but they are never the ones that leap ahead of the pack. For them it's just a "job".
The question becomes: how many "average" developers can you get away with and still be a successful company? The "rock stars" are expensive, so you want to have as few of them as you can and have them cover for the rest of the team......and they'll do it willingly because they love what they do. It's the reason that I left my last job......I was tired of covering for everyone else.
It's even worse when the "average" developers are in a different country.