Too bad most of the better cities are suffering (IMO) at the hands of gentrification.
Living in downtown Atlanta 4 years ago was a dangerous, thrilling experience; I was the only white person in my neighborhood for years. (how I like it)
Now, however, it seems that I might as well have moved to the fucking suburbs with all the luxury SUVs / Audi wagons and BMW's parked on the other side of those cute little white picket fences they all put up.
And don't even get me started on housing costs in the city. $280K for a thousand square foot, half century old, shotgun house next to a train yard? Blow me.
So now I do live in the burbs; in a nice, quiet mixed neighborhood. You can keep your crack heads, inflation on goods, invading white people, and fascist cops; I don't want 'em anymore.
Oh yea, I can actually see *stars* when I look up at night, or do you prefer that constant orange glowing haze?
The fact that apps run on the web at all is a testament to the sheer stubborness of developers.
More accurately: the sheer idiocy of customers, stubborness of managers, and ignorance of sales people.
I don't honestly think that many of us really *enjoy* having our souls sucked out by HTML, JavaScript, and CSS (Read: IE), we just hate it less than seeing our children starve.
For example, the customer-relationship software I'm using at the moment, VtigerCRM, is a shameless copy of opensource software from SugarCRM, and it's shamelessly copying Salesforce.com functionality. Indian investors are funding the Vtiger opensource alternative, betting they can beat SugarCRM and Salesforce.com at their own game. Maybe they're right.
You're using Vtiger? You poor fuck. If that bloated piece of shit is a mission critical system for you, then..well..good luck.
As a poor PHP dev who was suckered into working on the newer Vtiger for about 6months, I can say that Vtiger is nothing more than bullshit monkey code written by VBers who learned PHP and decided to release some OSS. It's a bad lesson in what NOT to do with OO design; indeed, it's everything that's wrong with large open source PHP projects.
The db architecture (or, that hodge-podge immitation of one) alone should have you running and screaming for the hills.
Sorry. Vtiger is shit. So is SugarCRM. Run while you still can.
There's scientific Fact; which, while pretty hard core to us, may not mean anything in light of the Truth; which none of us are likely to ever know.
You see what we deem as facts are only facts within the framework of our cognition, indeed our cognition might not even be equipped to understand the Truth at all.
And why I'm explaining this to an A.C. is beyond me, but I thought it deserved an explanation anyhow.
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You can borrow my AR-15.
Too bad most of the better cities are suffering (IMO) at the hands of gentrification.
Living in downtown Atlanta 4 years ago was a dangerous, thrilling experience; I was the only white person in my neighborhood for years. (how I like it)
Now, however, it seems that I might as well have moved to the fucking suburbs with all the luxury SUVs / Audi wagons and BMW's parked on the other side of those cute little white picket fences they all put up.
And don't even get me started on housing costs in the city. $280K for a thousand square foot, half century old, shotgun house next to a train yard? Blow me.
So now I do live in the burbs; in a nice, quiet mixed neighborhood. You can keep your crack heads, inflation on goods, invading white people, and fascist cops; I don't want 'em anymore.
Oh yea, I can actually see *stars* when I look up at night, or do you prefer that constant orange glowing haze?
Or better, if you had RTFA (or even summary), a textbook case of a 15y/o kid designing a website (for fun) in a month. No big surprise there.
No it doesn't, people are maliciously tagging things left and right..read the forums, there's a big deal about it right now.
<sarcasm> I mean, Immortal is tagged "Death Metal" when they are most certainly "Black Metal" !!! </sarcasm>
/me waits for proper MusicBrainz integration with patience.
Do they allow you to live-search your movie collection?
Why would I go to a website to "live-search" my movie collection when my DVDs are on a shelf three feet away from me ?
Cute? Yea. (Probably not a real red head)
But if you notice, she never really does much of anything. Boooring.
Now Scotty, she's the hottie. She can weld, wrench, machine, and I betcha she can ride a bike. She has more ink than Kari to boot.
That's a real woman.
Dude, WTF.
That bullshit wouldn't even compile.
For starters, you plan to assign 1000000000000000 to an INTEGER. (Heh)
Please put the VB book down, uninstall Visual Studio, and walk away; 'cause I'm sick of cleaning up after you people's messes.
The fact that apps run on the web at all is a testament to the sheer stubborness of developers.
More accurately: the sheer idiocy of customers, stubborness of managers, and ignorance of sales people.
I don't honestly think that many of us really *enjoy* having our souls sucked out by HTML, JavaScript, and CSS (Read: IE), we just hate it less than seeing our children starve.
For example, the customer-relationship software I'm using at the moment, VtigerCRM, is a shameless copy of opensource software from SugarCRM, and it's shamelessly copying Salesforce.com functionality. Indian investors are funding the Vtiger opensource alternative, betting they can beat SugarCRM and Salesforce.com at their own game. Maybe they're right.
You're using Vtiger? You poor fuck. If that bloated piece of shit is a mission critical system for you, then..well..good luck.
As a poor PHP dev who was suckered into working on the newer Vtiger for about 6months, I can say that Vtiger is nothing more than bullshit monkey code written by VBers who learned PHP and decided to release some OSS. It's a bad lesson in what NOT to do with OO design; indeed, it's everything that's wrong with large open source PHP projects.
The db architecture (or, that hodge-podge immitation of one) alone should have you running and screaming for the hills.
Sorry. Vtiger is shit. So is SugarCRM. Run while you still can.
Maybe they're right
Not with that code base.
It's not spin. It's groovy.
There's scientific Fact; which, while pretty hard core to us, may not mean anything in light of the Truth; which none of us are likely to ever know.
You see what we deem as facts are only facts within the framework of our cognition, indeed our cognition might not even be equipped to understand the Truth at all.
And why I'm explaining this to an A.C. is beyond me, but I thought it deserved an explanation anyhow.