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My experience as a web developer, though, has led me to believe that while mainframes do some really neat things, they just aren't necessary anymore. I'm certainly more than a little biased, but I don't see any reason why they shouldn't just transition to cloud or virtual web servers.

1: http://javascriptjabber.com/008-jsj-v8-and-dart-with-lars-ba...

2: http://javascriptjabber.com/008-1-v8-and-v8-and-dart-with-la...

A Lifehacker article[1] about it was posted a year ago, and you even posted it on HN[2] a year ago.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3116057

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3109081

If I'm paying for a Pro account but hit 101 models, my only option is to shell out 14 times more money for a Business account? While only getting 10 times more storage? That's a pretty shitty deal.

Get rid of the storage limits completely. The Pro pricing is fine. The ability to store models that aren't public is worth 9€ (~$12) per month.

The Business pricing would be fine if you were offering extra value. You commented that you're working on a Shapeways tie-in. This would be great to allow free and Pro users a way of ordering models that they can access. Give Business users a storefront.

There are some other big problems, though. They've obviously never heard of Unobtrusive Javascript[1]. Try opening the site without Javascript. And the HTML/CSS is garbage. What a joke.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtrusive_JavaScript

It's possible that you have worked on more projects than are listed on Linkedin, but that's what you've offered as evidence of your "good portfolio" and growth as a developer (the reason, I assume, that you keep distancing yourself from those hapless beginners), so that's what I'll reply to.

You have three web projects and a personal website all listed on your profile.

1. "Metasyllabus Initiative": This is a generic Wordpress site using a contributed theme. I assume this is your first attempt at a personal blog. There doesn't appear to be anything technically special about it, and it hasn't been updated in 8 months. If you stick with web development, get used to that. I haven't updated my blog in a year and a half. Wordpress is great, though, because anyone can set it up and use it. Anyone.

2. "Decision Tree Generator": About as simple as it can get. An independent multi-page Javascript-dependent (Did you learn that on W3Schools?) post form that's easily broken and seems to offer very little utility to the user. The most complicated styling used in this project is probably the absolute-positioned results.

3. "OmicronAlpha.org": This site is down.

4. "www.sagegerard.com": I don't know any serious web developers who would use Concrete5, and the comments I've received even from novices about it (it seems to appeal primarily to novices) have all ended with disappointment.

My point is that you're still a beginner. As a beginner, you don't know as much as the people you're arguing with, and you're making yourself look a bit foolish. W3Schools is a fine resource for anyone who knows that it's often unsafe, inaccurate, and wrong. However, the people who know that don't use W3Schools. My biggest problems with W3Schools (other than the inaccurate information) are that 1) they don't explain that they are not associated in any way with the W3C and 2) they sell overpriced certifications that require a user learns inaccurate information.

I read an article a few years ago (that I'm not possibly going to look for now) about best practices when creating examples and guides. The most important lesson in the article was that you should almost never show wrong examples or antipatterns. I.e., don't show an example of what NOT to do. The reason was that the novice ends up remembering the wrong examples as often (or possibly more often) as the good examples. At that point, the example/guide has failed. That's what W3Schools does. They can add as many disclaimers to their site as they want, but that doesn't change the result. They aren't just not doing as much to help people as they could. They're doing harm to the internet.

And by the way, the second sentence of your blog post is both ambiguous and wrong. Was W3Fools created in 2008 (It wasn't.)? Or did W3Fools teleport back in time to only criticize a 2008 version of W3Schools (They didn't.)?

Looks like we might not see any images until about 3:30 EDT

Gmail doesn't even support group-level filtering!

/full-time Gmail user of more than 8 years

E.g., An e-commerce site that displays products in both the main content region and the sidebar. Product names use h1 tags in the main content region and h2 tags in the sidebar. Selectors like h1.product-title and h2.product-title have different meanings, and they're more efficient than the alternative selectors #main .product-title and #sidebar .product-title.

From a performance standpoint, qualifying class and id selectors by the element type is probably less efficient than not qualifying them, so doing it unnecessarily makes the selector longer and more difficult to maintain and decreases performance.

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This is probably just another "feature".