i'm talking about the entire org, not their products. the org is not bringing in any value by making their engineers research and develop a website recommendation tool in their browser. it should be forked and re-booted by a community with new values and focuses.
agree, agree! mozilla have forgotten their root objective. someone should fork mozilla, remove unneeded features and publish a slimmer, focused version under a new licence.
i can't help but feel disappointed about mozilla proposing to have advertisement mechanisms built right into their browser. there's a blurry line between suggestions and plain advertisement. as a user online i don't need more relevant information. this is just marketing people baloney to make people buy more stuff.
yes to all this, but then when do you stop? how many file types should be supported by a browser? i'm sure some people would like it that the browser could edit spreadsheets too. there are so many different use cases.
the web was born, and everyone was happy for this new thing. then advertisement came along and poisoned that too, just like tv, just like radio. we just can't have nice things because someone somewhere wants to squeeze all the pennies out of your pockets in whatever medium you use.
obligatory links for website obesity and bullshit web:
the question is which one learns you c the better? learn c and build your own lisp? or learn lisp and build your own c? both poses challenges with regards to the inner workings of c.
spot on article describing a cure to an illness spreading through the web designs of today. for those interested in actual examples of brutalist websites, scroll through http://brutalistwebsites.com/. and the obligatory http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ should be bookmarked right away!
yes, c++ is the cruelest most insane joke, on the same level of perhaps embedding malware inside a compiler and distributing it to the developers. no really, it was a nice try making an object-oriented language on top of c, but then why not build on top of the superior oo features of smalltalk or lisp?
if you're having a hard time doing modals and layouts with html and css you should perhaps start over and try grasping the core concepts. this system, unlike qt, is about separation of concerns, so structure and presentation are defined separately. far from a clusterfuck, it's actually a very good idea. if you are having a hard time finding non-crap libraries, then build your own pile of shit library. at least there are plenty of choices to pick from. it's called an ecosystem and it, unfortunately, is what you people don't have.
> Apple cares about their pro users, they just want them using products that are much more accessible and easier to use.
no, as a pro user i don't need a touch bar on my laptop. i use my keyboard and mouse. i don't need to reduce all my usb connectors to one. i don't need a crappy implemented ai called siri. i don't need something accessible, easier to use, because i know how to use my computer already, thanks apple. apple just needs to upgrade the hardware more often 'cause software is demanding more ram and cpu power. it's very simple.
because increasingly more and more software demands better hardware. and... they should because otherwise someone else will take that share from them. and that could be sad for both apple and customers like me who like their macbooks (older models at least). as pointed out in the article, it's not about innovation anymore, just simple upgrades, with minimum effort.
this flat touch screen business is making things just horrible. i have ten fingers, and i actually like to feel the pressure and feedback from a real physical keyboard when i type things. seems natural. are we going to write the code of the future on our smartwatches in binary or what? we need more humane devices and more humane interfaces!
it's a sad state for hardware these days, just look at lenovo's thinkpads. they are destroying their brand too, but perhaps in another subtle way, by slowly removing things that people liked and adding bogus features. i really don't know what to buy when my mid-2014 macbook stops working. might just skip computers, go on a spiritual quest and find true love instead.
writing code in java in an ide of reminds me of filling in credit card forms or something. when you are totally dependent on having tooling around your language to be productive in it, that signals something is wrong with the language.
how about: people are already depressed and having sketchy, addictive drugs pushed on them by a large profit-driven medical industry will not fix the real issue?
the millions are not saying it's perfect. that would be wrong. as you say what we have is js, so let's move on and make something useful with it instead of complaining about it being flawed. it is evolving, being standardized and getting new features. its not going to go away anytime soon, so instead educate yourself into avoid the pitfalls that exist in the language and have fun being productive.
> The total absence of high quality software written in javascript is sufficient evidence to conclude that javascript is not a tool suitable for serious application development.
a little overstatement, but okay. js is very suitable for this in my opinion. i don't what counts as "serious" application development in your world, but i've seen quite many good, performant applications around written in js. and servers too!
this js-is-not-a-real-language stand is only to be expected from someone like a professor or a computer science student. universities and educational institutions in general will always be the last ones to adapt to changes, after the rest of society has moved forward, and they will try imposing those conservative opinions on everyone who are not in their camp. times are changing, computers are becoming more complex and we need more abstractions too. and the ignorant js-is-only-a-scripting-language statement is simply not true anymore.
google has no moral or principles. how could it possibly have those things? how can a global advertisement corp. not be evil? it doesn't make any sense!
this is interesting. by the way, human brains evolved in three main stages. the first stage being the animal brain, it's small but contains the most important and basic skills for survival.