ivancamilov

The author seems to think that most developers think the Web sucks and needs to be killed. While this may have a sliver of truth behind it —in that a lot of us are dissatisfied with certain aspects of the platform— there's one thing the author fails to address:

If the Web (and Javascript) suck so badly, then what's up with all those Electron desktop apps? And all those react native/nativescript/ionic mobile apps?

IMHO, the author fails to address the only reason the web is popular as an application platform: its still the only reliable way to make sure your code runs everywhere with as little effort as possible.

Cool, but the example has a few errors. "students" in spanish is "estudiantes", the example is missing an S.

Also, "more" is "más" in spanish. Accents are important for meaning in a lot of languages.

They do this in my city too (Bogotá, Colombia). It's actually illegal here, but they do it anyway.

"OSI has been forgotten by all but a handful of veterans of the Internet-OSI standards wars."

Hardly forgotten, I learned about OSI at the same time I studied TCP/IP back in college. And I'm hardly a veteran, since I graduated in '09.

I half expected to see the image in the article to slowly pan and zoom.

Same here... anyone got a mirror?

I admit I was thinking of a different happy ending.

Bogotá, Colombia has the same restriction.

It doesn't help traffic at all. People just bought another car.

My thoughts exactly. Here I was, complaining that it's hard to get an affordable apartment in my city, and they live in teeny tiny rooms in Europe!

wait a minute, you can't force Yelp to remove your restaurant?! and I thought we had retarded Internet laws in my country... here in Colombia, no business can have your information without your consent. If they do, you can force them to remove any records they have on you –it's a principle called Habeas Data.

If I was still in college, I would:

1) Record the audio of the lectures 2) Do a quick mind map with an tablet.

That way you get all the technology benefits with none of the reported issues.