Anyone know if sites like Fakespot will be incorporating this information into their review engines?
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I am NOT your beta-tester.
Back in the early 80's Forth was the first language available on the original Macintosh. I loved Forth, but it completely ruins you for every other non-RPN language. I remember writing an ASCII terminal (dial-up modem) application in Forth to learn the language, and afterwards every other language that I was using at the time just looked... weird.
I had to perform a massive mental shift to get back into all of the other languages I was being paid to work with at the time, and it was so difficult (for me, anway) that I never went back to it.
Btw, not a typo above. Not ][+, not //, not //e. Apple ][, serial number 79. IIRR, it even has the floating point ROM card in one of the slots. :-)
BP now hovers around 100 / 60, resting heart rate in the 70's, and I rarely experience tinnitus any more.
You're being downvoted (as I expect I will be, for agreeing with you), but having lived through the time when people blindly worshiped Alan Kay, I could not agree more with this statement.
If I'm looking for something on Amazon I use Google and the "site:" prefix, and use the meta returned by Google's search engines to find what I'm after.
Their landing page doesn't have a filtering option, but the bar at the top of the search results page has a "Store Availability" option.
http://books.google.com/books?id=mi8EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA29&#...
Good times...
Oh. I see. That's different.
EDIT -- from http://wtfjs.com:
parseInt('06'); // 6
parseInt('08'); // 0
Your language is bad, and you should feel bad.
Missing a hyphen. I hope.
Yeah. I didn't think so.
My theory is that internet advertising is a zero-sum game (out of the left-hand pocket into the right-hand pocket sort of thing), but there hasn't been any serious, credible research to prove or disprove my intuitions.
And no, "serious" and "credible" do not apply to companies that sell internet advertising and point to their own (air quotes) reasearch as proof that internet advertising works.
AdBlock Plus and Ghostery for the win, by the way.
ActiveX and DCOM.
(shudder)
These ISO's should work on any machine as long as you have a valid Windows 7 Product Key.
I've always bought at least one OEM copy of Windows, or purchased upgrade copies when a new version is released. I picked up three copies of the Windows 7 DVD set (x32 and x64) for $40 each on Amazon, and you can pick up ISO's of Windows 8 directly from Microsoft for $40 a pop.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/buy?ocid=GA8_O_WO...
I was at least three sentences into a long "Uninstallers? Seriously?" rant when I realized that this is exactly what the average poor bastard on the street would do if they wanted to get rid of the crapware that infests a new machine.
[long thoughtful pause]
Jesus. It really is that big of a divide. I never (never, never, ever, ever) boot up a new machine. I always nuke-n-pave it right out of the box. I don't even give it any thought -- it's just the way it is.
[another long thoughtful pause]
Then again, this is a problem for my generation, where one in one hundred (maybe more) had half a clue when it came to personal computers.
I'd like to think the "run the uninstaller" route is also not an option for kids in their 20's and 30's (get off my lawn!). I'd like to think the ratio is closer to one in three or four, and installing a virgin copy of your OS of choice on a new machine is just as much a habit for them as it is for me.
So I guess I'm left wondering if I'm reading a rant from the late 1990's.
Tried looking this up on Wikipedia, and I'm pretty sure you don't mean "People's Republic of China". Or any of the other disambiguations on the page I ended up on. So even though I'd like to read up on whatever it is you're talking about, I find myself without a clue.
"Thanks, but I couldn't work for a company that requires me to have written permission to install Windows on my development machine."
Ayep. I'm not a good "cultural fit" either.
If there are enough people like me that get tired of seeing this particular piece of visual spam it gets added to the list of elements that are blocked for all Adblock Plus users.
The lesson site designers and developers really need to start learning is STOP DOING THIS. Put a link in your nav, or at the top of the page.
Turning hover on for everything is annoying. Crap popping up on your page when I use the scrollbars is annoying. I really don't care how clever you think it is. It's just damned annoying.
This tells me everything I need to know about this ass monkey.
Because, y'know, writing code is the easiest thing in the world. And, y'know, anyone can do it, y'know.
(and thanks to dfc for reminding me about Panopticlick)