wavephorm

So, in other words you would prefer to use euphemism? Isn't a big part of the problem that US media and politicians already do that?

  But these fascist claims go unanswered here too often and
  I shouldn't have to dispute it point by point.

Except you didn't dispute it at all. Instead of making any sort of insightful argument you said it is sad, and I am batshit crazy, spewing nonsense, and that you want to sabotage the European economy. This is really not a good way to make an argument.

fas·cism/ˈfaSHizəm/ Noun:

  An authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of
  government and social organization.
  (in general use) Extreme right-wing, authoritarian, or 
  intolerant views or practice.

re·gime/riˈZHēm/ Noun:

  A government, esp. an authoritarian one.
  A system or planned way of doing things, esp. one imposed from above.

I don't think you can get a more succinct description of what's happening to the United States.

This trend appears to be happening in Canada, UK, and EU simultaneously. The G8 are coordinating their authoritarian efforts in a way that is completely unprecedented. Like a lot of things the US is probably the one pushing for this on its "friends".

The United States is very quickly becoming an ever more scary looking country. From the outside, it appears to be converting itself into a full-on fascist regime, hostile to insiders and outsiders alike. The walls are going up, the spy-cams and wiretapping are springing up. The SOPA/PIPA powered nation-wide firewall is being constructed. Local authorities are increasingly becoming subservient to a centralized federal authority (DHS). And it's all being fueled by propaganda politics, big businesses lobbying, and the rich. The country appears to be going completely crazy.

You mean periods of time where you earn little to no money, and learn new skills constantly? That's a startup.

So get a used Mac Mini for probably $300. Any 2009 and up models are still fairly powerful machines, and are better and quieter than any desktop PC I've owned.

IE did it right.

This problem gets exposed any time you try to do something like:

  width:100%; border:1px

Cause you can't see the border. It's really stupid, the spec got it wrong.

Yup. I consider OnSwipe to be sort of a game. Can I recognize the page as an OnSwipe site and successfully click back out before it crashes Safari?

The web already has replaced Windows desktop software for most peoples uses of a computer. Facebook, news, email, photo sharing (flikr), music (di.fm), video (youtube)... That's all most people need from a computer and tablets, with an optional keyboard accomplish this just fine.

There is no inherent reason that people need to use a virtual desktop, remote controlled by a mouse. The desktop metaphors, overlapping windows, cascading menus, constant nagging popups, files and folders, hardware drivers, blue screens... all this stuff is a nightmare for average users. They are already abandoning the desktop model because it never worked very well.

He mentions vi/emacs debate, but perhaps more relevant is all the Linux Desktop and KDE/Gnome drama. Tablets and touchscreen interfaces blow the entire desktop paradigm to smithereens. The desktop UI is done, folks. The Linux community needs to wake up. All that drama, all the work on creating competing UI widget codebases, window managers, etc, and it's ALL going to get thrown out with the bathwater.

I'm porting some of my software to Windows. I haven't used Windows in years. Doing things like opening a DOS console and typing "cd C:\" was like going back in time about 25 years. And then I had to create a Batch script using old BASIC style commands, using REM at the start of comments... It's like Windows is stuck in time, and Microsoft's primary way of making money is by keeping this crusty operating system running, and milking enterprise IT budgets as long as possible.

Yikes, that is a whole lot of pedantic argument over the semantics of MVC.

"Handlebars is a compromise between logic and logicless views... ladda ladda ladda"

Reddit had the biggest hissy fit of all about how child porn laws like SOPA were going to go too far and ruin the internet. And here they go banning anything involving a bathing suit.

The hypocricy is strong in this one.

Scumbag Reddit

Freaks out about anti-childporn laws

Bans pics of 18+ teenagers in bathing suits

I'm convinced the internet we know today is very quickly going to get fragmented into distinct regions (china-style). This worldwide plan "known by many names" (SOPA/PIPA/ACTA) has obviously already been decided during the last G8 summit. These clampdowns of the internet are going through, one way or another. The G8 governments are scared to death of the Internet. They've been watching the Arab spring movement in absolute horror at how quickly citizens can organize over a free internet and overthrow their government, which is obviously quite threatening if you're in a position of power, and you're pilfering your citizens wealth with draconian economic actions.

This is truly frightening and interesting at the same time. How are so many of these Trendnet IP cameras just exposed to the public internet with their own IP addresses? And I'd like to know why do so many people use security cameras to record video of nothing in particular (empty warehouses, the street, etc).

FYI these cameras were found to have a backdoor to view the images:

http://www.webpronews.com/security-cameras-hacked-2012-02

The software is definitely innovative, but I agree, he should probably be targeting iPad first. There's a lot of "wannabe" musicians like myself that would probably drop a good $49 or $99 on a big app like this. I think a lot of people would love to create music with their hands, and be able to do it anywhere.

This is an anti-pattern. The HTTP spec already sends files to web browsers, and it can send many files in parallel.

I've been blackballed by Google just for using an affiliate system. Unfortunately their near monopoly puts them in a position where they can get away with strongarming customers and users into obeying. But they're not going to make any new friends with this kind of attitude.

...yet. I fully expect Gmail and Search to decline in popularity, and with it Google's profitability and viability. Users are starting to revolt, and switch to alternatives like DDG. I don't know of any good Gmail alternatives yet, but the timing is really right for some startup to come along with a better email solution.

Google may appear an unstoppable juggernaut, but they most certainly are not. I think their business is very seriously threatened because of the type of business model they've chosen.

My comment explains why I think Drive will fail, because of the business model of the company that is behind it. Google's advertising model necessitates evil things to be done with the content their users upload. And my prediction is users are going to start spitting up the free ice cream Google is serving.

Google Drive will fail because Google actually thinks everybody loves and trusts them. People are getting smarter, and they're starting to understand that the type of centralized cloud computing that Google is forcefully pushing on its users is the exact kind of distasteful scenario that Orwell warned us of.

People really do not want their entire digital experience curated, controlled, and highly manipulated by a centralized, autonomous entity, with zero-human interaction, and zero-support if something goes wrong.

The Google's free ice cream business model isn't going work forever. Eventually decentralized, private cloud computing is going to come along and make their entire business model obsolete.

I found Express.js and it's sister-framework Connect to be a complete mess. I had trouble following what was going on, major problems debugging, it uses the factory pattern in the wrong places, and the Rack-style middleware is inefficient and unnecessary for most projects. But NodeJS itself is great, and to learn it best I think it's worth the time to write your own simple framework and utilize libraries where appropriate (like db libraries, formidable, and websocket.io).

Rails is over. It's a bloated meta framework that requires enormous amounts of peripheral knowledge to understand.

For that matter I bet there's an awful lot of science that goes into that bottle of Pepsi in your fridge. Everything from the chemical formulation of the sweeteners and preservatives, to the purification of water, to the design of the bottles for maximum strength per gram of plastic. And then there's the whole organization of the distribution channels and salesmen to get Pepsi product into every restaurant and convenience store in the entire world.

Do your profession a favor and DO NOT sign an NDA in this situation. It's just terrible. Same goes for people that sign non-competes, and thought-police agreements upon being hired.

Don't do it. It's optional, you have the right to refuse. By signing you are putting a huge amount of liability on your shoulders for no reason. You're giving that company the right to sue you for practically any reason they can conjure up.

As long as they target other software patent trolls like Microsoft and Apple I'd be perfectly fine with it. They could become the batman of the patent world.

I think the word "acquired" is used a bit too loosely these days. If this business' operations get shut down then it's not really an exit in the traditional sense, and I don't think people shouldn't be congratulating a whole company for giving up, quitting their jobs, and getting 9-5 jobs at a corporation.

I've never seen any chart or graph where Firefox Mobile even shows up. Usually when something has <1% marketshare it gets categorized as statistically insignificant or grouped in "other".

http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_browser-ww-monthly-201101-...

http://www.netmarketshare.com/mobile-market-share

Nobody uses Firefox Mobile.