Shut up faggot, nobody cares about you.

    (Yes...sarcasm...)

I respectfully disagree.

I was a huge Xbox 360 fan. I played a lot of games, but there were parts of the console that really bothered me. Mostly load times. Stopped playing for about 4 years.

I finally got an Xbox One about a year ago. My favorite 'feature' is that I can be playing a game, and power the console off....next time I turn it on, I can go right back into the game, exactly where I was. I can do the same when going between games. In the middle of a game, click 'Home' and go into a different game...then when I go back, I am right where I left off.

It makes games a lot less stressful. I can enjoy them more. I don't worry about save points as much.

Right now I am playing Sunset Overdrive and being able to pop-in for a 20 minute little gaming session...yet saving my progress...is really nice. I am thrilled I don't need to wait 4 minutes just for everything to load, then take 10 minutes to get back where I left off. It's there in about 10 seconds as though I never left.

For me as a busy person that is a huge factor.

That's my point. Evidently my post wasn't clear enough for the conspiracy crowd.

When you are hunting someone down for doing something that...well, maybe it isn't even illegal, but you really want them to stop- you charge them with kiddie porn.

Nobody supports a pedophile. They (NSA etc) know that. So they use it.

In the world of electronic data, nothing worse than taking from the CIA and NSA.

Well, there is something worse...kiddie porn.

That takes away all sympathy he may get from people.

Hold him for the smut, but send him to a dark hole for the rest of it.

Number one feature I have (problem to fix)...when going through photos, any landscape oriented photos are just too small in portrait mode. Automatically flip them.

That way I don't have to tell people, "Oh...wait...hang on...shoot, wait..." as things flip, I unlock the screen orientation, etc. etc.

I can easily flip my phone much better than going through the hassle of what I do now.

OH- and dammit! Give me a damn Bluetooth control that works from the notification bar! I don't want to just turn it on and off, I want to choose devices to connect/disconnect from. Probably the same for Wifi, but my wifi networks are locked in, and everything is fine. But if I could change Bluetooth speakers without too much trouble, I would be very happy.

I agree that the web is 'ruined'. I blame Marketing departments everywhere. I've been a web programmer for a loooong time, and for a long time we were winning the fight of, "No, you can't put huge pictures everywhere! No, the content can't be all videos! No, we can't have ads in 6 places on the website!"

But then Marketing comes in and shows how much more 'engagement' we can get- etc. etc. and the actual user experience goes into the toilet.

Now the marketing people (literally usually college grads on their first job) have been raised with the shit-hole the web has become, and it is normal. No qualms about shoving 3 or 4 more pieces of crap on the webpage.

Now it is better to trick people into signing up for content "give us your email address in order to read the article" than it is to provide good content. Because then they can say they have reached 10,000 new people this month- who will never, ever open, or even see, the emails that come in.

I hate those people.

First, I hate Chrome...and the 'new web' with never ending pages. I am not a genius, but when I've been on Reddit for 30 minutes on a never ending page, I think "God, how much RAM is this thing sucking up right now?"

Obviously that is not really Chrome's fault...but the two go hand in hand. The same B-holes that love never ending pages, have a hard-on for Chrome.

As an aside, the new Reddit update has some problems with my account, and I can't load anything anymore. Good riddance.

Second, not sure what you meant regarding your last comment about Microsoft's best interests- But if I owned Microsoft, I would be pretty happy to screw up Google's crap. Google's actions regarding Windows Phone were pitiful. If you think Google gives one crap about users in the world, you're wrong. They were more than happy to break every attempt to get YouTube on Windows Phone- suing Microsoft for an app that was just a web wrapper...

I think Microsoft should just keep breaking Chrome. Google deserves a kick in their testes.

The hypocrisy of this guy is extreme. I can't stand him, and I dislike pretty much everything he says.

I was on his Imzy site, because he is right...Reddit is broken. Imzy was supposed to be friendly.

I was getting harassed by some serious 'progressive' types for being white and male. This was about two years ago when this was in a high fervor.

My complaints were answered directly by his wife. And she told me twice that since white males have the power, this was not harassment, and I should just deal with it.

Imzy, this dude, and his wife weren't interested in making a BETTER internet. They were just interested in making a safe space for their own people (yes, I know this guy is a white male...but read his life story, like the article, he has some serious white guilt).

This guy sucks and the media eats up his story over and over...

Not trolling.

I have one computer at home. My desktop. It bluescreened on boot. Can't do anything. No way to download Windows, activate, whatever.

It was getting old, so I figured "Well, it is about time anyway, this is just the thing that pushed me over the edge to buying a new computer". I bought an inexpensive Dell...which I would recommend that people do NOT do! Only 2 SATA connections, and only one SATA power cable- the other connection is for the DVD drive that I will never use. (I have since bought more cables, but still have not installed more drives, because I hate doing this stuff)

I really didn't want to spend my weekend getting frustrated with OS installs, so I just bought a new computer.

It's a tale of woe that I put out there because this is the situation people are put in. If my wife didn't use the computer for her work, I probably would have said, "Ah screw it...I don't need a computer" or I would just install Ubuntu. But you know, Adobe.

I've been a 'tech professional' for over 20 years. And I really have absolutely zero interest in messing around with my computer. Microsoft did not lose my business because of this, but I did look at the iMac. Or, if BestBuy carried the Mac Mini, I probably would have bought that.

But next time, I won't do the same thing again. (Read my post history if you care to...I am a long time Microsoft fan. But dropping Windows phone, and now a blue screen on my desktop, I'm ready to say goodbye)

This is how they will lose a lot of market share.

Dammit...I hate to read this.

I was on the fast ring. About a month ago I got a BSOD. So I did the smart thing, and I went out and bought a new computer. I was NOT going to wrestle with figuring out how to get a new copy of Windows, etc.

Stupid BSOD.

I keep looking at this and asking myself, "is there anything holding back the creation and delivery of HTML?". Because that really is the end product.

My current stack has roadmaps out about 9 years. That's fairly solid. I will hopefully retire in 10 years.

My goal is to find a replacement soon. They are the ones who will move to a radical new technology. I have good documentation and an understanding of the business logic. The transition to something brand new will take years. And at that point in my career, I should have value beyond just coding.

If a junior developer out there is looking for a solid but not exciting job, I'm looking for you! Yes, you will need to learn some archaic technologies, but then you can modernize things once you know what is going on.

The real pot of gold is the data, and it's clean, normalized and documented. I've been preparing to leave since the day I started. They are paying me to do a job, not just to build my resume and when I walk out the door I can say I did them right. Whoever inherits this will be lucky. (Ive inherited a lot of projects, including my current job...and I know the good and bad ways to do it)

Good question!

I moved to web work in 1999 after a time in the printing industry. This was a natural outgrowth of realizing that printing was going to be affected by the web. So I had a lot of experience in print design.

I do work with an artist, and at the beginning of a project we'll go over everything, determine a palatte of colors, they'll design the base CSS, etc. But I'm capable of extrapolating the design when something new comes along.

My designs aren't great, and I should never START the design. That initial creation by the artist is important. But once it gets going I can determine what a new element should look like. Maybe with some refreshing from the real designer/artist once a year.

I can keep it from being 'bad', but I can't make it great. And for projects where they need a full stack developer (meaning they can only afford one person), that's usually enough.

Well, you are approaching this from a different angle.

There are many companies with 25-500 employees who need programming, but don't want to pay for an entire team.

Think of a gazillion specialty companies who are small to mid sized, but need custom software. Not every company can run off the shelf type stuff because their business model can't adapt to what is currently available.

So they hire 1-2 programmers and have them do the whole thing. Customer management down to the website.

These aren't bad jobs. And the organizations care more about your longevity than the typical tech shop. These companies don't want to hire someone new...huge hassle.

These are not bad jobs. And they aren't being offshored. You're part of the team and effect how the business is run. You're there to help and guide because you know what's going on.

It's using your skills in a different way.

I'd rather base it on EQ.

I've seen high IQ people make bad decisions for really stupid reasons.

Nothing wrong with high IQ- it's great. But I deal with mature code. I'd rather have people with wisdom than just intelligence.

Hmmmm...I think I run https just fine. You know my stack has matured over time?

Point is, I don't jump from product to product. My operating system and web server utilize all of the current security standards.

And when something new comes out, I add it to the base of knowledge I already have, rather than jumping ship to something I haven't thoroughly tested and understood.

I try to avoid recreating the wheel every year.