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Comment Re:DRTFA (Score 1) 166

It isn't just the heavyweight issue, it was the lack of experence we had with it combined with in ablity to really interegrate with the DOM and Javascript. Had Java applets focused on working with the browser instead of as their own little world a bit more, Flash wouldn't have needed to exist. Flash still is a pain next to HTML5 though, so everyone needs to evole or die, nothing new in that. My one experence with applets was to use them as a PC/Mac counter part to a VB3 specialized calculator app(Clay Bricks). It worked, but the dev time was insane next to what it would take to do the same thing in just plain JS.

Comment Re:Those poor bastards (Score 2) 102

You have to change nearly everything about how Drupal works to make it work well on a large site, or a large number of sites. So where is the "standard"? What it does with MySQL DB by default, as one example, is an absolute travesty. Then you run into, oh I can't build my massive site using nodes, it will blow up, so lets use templates, but now we have to mange templates, lets build something for that, oh now caching, how well does it deal with a big server farm, oh need patches and work on that too. Oh it isn't OOP so I have to do alot of extra work and process to keep the maintaince programmers from blowing everything up on multiple sites because they just know a little PHP and want to work in that all of the time vs the system you built. It is like so many other things, people spend tens of thousands of man hours on making it work, then say, Drupal is great! Just fucking amazes me. Of course Drupal isn't unique in that.

Comment Re:Just bought a puppy (Score 2) 279

Hopefully you don't live an an area where you are short on options, otherwise RUN. We ran into a vet very much like you are talking about. I won't go into the details of the $2000 fart when we though our dog was dying and we took him in OVERNIGHT, they gave her pepcid ac.. Our new vet just told us the dog needed to lose weight, got us on a great food to help do that along with our own being careful to not supplement with treats/dinner scraps, no such issue for years now. What was worse, it is like you said, you could feel you were being taken, almost massaged, their bent was on herbal everything, they acted like every animal needs its concoction of suppliments. Right after our first visit we started getting emails from their list pushing all of that, including the standard scams of small dog teeth cleaning, basically everything they could think of to make a penny.

Comment Re:What assholes (Score 1) 142

Everytime I see something like this it just makes me sad. I knew a couple of people who worked for Sun. It was always a pleasure to deal with them and they seemed, HAPPY. More and more it seems like everyone everywhere has something to grump about. Attack others, don't focus on your own products, win by any means, not by just being the best.. Kind of getting sick of it.

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