Stop me if this is a bad idea, but can't you just load it before and after?

Good UI & UX design is hard. Really hard. It's one thing doing a cleanroom design of UX, an entirely other doing it for real life and various screen-sizes - preferably responsive. It's like with the code itself. In dev it will run and work, but beware of post-deployment if you haven't tested your stuff in every possible situation. I did tons of this stuff with Flash back in the day, and even with Flashs superiour visual & direct manupilation workplace and solid cross-plattform compatilibilty it was hard. I remember doing the UI for a flash-based MMO at a gamepublisher some years ago. We worked for months just to get the pageflow of character configuration and setup right. Video-based UX testing with usergroups and all. We'd discuss how and why the rail of a slider would look like X and not like Y.
Now, with HTML5, CSS and JS and all the screen sizes and mouse vs. tough it's by orders of magnitude harder.

It does not get that much easyer when you go native with Android or iOS SDK. You're app and your workflow will always have something significant that a good UI designer would like to highlight or help out in being intuitively usable - without destroying the page- and workflow the user is used to with other applications. It's a really tough job and each and every time it's like jumping off a cliff and not knowing if the parachute will deploy.

I'm one of the rare cases that's actually reasonably good at both - I have various diplomas in art and design and 28 years of programming experience, but I honestly couldn't tell which is harder. Basically both require very hard work if you want to do it well. Good UI is also where shitty backends are exposed. If the backend can't deliver what the user needs, no UX in the world will fix it. A significant portion of the logic is having the computer do what the enduser needs, fast and efficient. If UX and backend development don't work together or one of them doesn't understand the needs of the other, it almost instantly shows in a project. That's the classic difference between Apple and MS, btw. Steve Jobs basically nailed it in this rare direct comparsion comment.

Bottom line: The apps shown in this rundown on lollypop are the best you can get with boilerplate UX. The article basically is right, good UX looks different.

There's no reason he can't move on to bigger and better things from here. Perhaps this has whetted his appetite.

I guess this is the age of Oracle but we used to say "Moron Confused by Sun Equipment"

Can we do Novell and Cisco certs next?

Yes, yes they are.

Yes, yes they will, because once systemd becomes the default init system, init scripts will suffer.

The base Debian system should use the basic init system. If they want to offer the option to switch to another init, so be it, but making something new and not fully tested the default is daft and we all know it. Debian is the rock that many of us depend on whether we run Debian or a downstream distribution. It's been my go-to for ages specifically because of this stability. Debian stable is boring and I love it.

Riiiiight, the team that's been pushing for its default inclusion?

I have this argument with my lady periodically, she speaks spanish fluently, italian moderately, and greek a bit. She claims that English is "stupid" because there's no consistency to it. I agree, but claim that's also what makes it powerful. English is never afraid to adopt a loanword, probably bastardizing it in the process. There's a lesson about the English and their colonies there, I imagine, but let us continue. Since the words come from so many different sources, there are many different rulesets depending on whether the word is from greek, latin, french, german... But since we unabashedly copy any word we like, we have words for anything. And when we don't, the influence of context on a word (down to something so simple as the order in which we construct the sentence) lets us say anything anyway.

Of course, the language is still frustrating and confusing for a lot of people. Hence the importance of reading in mass quantities. Simply making it familiar while the brain is at its squishiest pays massive dividends, which is why I wish I'd been exposed to many languages at a young age. I got a little bit of spanish education very young, but then got packed off to a public school and... sigh.

That's not a problem. Who cares if a check happens every 30 seconds? Who cares if it's done by a script? The system is designed to do stuff like let a script step every 30 seconds. The system is also designed with cheap process creation in mind; the time to fork a process is comparable to the time necessary to create a thread.

Well, in theory to me anyway, it would make sense to use a runlevel for sleep. This isn't what is normally done, but there's really no reason why you couldn't do that with init, and I think that might well make more sense. Any services which needed to stop themselves could do so, the network could be reconfigured on resume, et cetera. All without any ugly hacks. We would still run a bunch of scripts, but shell scripting and cheap process creation are central features of the Unix environment. Shell scripting is not a hack. Unix was invented for single-digit-MHz computers, and we can afford to toss off a few shells.

And yet, you have not addressed the claim that overprovisioning affects the need to use the TRIM command.

I think the mold on the left yogurt in my fridge is an MCSE. ... Yeah, he was bored one afternoon.

Seriously though, if my kid were a computer prodigy, the last thing I would teach it is something proprietary with such a short half-life as MCP. Basic knowledge of a programming language and TCP/IP would've been much better for this kid at that age. What a waste of talent. ... Put him on the kernel team and Linus accept a commit by him - *that* would be news. :-)

I hope this wasn't some nutty dad driving his kid to do something so he could feel great about himself as a dad.

But maybe the kid is happy and loves his dad and dad loves him back. That's the most important think at that age - MCP or not.

My 2 cents.

There's nothing wrong with run levels. Dependencies aren't handled through run levels alone, they're also handled through start order. But the proper answer is to add something to /etc/default/package or directly to the init script to handle dependency checking, it's actually really simple.

init doesn't control the network, and it never has. it only starts the network. you use a network managing daemon to handle rejoining previously-seen access points and the like.

That's not what happened, however. A very small group of people, divided in itself, reluctantly came to a decision that affects others — and these others do not clearly support that decision in the majority either.

So you're saying that systemd is a mistake?

Think again — people are uploading that footage even when it's boring. Just take a look at youtube. Some guy uploaded a video of him riding a motorcycle over the 175 Hopland Grade slower than I've whipped it in an Astro, and I told him so :) But seriously, people are uploading every total yawn of a video they shoot, and other people are watching them and even giving them the thumbs-up.

I was hoping that Meta's device would be an Eyetap, every time I see someone say "Me, I'm hoping..." in one of these discussions, that's what I'm hoping for. Simply not having to correct for parallax would be better than clever schemes which don't always work well. Although probably at this point we'll have to wait for it to be implemented as a contact lens