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Comment Nonsense (Score 1) 391

HTML5 has all sorts of client side processing and XML is sent back and forth between servers and clients in a blizzard of unnecessary tags.

If REST is so fucking obvious why were so many web apps written that weren't RESTful?

Comment Re:You think programming's bad? (Score 1) 391

On the contrary, sometimes a bottom up approach to a problem is the best method to discover all of the little nooks and crannies of incompleteness inherent in the specification. And believe me, ALL specifications are incomplete.

You critics are nothing but idiot rookies.

Comment Re:Please correct me! (Score 1) 163

Use of stored procedures should be enforced at all times. Nothing is worse than letting web hackers to attempt to use SQL. That they were stupid enough to use some overly complex klidge based in an old printer control codes is proof enough of they and their managements unsuitability for building systems.

Comment Re:But why do we need the internet of things (Score 1) 163

None. and having your oven or stove turned on while you are not at home is downright dangerous.

I expect a wave of neo-Luddism to occur (at least as far as the internet is concerned) in response to these stupid idea that my alarm clock needs to be hooked into the internet. It may make adjusting clocks for daylight savings automatic (although this could be implemented with a ROM chip that included a future calendar although that could become obsolete if they change the dates yet again for daylight savings and is anyway not geared to individual jurisdictions that have unique or absent daylight savings calculations) but to be perfectly honest most folks on the heat when I am cold and turn it off when it gets warm enough.

Who wants a car that can be tracked by the insurance companies and authorities and also will have a heads up display with no spare parts and ability to be fixed in ten years time,

This brave new world of universal connectivity is going to be rejected by consumers who just want basic functionality at a cheap price.

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