I agree that too many people get into the field that shouldn't, but you're out of line using your example to generalize to all autodidacts. The most brilliant people in any field are by definition autodidacts, because what education offers falls short of their capabilities.

Also, CS teaches absolutely nothing about good real-world design. The most perverse architectures I've seen have come from the highly educated - and I say that being highly educated myself. To borrow an old military cliche, many with high degrees fall into the "diligent but stupid" camp.

If you were profoundly nearsighted you'd know that 6" is not a near-sighted reading distance for smartphones - that's a common distance for normal vision.

Maybe you meant to say 3".

Taking your own initiative to improve efficiency and effectiveness? In the military?

It's hard to understand because the expected response is a reprimand.

I wouldn't feel too bad about slagging them, they deserve it.

They've spent their development time screwing up the UI instead of working on a major 13 year old bug that's annoyed everyone since its release.

This may be true for your state, but not in MA. You can go here to review the profile of any physician that has ever been registered in the state of Massachusetts. These profiles include malpractice, disciplinary action, and criminal history. This information is primary and authoritative; the site that hospitals and other healthcare providers use to check on their doctors, and what the public sees, is one in the same. In addition, anyone is allowed to call the Board of Medicine to request specific details about any averse information shown here.

Many other states have similar websites that were made in direct response to the concerns of those like you.

According to Randall Munroe, the corpse wouldn't burn up on re-entry.

Every person who modded this story up should have their karma removed.

All sufficiently large organizations tend toward sociopathy.

with video and not include an example of the camera's output?

Seriously, was it just too difficult?

Maybe I'm just in a bad mood, but it pissed me off that the whole video was just some dude talking.

If you're going to be that lazy just give us a transcript.

GUI for web, mobile and desktop. One language?

Even if you could get away with that, the language itself is the most trivial part of learning a platform.

Just don't bother. Seriously. If you don't have time, reign in your expectations.

Normal people aren't allowed to pay their way out of jail for their crimes.

Why are there settlements instead of sentences when a business or any other type of organization is involved?

Jesus, then get rid of HTML. Have the web "developers" keep their markup and scripting language, but it all needs to compile down to a lower-level standard that isn't categorically "web".

A simpler surface would be easier to secure, easier to implement and optimize per platform, and would free all the higher-level stuff to evolve under market forces instead of a ponderous standards committee.

Nothing will change for the better until the system and the rules that govern it do, changes that are extremely unlikely to be made by elected officials.

By the way, the Tea Party is the very definition of a special interest group.

can I rage against it?

The complaints seem to be about a lot of perfectly fixable usability problems, common to open source development tools, that nobody's bothered, or will ever bother, to address.

I know - we're supposed to hate MS here - but I've never had these problems in projects of any type, large or small, closed or open source, using Visual Studio.

And you get people also complaining that if making programming (actually, using the programming tools) too easy makes bad programmers. Which is total bullshit.