Comment Re:Opera user here! (Score 1) 283
well, for me it was. Would crash every now and then for no specific reason. As usual, YMMV.
well, for me it was. Would crash every now and then for no specific reason. As usual, YMMV.
I've been using Opera since 2002, never payed a cent. Yes, at first it has an ad on top of the window, but it was usable and good. The ad was removed in version 8.5, 5 years ago.
check the comments above regarding On Demand Plugin
some versions in the past were particularily crash-prone. I think 9.64 was the worst.
But apart from that, the crashes are so infrequent that I don't mind the whole 'one process per tab' thing. Actually, firefox on Linux crashes a lot more using the exact same flash plugin as Opera
You can enable a setting that allows plugin content to be downloaded only after clicking on it. Very useful:
http://my.opera.com/dude09/blog/on-demand-plugin-opera-turbo
Opera is what it is. Either you like it (like me) or you don't. Its lack of popularity is not due to the lack of extensions (after all, chrome and safari had bigger market share before having extensions themselves).
I prefer it, over any of the others. But it seems there are a lot of bad misconceptions around and that's the biggest problem Opera Software needs to find a way to solve.
Why would they target anything at us? We're not sending them anything, as far as they know this place is empty.
There were times when I would actually code for 35-45 hours a week. Assuming "code" includes the wrote, run, crash, debug, rinse and repeat cycle.
These days I am lucky if I actually code more then 5 hours a week on average. I spend most of my times doing administrative tasks, being interrupted by coworkers and attending ineffective meetings.
This reminds me of when GUI's were new in the mid 80's, all the elitist jerks who fancied themselves to be high-caliber nerds loudly proclaiming that it was all a gay bullshit fad, etc., ad nauseum.
Lemme ask you guys, any chance we'll get a humble redaction if it turns out you are completely and utterly wrong about this?
I still think most GUIs are fundamentally wrongly engineered. Not only is there no text interface to them, there's often no interface to the event stream at all. It all has to be done with compiled OO languages, hugely platform-specific binary interfaces, and callbacks, which compared to the scripting power of a good CLI - or even to the original Smalltalk/Dynabook vision - is just... wrong is the only word for it. The whole messy overcomplicated paradigm 'works', but only in very limited cases and in spite of itself.
I mean, to make our fancy classful binary OO GUIs work across the net, what did we have to invent? A text-based, page-based protocol called HTTP. There's something wrong with this picture. Wasn't OO itself supposed to solve distribution scalability problems? In our universe, it didn't. We had to go back to ASCII text streams for that.
There must be lessons to be learned from the whole GUI -> Web experience, but I don't see many people teaching about them, or even acknowledging that they exist.
In comparison to the *nix model, where a software program 'A' generates human readable ASCII text representations of binary objects, which are then piped, character-by-character, to another program 'B', which has to parse the display representation, convert it back to a binary object. Of course, none of these display representations follow any meaningful standard like XML, none can be parsed without in-depth knowledge of all of the various possible outputs (none of which are documented), and there's not even any real consistency between any of the tools or APIs. Not to mention that much of the text manipulation in Linux tools is in ASCII, not Unicode, so the whole thing comes crashing down the instant you step outside the Anglophile world.
This is why the atrocity called 'Perl' was invented, because *nix scripting is actually largely centred around text manipulation, searching, and parsing, not actually, you know.. doing things.
In comparison, Windows exposes stable binary interfaces with auto-discovery metadata that can be directly called by either scripts or native code, and all that is involved is a "drag&drop" operation.
Oh.. the horror!
That's right. You aren't stealing anything. It is your responsibility to execute the tasks that you have been given by the deadlines given and to the level of quality expected. If you can do that in 10 out of the 40 hours a week, that's great. It's not your job for you to find something else for you to do to fill up that time, that is what management does. They have the right to ask you if you have extra cycles, and your duty is to tell them if you are free to do work. The only way that you might be stealing is if you lie about your availability to execute tasks, and that tends to backfire when someone in your group works more than you do and you look like a loser in comparison.
Trust me, management is not incompetent about the aspect of squeezing more work out of you. Give them time, and they will eventually downsize your group to the point where you end up working to your capacity and beyond. Over-hiring does happen, but it is one of the things that does eventually get rectified inevitably unless things like unions get in the way. Enjoy your long coffee breaks and web surfing.
According to Wikipedia: Windows 1.0 was released on Nov 20, 1985. The first Amiga, the Amiga 1000, came out in 1985 (no exact date given). If Amiga preceded Windows 1.0, it was only by a matter of months.
For God's sake, stop researching for a while and begin to think!
