How is the government not concerned about corporate espionage, terrorism, and other criminal activity
why should it? all serious espionage and terrorism going on does so on behalf of some government, usually as a proxy for some elite.
the rest are petty criminals in comparision, more a nuisance than a serious problem for governments or elites.
suffered eternally
today's eternities aren't what they used to be, built to last forever
databinging
this wasn't intentional but i like it
a two-way databinging model like angular's is a specific mvc use case where the good old observer pattern makes a lot of sense. it indeed allows for much cleaner code given that you know the context.
"reactive" is basically the same thing, with a cooler name and applied indiscriminately to everything else. go figure, but it's all the rage.
you're doing it wrong, you forgot the catchy t-shirt.
just had a look at the manifesto: it's about software architecture and design. i can't see how it should compare to agile, which is about software development metodologies. anyway i'm okay with those 4 principles but don't quite understand what's new here (apart from reading "responsive" in its correct meaning for once!)
but one thing i can say for sure: this one aint gonna fix what's broken in software developement industry either, which is: industry! industry! industry!
The UK is a very fascist country, not free at all. It is ruled by evil Lords and a corrupt politican caste and voters have a choice between evil and evil.
in a sense almost any country in the world is. 20th century fascisms as such are passé (reviving, though), but the same elites that fostered those control and practically own today's democracies. through the media (just substitute the blunt and lurid state propaganda with overwhelming disinformation by private media owned by those same elites), through coercion of representatives and financial control of states. besides ideology, in the end fascism was all about the big money and today it's no different, it's just a more stable and efficient system. it's also more tolerable for the populace, and people do have more or less free speech, but speech doesn't matter that much and they rarely get to decide on really relevant issues, if at all. so yes, the same sort of people that ruled fascist regimes rules more or less today's democracies, unilaterally making decisions that affect millions.
There will always be some circumstance when bandwidth is limited.
this isn't just about bandwith, but enabling a fallback sms transport.
But that won't stop everyone from "modernizing" their sites into things that won't work in low bandwidth browsers.
modernizing the hell out of the web is just fine as long as you provide fallback, and any professional would honor this basic accessibility principle unless requirements stated otherwise. and they often do. much of the industry just doesn't care because the requirement is milk the cash cows, and there's cows enough to bother with the few alienated. it isn't even a difficult or expensive "best practice" to follow, at all. it just requires a bit of thought, maybe a bit of extra code. nothing heroic. just, you know, being professional. - not interested, it's not shiny. we have no time for this! hey, that's what capitalism has done to us!
In an experiment, Alan Winfield and his colleagues programmed a robot
funny experiment but they definitely should have hired some halfway competent sw developer.
Many atheist have a belief that god does not exist.
many? all atheists believe there is no god, by definition.
They want others to join them in their belief.
some atheists might want to actively fight religious views and beliefs from invading public and private aspects of life in society. these are "atheist activists".
the primary goal of atheist activism would be to enforce laicism: to set a "no-bullshit" common ethical ground where anything could be discussed rationally, keeping religious beliefs in the private sphere where spiritual stuff belongs, and where nobody should ever give a crap about each others'. turns out this is way harder than it seems.
Sounds like a religion to me.
looks like a damn big stretch to me.
promoting laicism is the daunting task of convincing every other breed of theist to keep their gods for themselves and off the discussion table, so everybody can discuss. religion is about letting a reduced council with privileged connection to some random god decide, so there's no discussion at all.
ofc there might exist "atheist activist" groups with their own agendas (i don't really know much about them, and i'm an atheist). but they're still that: activist groups. in comparision, religions are goddamned megacorporations, most specially middle-east and western ones that have been doing just that for centuries, at large, directly engaged in social and individual control, all of them entrenched in power still to this day.
a possible mitigation is designing "mobile first" (an industry meme that actually makes sense for a change). this forces to focus on providing core functionality in limited space (i.e.: clarifying what the core functionality is in the first place), from there expand to desktop version. it's not a silver bullet but IF you want to go the "responsive" route it can help and is the way to go. ofc also in maintenance. if that extra column (whatever) doesn't fit well int the mobile version then it might be woth reconsidering if it is a worthy feature at all, or if it's time to start over
sure "responsive" adds a great deal of complexity, and usually results in poorer interfaces and performance (sorry, i should have said "user experience") in general. it should be avoided but it's just all the rage now. guess what, i stopped arguing long ago, i just enjoy laughing my ass of when things get really surreal, which they often do!
gui technology? it's the whole software industry. you need aprox the same amount of "experts" to print a fkucing report from persisted data nowadays. not to mention a herd of managers, several whiteboards and a shitload of postits.
Nothing sucks worse than making a desktop window smaller because you just want to keep one part visible while you work with something else and having the site spontaneously implode into a mobile version
current users aren't supposed to be able to do that without extra help or risking injury. didn't you notice the window managers / desktops most of them are using? split the screen? are you nuts???
by they way, *their* fix for your problem would be eradicating desktop design versions completely. "develop once, works in every device". why should we go through the hassle of developing a desktop version for elitists like you if we're anyway served well enough with a single tap mobile interface, which is what our average collective brain can afford to handle! go away!
There are no predators - ZERO predators, in German forests.
indeed. why?
For you ideology trumps reason?
see above.
of course you didn't count predators for fun. I read in UK there are boar farms for hunting (yeah, humans do exist who find great pleasure in shooting at animals from a safe distance with riffles, go figure). I also read about an alleged wild boar population surge in germany in 2008, but thas was some reuters news, pretty vague and sensationalistic, could as well be surreptitious advertising. if you could share any reliable sources on the subject i'd appreciate it, tia.
"It doesn't cover the loss from game sales, but at least it covers the cost of disposal," says Steffen Richter, the head of the Saxon State Hunters Association.
... are a waste, and I'd gladly cover your cost of disposal.
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." - Voltaire
