dunno if you realize that web sites started to spectacularly suck just about the time the UX buzzword came out. i guess real accessibility and usability were too boring and too hard to get right, so the whole UX nonsense was invented. users, you know, will swallow anything you throw at them anyway.

on the topic: what engineering skills??? you're really talking about web development??? just about 1 in 10.000 sites even cares about engineering topics. OP must be smoking waaaaay too much github.

this could be easily added without breaking compatibility. you could even write a preprocessor, if it bothers you that much. it is indeed a big constraint with little or no benefit, but most python users seem not to mind, or even like it. many languages have made some of such arbitrary decisions that are purely idiosyncratic, usually pointless but defended with zeal. if the language has other values you simply live with it or hack your way around.

what's the point of having a dba simply copypasting the queries you write?

almost nobody would, this only matters to fb. an ever increasing number of zombie accounts is no good for their business model, since advertisers know that dead people don't buy stuff. i guess by having a small proportion of them tagged they hope to hide the real figures.

you probably won't: http://crunchbang.org/forums/v...

there is a handy slider you can drag all the way to -1, plus a detailed description of how it works. was the first thing i did when i first came to /.

i have to assume that people not moving the slider don't care about not seeing content based on others' criteria. stating that this is censorship would be implying they are too dumb to understand the filter. be my guest.

of course there will be censorship in that not everything submitted will get published, but once it is it's the user's choice. you can't put everything on the front page, and if your audiencie never looks beyond the front page that's a different issue.

i don't think these displays aim to terrorize western citizens at all. possibly to scare more immediate enemies (so far, most if not all of isis victims have been muslims and that's also true for islamic radicals in general) but above all to appeal to potential followers abroad, showing that they go for real.

of course for the west it's just another perfect story for warmongers and control freaks to exploit, and of course they do. after all isis (or al qaeda for that matter) didn't come into existence spontaneously out of thin air.

plus hey aren't nearly as much of a security hazard ...

it's food group vs environment. chicken salad performs lousy in data centers but is all the rage in the software engineering department. never been to a sprint planning meeting?

i have trouble grasping how having something implanted into your body qualifies as "comfort". even more so removing it, should you ever have/want to. i also fail to see how this should be a requirement for security. so your definition of comfort here seems to come down to "not having to carry an id". you know ... i think you are not so smart as you think you are, and i'm ok with people like you getting themselves branded. go on.

scandinavians tend to have high confidence in their government institutions. for a reason. but yes, this pushes it a bit too far.

phones are designed and marketed for exactly the opposite of what you are asking for. all of them. also, phones are today the most used devices for browsing, and counting. that should give you a rough idea of where the internet is heading, and why you are asking the wrong question.

hi. i am "znrt" for you and you should chill, you are going from bullshitter to total psycho in just two posts. think of your reputation!

bollocks.
two weeks into a *new* language you are still programming modula in that language. i'm not saying this is always useless, but that's not a rock star, it will always be poor quality code.

more spectacular bollocks demonstrating that he just happens to be the guy you feel comfortable with and he managed to make himself appear indispensable. and that just unfolds how industry (specially corporate industry) works: a bunch people covering each other's asses. which is also fine but ... oh, this constant bollocks to reinforce the farce, gets on one's nerves ...

this also pretty well explains another discussion proposed in this thread: how the asshole infestations actually work. if you hire an asshole it is relatively easy to get rid of him once you spot him. but once you have an asshole in a sufficiently high management position, given enough time you are guarranteed to end up with a stable system full of assholes. new hires which aren't assholes will leave in weeks/months and you will have high rotation at the base, but assholes will stick around and since your ass is covered you will feel fine.

i don't think apple overtook ms at all, their respective peaks are just shifted in time. proportionally ms has actually had an impact on market and society orders of magnitude bigger than apple has ever had. it's just ms stopped cutting it a long time ago, imho because they started to worry more about maintaining their dominance at all costs than about providing new and interesting stuff for the people. like apple seems to be starting to do now, by the way (if you can say that apple has any dominance to maintain whatsoever, of course).

corporations, you know ... they may have their moments, but in the long run all of them are bullshit.