And on what did you base your assumption that UID correlates to writing experience?

As stated, that was just one facet.

other posters might also have been writing for longer than they have been registered at Slashdot.

Very (VERY) unlikely. I myself joined kind of late as it was, so your joining even later puts that probability as extremely low.

I agree they are not the same.

Don't you think that it's more appropriate to use in this case though?

It's a term saying you are changing how you are doing something from a specific point onward... "in the future" is less specific, not really tied to the original subject, and also does not clearly convey the permanence of the change. And of course, I actually like that the term is intertwined (sort of) with driving.

I'm perfectly open to changing my writing, if the changes make things clearer...

BTW, I'm not really a UID snob as it may seem but I do appreciate your low UID. :-)

...which are completely freaking worthless if they're turned off by default. 99.9% of users will never visit and study every available config option, and the other .1% will be wondering why it's not the default setting if it's so great.

Your post is like those who insist that MySQL has safe data settings for those who know how to enable them, while ignoring the fact that almost everyone uses the configuration as shipped. Unsafe by default is an insane and undefensible way to distribute software. In fact, I can't think of a good justification for ever allowing the unsafe values to be set.

Exactly. Maybe they don't see the bigger picture? Maybe we don't properly motivate with these examples?

If engineers fail at their job, people die. Chemical plants explode, medical devices fail, airplanes crash and burn. How much more impact on society can you have?

I think the problem is the job is too far removed from the feels. You don't have personal direct impact.

And sometimes the conditions are not conducive to family life. I have students starting with a four year degree making over $100k. But they spend lots of time in the gulf on oil rigs. Sometimes people make different life choices.

For sure. Not to be replaced by a different email address. But because email is being replaced by a variety of better and problem specific technologies. For example once teams use Slack, they never go back to email for internal use.

Yahoo, Lycos, Webcrawler, they all had their time at the top, before being replaced by something better.

The cloud is highly competitive, and Google is not the market leader. Amazon is.

And they're right. Sure they're still trading, but they are a shadow of the titan that used to lead the industry where-ever it wanted.

And how about Nokia. Again, still trading. But having sold off the handset business that was the only part of the company most people had heard of. Industry titan a decade ago, now nothing.

Don't think anybody's disagreeing with that. It just that it's started on a journey into irrelevance.

I see Yahoo as a closer parallel. They too were the go-to portal to the rest of the web. And everything they tried after that just made people think less of them. They still exist, but nobody cares.

That's the way it would appear if you simply strung Apple's public announcements in sequence to assemble the story. But of course what Apple are actually developing in-house is generally secret. Especially then, when SJ was alive. But from comments from various ex-Apple engineers when they talk on blogs, it seems perfectly clear that iOS was put together with an eye to internal use in order to get iPhone to ship, then work started on cleaning up the APIs and creating a public SDK straight after. The "Sweet solution" of web apps for iPhone was simply a holding position when the native SDK was too far away to announce at WWDC.

I'm just basing the relative experience level by your UID (well, that and a correction I do not find valid).

I've been writing for about 35 years.

The words I carefully selected are more interesting and thematically relevant than your "In future" alteration.

They are also no less clear, as much as you try to confuse the issue.

So going forward I will write as I chose, not by the dictates of someone who has not been writing as long as I have...

Although I doubt it was done to solve the problem you outline, many HOV lanes are going to 3+ instead of 2+. So the single guy with a driver is no longer clear to go free...

Not that they will care; if you can afford a driver you can afford the toll easily. But at least they will have to pay going forward.

On the other hand, I find going to 3+ to be a burden on families where a wife and husband work, who may well not be able to afford to pay the full HOV fee every day and will no longer be able to use it for free even though they are using one car instead of two.

There has to be more differences in the formulas that just the sweetener me thinks.

I didn't phrase my post at all well, and ended off on a tangent... but this is exactly the question I meant to ask with my subject.

I'm really curious if there are other differences besides just the sweetener between diet and non-diet drinks.

For me, still one. I never use a hub when away from my desk, and always use one when I'm at my desk. Think of it as a docking station and that's pretty much my usage pattern. If I can get a thinner or lighter laptop by throwing away the "extra" ports, I'd leap at the chance.

There are a number of native libraries devoted to quickly defining and presenting working forms in iOS.

For charts, there are a number of really excellent solutions that cost money, but not much and they deliver really nice, dynamic graphs with many options.

If I were doing a heavy enterprise form app I'd still go native.

Except most app developers want to target as many users across as many devices as possible

Say, isn't that what Malware and Spyware authors want too?

It makes very little financial sense to spend months on a native app that runs on handful of devices

"Handful" = > 500 million... that's just for iOS. Android has more.

I'd say 500 million potential customers warrants SOME degree of effort.

Also if it's so easy for me to build out something mediocre in PhoneGap that works for everyone, doesn't that mean the inevitable Chinese clone comes out on my tail all the faster?

it would generate more energy that it used...Clearly that would cause the car to never be able to stop, and always continue increasing in velocity.

That is not a problem; you reverse the polarity to the regenerative braking system, and feed the excess power into that to stop. I call it the "degenerative braking system"