I hope IBM bets big on Agile, and it's a complete disaster, and then no one ever has to hear about Agile ever again. Oh, and I won't have to stand around like an asshole every morning while everyone explains they worked on the same thing they worked on yesterday.

If you need to support IE 7, definitely. But if you don't, you what? Use it anyway. The best of jQuery has been brought into the JavaScript language itself and other libraries. But jQuery still makes a lot of little things easier.

You could use the new querySelectorAll functionality in JavaScript, but learning that teaches you the basics of how to use jQuery. Also, I think jQuery still has a few selectors that aren't in querySelectorAll . Furthermore, querySelectorAll is very long to type.

You can use a different AJAX library, but is that library any easier or better than jQuery? You can do AJAX with no library, but bare JavaScript API is ugly.

It might be better to use Q for promises, but the API for Q is about the same as the jQuery promises API.

Again, you might get these things from other libraries but it has deep extend. It is much nicer to trigger events with jQuery. Ready is much nicer with jQuery.

Ironically, I'm going to refer you to http://youmightnotneedjquery.c... Because guess what? When you look, a lot of those things are a lot easier with jQuery and that site makes it clear.

Also, there are jQuery plugins. I don't think writing jQuery plugins is something that you want to do for a modern webapp, but you might find yourself supporting them.

How do you know there isn't enough CO2 to make this work? Can you prove your claim? We have too much in the atmosphere at the present.

Tax breaks as an economic development program. There is a similar giant program in Chicago called TIF. No one believes it actually creates jobs or anything. It's just a way for the mayor to reward his supporters and other rich people.

This isn't funny. This student violated his teacher's religious freedom.

The first supreme court justice John Jay said to vote your conscience. The people themselves are final check against stupid laws.

Yes @ script is a superset of Typescript and it will be used in Angular 2. Not really a hot news story.

It's interesting to see the exact number, but we obviously can't grok it. We want to know how many digits that number has.

They want everything, but when someone who has everything applies, they don't want to up the ante with high pay.

People keep asking why are they changing Windows when people like what they have? The answer is that new versions of Microsoft Windows will sell whether you like the new features or not. So they are using Windows for other goals. Specifically, they are using Windows for PC to accustom you to their Mobile offerings. That is their most logical way of making money and staying relevant. Just making you really like Windows 10 a lot doesn't really help them.

If the judge and the bailiffs were actually kangaroos! That would be adorable!

Windows 10 will sell. Why? Because it's there. Microsoft's goal is to push their tablet OS's and stuff. So they are making the UI more like the tablet, so you'll be used to it and want their tablet offerings.

Is Sega? Is Sega? Sega is just a software maker at this point. Did it fail is the question. Yes, it failed like Atari and countless other companies in other industries. These are two companies past their glory days in the same industry. The idea that they are the next Atari is frankly stupid. They are already out of the hardware biz. They WERE the Atari. Unless they dramatically have some kind of turn around their story is written and we know what it is. A more interesting question would be, "Is Sega the next Apple?" The answer is probably not, but at least that would be a question that would make sense to ask at this point.

Strongly agree. All these InfoWorld articles are crap.

But I shoot to make 100% of the code I write fluff.