I don't get what "state run" is suppose to mean, but excessively homogeneous oh hell yeah. It is much less clear who the people are influencing that homogeneity. Some of it is pure profit motive, that is clear enough, but the rest, like why is climate change always a "debate"? That is the scary stuff.

I get this, a little bit, although I didn't get to have the same experence. About 10 years ago I was shopping for servers and started talking to some people at Sun. One thing that amazed me is that they were all so happy. The other is just that I increasingly got the feeling that I didn't really know shit about servers because of my only having experence with PC/Intel type hardware. I know the mainframe type people say the same types of things, hot swap everything, machines that could run for years and were expected to do so, it wasn't a wow, it was a duh to do that... The whole env just made me feel like yeah, this kind of pride and high goals is what makes me feel good about doing any job. It is so missing today in most any place I have worked. What seems to be the sad fact, you can admire the pretty fish and feel good about what it ads to the world or eat it and you have a meal, you can do a supiour job and really be proud of your work and save some money too, but that still looks crappy next to ANY short term gain and most people you can work for will eat the fish and yours too.

I used to love those stack traces, until I worked with something (to me) really big like Alfresco.

It isn't just the heavyweight issue, it was the lack of experence we had with it combined with in ablity to really interegrate with the DOM and Javascript. Had Java applets focused on working with the browser instead of as their own little world a bit more, Flash wouldn't have needed to exist. Flash still is a pain next to HTML5 though, so everyone needs to evole or die, nothing new in that. My one experence with applets was to use them as a PC/Mac counter part to a VB3 specialized calculator app(Clay Bricks). It worked, but the dev time was insane next to what it would take to do the same thing in just plain JS.

HaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA In Europe, even if there is some degree of lipservice going on, there is some real teeth in a LAW. DNT was a joke from the start with nothing to back it up.

I am so sick of this same FA reposted more or less every week or two.

Yep, there is the "standard" Heh.. It is so flexable.... :p

You have to change nearly everything about how Drupal works to make it work well on a large site, or a large number of sites. So where is the "standard"? What it does with MySQL DB by default, as one example, is an absolute travesty. Then you run into, oh I can't build my massive site using nodes, it will blow up, so lets use templates, but now we have to mange templates, lets build something for that, oh now caching, how well does it deal with a big server farm, oh need patches and work on that too. Oh it isn't OOP so I have to do alot of extra work and process to keep the maintaince programmers from blowing everything up on multiple sites because they just know a little PHP and want to work in that all of the time vs the system you built. It is like so many other things, people spend tens of thousands of man hours on making it work, then say, Drupal is great! Just fucking amazes me. Of course Drupal isn't unique in that.

See the part about his family, dick head, and see how much choice that brings at times.

Top story by comments currently, "Beer Prices to Increase Under Proposed FDA Rule" yay sounds like a big improvement.

Its ok, he was talking from the bad Kirk universe, all is well here.

I quit them because of their god aweful marketing machine. Junk snailmail from everything.

Then toss the whole damn thing in the trash and get a coffee.

That is the difference between the wife being able to stay home with the kids or not, in an expensive market. MASSIVE difference.

Proven? Reference please or shut the hell up.