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Comment Re:Of course, no one read or understands the rules (Score 1) 279

You're missing the damage here. Trump tried to weight trucks because domestic manufacturers are making solid profits from them, and foreign manufacturers have to pay a tariff to get them into the country. So rather than "Orange man bad" -- take a moment and a breath and consider what will happen to all the jobs for domestic manufacturers like GM and Ford when they re-emphasize trucks and lose their entire market to new tech electrics from foreign manufacturers because they're selling last gen product. Oh, you think Rivian has the supply chain in place and can ramp up to match Tesla's production capacity? Let me laugh even harder. These manufacturers will lose their markets and their jobs will be lost to foreign manufacturers and improving technology. So "orange man bad?" No, we're well beyond that. If the industry follows, it will die because he will kill it.
Canada

Journal Journal: My new career path. 24

More here.

As a bonus , I'll probably soon reveal the unbelievable story of how I acquired my legal knowledge - by doing something nobody else ever has, and which, until now, would be considered pretty much impossible.

I'd rather not, because there is some danger involved, but it's necessary to achieve my goals in an open and transperent fashion.

Advice and help sought and welcome.

Open Source

Journal Journal: Yet another open source failure 14

Trying to print an envelope address in openoffice under linux? What a waste of time.

Do the people who code this sh*t actually ever use it? Or do they never use anything else, so they simply don't know that it's possible to do better?

The Internet

Journal Journal: Every browser is *still* broken. 17

After 15 years, we still don't have an un-b0rked browser. CSS 2.1 was done in 1997, and yet firefox, opera, chrome, arora - they all render differently for non-trivial layouts.

15 years, and they still can't get the basics right. It means that the problem is not the implementation, but the underlying concepts that are flawed in fundamental ways.

And there's no blaming Microsoft or Apple for this fiasco.

Comment Re:I vote troll. (Score 1) 203

In reality, if you have software which cannot make you money directly, it's a very good candidate for making open-source

... because the world really really needs yet another bloated "massive framework" that will take more time to bang into shape^W^W^Wcustomize than doing it from scratch ...

The "I'll give the code away and make money off support" model rarely works.

Programming

Journal Journal: NoSQL+ sprintf() == better. 7

Old technology doesn't die - it get re-implemented when newer ways get too bloated and turn everything it touches into Beavis and Butthead.

In the dying days of the last century (awk! - how time flies) I used to do web cgi using c, same as a lot of people. Used malloc and sprintfs() to insert variables into a "template" and then printf()s to output. It was easy to track memory allocation for such cases, so the whole "OMG you'll leak memory" issue was a non-starter.

Operating Systems

Journal Journal: Bad news for Windows and Linux 9

Remember how Apple captured a generation of users by concentrating on getting their computers into schools? You ain't seen nothin' yet.

One trend that I haven't heard a peep about is how mothers and grandmothers are using their iPhones and iPads to play with their kids. I'm not talking grade-school children, but babies under a year old. I have yet to see a parent do this (play with their baby) with a non-iOS device.

User Journal

Journal Journal: I guess I'm PMSing a bit ... 6

... or that I'm fed up that I went to check my email after spending most of the day away from the computer, and I get yet another SEO con artist from India sending more spam offering their crappy services - stuff anyone who can throw together a few meta tags and a sitemap.xml file can duplicate.

So corporatesales@web-seo-proposals.in got the following reply:

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