A website comes and makes some "social web application for sharing stuff", said web application has some very interesting discussions -> said web application gets popular -> said web application gets increasingly worse usually as a consequence of trying to monetize it or due to the sheer number of people using (drowning everyone else in noise) -> users start to migrate to alternatives -> only a shell remains -> death.

See: digg, facebook, myspace, orkut, slashdot...

Actually the pros do care a lot if it considered a sport or not, it can make it a lot easier to travel (getting visas for example), get incentives from their governments (tax breaks and such), companies can have a "sports budget" to sponsor sport teams and guess what, they can not use that budget if it is not an sport.

In short, the pros don't care what it is labeled as long as their governments (and the governments of the countries they will visit) recognize them as sports or at least have a specific rules for competitive eletronic games.

Counter strike is far more limited in the range of possibilities of what that can happen in a single match. Not only are the matches far shorter (and as such does not have phases like dota) given a map there are only a handful of strategies possible to use. A bunch of other reasons too, statistically mine a game like dota to me seems to be an impossible task, there is just too much variation between matches.

You know, the clock app on android, back in version 4 it worked fine. Came version 5 they changed the icons (arguably worse ones) made the background of the app change in color (I just woke up! give me a black background for gods sake) and introduced animations (to change the background from colorful to black and back again) which means I have to wait a couple seconds to put my alarm 30 minutes from now while ALL I WANT IS TO GET SOME MORE SLEEP.

Google bad UI decisions are literally making my day start in the wrong foot.

https://xkcd.com/908/

There is a lot of caching

Yeah computers have a system like that, it is called memory.

I still have a copy of the installation file, its version is 5.1. I still use that version to test my stuff because I can not afford a Mac (it helps that I also need to support IE9 so I can't use the newer stuff anyway).Apple discontinued Safari for windows years ago, honestly I don't know if they simply don't care about the web or if they are trying to actually undermine it to promote native apps.

From what I vaguely remember netmasks are stuff to make sub-networks
a netmask of 255.255.255.0 will create a sub-network with ips ranging from X.Y.Z.0 to X.Y.Z.255 (it is a binary AND of the main network ip address and the netmask). This is what I remember from head, I did not look it up on wikipedia.

But then again I graduated only 3 years ago. I will probably completely forget this in 5 years.

Jeez I learned that stuff in my networks classes, but I don't remember the stuff about netmasks, does not mean am I a bad programmer? It does mean at least that if I am faced with a problem that requires that knowledge I would be able to study it to complete the task.

One more thing:
> Need to do advanced event handling by manipulating the bubble/capture phase? jQuery can't do that.
http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/...

Well it would help if you said Function.bind()...

Well that is the way I learned it, one way to implement them is using a linked list for each row (or column) of the array (skipping the null/0 values each element storing its index). It was a footnote on my data structures class, maybe that is why students failed the test, the professors did not bother teaching sparse arrays.

For example
0 0 1 0
0 0 0 0
3 0 4 0
0 0 0 5

in a sparse array implemented with linked lists would be:
L0 -> (2: 1) -> null
L1 -> null
L2 -> (0: 3) -> (2: 4) -> null
L3 -> (3: 5) -> null

If you need to perform complex DOM manipulation jQuery is still the best tool, fortunately recent javascript frameworks drastically reduced the need for manual DOM manipulation. Usually you encapsulate your jQuery DOM manipulation code using your framework of choice, this is very common when doing specialized UI components.

That is called hyperinflation and the only reason it has NOT happened in Greece is because Greece uses the Euro. It happened to several countries in the last couple of centuries.

For a formal explanation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

For a funny explanation (they wipe their asses with money, literally):
http://www.cracked.com/persona...

Well it is from the MIT, it must be good right?