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Comment Re:I despise PayPal, but ..... (Score 1) 194

by jb_nizet (#52272703) Attached to: PayPal Denies Twitch Troll $50,000 Worth In Refunds
I disagree. If someone is abusing your service, you ban him from the service. If someone harms the service by abusing it, you file a complaint, and ask for a compensation. The justice decides if you deserve a compensation, and how much it should be. But just changing the rules of the game unilaterally and rejecting to give back the 50K$ doesn't look right to me. If the receiver started spending these 50K$ even before they were actually on their bank account, they are plain stupid.
Microsoft

Is Microsoft's .NET Ecosystem On the Decline? 250

Posted by timothy from the are-you-caught-in-it? dept.
Nerval's Lobster writes: In a posting that recently attracted some buzz online, .NET developer Justin Angel (a former program manager for Silverlight) argued that the .NET ecosystem is headed for collapse—and that could take interest in C# along with it. "Sure, you'll always be able to find a job working in C# (like you would with COBOL), but you'll miss out on customer reach and risk falling behind the technology curve," he wrote. But is C# really on the decline? According to Dice's data, the popularity of C# has risen over the past several years; it ranks No. 26 on Dice's ranking of most-searched terms. But Angel claims he pulled data from Indeed.com that shows job trends for C# on the decline. Data from the TIOBE developer interest index mirrors that trend, he said, with "C# developer interest down approximately 60% down back to 2006-2008 levels." Is the .NET ecosystem really headed for long-term implosion, thanks in large part to developers devoting their energies to other platforms such as iOS and Android?

Comment Execute JavaScript and CSS (Score 0) 276

by jb_nizet (#49501725) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Features Would You Like In a Search Engine?
Nearly all search engines still think web pages are static, or generated at server-side. That is less and less true, and many web sites are now single-page applications fetching their content dynamically using AJAX requests. A search engine should search in pages as a real person sees them, not as a robot ignoring JS and CSS see them. It's a shame that all SPAs on earth have to generate a static version of the app using their own robot just to please stupid search engine robots not able to do the same.

Comment Re:No (Score 2) 180

by jb_nizet (#47419923) Attached to: Will Google's Dart Language Replace Javascript? (Video)
If you can convert C to assembler, I don't get the point of C. If you can convert assembler to machine code, I don't get the point of assembler. The point of Dart is to provide a better, more productive, safer way to develop code. And frankly, I have not written any line of Dart, but JavaScript is so badly designed that it really needs a replacement.

Comment Here's a free best practice for them (Score 4, Insightful) 138

by jb_nizet (#41590639) Attached to: Apple, Microsoft, Google, Others Join Hands To Form WebPlatform.org

Underline the damn links (which are one of the main reasons why the web was invented). Undecorated links, using a color which is very close to the normal text color, makes them indistinguishible from normal text for even lightly color-blind people like me, and like 10% of the male population.

Comment The guide is really hard to use (Score 1) 290

by jb_nizet (#39097933) Attached to: Google Chrome: the New Web Platform?

Am I the only one to find it amusing that the field guide for Web applications is itself

        - ugly,
        - impossible to print to read it offline,
        - hard to use and unintuitive (it took me one minute to find how to go to the next page, and even once you know how to do, it's harder than just clicking on a link)?

If this is an example of a great webapp, I'll stick to my way of designing them, thank you.

Comment Web 2.0 (Score 1) 297

by jb_nizet (#38696812) Attached to: Least worthy tech-world cliches / buzzwords?

Has anyone discovered what that meant exactly? How is it different from the web we all know?

AJAX : has existed for ages, and frankly, users don't care and don't even know what it is.
User-provided content: as if the web had ever been something other than that.

Comment Re:This is one of those (Score 1) 548

by jb_nizet (#38011844) Attached to: End Bonuses For Bankers

Exactly. I've never understood why they had bonuses in the first place.

My job is to be a developer, and thus to produce good, maintainable, efficient code. If I fail at this, I'm fired. If I succeed, I just did my job, and thus get a salary for this.

The job of bankers is to produce money from money. It's just their job, and I'm pretty sure it doesn't need more intelligence than to produce great code. But if they fail at doing it, they just ask governments to help them, and still keep their salary. And if they succeed, they get huge bonuses.

Plain stupid.

Comment Re:Must be controlled with a keyboard... (Score 1) 874

by jb_nizet (#32088264) Attached to: Top 10 Things Hollywood Thinks Computers Can Do

That's nothing : in an episode of NCIS, they have to crack a remote system (or prevent a cracker for cracking their own system, I don't remember), so they employ the usual technique : they type very fast on the keyboard.
But since they're really in a hurry, they enhance this well-known technique : Abby and Mc Gee both type, at the same time, very fast, on the same keyboard. Go beat that!

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