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Comment I give kudos where due (Score 3, Insightful) 36

MS made relatively intuitive tools in the 90's. One could learn-via-clicking and rarely had to check the documentation. Something died in the UI department around 2005-ish and their UI's have been crap since. Sharepoint and its evil nickle-and-dime sister Power Tools are a fucking disaster.

Part of it is the "WYSIWYG is dead" fad that came because the fucked up DOM can't do decent WYSIWYG*. It's defending a fucked up standard by claiming the easy way is "obsolete". Balderdash! Using "stretch zones" and similar, WYSIWYG can fit larger screens just fine. People just abandoned it out of industry F.U.D.

The idea-killing fadsters can get the hell of my lawn! Burn DOM! Or at least have a GUI-friendly competitor standard.

(Some say if they open-sourced Silverlight early, it would solve some of the problems. Interesting theory.)

* DOM would have to break backward compatibility to solve its positioning flaws.

Comment Re:Amino acids (Score 4, Insightful) 59

There are simpler building blocks than RNA and DNA. The very first life didn't need to (directly) encode genetics, it only had to make semi-accurate copies of self.

We tend to look at modern examples to guess, but modern life has to compete, the first life didn't, it could be slow, sloppy, and fragile.

Comment Re:Well, defunding NASA is understandable (Score 1) 52

> At least I know how Musk became rich. Explain the wealth of a Biden or Clinton child. I fucking dare you.

Similar way as Jared: Saudis lubricated him to get favor with The Tinted One.

As far as Hunter's abstract paintings, Fox News gave Hunter free publicity. How nice of Fox!

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