What, exaclty, is "current" about revision control? Been around for years. And per the original post, is concurrent, non-blocking code new? It's as if young devs think this stuff came along with Git and node.js. I'm an older programmer, and I'm always willing to adopt new coding practices and learn from my younger peers, provided they're not ego-maniacal douchebags who think they've invented the wheel, which they can be sometimes. Just sayin'...
It may be symbolically important to re-establish a building as tall as the original twin towers, but I can tell you as a New Yorker, no one's going to want to work there. There is still too much fear.
Does this mean that the terrorist "win"? Ask Osama Bin Laden.
Normally I'd hate on Apple for this, but when people start feeling the full brunt of the telecoms' limited data plans and ever-increasing feature lockdown of their phones, it's not going to matter whether an embedded phone number is one tap or two taps away.
For most folks in the U.S., you have to sign up for a free account invite. What is the schedule, quota, criteria for doling out those free invites, does anybody know? Their site says, "We'll send you [an invite] as soon as we can". Hmmmmm. When is that? Meanwhile, you give them an email address that they can use to promote their paid service to you or sell to 3rd parties. Easy for
Also agree with the posters who don't trust the cloud or rental model, mainly because of record company shenanigans. Vinyl still rules.
What else is Adobe gonna say? Of course they're worried. You've got a market maker in the iPad as dumb as it is inevitable, so you've got iPad developers going gaga, coding to an unfinished HTML5 spec . If the next big thing is the iPad, then the net big thing in development is to dump Flash, ready or not.
Pathetic.
I think it's a generational thing. Older folks, like, oh, say, Rupert Murdoch, believe that a newspaper is a newspaper, no matter what its format, and you should pony up for it. Serious investigative journalism costs real money, they say. Fair enough. But of course, Murdoch goes too far, in pricing content too high and with this nonsense of trying shake down search engines for even linking to content.
Middle-age folks like me, who grew up w/o the internet but are still young enough to fully embrace it, might be willing to pay, but as yog said, watch that price. We know that distribution costs on the web are close to nothing, so don't price your content as if it costs the same as print. I don't know what that price is, but you better keep it down and offer a la carte pricing too.
The younger generation, the people who grew up with the internet, well, most of them figure you're a chump if you pay for *any* internet content, so who knows how you get them to suddenly value it. But media companies only have themselves to blame for not creating pay models years ago that could have steered cultural attitudes about the dollar worth of journalism on the web.
"Most of us, when all is said and done, like what we like and make up reasons for it afterwards." -- Soren F. Petersen
