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Comment Re: Oy (Score 1) 150

Democracy not to be regarded so high a thing that it is offered insence. After all democracy has elected some of the most corrupt fools to office imaginable all over the world. Without weighting changes to a vote, it simply lends a voice to someone you wouldn't hand the mic to at your wedding party.

Comment Stupid (Score 1) 299

The inequality drive is simply put plain stupid. When will the inequality church-goers be happy? When everyone is an exact clone of the next? How will you get everyone to exert exactly the same amount of energy in their day job because if you don't, someone is screwing someone by the looks of this religion. You'll never attain it morons as for the very least the one eventually measuring equality is by definition unequal to all the rest.

Comment Re: Will your career be founded on murder or not? (Score 1) 65

Better get these drones working quickly as the testosterone levels in the USA are dropping fast and the number of hard men to make up the next generation seems counted on one hand. I sometimes wonder whether the woke think they will be able to transform the USA to a neutral Switzerland silently with no one noticing after making so many an enemy in the dark corners of the world for decades. There are some bones to pick and axes to grind and dying your hair a funny color is not going to stop the enemy invaders I'm afraid. The camels are on the horizon.

Comment Re: It might work for subjects like English... (Score 1) 346

The USA seems hell bent on destroying itself. This focussing on the lower end of the spectrum will invariably fizzle out the higher end of the spectrum. There will also be no way to trust a degree when employing so Los Alamos will invariably end up with morons. China will certainly not be as stupid and you are willfully ceding your competitive advantage as a nation in the name of wokeness. The irony is that when the self destruction is complete you won't even understand what happened. MIT seems the only sane school left.

Submission + - How to choose frameworks that will survive 2

waslap writes: I occupy a leading role at a small software development company and am tasked with giving guidance and making decisions on tool usage within the shop. I find the task of choosing frameworks to use within our team, and specifically UI frameworks, exceedingly difficult. A couple of years back my investigation of RIA frameworks lead me to eventually push for Adobe Flex as the UI framework of choice for our future web development. Bear in mind this was long before anyone predicted that the wheels on flash would come off (in any event on Linux). I chose it mainly for its maturity, wealth of documentation, commercial backing and the superior abilities of flash in a time when HTML 5 was still a pipe dream. The backing of an industry giant in Adobe gave me a false sense of security that the kit would not go down the cul-de-sac of so many open source projects before it. We invested heavily in it just to be disillusioned a couple of years later when Linux support for flash was killed off (Linux support is vital for us for reasons outside the scope of what I have space for here). Ironically, I evaluated it alongside OpenLaszlo which at the time had the ability to use a DHTML back-end instead of flash with the flick of a switch and in retrospect, this alone seemingly made it the better choice in the long run regardless of its flaky state when I first looked at it. A similar scenario arose with CodeIgniter which we chose for getting away from classical spaghetti PHP just to be recently dropped like a hot potato after we've invested a Tesla Model X worth of money into using it. Conversely, about 15 odd years back, I made a switch to Qt for desktop applications and against all odds it is still around and thriving. I am trying to figure out why it was the right choice and the others not. All I could come up with is that Qt's design was done so well and sound that it basically could not be improved upon but I'm not even sure whether that assessment is accurate.
I am standing at a cross-roads once again as everyone is shouting Laravel and what have you not and I am scratching my (sore) head how to prevent the same ill-fated choice going forward as it seems there is just no way to predict whether a tool will survive or not and your investment in it dwindle. Even in retrospect, looking at my decision making process, everything looked healthy and sound at the time I made the choices but yet it turned out to be the wrong ones and I cannot come up with a sound decision tree from my experiences to assist me in making choices with staying power. That's where I hope the esteemed Slashdot readers could come in and provide some helpful inputs on the matter to provide a set of fail-safe axioms.

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