Posts by Godwhacker 41 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Aug 2011
"Don't worry, it doesn't *want* to use the calcium in our bones for it's Dyson sphere, and it wasn't really *thinking* when it came up with it's plan to fill the Universe with Funko Pops"
If Bing gives you the same answer as Marie Kondo when you ask it how to redecorate your living room, why does how it got to the answer matter?
...and I say that as someone who primarily does front-end development these days. Every three months someone will release an update to their package that has a breaking change simply so it fits into whatever the current opinion on Twitter is about some JavaScript feature. Education is largely run by people writing self-promoting, meme-filled posts on Medium called "x considered harmful".
I've had freelancers putting in the latest React features in seemingly in order to be able to put them on their CV. I've had to break up arguments about semi-colons and tab width. Someone insisted we switch testing framework because there was a new one out.
I'd love to say this was true of all environments but compare the web page for C++ GLM (https://glm.g-truc.net/0.9.9/index.html) with that of, say, GraphQL (https://graphql.org/) . Notice the difference in bullshit levels.
Anyway, Vue is totally fine, or is at least as good a way of fucking things up as any of the other options.
All any chatbot needs to do is look up the day of the week and they'll be undetectable.
Monday and Tuesday: "Have a nice weekend"?
Wednesday: "Can't believe it's only Wednesday"
Thursday and Friday: "Any plans for weekend"?
Saturday and Sunday safely remain undefined, as nobody will be talking to it.
Come off it, everyone who has ever written software has done something like this, which is why code should be reviewed before being committed. And I reckon too that anyone who has reviewed a piece of code has missed a clunker like this from time to time- noob or otherwise.
Well, there's accountants being 'good', and then there's accountants creating an corporate structure that makes profit vanish as far as the tax man is concerned but still somehow be around for the shareholders.
Personally I like the idea of a government capable of paying for hospitals, roads, schools, police, and so on. I'm also coming round to the idea of adding the guillotine to that list.
I expect to be shot down in flames here, but if you want to sell your customers Windows 8 just get them to download <a href='http://startisback.com/'>Start is Back</a>, which brings back the Windows 7 start menu and lets you boot straight to desktop. It costs $3 and it's got none of the additional crap the other start menu replacements have. I've even been able to get the start screen to be useful by rebinding the key to bring it up and removing virtually all the Metro apps from it.
The hatred is completely justified, however- my desktop PC is not an iPad. Everything on Metro seems geared around consumption and entertainment, and I want to use my PC to actually do things.
Just when Flash was getting good, too. I can't wait for all of the HTML 5 ads to appear and start conflicting with each other, or for the people building them to find interesting ways of forcing you to look at them. At least with Flash you could get a plug-in to turn it off if you didn't want to see it.
You do get a weapon right at the start. It's a paddle, right next to the door.
Anyway, it's a rather shambolic game, but also remarkably fun and at times surprisingly scary. There are some horrible UI moments, but that's what PC gaming is about, right? The interface is at least better than the one used in Ultima Underworld.
It's far more likely that most of these websites were built by someone other than the shop owner. Whoever owns the shop would then be completely unaware of what software it's using, so they won't be receiving patch emails.
Given that there's no auto-update for server side stuff, I would guess this is mostly the fault of freelance web developers not caring about past jobs.
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