DjDarkman

If Copyright trolls do it it's no problem, if a 16 year old does it it's a crime... can it get uglier than this?

Sounds like bike-shedding to me.

And I should believe that the location of "the most critical gas facility in the world" has been a secret all along. :D

> It took several hours of research, several hours of work, four reboots, a near heart attack, and inspired heavy drinking.

Just because he didn't know how to do it, doesn't mean that Linux is worse than Window. Just because you speak English doesn't make <insert other language here> worse.

Dear clueless author,

how do you know if the government is working in your interest, if nearly everything it does is secret?

Do you know how much it takes for the government to access your personal email address?

Do you think that the government is always right? Do you think that the people there don't have personal interests?

As time passes the government demands to know more and more about you and let's you know less about it, don't you think at some point this becomes a problem?

> Yes they can. Things can be pre-loaded in the background. Data can be queued. Storage can be local. I know you can find some package or framework somewhere that attempts to do these things in a web browser, but its all hacks.

You clearly have no idea what you talking about: http://www.w3.org/TR/offline-webapps/

You basically called web standards a hack, just in case you didn't notice.

> It's a total perversion of what a URL and a webpage are supposed to be.

No it's not, it's simple HTML with JavaScript attached. Most of it probably works even if you disable JS.

> It's ugly hacks on top of more ugly hacks to produce a substandard experience.

Some examples please! Otherwise I have to assume you have just made it up.

> An app like this is not hard to produce with Xcode and Obj-C

"not hard" for who? It doesn't even have garbage collection, it's basically C with OO capabilities.

> There is a place for web apps and a place for real apps.

You probably meant to say "native" apps, and you didn't even bother to back this up.

> they don't have much to show

Except for: Youtube, Facebook, Flickr and probably hundreds more.

> buggy javascript and unreliable software

How is the JavaScript buggy? are you assuming that no one can code properly in JavaScript? Are you saying that every software written in JavaScript is unreliable? All this without even giving a reason?

> Or substituting Photoshop with one of the dozens of webapp photo editing tools. It's all cute, but in the end its not practical for real world use.

You give one example, but ignore all counter examples.

> It's all cute, but in the end its not practical for real world use.

Then why are people using it? Why are developers developing for it?

> It's unfortunate that so many talented programmers are sucked into this "webapp everything" mindset and devote themselves to crappy products, sometimes simply because they have a personal hangup with Microsoft or Apple.

Are you assuming products are crappy just because they are webapps? Are you saying that people chose web just because they hate a company?

Well I think:

- The mouseover effect should be removed as soon as possible.

- The layout looks very random and seems to lack structure, I get that it can be printed on two sides of a paper, but doesn't really look good for a website imho

- Also I think it's pretty hardcore to achieve a diploma while working at the same time, quitting is like giving up.(highly subjective)

> Unfortunately, this will not happen in time for the release date of Firefox 4.

Then why release? Why release a product that is clearly not ready? Think about the developers for a second!

The moral of this story: if you want to publish something embarrassing to politicians, do it somewhere were they can't abuse their power/influence.

It may be a rule, but it's still stupid: calling information that the whole world knows classified.

Well so much for free speech.

The US is by no means less communist than China in this matter. You can tell me that Mr. Lieberman asked everyone politely to stop helping Wikileaks. But hey, go see a movie about mafias and gangsters and you get pretty much the same.

The reality is that democracy is just a cover up, the government can always see your personal emails, but you can't see what the government does. Call this freedom. But without transparency there is no freedom.

Facebook spam!

Not important? Look around it had heavy influence on Java, C#, PHP and C++

Ohhh Wow, Amazon is clearly not doing this because the government said so, they are just rejecting Wikileaks for the same reason.

For all I know those documents could be fake, and I don't really know how did they determine that they could put the life of people in danger...

This whole thing is like a death sentence without a trial, I can't really blame Amazon though, the government must be really stepping on their toes.

This comes into my mind: "When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth." :)

Let's upgrade this concept: women should have sex at work. Sounds ridiculous/offensive/immoral etc.?

If the above doesn't sound good than women should just be competitive. It's equal opportunity. These articles take problems out of context.

Rant article, poorly reasoned points, simply makes assumptions without backing them up.

OpenID login can make logins possible with two clicks, and it is possible to use a hybrid approach.

It looks a lot like JavaScript, maybe we could fix up JavaScript instead of inventing a whole new language. I'm just saying...

There are so many problems with this article, I don't even know where to start:

- never say never

> he is doing exactly what you are doing by hiring him (being lazy).

Or maybe you are not a programmer or can't afford to set up an office etc.

> The people writing your code don’t care about you

And how is this specific to outsourcing? if you set up an office, hire a group of programmers, it doesn't guaranty that those programmers will care about you.

> this will ultimately lead to sloppy, prefabricated, and overall apathetic development

Not if you hire the right people.

> Most outsourced coders are used to standard applications

Correction: "Most coders are used to standard applications"

> 4. Opportunity costs – If you are asking for specific and complex modules then the programmer will most likely bail on your project because he/she is looking to turn some quick money; not make you rich.

This is downright ridiculous freelancers love long projects, it gives economic stability.

> You have forever tainted your startup

This paragraph again is not specific to outsourcing.

Basically this article would be fine if it would say "don't hire idiots to do your code", the points mentioned have nothing to do with outsourcing.

> "Terrorism" implies that a group exists to cause fear.

It used to mean that, but now it's just a buzzword that refers to people who don't agree with you.

It works like "racist":

- you belong to an ethnic group

- you go to a job interview

- you get rejected

- you will call the employers racist and blame your rejection on racism to blur that fact that it was your flaw

In our context a terrorist is a person who does something that is embarrassing to the media or the government.

I really love how the press mutated the word "terrorist", it used to mean people who cause terror, but now it simply refers to people who don't agree with the media or the government.

Well this is a really long propaganda. We need to know why is the US attacking random Arabian nations. And the press should really stop using the word "terrorist", because I feel that it has lost it's true meaning.

This is just a web app.

Apparently sloppy = abstract.

> "Lifestyle management programmes which include sleep hygiene and care should be incorporated as a policy matter in the IT industry."

I really wonder how would they consider puling this off. :)

Most coders(like me) are by nature caffeine addicted and expose themselves to insomnia just for the fun of getting some really cool job done. It's up to the coders to find out for themselves where are their boundaries(biological), and since most coders are probably intelligent people, I think they won't have much difficulty with this. In other words: we need no nanny.

JavaScript is so moldable, you could easily make a compiler that translates to JavaScript. You could even write a language and translate it in the browser, see CoffeeScript.

> 6. It removes comments from where they should be, on the destination site.

This is very good in my opinion because it gives us more freedom, because the post's author can't discriminate against possible negative comments. In other words: this is neutral ground.

> someone who can’t tell the difference between being a freedom fighter and being a douche to a guy who makes $12 an hour trying to stop planes from getting blown up.

I don't think the TSA's moves are as effective as they are annoying.

> 2. Votes on comments are used to express agreement or disagreement rather than value

I don't think there is an easy solution for this one anywhere else.

It seems that Adobe wants to be prepared for the future, big +1 for contributing to jQuery Mobile.