NonNefarious

Labeling "generations" is stupid to begin with, but there's nothing going on at the moment. There's no millennium change or anything else of note. So what we have for the foreseeable 80 years is "the nothings."

Want to talk about an age group? Say what it is. How dumb can people be? Here, let's walk though it:

"Today, 20-30 year-olds face a variety of economic challenges."

OMG, that was soooo easy! I didn't have to make up or look up a bullshit label! YAY!

The asinine name gets an F.

Android only?

Um... OK.

Enough with these idiotic labels. "Gen Z?" COME ON.

This is not an "edge case." This is a readily reproducible defect. I've encountered it on different iPhones running current iOS in two countries with a gap of at least two years in between.

I have a paid-up developer account, so you can be assured that I filed a well-supported bug report on it.

Apple commits many UI offenses, but the alleged illegibility of SMS messages is BS.

Not to mention that Apple's messaging is hideously broken in more ways than Android integration. iMessage will simply delete your phone number from its "can be reached at" list, which breaks years-long threads with a single (iPhone-using) friend into inexplicable new threads.

Ever go overseas? Try putting a local SIM into your USA phone somewhere else, and watch your phone "forget" all of your contacts. Seriously: WTF? Suddenly all of your contacts are unrecognized by number. It's idiotic.

The author made it very clear why he's complaining. The entire post is an explanation, whether you agree with it or not.

I never said otherwise. But that's not what's happening.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/20/magazine/palm-oil-borneo-...

OMG it's coconut oil. Feel better now?

I haven't seen where they proudly advertise that. Doing so would be insulting, since they're full of coconut oil.

OH WAIT EVERYONE: Beyond Meat and Impossible Burger are full of coconut oil. MY BAD OMG WHAT HAVE I DONE.

"The Impossible Burger is made from soy protein concentrate, coconut oil, sunflower oil, potato protein, methylcellulose, yeast extract, salt, gums, and water and additives"

It's COCONUT OIL, rather than oil from another part of the palm. THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING!!!!

https://www.mayoclinic.org/dont-get-tricked-by-these-3-heart...

I'm not defending factory meat farming, but have you looked at the ingredients in this fake-meat trash? You'll see palm oil near the top.

Palm oil is disgusting and environmentally disastrous (partly thanks to U.S. incentives that should have been rescinded years ago).

I think sheet meat has promise, but "Impossible" meat is shit meat.

"The software industry has been doing daily stand-ups for so long that it doesn’t remember why they exist"

I've been a professional developer at one major software company after another (including ones that have tried SCRUM) since the '90s, and never heard the term "stand-up" at work until last year. That's a broadcast-news term as far as I'm concerned.

Maybe they've been doing them but not calling them that.

Why would you assume that you would?

If you did, I guess it would be anywhere that you had a description in the OpenAPI document. But I wouldn't do that.

References are used quite a bit. Look at OpenAPI; they're critical to that effort.

Thanks!

Thanks. The issue is what if I want to pull all the employees from the table of all customers, to determine how many employees have made purchases under our employee-discount plan?

I just made that up as something that would likely require a join without really thinking it through too much...

Because a CRUD app doesn't require any serious computing performance from the application, making C++ unnecessary. If another implementation won the race to functional completion, then... needless to say... it was the one to go with.

Today you'd probably just use browser-based UI.

Also if you've spent time in corporate development (rather than a software company), I think this scenario is a common one. If you show management a prototype that works, they're going to ask why we don't just make that the product. And if you don't have a good reason... you don't have a good reason.

No problem. At the time, Visual C++ lacked several important OCX controls that were included with VB, so they had to be hand-coded.

If you were building an application that does little more than populate forms with data from a database and then update the database, VB was totally adequate. The most important part of the job was the DB and query design.

Hahah, I know, right? People actually believe that shit... until they get jacked by a service provider.

Thanks. The comments seemed specific to this front-end, but maybe.

Yep. I worked at a place that fired almost its entire programming staff because they insisted on using Visual C++ to build a CRUD app, while a team of contractors built a prototype in Visual Basic.

Needless to say, the VB app worked fine and became the product.

I thought it was supposed to do this, but then discovered that it has no way to express joins.

Has this been addressed? I don't see how you can decouple the back-end data from front-end queries without that.

I was psyched to hear about GraphQL, but when I looked at it and found no apparent way to do joins... I wondered what the big deal is.

A couple of commenters have mentioned using lossless files, but so far no one has said HOW.

I can't find any way to do this.

How do you load a local file?

Great. Anything to avoid doing what REALLY needs to be done: abolishing software and "business-method" patents, not to mention addressing the USPTO's disgraceful dereliction of its duty to reject obvious ones.

Kinda like lack of a real Delete key on Apple laptops. Point that out, and iPologist dweebs always jump in with "Nyeahh, Command-delete!"

NO. Not only is this ridiculously cumbersome, but it's not marked on the keyboard. So 99+ % of Apple users undertake DOUBLE the keystrokes to arrow the cursor past the letters they want to delete and then use Apple's mislabeled Backspace key to get rid of them. I've been in the Apple store and heard a customer come in and ask if there's some way to configure the keyboard to have a legitimate Delete key.

Meanwhile everyone else manages to provide a real Delete key, even on SMALL laptops.