I don't see how finding JavaScript programmers is going to be a problem in 10 years... even if they started now it would take, at least, that long to fully deprecate the language out of the browser. NodeJS may go away but I think betting on JavaScript going away are some pretty long odds.
They filed a Chapter 11 Bankruptcy which means they don't have to fully liquidate to their creditors and also means their debt is not absolved, merely that there is a trustee appointed to oversee their assets while allowing the business to continue. They could still end up filing a Chapter 7 in which they would have to liquidate and would mean the end of the company as we know it but they are not there yet.
Is domain blocking working for you or are you using some other extension? Domain blocking mysteriously disappeared for me a while ago. It was a real buzzkill when the likes of Experts Exchange, W3Schools and Quora started showing up in my search results again.
Generally speaking you don't need to own and test all devices, the emulator does just fine. There are a few quirks here and there but as cryptoz alludes to I've never had more headaches than trying to support all the versions of IE and modern browsers.
The problem is if you're using 3rd party libs, especially if the 3rd party code is coming from developers with the philosophy that ASI is a good thing and intentionally leave out the semi-colons from their code. Adding the semi-colon to the code you control is safe and doesn't hurt anything.
After having my account locked down because I didn't want to use my full name I closed my account, shortly after they turned into a more modern looking experts exchange and I wasn't so sore about not being able to contribute to the site.
I would hazard a guess that we're roughly the same age because I grew up with the same mixture of units but I think it's less to do with growing up in a rural area than the fact that your parents and grandparents were educated on imperial units and even though metric was standard by the time you were born, the imperial system was still ingrained in your elders and some of that nomenclature was passed on to you. When I talk to anyone over 50 I have to be careful to remember when they say it got to -70 a few years ago they are most likely saying it was -70F and not -70*C.
Maybe you have friends, family or loved ones that use iphones that may be at your home that want to charge their phones? No. Then this product isn't for you. I personally am in love with a woman that comes from a family of mac users, perhaps you can understand my dismay when I stayed at her brother's house for two days and he didn't have a single MicroUSB cable and he's a tech geek/developer with 3 computers (MBP, Mac Pro and Mac Air), 2 tablets (Ipad 1 & 2) and 2 (i)phones. I've never expected that someone could have so many tech devices and not have a billion usb cables like most of my tech friends do.
Then there is the fact that I'm competing with my old lady for plugins for our phone cables. We live in an extremely old house and the amount of plugins are limited as is the amount they can be extended.
International ecommerce, including China, I can't speak to the exact numbers but the revenue from 6 and 7 is in the millions so we're not quite out of that maintenance cost to revenue hasn't quite tipped yet. Though we do display the ie6countdown.com banner along (and I may have messed it up a bit to display for 7 as well.)
The Humble Bundle may have allowed them to file Chapter 11, which means they don't plan to shutdown, instead of Chapter 7, which would have required total liquidation of the company.
The end user shouldn't care or know what version the browser for anything but troubleshooting anyways, to them it's just "Firefox" and "Chrome" no more of this stupid bullshit like IE6/7/8/9/10 that will held back progress for the last decade and will continue to do so for the next decade to come.
I love foundation it really does straddle the difference between bootstrap and skeleton, light and flexible while being fairly full featured. Plus the grid system is the tits.
In team environments you typically sacrifice convenience for maintainability and while you may not have a problem with optional parenthesis, it invites ambiguity and a more junior programmer may make a mistake because of it so the idea is to close off that edge case completely and not have to worry about it. This is the same reason a lot of shops ban the terniary operator for anything more than the simplest of variable assignments. It's not saying it's not useful, it's just that there are cases where if they had just been there in the first place coding errors could have been avoided.
I can't think of an instance that I've had an app that is ad supported that doesn't have a "pro" version that often does nothing more than removes the ads.
I drink at about 8 8 oz cups of coffee a day during the week plus a couple cans of soda. I also poop once a day, withing 45 minutes of 4:30pm. I am scared of what the implications would be if I stopped consuming so much caffeine
No, I don't attribute it to being agile, I attribute it to dev being involved near the start of project planning and having input along the way. It just happened that when the company decided on being an agile shop this happened as well. Sorry that was not clear.
Exactly, I can't count the times I've butted heads with our marketing, design and business development teams over silly, annoying and outright ridiculous features they had charged us with implementing... before we became a more agile shop these confrontations usually resulted in me having to back down and implement the features because they were pretty much set in stone by the time they got into our queue but now we can often compromise since we're involved earlier in the planning stages.
It works like twitter, you type "+username blah blah blah", if you want it to be a completely private message, remove any other people/circles in the share to box.
Exactly, by default the metro app labelled as desktop feels more like the equivalent of the command prompt in earlier version of Windows than an actual desktop... a power user/administration feature that is shamefully pushed off to the side by the OS hoping you won't notice it.
Yes. People fuck up all the time. My employer has been in the eCommerce for almost 12 years and we still have feature launches that destroy our website. I'd say I work with some of the brightest people I've ever had the chance to work with, but we're still just human and we sometimes underestimate demand and over estimate our hardware. Just because Google is Google doesn't mean they are infallible, they are perhaps overly arrogant due to their culture.