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There are now many more expressive languages which compile to HTML, CSS and JS. We are 'stuck' with these 3 technologies that are still very functional and we should just embrace them as the low level language of UIs.

Of the 3, javascript is the most dispensable, there's nothing stopping us writing platforms which have UIs designed in HTML/CSS but have a DOM controlled by python/c#/ruby.

I was not suggesting we stop progressing, but we need to recognise the phenomenal amount of overhead involved in replacing these 3 technologies. What benefit would be served when they can just be abstracted on top of, at least with regards to the web?

Case in point, Assembly Language, we could theoretically replace the standards that have been reached over decades of collaboration with something more suited to our modern leanings. But what would be the point, when we've long since abstracted it out of our minds?

Care to argue why? Also, there are countless alternative languages to compile down to HTML or CSS available. Feel free to create your own if none agree with your personal leanings.

I don't get this criticism. HTML/CSS is the closest we have to a universally understood syntax for designing interfaces.

Why invent a new standard? HTML is fine, CSS is fine. Most importantly, everyone understands it and can work immediately with it.

Any issues with performance is due to the implementation of the platform that renders this HTML/CSS interface. It's much more likely Google Docs feels sluggish due to the javascript it executes in order to control the rendering of its html/css, rather than the rendering itself.

They are presumably useful to anyone actively in the job market, as a company firing staff is a red flag for any prospective employee

>Everyone's a winner

Except the people who badly want to see a band but unfortunately do not work for a trendy startup and therefore cannot afford the tickets in their increasingly gentrified city.

>John Carmack, Oculus chief technology officer and founder of a company owned by ZeniMax, improved on the device using his knowledge from his previous work as a ZeniMax employee.

That's a scary precedent...

> What I don't get is why people are always so goddamn defensive of companies and their hiring practices. "The problem lies elsewhere, don't blame the company!!"

I guess because as people who are likely to be subject to those hiring practices, they like them as they currently are.

I worked for an Amazon fulfilment centre in Scotland, I don't want to say too much on the matter, as it'd be quite negative. It's suffice to say, this does not surprise me in the slightest.

Because, at least in the UK and US, white history forms the majority of a countries actual history.

Black history museums are interesting because they offer an insight into the achievements of a transplant group in a country where they are a minority. It's not really about their history prior to immigrating. It's about their history after they've gotten into this new country, and the story of their integration.

I don't think it has anything to do with race, it's a cultural thing - groups that identified with a common history in a strange land.

For example, in the UK, despite being also predominantly white, I'm sure there would be a remit for a polish history museum, or even an irish history musuem.

> "Take America back"; that's not particularly subtle as to from who.

Depends on the context really. If that was Sander's slogan, you'd immediately assume whom you'd be taking it back was the bankers & corporation.

It's one of those generic slogan that reflects the views of the beholder. Some will assume it means from the immigrants, others the bureaucrats. It's definitely smarter than the damp squibs that Clinton came up with.

Could you please elaborate?

I can't decide whether I loathe Clinton or Trump more - both are despicable. However as a Brit I'm sick of you guys trying to make my mind up for me.

Your ability to report on Clinton's shortcomings has been dismal in comparison to Trump. It's clear there is an editorial bias.

Please explain to me why Trump's changing-room-gate has been on the main page all week, but there hasn't been any coverage of Clinton's suggestion of assassinating Assange with drones? Both are deplorable, private comments said (at best) in jest.

>If things like Robots take over blue collar jobs, I bet we will need the same humans to operate those Robots at some capacity.

Yes, but we'll need a lot less of them...otherwise, what's the point in having automation?

>Twitter is hard to make profitable without alienating the users with too many ads.

TBH I don't think google would buy Twitter with the expectation of making money off of it. Its value is its continued data gathering, which would inform other google products.

Exposure to bugs also builds up resistance. I wonder if eating food off the ground leaves you with a stronger immune system?

Seems more like a tooling issue than language issue to me. Angular2 is much more immature than React. Let the IDEs/text editors catch up.

>The HTML template in Angular 2 is stored in a string. This has several disadvantages

This is patently false. Just use "templateUrl" instead of "template". This allows you to specify a file instead.

This is the way I always did it in angular 1 as well. I don't really understand why style guides & general practice recommend embedding html in the javascript though. It's horrible.

Nothing wrong with protein supplements. There are far more dangerous things body builders ingest that you would've been better mentioning.

There must always be bullshit for logic to prevail over. There must always be...bureaucracy.

Only slightly related this, but does anyone else have an as intense dislike of definitely typed as me? I much prefer typing's registry based approach and I'm surprised Microsoft is running with definitelyTyped instead.

>Sorry, we had to truncate this directory to 1,000 files. 823 entries were omitted from the list.

Shudder.

Because presumably it must be internally hosted as it will discuss commercial, proprietary software. Even if not, would we want to muddy Stack Overflow with the OP's customer support?

At that point are they even games anymore?

I disagree with that, HTML/CSS/Js is by far the most widely understood paradigm for building user interfaces. There's nothing stopping apps built with these technologies looking native other than the stylistic choices of the designers.

Humanity as a collective is comparable to cockroaches. Purely reactive to their environment, completely oblivious to the information that could make it proactive.

>Why do young white males tend to be the ones who pick up computers, teach themselves to code, start businesses in their basements with their friends and get rich? It’s an obvious opportunity to everybody isn’t it? If you are a different race, gender, or religion… what’s your excuse? I know of very very few successful bootstrapped tech companies founded by women or blacks.

I've always wondered if the answer to this was due to the culture and class demographics. The Current crop of tech leaders came from the era where middle class boys were bought computers by their parents as it was seen as a thing for boys to be into and not girls (I think this stereotype is still prevalent but far less powerful now). Computers just were not affordable to working class folks back then. Considering the poverty most minorities families faced then and still do now, it's sadly the case that they couldn't afford computers.

I expect (and hope) that in the next 10 years we'll see the distribution of tech leaders become naturally more diverse. Not because of any activist drive but simply because these kids are much more likely to have access to the tools they were denied in the past.

He's referencing Stallman's infamous stance on the nomenclature of Linux

>why anyone would choose to live in Glasgow is beyond me

Glasgow is a really fun city though. I'm staying here cause I like it, I don't really care that I could earn more living in that other city.

That it's a false equivalence. You're being a bit facetious here, it was obvious what the above poster was alluding to.

This assumes our future doesn't involve a global collapse of society.

>Proponents of the wage-gap point that women have an unfair obligation to child-raising duties, which puts them at a disadvantage when compared to their male peers.

Unfair obligation my ass. I'm sure most dads would jump at the oppurtunity to have the paternity leave equal to maternity, for example.