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So, if I were to try to convince you just how wrong you are, what I would do is start with a React project that uses React-Router v7 with the data routers, including the `loader`. That one thing alone, even above and beyond what others are saying about React Query, just blows the whole complexity of API communication out of the water.

And then, if you are doing anything full stack or have a middleware/backend-for-frontend, for god's sake, look into tRPC and let your mind be blown.

Putting these two together, in a simple vite project (no full stack "framework" needed"), it will seriously just change the way you look at data, loading, and API interactions.

It just feels somewhat like the OP's problems with React are all skill issues and a lack of desire to explore and learn correctly.

In the dev environment we had custom videos uploaded, and I often uploaded my own. Nice kittens and puppy videos and such. Still, the mindgeek office life was mostly the same as any office, except for the porn on half the screens.

As with anything else at one point you get desensitized by the same content, since it was all test data and not live production stuff, it didn't get updated often.

I've worked for Mindgeek in the past (left 2 years ago) and still had friends working there. Many dozens of employees were locked out of their accounts this morning, none of them knowing what the hell was going on. A personal friend of mind had to wait until 2pm to get a call from HR finally telling him the news, even though it had been so long that the media were already aware of the fact.

I still remember when Feras was on stage at a town hall meeting 2ish years ago telling us that the company wasn't going to do any RRSP matches to the employees because we were "too young to think about retirement", all the while driving around his bright yellow Porsche Cayenne and getting his 19 million dollar mansion built.

Considering they were still reeling from Visa and MC cutting off their service and having to rely on cryptocurrency for payment, it's no surprise to me that now that crypto is failing hard, the value of those payments is vastly reduced and so is, probably, existing cash that was still in the crypto space.

I'm not sure if anything changed in a day, but I'm not getting that result at all (in fact, I'm not getting a "did you mean Chrome" either). The latter isn't explainable by me, but for the former... well, remember the search results are tailored to you (that's another pandora's box about echo chambers in itself) so perhaps you've been searching for more security-oriented things and that affects your results. In my case, the first page was mostly official Firefox links, wikipedia, and the very last result of the first page was "Google Just Gave 2 Billion Chrome Users A Reason To Switch To Firefox" so it doesn't seem like there's anything awry going on here.

We're sorry we didn't come up with it sooner, eh?

I'll need to echo some of the other comments here - at work we're pretty much stuck with Skype for Business (aka "lync") because the voice system ties into it. When I suggested Discord, it was shrugged off because it's "Chat for Gamers" and clearly they're not going to budge from that niche anytime soon, from all the recent features I've seen.

That's nice misinformation, mate. Discord makes money from Nitro, and they started off with a fairly large investor cushion which grew since launch.

There is nothing in the ToS that states in any way, shape, or form, that they can sell their data. I challenge you to quote the exact place where it says that.

Ironically, one of the reasons I'm extremely happy with my current bank is that it lets me save my password through Chrome on its online banking. Yes, I know that's no super secure (I'm not sure how Chrome's password manager is in regards to security), but it's just... so convenient!

The way I see it, it's essentially because of frameworks and engines. For example in games, I've seen simple isometric games with very little graphic intensity build with huge game engines like Unity or Unreal. 20 years ago, that same game would have been built almost directly with machine code and be just as beautiful (adjusting for screen resolution and quality from back then). Well, that's my theory based largely on assumptions.

Software and Web is probably the same - I remember building very small websites from scratch, painstakingly writing each line of HTML and CSS myself to be as optimized as possible. Today, I'd probably have to start with a framework like Foundation or Bootstrap. Or maybe Semantic-UI which would require node.js to be installed and gulp and whatever. That stack can help with fast development, but it's probably not as optimized as doing everything in notepad++, right?

The company I work for just re-built our whole flagship product from scratch. It was previously in Delphi 6, and now it's in Java. Notwithstanding the prejudice against Java and speed, the reality is that the software now requires like 16MB of RAM and still takes more than a minute to load. And then it's slow as hell, both for use and for actually producing its output (it's print management and VDP).

Does it have anything to do with the number of librairies our dev team uses to "simplify their lives"? I'm guessing it might. http://help.objectiflune.com/EN/planetpress-connect-user-gui...

About the last point about generating content, I think it's extremely likely that this leads us down the path of Voxels and Procedural Generation. Both those techniques together would help us at least get a starting point for an environment that's generated from certain chosen parameters, and then the "least effort" becomes modifying that environment for your game needs.

I mean, if you can have a procedurally generated jungle with a huge mountain in the middle and a river cutting through the jungle, all you need to do really is to cut through the mountain for your secret underground base, create a couple of roads, camps and checkpoints and you've got a better remake of FarCry 1 (yeah I'm extrapolating of course but you get the idea).

There are already... kind of.

the Terrafugia and the Pal-V are both flying cars, though not very sexy I'll admit.

Personally I'm more than a little annoyed at their journal-type "quotes", especially because they put the quote directly under the paragraph they just quoted, so you're basically just reading the exact same sentence twice, one after the other. And they do this 9 times. It's just... horrible.

I foresee how the FPS aspect could come into play when dealing with pirates or aliens boarding the ship, for example. I hope he keeps that aspect of the game.

I'm very happy to see that those who got the games were able to keep them. The conspiracy theorist in me thinks that maybe this was a marketing stunt, but Occam's Razor tells me it's just a mistake and they were a good sport about it.

No point in clicking unless you're subscribed to Scientific American.

Now just to be clear: This is a complete load of bull. I don't think whomever wrote this article has an iota of understanding of evolution. But it's good for a laugh!

Wait, being open and forward to strangers on the internet means I'm addicted? Well, that explains a lot...

I think you got the wrong news item, buddy :P

I think that was the point - an ironic title for a post that goes against the types of articles with exactly the same caracteristics.

I'll confirm that this seems to be a case of people not knowing what the hell they did years ago... I looked at everything I had in my timeline, and there are only posts from people who have always, and will always, write only on my wall instead of messaging me privately.

"Destroys" is a much stronger word than what happens here, "Laughs at smartly" is probably better.

... thus prompting hackers worldwide to quickly create a version of Linux that will run on the Clover Trail Atom processor. Just to piss them off.

I've seen other minimalist blogging platforms and I have to admit this one seems a little more responsive (speed-wise), and truly simple to use while retaining the basic feature set that's necessary for a functional blog.

I've opened an account and will test it out. Great work!

That's pretty amazing, and it's really too bad that this technique wasn't actually available years before... (or was it?)

Thank you! I will definitely do that eventually, but right now there is just too much stuff happening in my everyday life to find the time for writing. I will do it though.

I think Glass is an intermediate step. The biggest issue that exists right now is the fact that we would love to have huge screen but don't want to lug them around; want full keyboards but they don't generally fit in our pockets...

My thought on this is that we'll eventually turn to the next best (but scary) way to interact with computers: implants. I wrote about it in a blog I have just for "brain dumping" of stories I want to eventually write, but perhaps it's relevant here: http://writersdrano.wordpress.com/2012/01/15/the-first-step-...

Your suspicion turned out to be correct. At least one of the actresses in the movie spoke out about the fact that they were actually cast for "Desert Warrior", a movie with absolutely nothing to do with Muhammad. They never even spoke the name! Everything was, as we can clearly see, dubbed in post-production.

At least one source: http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/12/world/anti-islam-film/index.ht...

I finally was able to hunt down the actual clip they're talking about, "Innocence of the Muslims". There is a 5-minute trailer here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBWkq2HPgoM

I'm absolutely appalled that this thing supposedly cost $5M to produce, though. If the trailers are any indication, this is the worst piece of garbage (quality-wise) that I've ever laid my eyes on. I've seen $20,000 movies that looked better than this thing. I'm not talking about the contents, I'm talking about the quality! I mean come on, the sound is lame, the bluescreen scenes are absolutely horrible... I could probably do just as well in my back yard with about $5000 worth of equipment and a few friends! Well, if I had 59 friends...

As someone who is currently forced to use Moodle to build courses, I honestly say I'd rather just build the thing with HTML and Javascript rather than a web-based interface.

Speaking of which, what tool would you suggest instead of Moodle?

The "stream" animation is very laggy in Firefox 15, but works fine in IE9, so I guess "In collaboration with IE" is more "optimized for IE"...

I kinda like the music though, and the social experiment is nice. I'm assuming the massive spike in sharing that stems from the US is actually this post right here!

It would be nice to have some solid stats, as well as some info on my own share. With the mass of wires it's hard to tell whether someone actually stems from me or not.