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This is a very apt analogy. If you give someone a car (or sell it cheap) and you know there is a problem with the car, then it is your duty to tell them. "Hey, I've been having trouble with the breaks they need to be pumped. Be careful about that."

Serving a website is different than serving food or providing safety features. Web design can use progressive enhancement and detect available features to use as they are available.

With a website, you can have the "real" layout, but when someone is blocking your JS, you can fallback and still provide content.

We won't get every mobile application working on old browsers, but we can offer something to the end user. Even a page that lets them know they are missing out.

But CSS Nesting? We can have that and a fallback.

Years ago, students would take placement exams when they enrolled in the community college. This was great for their education. They would spend a year or two getting to college level english and math.

That program is expensive and apparently made people “feel bad”. The colleges were no longer allowed to require placement tests. Then they were no longer allowed to offer remedial courses (courses that did not count toward a degree) and students went directly into college english and math.

The failure rates are astounding. About 1 in 3 at a large CC.

This issue is trickling up from k-12 being required to “pass” everyone to the colleges with that same pressure.

We need our policy to focus on education achievement rather than number-of-degrees. The incentive is short sighted and the ramifications could result in our local economies declining with ineffective employees, fewer successful businesses, etc.

I remember trade chat (/2) in wow on the Medivh server would often turn into Chuck Norris jokes. There were always about how bad ass Chuck was. How tough and impossibly manly.

One of my favorites.

Chuck Norris jumped into a lake. Chuck Norris didn't get wet. The lake got Chucked.

One could easily take yoga or Zumba 2-3 times a week. Lift some weights 1 day a week and use the treadmill any day you aren't out walking around. No injuries on that schedule.

Every gym I see in socal is always busy. Bonus, you start to see "regulars" and have someone to say hello to.

Hack the Planet!

I want to chime in here. It's advertisements on my desktop that repels me. There is something deeply personal about ads in my desktop that feels like being violated. This is a computer that I paid for, with software that I pay for, that includes all my most personal files and data. Seeing ads on the OS completely eroded my trust.

Of course, I still use Windows for various things, but I have too much "ick" for it to be the system where I check my email, manage my business, keep my important files, etc.

Windows is really great for lots of things, but I don't trust it.

The whole point was to take these things apart, figure out how they work, and make them things we want them to do instead of being bound by arbitrary rules.

Bypassing arbitrary (useless, silly, meaningless, etc) rules has always been a primary motiving factor for some of us :D

I'm really excited that the current AI tools will help lots of people build small and useful projects. Normal people who would otherwise be subject to their OS. Subject to vendor options. Help desk, HR, or finance folks will be able to compose and build tools to help them do their jobs (or hobbies) better. Just like we do.

I think of it like frozen dinners. Frozen dinners are not the same as home cooked meals. There is a place for frozen dinners, fast foods, home cooked meals, and nice restaurants. Plus, many of us spend extra time and money making specialty food that may be as good as anything. Frozen dinners don't take away from that.

I think it's the same for coding and AI use. It might eventually enhance coding overall and help bring an appreciation to what engineers are doing.

Hobby or incidental coders have vastly expanded capabilities. Think of the security guy that needs one program to parse through files for a single project. Those tasks are reasonably attainable today without buying and studying the sed/awk guide. (Of course, we should all do that)

Professionals might also find value using AI tools like they would use a spell checker or auto-complete that can also lookup code specs or refer to other project files for you.

The most amazing and useful software, the software that wows us and moves us or inspires us, is going to be crafted and not vibed. The important software will be guided by the hands of an engineer with care and competence to the end.

Me too. I was reading about buttons ... and wondering where was the game?

Although, the buttons are very interesting.

Do you think this could be useful in a classroom environment? Maybe shared notes for students and/or groups?

My personal workflow is Plain Text files (often markdown) in a Notes folder on Dropbox. nvAlt on my main machine to quickly search, edit, and create notes. A shortcut in terminal that cd's me into the directory, rg for cli search, and Editorial for mobile access. I have thousands of notes and have only had a few sync issues over the years.

This tip is gold. I had no idea Edge had this feature on Mac. I have used a variety of other tools in the past to create website "apps". Thanks!

Thanks for the link. I appreciate the work and the backend detail.

hilarious - this is the incarnation of a psuedo joke that will never die on the internet. remember the dog? this was his font. now it can be all your coding too LOL

I often see this in the company webpages. Does a college organize for new students? By division? Department? You can tell a lot about the college culture based on how the website is organized!

Plain text is the only format that has survived from the beginning of computing. It will probably survive for the next 80 years of computing too. I'll stick with it :-)

<reminisce> I loved the palm foleo - it was such a revolution. Great keyboard, many hours of battery, and all my info there with my palm tungsten! </reminisce>

$ brew install -g html-xml-utils

seems to work on OS X 10.9.2