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I think the point is simply that not everyone can be so lucky. I'm certainly not and can relate to the article thoroughly.

It sounds like you really just learnt that client-side MVC (in this case) wasn't the right tool for the job after all?

I'm sure it still has its place in the world, just maybe not for an app with the complexities built into Charm? .. perhaps.

+1 !! Honestly, this could be really cool!

I'd actually be very interested in this. Recently went back to C# and have quickly remembered how painful .sln and .csproj files are to merge >_< Would love a solution that used something easier to merge, lol!

Nobody has heard of gitorious?

Perhaps when we can race real cars via remote control (with ultra low latency obviously) the gamers will rise :)

One might suspect the same could become of other genres cough FPS cough ;)

Seconded. I've never experienced any of these issues. When I thought someone was wrong or off with my MBP, it turned out to be another piece of hardware or software. I was never an Apple fan, and I've always tweaked even Windows. Likewise, I have tweaked my MBP here and there from a software standpoint, using tools build for it mostly though sometimes command line hacks. I run brew, replaced native BSD tools like ls and grep with GNU versions, no issues. It's a development machine as well, so it gets pretty punished. Again, no issues, especially none OP was talking about.

I think the author was talking more about rockstar/genius developers with many years under their belt than simple "good" or even "great" developers. I also think the author fails to realise that a lot of what he recommends isn't easy to come by. Don't get me wrong, it all makes a lot of sense; every word. However I agree more with antoko in that perhaps the focus sometimes needs to be on increasing developer confidence. After all, we can't all be rockstars can we?

Is anyone else annoyed at the mix of parameter naming conventions, or is it just me? (e.g. client_id, emailAddress, client_secret, firstName).

Should probably make sure website links open in a new tab.

This would mean no caching, so your computer would have to download the image every time, even if it was the same as one you'd already seen.

Unless you're only using these images for client demos, it can be very slow and frustrating waiting for them to load every time you refresh while trying to do html, css or js tweaks.

Facebook is the greatest, most powerful weapon ever created. If there was a god of attention, it's name would be Facebook.

Twitter, Google+, WoW, TV, radio, magazines, whatever. They all pale in comparison to the amount of time and effort =wasted= on Facebook. Discussing meaningless things, liking meaningless posts or comments, or pages about meaningless things, photos of meaningless things.

It doesn't matter how many people or pages you subscribe, like or friend who _might_ talk or be about something important in the world, your "feed" will be chock full of rubbish by the thousands of other posts about NOTHING.

Forgive the brutality here, but why do you need to read on Facebook how someone is feeling? If they're important enough to you to care how they feel, shouldn't they be around you? Within arms reach? Why do you need to see what someone had for lunch? Why do you need to share pictures of you and your friends drunk? Why do you need to see scenic photos of places your friends or family have been? Why do you need to know about everyone's birthday?

Why do you care? Really?

For all the time you spend absorbing this information, what good does it do you or anyone else? Is it creating homes or jobs for those with nothing? Is it curing cancer? Is it feeding starving children? Is it teaching anyone anything useful that could improve their life? How about the planet? Is it fixing the ozone? Is it cleaning the air we breathe? Or even you, specifically? Is it putting food on your table? Is it putting clothes on your back? Is it paying your bills? Is it quenching your thirst? Is it?

No.

It's flooded with useless information that everyone wastes copious quantities of time and energy consuming that could be spent on any number of better activities.

You know what I'm talking about.

/rant. waits for the hellban

>Edit: Also, give some time for it, its app market and hardware designed for it to mature.

In other words, probably wait for Windows 9? =P

Impose a law and someone will break it.

I think this is a great idea, despite its obvious flaw.

To make it a better offering, I would probably add sample custom payment gateway "proxies" in common languages (i.e. PHP, Ruby, etc.) for security.

What I mean by proxy is provide some generic server-side code as a middle man for the payment gateway which can confirm the details of an order (on your server) haven't been tampered with before forwarding onto the actual gateway (PayPal, etc.)

This way, the shops who don't mind dealing with dodgy purchases can run 100% client-side, while more others can use this feature to prevent invalid orders being created.

Am I talking sense, or day dreaming and missing a big inherent flaw?

Agreed. I wonder if you could put a clause in your terms of service that states you will not give refunds for modified price amounts?

Then on your confirmation page, just have a nice "Thank you for your donation. Unfortunately, you won't be receiving any goods. Please see our TOS for details."

Probably illegal though >_>

> I think it is in our nature to keep optimising and trying new ideas.

I wish there were more people in my office who thought like you and I.

I have kept all my code from when I first started coding. Plenty of nostalgia there. I'm surprised I haven't lost it yet!

Even over the course of 12 months I can see improvements in my approaches problem solving, code structure, and where I got lazy, haha.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to turn down your brightness.

Also, see my reply to DustinCalim's comment.

This seems very unnatural. Step outside on a sunny day and tell me we're not built (as a species) to function optimally in bright light.

I'd even go so far as to say that several hundred thousand years of evolution would back me up. Otherwise, why can't we see perfectly in the dark?

EDIT: typo.

Maybe if one day we wind up with a unified processor that is built to run HTML/CSS/JS? The arduino of tomorrow, perhaps?

Probably as likely as world peace, but it's fun to dream :)

EDIT: The suggestion alone could be enough to incite some creative out there to give it a go! The power of ideas and all that :D

heh, http://www.explosm.net/comics/2959/

I'm part of Gen Y and I just bought a new VW Golf R the other week. I also regularly buy toys, gadgets, etc. for myself or my girlfriend - who is also part of Gen Y. That being said, the first set of 6 bullet points are quite accurate of myself, but not so much my girlfriend.

I'm thinking the author has maybe generalised too much. Never mind that they didn't reference the source(accuracy) of their information.

EDIT: To be clear, by toys I'm talking about pc/console games, books, apps, etc.

A game you can usually walk away from without experiencing life altering change.

These social giants have mountains of information about millions (billions?) of people on this planet, and a legal right to keep it and do pretty much whatever they want with it.

This "game" will never end. Your save data will never be erased. You will likely be reminded of that for years to come.

+1 because I agree. Though, how many more battles must we win?

Maybe it's this lightspeed cultural advancement that makes it all seem so drawn out, but it sure feels like nothing is or has changed for the long term better.

That sounds like a Disney movie.

Seriously though, that would never happen and we all know why. The question is: what can be done about it?

Honestly, what can we/I/you do?

Didn't watch the video.. was hoping for announced design/plan for mass-transit system to the ISS =(

My bad. I'm 25 now, does that help? Haha

Woah, thank for the explanation. You're right, and that makes sense. However I'm of the "anything is possible" mindset, so I do still have to wonder if signature matching is nearing its end. Though I admit, given what you've just clarified, it seems unlikely.

I guess we'll have to wait and see!

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think what they're getting at is that they're expecting an evolution in malware because of this. i.e. your typical "stupid"/mass malware will slowly grow obsolete, maybe even drop off the map and be replaced with more intelligent forms of the same thing, using concepts from that of Flame or better.

So should malware authors all figure out what Flame (or other more advanced malware) is doing, and how to do it themselves, eventually current day AV _will_ be useless.

No?