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Definitely, there's going to be a lot of (fun?) surprises for people who don't quite get the nature of a digital image or video. I've know digital pack rats that save other people's photos.

I don't think STDs and youthful alcoholism will be badges of honor, but I think there's an undercurrent of people feeling as if we all have baggage of one type or another. They're much more likely to be ruled out of public office for pictures of themselves wearing "race face" or date rape bragging or something.

I switched from skeletons to baggage for my clichés...

Two factors play into this publicity of private individual lives.

If everyone's skeletons are out in the open for everyone else to see, they're no longer skeletons.

What one social group considers a skeleton in their closet, another considers a badge of honor.

I benefitted from this, I'm into and have been into all sorts of things that would have socially stigmatized me 50 years ago. Meanwhile, someone else who is racist or beats their spouse or kids is likely to face social condemnation.

Times change, in this case, for the better.

I would guess it's an area ripe for start ups in each new state where it is legalized/decriminalized.

I agree, I like Windows, and I think Microsoft agrees too... But they also have agreements that come from times that were very different. The official Microsoft store, their own hardware, special new editions are some of the ways they seem to try to get around it. Sucks for users, either they don't know better, they have to build their own/clean their own, or buy from a limited selection.

I took it as examples. Ways one might enjoy the fruits of their labor in the context of modern western society.

Your reply made me realize another way to think of it though. If all these things we spend money on are trivial, then that supports the notion. Money is a poor measure of one's productivity.

They are kept in Bull Pens because they treat their employees as sterile commodities to be herded around.

You don't become WalMart/Facebook/Twitter by treating your employees well. You become big and profitable by cutting as many corners as you can and keeping revenue up. Publicly traded companies generally get into this-quarter frenzy that never leaves and kills any sort of long term viability as being a company of and for people.

I think 500 hours of gameplay is a great deal. I don't play many games any more because most of the talent and budgets go to multiplayer games, but I don't relate to the people who play/talk loudly about these high-production-cost multiplayer games. They're interests and concerns are different than mine.

The social nature of gaming has alienated me.

The point of a framework though is to remove the boilerplate, best-practices should be part of a front end frame work's default settings. The problem with Angular's popularity is that it's often used for bad purposes (including in their own guide as an e-commerce tutorial). Angular's strengths, solely IMO, play up to large single page apps comprised of many small angular apps, apps that don't use hyperlinks and aren't driven by sharing or SEO.

There's a lot of weird choices in Angular, but it's not broken though, and enterprise will still use it because it is backed by Google, only a few frameworks are backed by big companies, and it's less of a departure than the other frameworks.

React and Backbone aren't frameworks in the sense that businesses need frameworks, where repetitive decisions have conventions.

I just wish we'd stop trying to wedge these frameworks in to the wrong types of projects. Angular is great, for our authwalled web apps, from my use. I bet it would be for other people with the same needs, and wouldn't be for people who are trying to build marketing sites, blogs, or e-commerce.

Edit: stray keystroke.

I think the reason this really is a surprise* is because they claim these are the top downloaded apps.

*edit: Wish it were a surprise.

As a front end developer, I think it is easier and more maintainable to use styles for the appearance, and JavaScript for the behavior...

That being said, I find the complexity of many designs (CSS or JS driven) more distracting to users.

Now, for marketing sites, built by designers, CSS is likely going to be much better for performance. If the JS works as intended. Designers benefit from not having to be focused on programming.

That link, they put hours into writing those recipes and formatting... Aaron Schwartz got spin (which admittedly, probably took more work hours to not-create)

I think that's more a quality of young people, not just "this generation."

I was probably like that once, even though I think I wasn't. I remember everyone around me being concerned with being "liked."

More importantly, Mean Girls and Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Wonder Years all seem that way.

Who know with kids, they make no sense in any generation. :)

When companies have actual competitive value to offer, marketing is easier. I guess.

I think the more realistic code would be.

people.find('thirsty').drink('water')

Not about plain language reading, but instead writing code the way people think about actions and things.

Procedural is just as valid, but you use the right tool for the right job.

There's a difference between ads and ads that are likely to end up loading malware with a few accidental clicks or distasteful ads for pornography, or ads that talk, or ads that do all three.

"Are you a boy or a girl?" Popping up when I'm in my office at home is something that makes me want to use adblock. And I don't use adblock.

That first article is hilarious.

The final quote sums it up. This statement proves how important it is that people can use their personal wifi.

Which in improving technology, it is not.

I would say that 1-3 are superior, because 4 costs more than 1 person's time. The others can be done for a group and/or redistributed. Additionally, I'd say 1 can be superior to 2 and 3, because 1 can take significantly less time with practice...

That being said, I play tut videos on fast speed in the background, I've learned a lot this way. Type 5: Osmosis.

Realistically, everyone probably benefits from multiple factors. There's understanding to test, to do, and to discuss. They are often learned at different times.

Maybe you're onto something, OKCupid has a better track record as the method is actually based on some type of observable patterns. :)

Something tells me the author started writing this article before the firefox news... (slightly after Napolean's invasion of Russia)

While I can't speak to the intepersonal management practices, this article seems to feed the tech killing stockholder demand for quarterly profits.

The company is doing much better than before, but "not good enough."

Whether the conclusion is correct, this article, despite it's length, doesn't make a case for Mayer not achieving the long term goals so far. (edit: fixed some messed up wording)

That's where I am, I didn't realize it until I got down to the copyright.

I don't like Uber, I do like the idea of competition.

I think the draw is upfront pricing? But I don't know, I've horror stories about that too.

The reason why it seems like a really bad thing in this case: many top contributors left node over some core principles.

But I agree with the article, when you read deeper into the comments and commits, it's not virulent in the record (though I'm sure tempers flared).

That being said, I'm just a lowly web dev and barely understand what's going on under the hood.

I did not say that Uber doesn't have issues to address, I said that the Indian government has underlying issues, and can't scapegoat forever.

Not every situation in life has clear sides of "good guys" and "bad guys" or who's "to blame." Cause is a moving bar, and has different value depending what we are talking about causing.

Uber causes it's passengers to be in danger by not ensuring the people behind the wheel.

India on the other hand has a history of not punishing rapists. The guy gets acquitted of rape, because rape is too hard to prove under Indian law and because the juries are biased. edit: updated spelling

So, I'm not a Uber fan, but I get the feeling this is India deflecting a couple of other underlying issues and placing blame.

Sooner or later they have to face the issue head on, because scapegoating gets old.

I'd guess that it was his vision that made this happen, because he was wrong about browsers. The browser makers who see/saw potential for income generation came out on top of the browser market.

Interesting, on page 2:

"There are three parts to the Web. One is the client, the second is the pipes, and the third is the servers.

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On the client side, there's the browser software. In the sense of making money, it doesn't look like anybody is going to win on the browser software side, because it's going to be free.

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And then there's the typical hardware. It's possible that some people could come out with some very interesting Web terminals and sell some hardware.

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But with Web server software, no one company has more than a single-digit market share yet. Netscape sells hardly any, because you can get free public-domain software and it's very good. Some people say that it's even better than what you can buy."

I'm not an apple fan, nor a Steve Jobs fan, but this prediction changed a lot of our preceptions about the internet and what computing means.

Whether this vision shaped the internet and computing or it was truly prophetic, I don't know. But still, really interesting to think about how our visions might turn into.

It's amazing in an "Agile" world, we still feel like we need to "configure" basic design concepts.

For internal apps: Structure could be one theme on one CSS framework. So much time is wasted on "design" (picking colors, lining things up) by people who don't know anything about design.

I wish more things looked like this at work. There's apps that look like native apps, there's bootstrap apps, there's all the custom CSS floating around, there's whatever's new, there's the stock CSS sheet that comes with the plugins...

Keeping to principles like this at work or for work environments would make it so much easier to have unity. I'm not saying everything should look like this, but that not everything needs to stand out for the sake of standing out. Using the same app every day undoes the need for over the top "visual cues" and complex overlays and material concepts. We need fast, interchangeable stuff, that works with large amounts of data/fields/etc when the content doesn't fit looking like apple.com. :)

I wish you guys luck, and I'll give it a shot the first chance I get.