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Not according to this: http://html5test.com/results/desktop.html. BUT, IE will start to auto update their browsers here sometime soon, and in my books that's what makes a browser modern right now.

This was one thing I really enjoyed about camping out at Occupy last year. Most of the people being involved at the 'getting shit done' level, wanted to get stuff done, respected other's opinions, and left their ego in their tent.

I agree that to do better, especially in caring for each other, we need to re-evaluate what we value most.

In a society where money is power however, I don't think you can do much is what I'm saying. Regardless of psychological issues, if someone can function and amass money, then they're regarded as fine and maybe even successful.

My point was people vote with their money and time, and in this case is open. You can't really expect people to care about whether he was a delinquent in some's eyes, because to some, the other side is just as worse.

This isn't surprising. I remember when Apple (before the iPhone) had a niche of the PC market, 10% to 15%, and that was it. You can't keep the image/price of a top tier product, and try to take the whole market.

I'm surprised they got this far. We're in a bit of a stagnation as far as mobile technology, and while I think MS is also making big mistakes by dropping it's business first image, Apple should have started creating lower priced devices if it wanted to compete with my $150 no contract android phone which basically does the exact same thing. More people are realizing this.

While personally I think this is a great idea, it's nothing new.

In a technocratic society; specialists rule. It wouldn't matter whether the President would be a programmer, engineer, or theorist. Any scientist would do an equally good job at re-factoring the government's inefficiencies.

But sadly, a FPTP voting process means it's a popularity contest. Fix the voting system, and open up this possibility. My vote's on this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y3jE3B8HsE

It still means you're implicating a large group for something they are good at doing, which is manipulating an environment to suit their needs.

If you're going to attack his history or his mental state, than at least be willing to acknowledge the man isn't all bad. From what I've read, it seems like some think once a criminal always a criminal, AND that mega upload was a scam.

Not just in China, I'm sure if this was AlJazeera being blocked in the US the majority of Americans wouldn't care as well.

I agree that html tables are used and get the job done, but I would much rather deal with one container div, one 960 div, then 3 section divs for header, content, and footer, then, one or more tables doing the same thing.

It's 2012, and CSS is easy. With a little work, all the problems you can point out can be fixed easily, including flexible grid layouts, and columns, responsive design. Can you even make a flexible table layout?

Also, every site I maintain that uses tables for layout, uses more than one, and it's source is absolutely horrible. While you say that a CMS should level should handle this, that doesn't factor in responsive design, site creation, or massive overhauls to style. Semantics will be an important element in the web soon, and doing html tables for layout, is considered wrong by anyone who cares. http://www.w3.org/2002/03/csslayout-howto

Only someone who has the username htmltablesrule(s) could have such an unpopular view!

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/83073/why-not-use-tables-...

But not video/audio editing, or any programming of any kind. In other words, you can consume on these other devices, but not create (unless it's plain text).

Agreed. I also have a ultrabook and the portability is prefect. Extremely lightweight devices are what I want, and this delivers this to me, and includes more power, and a keyboard.

The best one by far is the Harvard Law Review article. Very fair, very deliberate, and in my opinion does a good job at presenting both sides.

I diffidently agree that there are major operational differences with these organizations, and even within the Wikileaks community, some dissent and division (most likely due to being open in nature).

It's not a white or black issue. While I think that there have been faux pas on both sides, IMO, the US gov should be the bigger man and just tighten it's security and not make so many outrageous and scary threats all the time. It makes them look bad and incompetent. Fix the security problem and move on. I also personally feel that this NGO (Wikileaks), has the right to exist. Read up on the awesomeness that they helped facilitate in Iceland! Some of that info is contained in this documentary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvmfOaZ34Pk

Cheers

While this sounds awesome and potentially disastrous, it also distroys itself as valuable info IMO.

Plans can change, the past cannot. Now, if there's breaking news however and it affect a large amount of people in a negative way, you'll notice it'll be reversed before it'll become finalized. This is something similar to that vein of thought, and IMO is why social media is important.

>The New York Times will parse and redact the information that they feel could endanger people from any classified information that they may publish or use in an article. They notably published the Pentagon Papers, which showed that the US had been misled regarding Vietnam.

I'm sure if wikileaks had co-operation from officials in this regard, they would have rededacted the information prior to release. Actually, it was publicized before release/after the point was made by officials that they weren't even going to consider cooperating with wikileaks.

Link: http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2010/11/wikileaks-and-state...

>This information did not endanger anyone.

Meaning Wikileaks data did? Sources???

>Wikileaks, at least with the initial major leak, does not redact or edit information to protect anyone. This has been one of the reasons major journalist outlets (such as NYT) didn't cooperate with them regarding the initial leak.

Initial leaks? Oh you mean initial AMERICAN leaks. The many first leaks pertained to a Swiss bank, the 2008 election campaign specifically Sarah Palin emails, a corrupt Kenyan leader, Scientology secrets, and a member ship list of the BNP. Also, while true major outlets didn't want to work with them (in the US), they did anyways, because Assange used them against each other pretty intelligently I might add. They may say he's a horrible person and dick in one column, but they (NYT + The Guardian) were his two biggest collaborators in these HORRIBLE leaks.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks#2006.E2.80.9308 / http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/julian-assange-the...

>They simply serve as a clearinghouse for leaked info.

Yup agreed. Definitely not a mainstream media outlet. It's been coined the first stateless news organization for a reason.

You should really read this though: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:iK8J7-6...

Also it's hard for an NGO to hire workers to redact information when a nation state attacks them economically: http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/12/mastercard...

Sorry if I've made you upset or offended you. My sources are an index on censorship article (40+ org advocating free speech), wikipedia..., a rolling stone article with Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, A Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review Article (best source of info IMO), and TPM (12+ blog/)

>Another example of the web causing a problem for current law.

More like law causing problems for the web.

I'm confused. Is this argument for responsive versus standalone desktop or mobile, or responsive versus two sites, one for each.

Because I'd like to say that managing two projects, be it two code bases that both have to be created and configured, takes just as long if not longer, than simply building the edge cases needed for an intuitive responsive site.

But there's points for both methods in my books. I just think not accounting for mobile either way is ridiculous (unless a client is unwilling to pay for it).

Some advice: Get some clients before you do this. I tried to go contractor after my last job and didn't make any money as I spent most of my first month getting a client, and the second month finalizing the details and working on the project. Two months for $2500 isn't much if it's your only client.

The trouble I encountered was working as a web dev at a marketing agency before. They were strict about working for "potential clients", which meant anybody with money...

My advice: Get at least 5 projects lined up for the foreseeable future (next 3 or 4 months) and also save up about six months of money for bills and your normal expenditures minus savings.

This will help you invest in a business for at least, 8 to 12 months, working with 5 or 6 projects and tiding your other 6 months with savings will be the worst case scenario. Best case you find more clients and don't even get to touching that money.

Yup. And besides, it's an easy buck from some chumps, not a 1000$/day job you can get by buying my book and following my internet unlock steps!

Your Parent is insane to think that simply breaking rules means people have no ethics or morals themselves. Everyone is a dynamic person, and IMO someone who screws people within the confines of the law can be just as bad if not worse.

I agree with everything he mentioned up until he started criticizing the today's standard and practices, he ignores the issues you run into in today's environment based on what you've said:

media queries vs two separate projects - responsive and flexible one site fits all approach vs less resources served for smaller mobile version and reduce complexity(?).

web fonts / assets management - this is a growth issue or a design issue focusing on either OECD/Fast Internet or Server Load. It is somewhat an issue, but not something to cry over really.

his complaint about his textarea box are ill founded. He's using posterous' system, and should build his own if he doesn't like it so much. Isn't it a free service?

modal / gui decisions - usually client/manager driven. Can't blame me on this one. I'm all about pages and lightboxes.

his complaint about mobile browsing is one that is justified, but one that isn't any modern developers fault. My first 10 sites were all responsive. Now some clients don't want it. How is this my fault? This does take extra time and consideration, unless a client wants a very simply mobile site only.

I think the author is missing out on what you mentioned, specifically that we're attempting to bridge the gap between size and complexity, and new and stable.

As someone who is constantly not using the features I'm learning about due to IE7/8, I mess with things that definitely won't work on anything other than Chrome Canary. Why? Because it's a fun and brave new frontier.

I really think you can't complain about the web being NOT perfect. It's full of dinosaurs and people are still running on oil. And besides, this newfangled green revolution has a ton of kinks we need to take care of before we can make the switch.

Transitional. The web is in a state of flux always.

I'd also comment on his speed/mobile concerns: The web is both big and small, fast and slow, dynamic and static. Most developers have a hard time accomplishing both aspects of the duality, but at least they try.

You can praise the small, slow, and static sites, because of what they're good at, but let us also point out that they aren't optimized for desktop browsers to date, don't utilize the speed of their upper clientele of users to offload processing and handling to the front end, and also don't accomplish as much as possible without the need of a state change.

I like what you put regarding complexity, because let's be realistic, as web developers, are jobs are constantly shifting from technology to architecture to agile to scrum to etc.

The author is complaining about mistakes in hindsight, and tries to complain about modern web apps having the same problems? There's always a new frontier in web development; if you can't handle the fact that certain api's become deprecated or that certain features a dev used aren't completely implemented, then do it better yourself. Update older tutorials, evangelize the correct approaches to problems, then, you'll do you part to remove some misinformation of outdated solutions that others are using.

You're ignoring the fact that porn is actually having a negative effect on society. I'll not dismiss the potential for good, but it's actually quite damaging to young men right now.

You did accomplished the first point, which I agree with. Here's the link to the TED talk for those interested: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/zimchallenge.html

As someone who has recently learned of a ketosis diet and a low carb approach to this problem, it was pretty interesting when during this talk, http://youtu.be/FSeSTq-N4U4?t=32m10s, when he mentions the diabetes booklet given out by a pharmaceutical company which recommends low sugar foods. While this seems like a good approach, the doctor in the video explains how this is counter intuitive to combat diabetes, as a as little sugar/starch as possible diet is the correct approach. This booklet told people to have fruits and starches but in moderation, when most of those foods they said was fine, should be avoided entirely if possible.

I just noticed it redirects from sleep.io is all. It seems like while .com's are great, having something like sleep. whatever is pretty awesome. I was just curious as to why you chose one redirect over the other.

I understand and agree with your point, as it is scientifically based. I remember seeing a great TED talk on the effect this is having.

But to play the Devil's advocate, if this person doesn't do this, wouldn't someone else? I mean, in a market with such a great demand, how can you ever detract users from this?

While we can both agree on the detriments this can have on people's lives, what can one person do to fix it? I know that not building this sort of site is a start, but you do have to understand that whether or not this person does this, the world will be roughly the exact same.

Censorship can't be the answer either, as that trades one negative aspect for another, and there's also good evidence to suggest that there are some good from porn sites (people in relationships stimulating it?).

Anyway, I guess what I'm asking is, how do we fix this problem, without trying to tell someone to avoid making money? Because that's not going to work IMO.

everyone is in the lower class. How do YOU define lower class in the case? I've heard of African billionaires. This is what he means by sweeping generalizations.

Wow. This article gets a lot of things wrong IMO.

Their points on saving is stupid, when most people live paycheck to paycheck, and the idea that social class isn't about being in X% but the values you have? What a load of crap, here's someone who's in the upper class, who has GREAT values, link: http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-richest-woman.... Being in a certain economic class does not give you a certain set of ideal that others lack, nor does it negate you any insight. Everyone is different.

Also, the idea that we don't have peasants and lord anymore, really makes me confused, considering I have and know many landlords, and that most people who live in rural areas contribute to the same function as Peasants did (see Farmers). Just because things become more complex doesn't mean you can ignore the fact that their are still owners (lords) and workers (peasants), or that the same idea still isn't absurd (everyone can be rich!!!)...

This article contains sweeping generalizations and a gross amount of naivety.

As a web developer, this is a great thing to hear. Larger companies should focus on the web, and with this context, I don't have to be worried anymore about learning a native phone language.

Hmmm. I'm from Canada, and therefore have no opinion on this but, has this been in the news at all until now?