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And that can be stuffed up with prior bottle use, so not so sure if that's even true.

Not knowing what is text and what is a link just kills me. We went through lots of this in the webs early days. We had icons for navigation and experimental flash navigation. But it made for mystery meat navigation - and in the end we returned to text. Now it's all gone full circle.

I didn't read it like that. More the joy of exploring another language.

Please can someone paraphrase the implications of this. It's hard for me to understand.

When you have population growth (or non-native settlers), they prop up the old. It's a pyramid scheme.

It's just insidious though isn't it? There's a scare that we might have internet connected energy meters. You end up with dozens of devices that have connectivity and you don't actually know what they do. I have a satellite box, that I manually connect to the internet every once in a while for on demand services. But I have no idea what information it sends back. Could send back my entire viewing history for all I know. Or rather it might be collecting and storing data to later send.

I noticed my satellite box trying to pull a web page from my computer. Malware is another problem.

It's an odd problem. My partner insists on keeping a shopping list. But mostly I remember what we have in the fridge and store cupboard, as I frequently cook. I don't actually forget that many items when shopping. Toothpaste I don't keep in the fridge. Being able to have a quick glance remotely could help, but I'd probably then abandon trying to remember, and it would probably take me longer. My partner recently tried a little stretch of buying online and collecting from the store. But for me, it took all the fun out of shopping. I actually enjoy strutting the supermarket - and some domestic tasks. My partner likes certainty. I like mixing things up a little.

I don't see why we can't semantically define menus and tasks. And have different interfaces that can just plug into these. So if you don't want titles - fine - use a different window manager or style. I can think of many better ways of doing desktop windowing/application behaviour.

I have two debian installs. One with old and the other with new debian/xfce/gnome. And although I probably prefer the older debian/xfce combo to alternatives - I can't say I'm particularly smitten.

I'm a freelance programmer without much self-worth, and currently no work. Given the right environment, people and projects (for me), I know I'd be happier and wealthier, and may even thrive. Rather than the abandonment that I've felt on many freelance gigs. With age, I find it increasingly difficult to sit in front of a computer for long stretches of time (more than 4 hours). I've been in a rut, where I've barely earned enough to get by for the last 15 years, and have nothing to show for it, other than a bust shoulder. No landmark projects or piles of cash. Cash would help! My other half frequently tries to talk me out of the profession. I work occasionally with impassioned newcomers, who assume with my depth of knowledge and skill-set I'd be earning shed loads and taking the best gigs. But they have the needed drive and zeal that I feel I could do with a shot of. Or rather, I can program, but I'm not a successful programmer/worker. I still like problem solving, but also appreciate some donkey work. I often think what else can I do, but my imagination and confidence fails me. And I'm too shy to ask for help (UK).

Or rather rubbing shoulders is usually used to describe networking, though if you are mingling with the great and the good/important or famous, hobnobbing may have been a better term.

We worked out recently that we spent under £20 pcm on gas and electric over the last year. 2 people, washing machine, fridge, 2 x laptop, LED lights, 1 LED TV, and gas heating. Admittedly we only put on heating in the evening for an hour or so. Southern England (UK). Attribute to it not being cold for the last two winters here. Duvets and hot water bottles are used regularly. Yet to turn on heating this year. Not looking forward to the cold. Water bill however is shocking.

We've been forever waiting for Linux on the desktop! In as much as a very polished desktop distro. Never seems to come along. Even Ubuntu haven't managed it. Given fixed hardware I'm sure it would still be a challenge. Iterations of desktops and window managers pass by, start out glitchy, get polished in time, then are made obsolete. I have seen so many regressions in popular Linux desktops - even core components like panels, and file managers. I'm currently running an older version of Foo, because newer Foo has too many annoying warts. But what I have, just about works. That being said, Windows doesn't seem to progress that much either. Perhaps UI is the hard part. As a dev, I always think that the icing on the cake should be the easy bit. But of course it isn't.

Many CGI scripts were coded like this.

Here is an example in C: https://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/cgic.html

Php was born out of trying to reduce a lot of that cruft and blending code and html output easily. And that's what initially made it a winner.

They could be a bit more innovative with infrastructure building, like creating glass from the desert sand using solar: https://vimeo.com/25401444 Not sure if it would do clear panes but could be used for pipe work and scaffolding perhaps.

Exactly it may take years and lots of heat energy extraction, but the Earth could end up cold. I don't think it's a renewable.

On the flip side you can do this the other way round: trap solar in a heat store below ground, piping the heat down below. It becomes a giant battery. The earth insulates the heat store (providing there is no water run through / water table to wick out the heat). You reverse the process during cold spells into a building.

A rather good point about the Mediterranean being used as a shipping channel! There would still need to be huge canals.

I read that the mid-west (not sure if that's the correct location) in north America had heavily depleted water tables because of irrigation. When that evaporates off, where does that water go? Is it destined to stay over North America or does it end up in the sea? Or rather does this cause an imbalance? Is it more likely to rain over land?

Why not the whole bay in the plan?

Taking the move a mountain idiom a little too far.

Moving water really enhances places aesthetically.

I noticed that the disused Clyde docklands in Glasgow (UK), were being filled in a few years back. A missed opportunity for waterside property.

What's the difference between @foo and #foo? Enough said.

I appreciate that a web shop could want for more than basic html representation. Although arguably there is something already like this: http://schema.org/Product . A search API?

But yes, good templates go a long way.

I think what saddens me with web programming, is constant rewrites of the same old projects, that pretty much do the same thing. As a community we'd be better to focus on a few core APIs like a web shop or a booking app.

A church or school could have a common underlying built platform. Where functions of outfits are unified, we could drop in one size fits all solutions.

In England (UK) you have about 24 thousand schools these could be aided/driven by a few competing platforms. Charities and small shops likewise.

Platform constraints can also help. Having fixed html, perhaps would let designers just swap out CSS and imagery - job done.

Much web work is a brain drain, and a lot of good talent in my eyes is being squandered on petty engineering problems, when there is still a world out there that needs putting right.

I wrote a simple web app to work with last.fm's api. A little fiddly, but in essense it worked. Somewhere buried in settings were all the apps that have access to my account. I then went back to Spotify and noticed it wanted my username and password. And ever since, I just haven't been bothered. I'd rather some throwaway autogenerated app linking passwords and authenticating consistency.

Copying and pasting links isn't that hard. Go to last.fm, generate OTP token/link, paste into Spotify. Done. I should have some easy way to identify authenticated apps under my account and kick them out, or reset all.

Not all of us use Web mail. And I might not want a link automagically opened there and then, under a browser.

That's funny, I'd even viewed the source looking for a date, and totally missed the url!

Not so sure that urls should be any more than a uniqid - should they have semantic meaning? Discuss... No don't.

Ta.

Throw shit on the wall and leave to dry for a few hours first.

(I wish authors would date articles.)

Good idea.

Most people open pages in new tabs? Really? I have a family member that still can only cope with one tab.

Frames were brilliant. It's just they had a few unpleasant side effects, that could have been ironed out given the will. One html menu/navigation as a frame that was editable in one place without resorting to programming languages/constructs for file includes. Piecemeal content aggregation via frames may, just may have been a better approach to web page building.