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I don't see what all the fuss is. A good craftsman could build a house no matter what hammer he chooses. Don't be such a snob about insisting that hammers must have heads to drive nails, just because all the hammers you've used before happened to have them.
Yup, also animated status bar text.
Perhaps, but those allow us to do things we otherwise couldn't. The blink tag just made annoying blinky text.
Flouting law enforcement does not strike me as a good design goal. If the law wants you to stop doing something, they will make sure you stop.
Interesting angle, I've never seen someone come at it from the POV of the shareholder. If you're unhappy as a shareholder with HBO's strategy, I can understand that. Do whatever shareholders do in that scenario, I guess. (Vote? Sell?)
From the consumer side though, HBO has no obligation to do what a bunch of people on the internet who think they understand HBO's business better than HBO does think they should do.
I know. I don't make any bones about this HDCP stuff being bullshit. They are screwing their own, paying customers. That's terrible.
It's just that I really have no time for this entitled attitude that content owners are obligated to sell their wares to us when we want, how we want, at the price point we want.
"We've recently discussed the fact that HBO severely limits the availability of its shows to non-subscribers..."
Really?! How dare they!
Andy Ihnatko about Oatmeal about difficulty of watching Game of Thrones: http://ihnatko.com/2012/02/20/heavy-hangs-the-bandwidth-that...
I don't find it to be good for much besides keeping track of podcasts. I never saw the appeal of "syndicated content" (blech), I'd rather read websites. Very few people use it when rolled into the browser, it's better off implemented in extensions and standalone apps.
What would outdated markup have to do with striping table rows?
This is why you're getting downvotes, you really don't seem to have any idea what you're talking about.
Ah, I did not know that.
But anyway, just to clarify, I mention that these apps exist because it could completely throw off the numbers as to how many "Kindles" (or "Nooks") there are in a given city. What if SF has tons of people reading Kindle books on their iPads? These devices can't be considered pure competitors to the Kindle (or the Nook), and their numbers are way, way too big to simply disgregard.
OK, I guess we should just completely ignore them because you don't like reading on lit screens. Makes sense.
iOS and Android have a Kindle app, which means every iPhone, iPad, and Android device can also be a Kindle. This fact is conspicuously missing in the analysis.
> I couldn't disagree more.
I know. Trust me, I know.
Oh, stop. I'm tired of hearing about "smug" being the worst thing ever. Too easy to toss this insult around.
Instead, personally my issue with functional programming is the aversion to side effects. It seems to cause a lot of weird contortions, when the whole reason we make software in the first place is for the side effects. Programming in a functional style brings with it a lot of wonderful, powerful ideas. But that one has always struck me as unfortunate.
Your worldview differs from that of others. This happens a lot, no need to get all upset about it. "501 Developer" means absolutely nothing outside a very small group of people -- try not to sweat its significance.
Believe it. Everything without a touch screen is broken to the next generation of users, and the entire PC industry is changing is big ways already.
This one hits all the bullet points for clueless Apple punditry, including calling Apple a cult and asserting that people will buy anything Apple makes, however stupid and useless. Nothing has really changed in this regard, there are still tons of bloggers and other assholes lazily tossing out the same old talking points about Apple selling overpriced toys to vain idiots.
I feel bad for anyone who considers this sort of thing "fun"
Searle calls your objection the "systems reply", and his response can be found here (2a): http://www.iep.utm.edu/chineser/#H2
Unfortunately, just because you do hard work doesn't necessarily mean the world will need that work.
Look on the bright side and consider it practice. You may not have actually contributed to those projects in the end, but surely you learned something.
Oh, you mean as opposed to the usefulness of calling people snobs because they understand that PHP is terribly designed? Fuck outta here.
> If this one thing that annoys me on HN it's the pervasive anti-PHP snobbery.
If there's one thing that annoys me on programmer forums in general, it's that pointing out PHP's giant flaws is conflated with snobbery. Design matters, and that is not the same thing as saying it's impossible to build anything good with PHP.