@webketje - "This is the way."

@hjk101 lol

It's also the day Ted Bundy ceased to exist - which was what I was referring to.

@Demolishun I haven’t laughed so hard since January 24, 1989.

@electrineer - They don't solve any problem that hasn't been solved by pre-existing search engines.

They are attempting to copy successful business models by masking and filtering their results; and as soon as they're seen as competition, will be swallowed whole. As of this comment, 348 attempts have been made and 200+ have been blocked from using Google's API and disappeared within a year since 2010.

@electrineer - Searx is worthless and if you choose Startpage, it's inferior to DuckDuckGo and will be EOL as soon as the developer(s) find something more interesting to do.

Neither offers the ability to block results you don't want to see anymore. So, they are basically adding shit to the problem and not solving it.

If you live in the modern world, have a phone and/or internet connection... you are tracked.

Period.

Anyone 25 or under has been tracked since the day they were born and have a solid digital footprint.

Anyone 45 or older has less of a footprint, but has been tracked for about half their lives.

Anyone in-between is most-likely comparable to both groups, but with full adoption of being tracked through habitual use and no initial warning signs.

@joewilliams007 - Brave deserves another rant altogether. I love how everyone can "earn" through letting them advertise to you...

...and, then, I wanted to donate $50 in hard-earned rewards to find out that you need to jump hoops and LITERALLY send a copy of your personal ID or drivers license for the rewards to actually be useable to where you can give it to anyone.

So, Brave is a fucking scam who makes money from their advertising through false promises to the user that's tricked into believing that those who deserve it will be rewarded with a bit of effort on our behalf.

I wouldn't doubt that most of their "tracker blocks" are things they create themselves to boost the numbers.

Malwarebytes, uBlock Origin. Bitwarden. 1000% more effective and cross-compatible.

Development, more than ever, is tarnished by inexperienced babies who are more interested in popularity through social media and YouTube.

The videos are to help their egos... not us.

Serif's Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo and Affinity Publisher. An amazing suite, no subscriptions and as low as $30/ea. when on sale (reg. $50/ea.).

https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/...

If you choose to take the side of any political party or any religion, you're simply a worthless liar, an unloyal traitor, and an unintelligent fool.

Because the rules set forth will not be followed accordingly, excuses will be made, and other people will now be pointed at as an excuse for your inadequacies.

You have cheered the deaths of your enemies, along with the slow starvation and suffering of those who cannot obtain or provide what you want.

It takes two to tango.

Automated QA is worthless without human interaction discovering what it needs to be applied to and how.

Otherwise, you're playing guessing games.

I'll just leave this here...
https://quora.com/Why-does-Kotlin-s...

They seem to be missing us with rockets, but blowing themselves up by mistake.

I'm good with that.

@ojrask - That's an extremely unrealistic, and pompous reply. I'm fairly sure that you despise past-tense commit messages, as well.

Feel free to come back in a decade to let us know how that's been working out for you.

@ojrask -

Agile is a project management methodology. It is always about creating and improving a product in increments... but, is in absolutely no way restricted to software.

Scrum is used in many more ways than I guess you've had experience with. From movies to pharmaceuticals.

Kanban is also Agile. I have seen that applied to design and manufacturing more than software.

It's all about the product, which can be either the sole component - or, one of many - within a project.

@ojrask - Then what the f*** would it be used for? lol

Agile is the heart of most projects, in todays industry. Scrum is software-oriented... but can also be applied to full-scale design sprints, as well.

Especially, if you're good at realistic estimates.

This is why I refused to use Node/NPM until two years ago. Broken dependencies were completely out of hand in the past.

Scrum is a way (along with Kanban) to manage projects using the Agile methodology.

Anyone who stubbornly works against the team mindset is considered a "Scrumbag", since they refuse to acknowledge and address their own imperfections.

@badcopnodonuts - The Wang 2200.

@ITWT - That chart will become legendary. lol

@dsteiner - Bummer. Think of it as a chance to do better. Onward and upward.

@RantSomeWhere - It's not a spoiler, more of a semi-rant on story structure. If anything, it will encourage you to pay closer attention to the characters. I mean, Nick Fury as the owner of a disco club - and, dressing his bulldog in different colored dresses the entire movie - was far fetched... but still.

@Wack - I think a shrug is highly appropriate. They pretty much stop giving a shit, and understand that no matter how much advice is handed out, they're still about to watch an endless series of epic fails... with a glass of wine and a sliver of hope.

@screams - Find stuff that's lasted, is still powerful/supported, and stick with that.

Antiquated trends are just as bad as current trends. Solidarity will always be found in something so simple, it seems outdated, but isn't (and is only badmouthed by those who wasted years on one of those new trends that won't last.)

I'm learning and applying Node.js, Express, MongoDB to a current project because JavaScript is cool. But towards the end of the year, I'm getting back into PHP - because, whether or not anyone will understand the purpose; it's a winner that's been improved fairly recently, and has outlived all of it's opponents with a powerful community to back it, and is also a solid way of serving up applications as well (especially when creating a progressive web app.)

Then, with zero interest in things like Rust, I'll be moving on to Golang - which seems like it will have the staying power of PHP - but, on a whole new level.

@tnuhb - Nah... it just means you think you know everything, based on the useless shit that you've learned so far. :D

Laptops and desktops are important. That's where the real power is. However, most people don't go further than Facebook and Candy Crush - so there's no decline in the need for actual computers compared to tablets and other mobile devices.

The "decline" is cause by a shift of devices now available for those who have no fucking clue what they can be used for. It's really more of an "incline", if you think of it as "taking out the trash" - where software and applications will cater to those who need them more, as opposed to becoming popular because some fuckwit tapped buttons for a free promo can of shitspray.

There's a true decline in our industry, and I'm not for segregation, but I do feel that users need to be categorized and served accordingly by people with the appropriate skill sets. This will take top designers and developers and give them vehicles for their craft, as opposed to everyone expecting a buffet of random tech that's used for creating similar rips of other products.

@iamavalos - Just wait until you hit your 30's. lol STEM programs at that point, will be looked upon as rotary phones and beepers are today.

@bahua - Agreed. Even though Jobs had hands-on experience in the early days, he didn't do that anymore. However, that's where his nit picking worked.

Shit needed to get done and get done to the point where he felt it was done correctly - in terms of speed and quality.

This is also what seems to have set the high pricing of Apple devices - which should no longer be relevant considering the horrendous quality of their products and total lack of true support for them - these days.

"Faster production", "Higher quality", "Cheaper Cost"; you can only choose two out of the three.

Right now, Apple creates their devices quickly and of a lower quality than they used to... so they need to be cheap, or their main rival (who is now Samsung) will beat them to a bloody pulp as soon as their cult status fades away to oblivion - which is already happening, since many folks have been jilted on the unsupported software library they've purchased as well, based on Apple products.

Also, to make things abundantly clear...

- I fucking hated Steve Jobs.

- I fucking hated Apple.

I still hate Apple, but Steve Jobs was a smart motherfucker that I've grown to understand and respect a bit more; who knew that the user needed a quality physical product, in-hand, immediately after purchase.

So, if you read my "QA" comments as Steve Jobs being a software analyst... no. That's why he hired people to do just that. However, if you consider the proper design and "forced" approach of a new device, "the art of quality assurance before it's even put into production". Hell, yeah.

And this is where he and Bill Gates were different. One believed in the physical engineering being the most important, and the other believes that the software engineering is.