So if Ruby is dying and .NET is dying and PHP is dying, does that mean the future is NodeJS? Because if it is, fuck that noise.
Arantor
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RE: Is ruby dying?
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Hey @boomzilla what are you doing here?
So, @royal_poet and I picked up a box of T.I.M.E. Stories this weekend and settled down to play.
And in the 1920s asylum... there's @boomzilla!
Better view...
Naturally, wooden table.
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RE: Another day, another cryptocurrency clusterfuck
@dkf and doing so in a literal contender for new worst language ever! Finally PHP is looking so much better
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Threadâ˘
How I feel when most people say the word 'microservices' at me:
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Politics category
It seems that we have a 'few' politics threads going on right now.
Might I suggest a politics category where we can Jeff the threads to and then be able to ignore the entire category for those of us who don't habitually wear flame retardant chemicals?
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RE: This is how it feels to learn Javascript in 2016
@anonymous234 to be brutally honest I'm getting fed up of the whole web thing, it's like all the problems that were solved twenty years ago are suddenly new problems again and I'm tempted to fuck off to regular desktop development because that seems less full of ...
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
Thatâs how modern web development works.
You mean it's a competition where the most insane solution wins, until it's replaced by an even more insane one?
Stop saying that, not everyone is supposed to know!
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Why the fuck does this site I'm working on have a directory full of HTML files encoded as a single fuckoff huge Javascript file? Just... why? Why?
Of course, it's full of repeated information and little errors. How could it not be?
Thatâs how modern web development works.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Threadâ˘
@dcon said in The Official Funny Stuff Threadâ˘:
@topspin said in The Official Funny Stuff Threadâ˘:
@BernieTheBernie but not matter how sloppy they are, they make damn sure nobody can smuggle in dangerous H2O. That would be catastrophic.
Do you know how many people that stuff has killed???
Everyone who has ever consumed it has died. 100% correlation.
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RE: WTF Bites
@TwelveBaud said in WTF Bites:
@ixvedeusi Hibernating to prepare for "fast" startup. Which involves writing the entire contents of memory to disk if Windows can't prove it's not being used.
(though I did speculate this earlier)
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RE: WTF Bites
@ixvedeusi said in WTF Bites:
@izzion In this particular case I'm more inclined to blame HP than MS. I would expect MS to at least have the honesty to continue showing the "shutting down" animation while doing that upload.
Obligatory in spite of your inb4
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RE: WTF Bites
@ixvedeusi said in WTF Bites:
WTF Bite: Why TF does it take almost 50 seconds for my PC to power off? WTF is it doing during all this time?
This is the time from clicking "shut down" to the moment the power LED and fans turn off. The screen turns off after about 10 seconds already.
The telemetry has to finish uploading
You joke but thatâs probably the truth.
(Iâm not going to get into âwriting the hibernate/page file shenanigansâ because soft power off)
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RE: UI Bites
@Gern_Blaanston said in UI Bites:
But still ... How/why do you even do something like that?
How?
Magic says: Hiding the window borders, painting your own, and fucking upWM_NCHITTEST
.Why?
Because somebody got a nice bonus for it.Another instance of Brendan Eich Knows Whatâs Best For The World? (The man behind JavaScript.)
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Threadâ˘
@Zerosquare said in The Official Funny Stuff Threadâ˘:
Yes. Germans are supposed to do their job thoroughly ; TSA agents are known for letting actual dangerous stuff slip thru.
No one said anything about competence being involved as a hiring characteristic for the TSA, merely the sense of humour bypass. Any competence is accidental.