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This is the topvoted paradigm in this stack overflow question.
Comments include "Very intriguing and creative solution!", "I'd mark this as the answer... awesome solution!"
This is the topvoted paradigm in this stack overflow question.
Comments include "Very intriguing and creative solution!", "I'd mark this as the answer... awesome solution!"
I can't see how anyone this board is targeting would want to buy it.
By the time you're sufficiently aware of what the words "Arduino", "Intel" "microcontroller" mean, you probably want either a Raspberry Pi (for a much better "PC-like" experience) or Arduino Mega (for a much better microcontroller experience).
If you need the combination of both, you probably know enough to go for a Raspberry Pi AND an Arduino and some high-speed comms between the two.
It would still be cheaper than this thing and probably more versatile.
Well you'd need to major in English Lit to know that English was difficult, right?
Doesn't Google tailor its search results to what it knows about you? So if it gets anything wrong, you're just a confusing person and expecting too much.
CLOSED: IT'S YOUR FAULT.
My reply was badly worded. Loosely, my thinking on all this is:
None of this matters.
The validity or otherwise of climate change predictions doesn't change the fact that we should be trying to reduce CO2 emissions anyway. Ocean acidification, habitat/species loss and other negative environmental effects are all either direcly or indirectly linked with burning fossil fuels for energy.
These things are real, demonstrable and potentially much worse than climate change.
Give yourself an easy time and fix the low-hanging fruit first.
I wonder how it works when they want a developer to do something with it. Presumably they start with a fairly static site, and then this conversation happens:
Designer: "Hey, could you make this dynamic, pull stuff from our database, that sort of thing? I've heard of this cool AJAX thing, what about that? Here's the site code!" Developer: "OK, let's take a look at th..... ARGH! KILL IT WITH FIRE!"
I'm an embedded C developer by profession, but know enough HTML, CSS, PHP, Javascript etc. to knock up a simple website, and I try and keep to standards and best practices. So when my girlfriend asked me to help her with a simple website she needed to create for her 4th year biology masters coursework (some sort of "Communicating Science" module), I assumed it would be easy. Just adding some links with a bit of rollover behaviour.
Unfortunately, they were using Adobe Fireworks and Dreamweaver. I haven't used any web design software since MS FrontPage in about 2002.The instructions (provided by the department) seemed to require using Fireworks to create some sort of PNG file with extra bits in it. As far as I can tell, this takes whatever text you have and turns it into an image, and makes a table based layout.
This weird PNG file is imported into Dreamweaver, where you then create a template, still with table-based layout and images instead of text. The template is used to create your actual pages.
I had assumed that these very expensive software products would let you create standards-compliant, gracefully degrading websites without much knowledge of CSS or HTML. Either I was wrong, or using the software VERY badly (although I was only following the instructions, because I had a time limit and nothing else to go on). I had real trouble getting my head round using the programs, because I just didn't expect them to create the pages that they did. I needed to throw away any preconceptions I had about how websites should be built for maintainability, accessibility or standards compliance.
It seems to me that to be comfortable with using Fireworks/Dreamweaver, you need about the same amount of time as to learn basic HTML/CSS, and neither takes just a few days. To create a simple, 5-10 page static website with no previous knowledge of how to do it, I think what these students needed was a simple pre-created site and a simple primer. Sort of a "Change this tag - look what happens", "Change this CSS selector - look what happens".
I eventually figured out how Dreamweaver works (the CSS part of the software isn't actually too horrible), but Fireworks just seems bizzare to me.
Am I TRWTF for misunderstanding the point of Fireworks/Dreamweaver? Is Adobe TRWTF for producing software that produces such (as I'm led to believe) awful websites? Are the Biology department TRWTF for forcing students with no prior knowledge up the steep learning curve of these programs with hardly any support or time?