Their constant jump from one framework to another is simply hilarious. PHP! Yuck; jQuery! Eww, Ruby on Rails! Yawza; Angular! Err, React! Nope; Vue. And all that (and much more), in, what, 10 years? Meanwhile, proper software development has had frameworks that last for decades.
Had a similar opinion until dusting off my browser for some front end work recently..
Browsers being roughly standards compliant, and those standards congealing is a relatively new thing (last 10 years), having this happens facillitates alot of browser-side dev (e.g. JS) which simply wasn't possible before, throw in the growth of mobile/tablet UI's, and server side javascript, and the shift from 'CGI extensions' into web-native applications where the browser is the GUI and the 'web server' is really the 'application server', and the appropriate paradigms to deal with this change rapidly.. the frameworks have changed because the underlying platform and its use is rapidly evolving.
I think if you look at GUI toolkits early on as the desktop evolved and you'll find a similarly chaotic and changing picture (e.g. Cocoa is not MacOS v1; WinNT is not Windows 1.0, and neither are dosshell, etc)
Uhm, huh?
The DOM model has not really changed at all. All those framework just purport to make some improvements on how nodes are configured and accessed.
On the other hand, you are very much wrong on the technologies you mention. Cocoa was developed in Next, and a huge amount has remained as was at the time of creation. NT is a kernel, not API. Assuming you mean Win32, which debuted with Windows NT 3.1, it was very compatible in concepts and source with the Windows API (retrofitted as "Win16").
Tell that to the developer communities for Microsoft, Apple, and Linux. Quick, should I develop a new Windows GUI app using Win32, MFC, ATL, WTL, WinForms, WPF, or UWP? Which of the five million flavors of .NET am I supposed to be using right now? Should I be developing Mac/iOS apps using Cocoa or Carbon, and writing them in Objective-C or Swift? What about Qt (or KDE's variations) vs Gtk, and use of Mono or Vala?
Yes, I'm somewhat deliberately conflating languages and libs there, but my point is that while the web dev world has certainly been churning quickly, there's also been tons of churn on the desktop and backend development fronts as well.
Front-end dev moves fast because the web moves fast. It's gone from simple documents to complex application delivery in a decade. Backend dev is perfectly complicated with build toolchains and deployment pipelines so why is the frontside somehow not allowed to evolve? None of this is really required and nobody is forcing you to keep up.
No, they are not. They are highly socially successful and know exactly what gives them praise. They know how to do politics well. They eagerly form cooperating packs. That is opposite of autistic.
People on the spectrum are clumsy systematically - agains bosses, against customers, and time it hurts them.
Alpha geeks act like jerks to get ahed - put down opposition without needing to argue, protect their social status or raiser popularity by being fun. People on the spectrum are not fun. They act like jerks unintentionally - they don't understand what they are doing.
Depending on where you live, if you pay taxes you probably already have, millions of them, for atrocities on a scale that make Kristallnacht look tame.
olewhalehunter said "millions" in the context of a singular "you", which is the exaggeration. Of course, collectively, all the US tax payers have paid for millions of weapons.
Blocking the app is a really extreme move that harms the vast majority of users who are using it in a harmless way.
Imagine if people started putting up fliers that said mean, harassing things on lamposts and building walls around campus. Would tearing down the buildings and lampposts be a good response? If the campus were just a big open field with no buildings or anywhere where someone could put up a mean, harassing flier then the students would be protected from being exposed to them.
No one should be harrased or be on the receiving end of mean behavior. At the same time, there usually is only so much a university or other organization can do to protect its members before those protections have negative consequences for lots and lots of innocent community members.
> No one should be harassed or be on the receiving end of mean behavior.
When people say this, it comes with an implied "except for some people". Lots of people deny it, but it's true. I like adding this implicit addendum to posts on Facebook explicitly, because every time, the person says something like, "Oh, no, I mean that for everyone." And then I say "You mean everyone including, for example, Richard Spencer?" Now, I don't care about that guy, but I was fairly astonished at how many people were normalizing political violence that time when somebody punched him. That's when I first understood viscerally that every one of those statements about inclusion and tolerance comes with an implied "except for some people."
> Why shouldn't the university offer some form of protection? Even if it's the form of blocking the app?
Why should the University be in charge of controlling what apps you use? If you don't like the app, don't use it, it's not difficult. Some people liked using it, and it had genuine uses, so blocking it is pretty extreme and pointless. And set's bad precident.
Really? Calling a professor by their first name is a faux pas in academia? Here in Brazil if you call a professor by "Mr. Last Name" they'll think you're a weirdo.
And you know what I think? Why does any random loser get to write an article in the nytimes these days? Back in the good old days it used to be only interesting stuff got written in there. Now I have to waste my time digging through the trash to find an interesting article once a month.
Different countries have wildly different etiquette in academia. When I began graduate studies in Finland, it really was odd to suddenly be expected to address all faculty, from the freshest docent up to the elderly grand old man of the department, by their first names.
In the US, I've had a lot of classes where the professor tells everyone to call them by their first name (most people don't end up doing that). Also if you work more closely with them as a research assistant or TA or something, first names are common. I'd feel weird walking into the office of a professor I haven't met before and calling them by their first name, though.
I'm in America, I never know what to call my professors, they're normally PhD/Masters candidates. Rarely have I had an actual PhD. It makes approaching them in a social/networking context damn near impossible. You can't approach them like you would a stranger because they'll recognize you from class.
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