webcowboy

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by webcowboy 14y ago
Also, Political Science.
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by webcowboy 14y ago
Not exactly a blog post, but truly better heard than read. "The Crickets Have Arthritis" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VrZE8MCnIA
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by webcowboy 14y ago
I'm glad this is being said. I would add that crappy processes and tools are usually in place because the management/leadership in an organization has made them too brittle. While you don't want to wild-west every "critical" issue, bad spot
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by webcowboy 14y ago
"The truth shouldn't be sugarcoated." Okay, fine. The way he handled this particular issue seems like a dick move. Being one of the godfathers of computer science isn't a license to act like a jerk. There's no question he's right, but there
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by webcowboy 15y ago
I don't mean to overreact, but so were <object> and <embed>, which were what Flash used. If they're creating their own canvas-based way of rendering a UI, it's not really using HTML5... it's just that HTML5 happens to be the
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by webcowboy 15y ago
Does this scare anyone else, at least just a little bit? It seems so odd to me that now Flash is being de-emphasized, we're picking it up all over again. Yes, there are some performance benefits and cross-platform problems you can jump over
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by webcowboy 15y ago
While some of this is spot on, there's seems to be two threads to this that make less sense to me. First, "building small things" isn't what many of us do from day to day. I don't think many of us sit down and try to create bloated, overly