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Or you can just turn off automatic updates.  
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Quote: For those allergic to progress unecessary changes for the sole purpose of keeping minimalist black and white thinking so-called graphic designers and idiot marketing people all of whom have clearly only just escaped from the asylum/kindergarden, employed. (...and for making money from those gullible enough to believe it is somehow "better").
FTFY
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: For those allergic to progress
I upgraded my Parents' laptop to Win10 a while back. Had a rash for weeks. Damned unsightly it was, too.
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JR Raphael's article on the recent Android security flaw is thorough and balanced look at what really happened.
Behind the scenes: The anatomy of an Android security flaw | Computerworld[^]
The app wasn't in the Play Store, which means you would have had to go out of your way to find it on a website and download it in order for it to affect you. And remember: Android's Verify Apps system was already safeguarding devices from that kind of threat. So you would have had to either opt out of that system or decide to ignore its warnings in order to be in any sort of danger (and the term "danger" itself is pretty relative, as Google says no actual malicious activity was observed in this scenario)
My forthcoming book, Launch Your Android App, is available for pre-sale at Amazon.com -- releases on April 1, 2016 (no joke). 
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"...broke the internet..."? A bit over...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Sure, if you consider several NPM packages the internet.
i cri evry tiem
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Academics applying for research funding have expressed their concern at feeling the need to exaggerate and embellish the possible future impact of their work. This study will change life as we know it
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And that's on the grant proposal front-end. Once the research is done, researchers exaggerate and embellish (and outright lie and misconstrue) their actual findings once the study is done. Certainly in the field of psychology, you have a house of cards built up on bad science, bad statistical analysis, etc. Basically, the researcher's version of the NPM dependency nonsense. It's amazing to follow the chain of references, where each study references some previous study, until you maybe get to the original study only to realize how bogus the research and findings were.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: here each study references some previous study, until you maybe get to the original study only to realize how bogus the research and findings were.
A perfect summary of the entire situation.
My forthcoming book, Launch Your Android App, is available for pre-sale at Amazon.com -- releases on April 1, 2016 (no joke).
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Sounds like all "Global Warming" and "Climate Change" B.S. "papers".
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Researchers from Griffith University and the University of Queensland have overcome one of the key challenges to quantum computing by simplifying a complex quantum logic operation. They demonstrated this by experimentally realising a challenging circuit—the quantum Fredkin gate—for the first time. My brain forced me to read this entire article in the voice of Professor Frink (Sweet glayven!)
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Imagine a library with no books, instead being filled to the gills with fortune cookie fortunes. That are tied with strings to each other. 25% would complain it's too large, 25% would complain about the implementation of sort, 25% would complain it's not comprehensive enough, and 25% would complain it's still JavaScript
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What if we developers would make things simpler instead of more complex?
Amen to that.
One of the problems though is of course an artifact created by Git and their ilk. The "oh look, I just wrote something useful, let me share it with the world" even if it's something like:
int initializeToZero() {return 0;}
And of course one of the driving forces nowadays is the job interview pre-screening: "do you participate in open source projects? Do you maintain any of your own? Do you have a GitHub account?"
We're only touching the tip of the chaos iceberg, it'll be amusing to see how this sorts itself out.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: int initializeToZero() {return 0;}
I need to take that as a dependency for a new library I'm working on, but I'll send you a pull request for 20 updated versions (to return 0f, 0x0, ..., and of course, "zero").
TTFN - Kent
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Marc Clifton wrote: Do you have a GitHub account?
I've actually be asked that before. Because you know, if you're not on GitHub, you have cancer and suck as a person. 
Jeremy Falcon
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I'm more on the "no frameworks" bandwagon now. If you want it done well, do it yourself.
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Camilo Reyes wrote: I'm more on the "no frameworks" bandwagon
I agree with you. However, here's a counter-point. I really think the problem is that a lot of people use frameworks just because they are there and don't know why they use them.
And, what about just the selector stuff from jQuery?
You got to admit that the selector stuff on it's own is nice, right? Right?
document.getElementById("first").innerHTML = "super stuff";
The original is kind of long and ugly.
$("#first").text("super stuff");
Plus, it's so much easier to select by class and it works in various browsers and browser versions.
My forthcoming book, Launch Your Android App, is available for pre-sale at Amazon.com -- releases on April 1, 2016 (no joke).
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Excellent point. jQuery I feel has taken me down the wrong path, specifically around unit testability. Say:
$('#first').text('stuff');
It looks nice, but how do I unit test this? How about:
function fillWithStuff(el) {
el.innerHTML = 'stuff';
}
The beauty here is I have a testable component. This testable component is not tight-coupled to the DOM. All I need is a simple mock like
{}
So:
function testMyStuff() {
var mock = {};
fillWithStuff(mock);
console.log(mock.innerHTML === 'stuff');
}()
Yea jQuery is cool and all. But I once looked at the code I was writing and couldn't stop seeing where it was taking me. I like writing modules I can test in isolation that aren't tightly-coupled to any DOM. JavaScript is way more beautiful like that. 
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Kent Sharkey wrote: What if we had a great standard library in JavaScript?
Now, just how do you think that makes John Resig* feel when he reads that headline? You got a lot of 'splainin to do. 
*Creator of jQuery (THE STANDARDEST of standard libs for JavaScript). Just because people call it a framework, don't mean it ain't a library. 
You obviously need some sensitivity training before you continue these blurbs.
My forthcoming book, Launch Your Android App, is available for pre-sale at Amazon.com -- releases on April 1, 2016 (no joke). 
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..it would still be JavaScript 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I can't believe you put the words "great" and "javascript" into the same sentence.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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It’s time to go back, re-examine the 23 patterns (and, possibly, a few variants) with a fresh set of eyes, match them up against languages which have had 20 years to mature, and see what emerges. "I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing."
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The importance Microsoft puts on font is great to see, especially because while fonts are an important aspect of written or typed work, the digital space is where most new text resides, like within an app. Comic Sans... everywhere!
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Uh, if I can't read your font, because I cannot see it, then it's Microsoft and it's Segoe UI Light.
Great font use, Microsoft. Almost as good as your Win10 upgrades!!
My forthcoming book, Launch Your Android App, is available for pre-sale at Amazon.com -- releases on April 1, 2016 (no joke).
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