pootch's comments

pootch | 13 years ago | on: Follow the goal creep

everything sucks less than 37signals

pootch | 13 years ago | on: Follow the goal creep

37Signals sucks. Their products suck, their marketing is hype, they will be out of business in 3 years.

pootch | 13 years ago | on: Ratchet: Prototyping iPhone apps in simple HTML, CSS, and JS

right because we need more than a napkin to prototype? Im not writing prototype code. Thats so 1982.

pootch | 13 years ago | on: Ratchet: Prototyping iPhone apps in simple HTML, CSS, and JS

iUI gets a reboot, and its just as clunky? I think you can do better,

pootch | 13 years ago | on: Is Facebook “broken on purpose” to sell promoted posts?

But isnt that the same as saying "we are protecting your feed from spam", (unless someone pays us enough to trash your feed with spam) - in which case your feed is spam...sorry.

pootch | 13 years ago | on: Is Facebook “broken on purpose” to sell promoted posts?

Its just as possible that the currency of likes has simply devalued as like buttons have spread to every corner of the web with facebook login syndication. What kind of engagement does that really amount to? So maybe likes dont drive traffic when not done directly on the page itself.

pootch | 13 years ago | on: I almost feel obligated to pirate Office for Mac

You could just go to an apple store and buy it. Pretty lazy to pirate something thats pretty cheap to start with. If you dont have 149 bucks, maybe you have bigger problems than word processing?

pootch | 13 years ago | on: The Responsive Designer

All responsive design does is force you to spaghetti-fy your application to the point it cant be maintained. A web app using responsive design will never fit it on both android and iOS because it will not look like it belongs on those platforms, so it will to the user look like crap. But oh you say I can shoehorn iUI into the iphone version. Why would anyone bother with this when it is EASY to target these platforms separately. IMO RD is not worth the time. And that goes for phonegap and cross platform app kits. Total waste of time.

pootch | 13 years ago | on: Why I love everything you hate about Java

I reject the idea, that because I want to scale, I should have to write thread pools, executors, concurrent queues, and task completion APIs. This is 2012, any idiom, functional or not that doesnt support this as a built in capability is less than worthless. How many times do I have to write, rewrite and debug the obvious just to make a living? And as for the factory pattern, yes you can use it to hide a whole bomb load of configuration and code evil, that you probably should never even have to worry about, if you werent working in such a crap tool

pootch | 13 years ago | on: If malloc fails, it's not for the obvious reason

Actually on solaris, the fork does OOM a java VM. So while this is a pragmatic solution on linux, its also a false promise which will paper over some transient memory requirements while leaving a huge gap in regards to realistic resource expectations. Unfortunately this problem is magnified when using virtual OS instances, and shitty hardware.

pootch | 13 years ago | on: If malloc fails, it's not for the obvious reason

I agree, this was a non-enlightening article which did not educate on the concept of memory overcommit, just focused on malloc failure.

pootch | 13 years ago | on: Great Hackers (2004)

Dude,

That was one of the greatest things I have ever read.

pootch | 13 years ago | on: Richard Stallman: Let’s Limit the Effect of Software Patents

In a recent job interview I was asked to code a doubly linked list as part of the coding part of the interview. Linked lists are patented, did me implementing this break the law?

pootch | 13 years ago | on: HTML5 Mythbusting

I love the "cost of porting to other platforms" argument. I'd like to replace it with the "cost of delivering mushy web applications to customers who expect more". That cost is infinite, and you'll never get it back.

pootch | 13 years ago | on: Time Spent Waiting for an Answer in StackOverflow (by language)

Actually they should mostly wait. The firehose of SO is largely filled with stupidity, lazyness, and people too lazy to learn or google what they need.

SO has become the tit to feed the stupid calf, and the milk has run dry because noone in their right mind should spend any time answering the questions of lazy, good for nothing idiots who think they could program someday, by merely posting every idiotic problem they encounter including syntax errors to SO.

If that was SO's mission. Mission accomplished. I and any other person who respects their own time and value will not spend 5 minutes on monkeys typing shakespeare.

pootch | 13 years ago | on: Apple Software Chief Refused to Sign Maps Apology

Who knows what the previous history is, but given the way maps rolled out, maybe Forstall could have simply given credence to the notion that maps was just a beginning instead of giving in to the blowhard sales pitches of apple keynotes. Apple says that Apple TV is just a hobby, maybe he should have said that Maps is just the beginning of a new road.

pootch | 13 years ago | on: Google Drive desktop client requests login credentials only once

Thats not a backdoor its a front door

pootch | 13 years ago | on: I Just Paid Facebook $7

You are a spammer

pootch | 13 years ago | on: I Just Paid Facebook $7

and without providing metadata to advertisers about it in the process

pootch | 13 years ago | on: Who is DDOSing GitHub and why?

OK yes, but who hates GitHub and how could you possibly hate Github enough to bother with going to the trouble? Maybe its just kids who knows but, I guess I never understand why people waste their time doing things that have zero possible positive benefit to themselves.