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AI smells bubbly and there's a reasonable chance it could pop soon, throwing many thousands of AI engineers onto the streets to survive. What are similar alternative jobs and the best way to get ready for them? What's…
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It appears the Chromium UI engine was recently updated to increase the default spacing between items of drop-down lists (Html SELECT). Both Chrome and Edge users & devs have complained. Are you okay with this change?…
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Many who have used a variety of tools agree that web UI's are a royal pain[1] to program, and that the industry should work together to rescue us from the Swiss Army Rocket Spaghetti that is modern browser web…
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A very common criticism of current AI is that it lacks common sense. But I see each new incarnation being able to "fake it" ever better. I'm impressed by ChatGPT's ability to reason like a stoned human. Maybe it can get…
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To see if your tool is the wrong tool for the job, one technique is to mock up a solution language and/or API that fits your domain well. Ignore existing tools and standards for the experiment. If the difference between…
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I've been searching for a clear consensus definition of microservices for 3+ years, and still have none, just gazillion pet definitions. Stored Procedures "count" under some candidate definitions but not others. Same…
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The HTML DOM is very limiting and frustrating for GUI and CRUD apps. Otherwise simple UI's often take rocket science to tame. For example, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19021719 We need alternative or…
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There used to be a screen-shot of HN on the Ycombinator front page to promote HN. Now HN is just a minor menu item lost among the bottom menus. Why was HN demoted? HN is being treated like Pluto.
- Web Assembly takes a security drubbing, risk compared to Java applets and Flash (developers.slashdot.org)
- I regret going into web dev, should've stayed desktop (old.reddit.com)
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The prediction that mobile would kill off the office desktop was pretty much wrong. Sure, there are ancillary mobile services, but the brunt of office work is done on desktops. Desktop-like GUI's are still the pinnacle…
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Ignore specific technologies, standards, and programming languages for a thought experiment. What's the most productive UI design for regular office productivity? The answer is still GUI's, a technique that's several…
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Why is there no established GUI markup standard? If we had a standard "GUI browser", we could get desktop-like apps without having to bleep around with inconsistent JavaScript/CSS/DOM, etc., and without local installs.…
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The multi-user design of web servers already provides "natural" parallel processing to distribute the processing load. If that's the case, then why the common suggestion to add async/await to all the libraries and even…
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I've been doing CRUD programming & design for a living for decades. These systems are typically for tracking, categorizing, and reporting/searching on domain "things": people, tasks, complaints, products, customers,…
- Sizes of objects in the Universe in roughly 10x increments (upload.wikimedia.org)
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I encountered something that blew me away from another section of our organization. For many internal applications, they are abandoning web applications and going to Windows desktop applications using WPF. First, they…
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Vote for the top 3 most-hyped fads, and then the top 3 most likely to succeed. Example: Hype: A,B,C; Hope: D,E,F. Write-ins okay. Left-most letter considered ranked the highest. A. AI B. Microservices C. IOT D.…
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All these "responsive" web design frameworks seem buggy and hard to tune/test to me. What if one returns to regular HTML tables for formatting, but switches HTML elements on or off based on device size? With tables one…