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Re: Dilbert Is Not Anti Social - Dilbert Comic Strip on 2015-05-19 | Dilbert by Scott Adams

webnesto — Fri, 22 May 2015 00:37:56 -0000

Uh... Lioness, I was replying to Nick not to your comment. I did read it. I did comprehend it. I do understand what you're saying. No reason to get hostile at someone who wasn't even addressing you.

Re: Dilbert Is Not Anti Social - Dilbert Comic Strip on 2015-05-19 | Dilbert by Scott Adams

webnesto — Tue, 19 May 2015 14:08:26 -0000

This is very true: however is a problem with almost all psych terms. "Sociopath", "Psychopath", "Psychotic" are all terms consistently misused by the masses. Most psychologists should know to clarify specific behaviors when making large statements about societal impact. If someone is reading a technical paper, they should be prepared to look up the technical meanings of any unfamiliar or uncertain terminology.

Re: riotclitshave

webnesto — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:23:05 -0000

"make a sincere effort to understand, or keep your snit to yourself" is a pretty useful phrase in so many different situations.

Re: riotclitshave, Love bald girls. I miss my bald head.

webnesto — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 13:46:44 -0000

What happened to your head? Did you misplace it?

Re: http://riotclitshave.tumblr.com/post/19169061506

webnesto — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 02:29:57 -0000

What if I can do both?

Re: http://riotclitshave.tumblr.com/post/18268794345

webnesto — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 02:33:02 -0000

Oh, so I shouldn't have stopped following the livejournal feed? I thought you were moving too.

Re: http://riotclitshave.tumblr.com/post/17976256090

webnesto — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 01:53:04 -0000

No, I don't seem to be able to comment. That's too bad. I like to comment. And I love your stolen images.

Re: Hits Versus Content At Examiner.com, a.k.a The Best Email Ever - FishbowlLA

webnesto — Thu, 28 May 2009 00:44:45 -0000

You can debate L.J. Williamson's motives or good-sense in her approach, but assuming she's a poor writer is not only logically flawed, but completely wrong. She is a *great* writer, offering stunning insights on modern parenting.

The (rather obvious to me) underlying point that she's making in her extremely amusing letter, is that as a good writer she *cares* about quality, she *wants* to work with good editors, not good marketers.

The not-at-all underlying point, is that it is extremely sad that people seem more and more concerned with making sure everyone see's the enormous monument-to-ego article they've written instead of writing something worthwhile. It's like the micro-blogging phenomenon masquerading as journalism: "I'm so important *everyone* wants to know when I've flushed my toilet! I'll tweet about it and reference [today's hot topic] to make sure it shows up on searches."

To me, it's amusing in micro-blogging. In a medium that is killing print journalism, on a site that either intentionally or not, appears to be journalistic articles it feels insidious and underhanded.

We have to dig further and further to find content behind and under all the advertising and manipulation. And the hoards of sheeple get larger and more docile.

Re: VivMedia Code: Selection Controller

webnesto — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:47:34 -0000

This is a great pattern. It's frustrating to me that with as long as web-tech has been around and as long as developers have been hacking form elements, using non-form elements *as* form elements, and otherwise completely thumbing our noses at the way the system(s) have been designed, they haven't redesigned the system. You would think that this kind of functionality should be a class of behavior that can be assigned to *any* element rather than one defined as a "radio button".

Re: Flex 4: New MXML States Specification

webnesto — Mon, 12 May 2008 11:11:53 -0000

It's funny to me that form elements have been around in internet technology for this long and yet, to most *WITHIN THE INDUSTRY* the inherent complexity of forms is still often overlooked.

Complex form flow created in such a way as to be easily maintainable and reusable is extremely difficult, no matter what the tech.

That being said, I think that states in Flex is one of the most efficient tools available to developers to address this particular problem. The thought that the Flex team would mess that up, is very disheartening.

I understand the challenge: how to make states easy to use *AND* as robust as necessary.

Now that I think about it, if Adobe were to provide a flex library/UI for creation of form-flow (I guess it would be useful to define what I mean by form-flow: form elements that determine the presence of or the validation rules of subsequent form elements) in a reasonable to use interface, I guess I could be content with a variety of ways that could be implemented. But only if it was rock solid and easily editable (from either a GUI or code approach). Having tried to create the logic structure behind such a tool myself, I can honestly say that it is an extremely large challenge. It seems simple (and is), right up to a single jump in complexity, that immediately takes it into the realm of nigh-impossible.

Anyway, yeah... I agree with your concerns and appreciate (as always), you watching out for the developer in the street. Those of us with no patience for reading tech-specs would never have known about this if not for your timely reporting. :)

Re: Installing PyDev on OS X 10.5.2

webnesto — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:28:05 -0000

Yes, well I am firmly opposed to revisionist history. I like to think that comments like mine help the internets be slightly more stable than it would be otherwise.

Re: Installing PyDev on OS X 10.5.2

webnesto — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:09:35 -0000

I'm going to point out two items, that at first I thought were typos... and then I realized it was your inner rage at this nightmare channeling its way out in your writing:

1. "The fist thing I tried to do ..." one hardly wants to hear how that line finished
2. "SHIT-CMD-G"... I have desperately looked for the SHIT key on my keyboard many a time. I guess since I don't use a mac, I don't have access to it.

Oh, and kudos to you for posting this solution, with a name that will (hopefully) come up early for the next poor soul Googling for a solution.

Re: The Flex Code-Behind Pattern

webnesto — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:48:37 -0000

Having worked with James on a project that implemented this pattern, I can heartily agree with his recommendations and personally attest to the value in this structure.

For people new to this concept, I always refer them to how we *try* to create unobtrusive javascript in a traditional HTML/JS environment.

Re: Testing Markdown Support In Wordpress

webnesto — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:39:13 -0000

I've always loved Markdown. It's grrrrrrreAT!

I've almost always made my wordpress posts through the wysiwyg tho, since I have a tendency to jump around to different computers alla time.

Re: Adobe Kuler 2.0 is live!

webnesto — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 15:33:03 -0000

Those are fair enough points, and I do agree that the more tools we have that handle "basic" knowledge issues can raise the general appreciation level for quality.

I still get weirded out by seeing people say, "those colors (5 or so) look AWESOME!"... when used correctly, I think you can put any 5 colors together and make something pleasing. And whether or not those colors are appropriate to the setting have a lot to do with context. Context isn't something that can be programmed into a tool like this, though the image feature *does* help with that a lot.

Re: ActionScript 3.0: Named Loops

webnesto — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 15:26:02 -0000

This is no longer a working address for B. Ernesto "eno" Johnson. If you are a real live person trying to reach him, you can reach him by submitting a message through this web form:

http://www.rc-designs.com/c...

Regards,

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Re: ActionScript 3.0: Named Loops

webnesto — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 12:43:57 -0000

that is fuck-off cool. I now am angry that every language doesn't support this.

Re: Moved domains and new layout…

webnesto — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 12:41:36 -0000

Site looks great.

And if you ever wanna go crazy with the layout, but don't want to open the css can of worms, you know where you can find a css-monkey who'll be happy to help your programming ass out.

Re: Adobe Kuler 2.0 is live!

webnesto — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 12:30:28 -0000

I've seen a variety of designer tools that help with color palette and I have to say, I've never really understood them. I don't know if this is one area that I've been blessed as an artist or what, but choosing pleasing appropriate color schemes has rarely been a such a challenge for me that I thought to myself, "gee, I need a tool to do that".

And the other thing that always weirds me out about these kind of tools, is how useless any particular color scheme is without context. There's no color visible to the human eye that doesn't have the right setting. Saying these 3, 5, or 15 colors "look great" together, doesn't really mean anything.

I guess that's part of what bothers me about these things: they reduce the *apparent* need for a solid grasp of color theory. But they don't *remove* the need.

However, taking off the artist cap and putting on the web-developer cap: the app is rad. I bet it was a lot of fun to develop and is a truly inspired shot in the dark at social networking. "Let's make color palettes a social thing" Fucking brilliant.

Re: SXSW 2008 is almost here!

webnesto — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:41:27 -0000

Dude, that is way awesome! Looks really great! Love the full screen functionality.... got some ideas for functionality, remind me next time we talk.

Re: Where are our mid-level developers?

webnesto — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:45:58 -0000

Yeah, as soon as I started reading your post, my initial answer to your question of "Where are our mid-level developers?" was "Working in the wrong field."

During the crash, the mid-level roles at companies that were hiring domestic help, were being filled by the previously senior level developers who were desperate for work. Junior roles were being filled by the mid-level developers and there was no way to get hired as someone new. It was too difficult to get hired as someone experienced, so why would anyone enter into the market?

And while I agree that it is impacting us right now, I don't think we will see this effect for long. In a year or two, the gap will have spread enough for things to be back in a bit of balance.