Downvotes? Have an upvote from me!
You have nailed it. Far too many of these once pioneering giants have turned into nothing more than strip mining operations for the executives.
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Cut funding and then blame some one or something else for resulting failures is a move right out of the American GOP playbook.
The year before the infamous Benghazi attack, the GOP had severely cut ALL foreign embassy security funding. But who do they blame?
Your T. May is a dangerous lying psychopath.
Dear god! 5 downvotes?! I didn't think there where that many stupid people still working in IT!
I will not be polite about this: if you don't test Microsoft patches before deployment, you are a fucking moron.
The biggest problem is all the proprietary and specialized software/middleware running on servers that barely play nice with each other, let alone that new patch that MAY or may not nuke everything.
Remember, it's now common practice to test Microsoft patches by the server team before being sent over the company system. That alone should tell you something.
Other vendor's patches? A shot in the dark every time. Now add the slacker factor of many companies.
It's no mystery to me why patches are spotty at best.
But the core problem is mostly shit software to begin with. Why SHOULD the client be the beta tester?
Just look at some websites that have over 2 dozen external 3rd party servers these days.
That's how and it's fucking bollocks. Utter fucking bollocks.
(yes I know it was a rhetorical question and a damn good one that needs to be asked. That is damn serious FAIL architecture.)
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/11/british_airways_website_down/
As you stare at the dead British Airways website, remember the hundreds of tech staff it laid off
The staff who knew the quirks and oddities of the system were dismissed and the remaining staff had no clue. The rest is nothing but shouting.
I've seen this happen a few times. Quite a few times.
Manglement always thinks a complex network is plug and play and so are the staff. And this is always the result.
So much schadenfreude here.
Truly, many of us get that the poor contractor is at the mercy of the idiocy of the client. Many of us have the scars from it.
But a lot designers are complicit as well. At the very least, as you say, if you want to get paid, you've got to at least ape what the clients want. And many designers are also just as stupid as their clients.
I used to build websites. Then the market finally got to the point where the client knew more than the designer and that's when I quit. I literally said "no" to clients right to the poor house.
Hence, the sorry state of web design these days. Dancing hamsters, the lot.
You've been warned. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6TzAQXVpB8
The goal of AMP is to produce lightweight pages, which publishers SHOULD be able to create by themselves, simply using self-control to not stuff their own pages full of shit.
THIS. This right here is the nut in the shell.
All other arguments are moot and spectacle.
Not making lightweight webpages the way god intended is the REAL fucking problem. Everywhere.
I do NOT understand the downvotes for this. Poser designers? Clueless marketing bog brains? Wankerific script kiddies who just THINK they know how to design and build websites? The special-places-in-hell advert channel server business? Fuck off the lot of you.
All of them shitting in the nest by the tanker ship.
Does this mean I support AMP? Fuck no. The last damn thing the Internet needs it yet ANOTHER fucking protocol.