* Posts by ecofeco

8166 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jul 2010

Kill Google AMP before it kills the web

ecofeco Silver badge

I have yet to experience the "acceleration" aspect.

I wondered why the pages load so slow these days.

ecofeco Silver badge

The problem is the shit barge of bloated webpages in the first place.

ecofeco Silver badge

Re: How it works in the real world

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

ecofeco Silver badge

Re: AMP is training people to be conned

Another damn good point. Not enough upvotes for you!

ecofeco Silver badge

Re: AMP is good (For dumb mobile users)

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.

Biz overlords need to give a stuff about what they're told by IT crowd

ecofeco Silver badge

Re: Why that won't happen

Not enough upvotes for you!

ecofeco Silver badge

Hahahahahahah! Ego maniac stuffed shirt tossers listen to the hired help?

Can I move to that world?

Pay attention. We're only going to show you this once: OpenAI coaches robots to copy humans

ecofeco Silver badge

Re: Honey, I'm selling the kids and getting a Homebot!

....well, until AI overlords take over, anyway.

DeX Station: Samsung's Windows-killer is ready for prime time

ecofeco Silver badge

Re: ORLY?

Don't feel bad. Some of us have also been predicting that the basic PC for users is going to be a phone that docks.

With predictable down votes as well.

74 countries hit by NSA-powered WannaCrypt ransomware backdoor: Emergency fixes emitted by Microsoft for WinXP+

ecofeco Silver badge

comcast in the U.S. may be affected

Comcast internet is having national issues for the last 8 hours. Intermittent and sporadic depending on region.

Coincidence?

Try not to scream: Ads are coming to Amazon's Alexa – and VR goggles

ecofeco Silver badge

Re: Get me of this f'in planet...

They have no scruples about selling out their granny for a dime!

They will both sell out granny AND make her pay for it as well.

Because anything other than unfettered theft capitalism, is damn commie socialism!

ecofeco Silver badge

Anyone not see this coming?

Anyone?

All that free music on YouTube is good for you, Google tells music biz

ecofeco Silver badge

Ah the old "but look at all the exposure you'll get!"

If I had a dollar for every time I've heard THAT one...

Seriously, the arts are a very messed up business.

Uber is a taxi company, not internet, European Court of Justice advised

ecofeco Silver badge

About damn time

If the driver can't set their own rates, then they work for the company.

How hard was this for everyone to understand?

Rhetorical question. It might as well have been quantum physics.

Unpaid tech contractor: 'I have to support my family. I have no money for medicines'

ecofeco Silver badge

Nice sheltered life you got there Simon. Be a shame if anything should happen to it, eh?

Microsoft and Rambus will get schwifty in quantum-cum-cryogenic computation collab

ecofeco Silver badge

Re: Rambus still going

Rubba dubba Rambus!

'Nobody's got to use the internet,' argues idiot congressman in row over ISP privacy rules

ecofeco Silver badge

Re: 'you don't have to use the internet if you don't like it.'

http://www.theonion.com/article/american-people-hire-high-powered-lobbyist-to-push-18204

ecofeco Silver badge

Re: Benefit of the doubt? "Notas Badoff" might not be American?

The lack of integrity in the voting syustem that allows multiple voting and voting by non-citizens is a far larger issue.

A repeatedly proven urban myth where the incidents that did happen were statistically unimportant and mostly committed by GOP supporters.

ecofeco Silver badge

Further proof

I've said it before and I'll say it again: the powers that be really have no clue how the Internet works.

Canonical sharpens post-Unity axe for 80-plus Ubuntu spinners

ecofeco Silver badge

Re: so this was the real reason

Unity is what turned me off Ubuntu.

Consumers go off PCs as global shipments continue their decline

ecofeco Silver badge

PC sales have always been cyclical

That said, what compelling reason do people have to go buy new PCs?

None that I can think of. A quad core with a decent vid, NIC, HDD and RAM is about all anyone needs these days.

That's every computer made in the last 4 years.

Cyberattacks wipe more than $50bn off big biz value, say beancounters

ecofeco Silver badge

What's that old saying?

It's good to save money in business, but you can save yourself right out of business.

Stop treating IT like janitors.

Twitter's motto: If at first you screwed developers over, try, try again, eh?

ecofeco Silver badge

What am I missing?

It's a glorified IM limited to short text messages and small photos. (and videos now?)

What exactly is there to develop?

Murdoch will get EU green light for full Sky takeover – reports

ecofeco Silver badge

Expect the expected

Prices up, service down.

Overcharge customers, underpay the serfs. Who else but Uber (allegedly)

ecofeco Silver badge

Another clear violation contractor labor laws

This is yet another clear violation of contractor labor laws as well.

The law clearly states that a contractor must be able to determine how best to fulfill the work required and if the client, in this case, Uber, micro manages the actual work, they are in effect, now employers.

The law clearly states you can't have it both ways and was created to prevent just this scenario.

ecofeco Silver badge

Re: Wouldn't surprise me a bit

And THAT is really saying something.

Graffiti 'dying out' as kids dump spray cans for Instagram, Twitter etc

ecofeco Silver badge

Meh, so what

Most graffiti was 3rd rate at best.

Just like most pop art.

It's 30 years ago: IBM's final battle with reality

ecofeco Silver badge

I DO NOT miss Token Ring.

Hundreds of millions 'wasted' on UK court digitisation scheme

ecofeco Silver badge

FINISH HIM!

ecofeco Silver badge

Must be nice

Must be nice to know the right people to deliver nothing for millions of pounds.

The same people who tell the rest of us to buck up and bootstrap and re-educate ourselves or we are just lazy.

Head of US military kit-testing slams F-35, says it's scarcely fit to fly

ecofeco Silver badge

Re: I had to read this bit twice to get my head round it.

Designers, yes. Managers, not so much.

Yes, it's a problem in every industry these days.

ecofeco Silver badge

I haven't had a Pimms Cup in ages.

ecofeco Silver badge

The German WWII over engineered war machine lesson.

The U.S. has forgotten it. It will pay dearly for it one day. I wish it didn't, but history shows that stupid is never tolerated for long.

ecofeco Silver badge

Re: So let me get this right....

"Pork" has a way of getting fatter, not faster or more nimble.

They call them pork projects for a reason.

ecofeco Silver badge

So almost a half trillion dollars

That buys a lot of bridges, but in the U.S. anything that benefits the average person is just crazy commie talk.

But let's cut feeding the elderly (meals on wheels) and health care for children and prenatal care because, you know, FREEDOM!

Indian Business Machines? One-third of Big Blue staff based there and Bangladesh

ecofeco Silver badge

Not news to me

When I worked for IBM almost 7 years ago, we had once a week morning briefings with an agent in India who had a very thick accent, lots of background noise and a very bad phone line. You can imagine the fun that was.

I never could figure out why as we also had agents in the same city who handled the client account.

This was the same on 2 other IBM client accounts I worked at.

IBM service is about building a Kafka level of bureaucracy, where the lowest paid grunts do the real work, are often contractors, answer to multiple bosses and are never promoted while the "managers" play email round robin and change the SLA policies almost daily. What was right today is wrong tomorrow, so you are forever doing something wrong.

You are set up for failure from "go". Fuck IBM. Hard.

ecofeco Silver badge

Re: Economics

BA DUMP BA!

Have an upvote.

Yee-hacked! Fired Texan sysadmin goes rogue, trashes boot business

ecofeco Silver badge

Re: Hmm...

Naw, I've seen plenty of people act very dangerous when being fired.

I've met a lot of angry people who make life miserable for those around them at work.

ecofeco Silver badge

Re: IT guy gets fired and goes rogue.

Most small businesses I've seen do not really have an IT department. As the other poster just said, it's usually on or two people or someone on-call at most and they are woefully underpaid and inexperienced.

So they get what they pay for.

Same for their actual systems. Obsolete and put together by some hack that would literally take weeks for an outside person to do discovery and mapping before even attempting to repair and optimize, which of course, they don't have the budget and time for.

Theoretically, small businesses are an untapped goldmine for on-call and consultant IT, but in reality, it's a low budget nightmare.

Microsoft taking CodePlex behind the shed and shooting it by Christmas

ecofeco Silver badge

Same old MS 3es

Embrace, extend, extinguish.

Firefox Quantum: BIG browser project, huh? I share your concern

ecofeco Silver badge

Re: VNC

They'd have to think about whole new ways to make things complex.

Nailed it. The whole point of the early days of the Internet was that almost anyone could learn how to build a website.

Hell, anyone remember Netscape Composer? I built my first websites with that.

Now? Do we really need literally dozens of scripts and languages to create a damn website? No. It's just nerd boi circle jerking at the gates of the priesthood of the temple of corporate mammon to REALLY bad pron, at this point.

Dial it back from 11. It's my bandwidth, not yours.

Silicon Valley staffing agency boss charged with H‑1B visa fraud

ecofeco Silver badge

What? No comments from the H-1B supporters?

Well what a surprise there seem to be no comments from H-1B supporters. /s

Anyone else surprised as well?

Avaya's $3.7m bankruptcy bonus plan slammed by watchdog

ecofeco Silver badge

Re: Rewarding Failure

And these will be the VERY same people that tell everyone they need to work harder and can't give you a raise this year because of some trivial infraction of your daily duties.

Funny how the 21st century looks a lot like the 19th century.

You'd almost think they'd never heard of Marie Antoinette.

Bloke is paid to scour hashtags for threats, spots civil rights boss's tweets, gets fired, sues

ecofeco Silver badge

SOP

Standard U.S. whistle blower treatment.

Oregon just paid for this guy's retirement.

Racist Tesla staff drilled my buttocks, claims employee in lawsuit

ecofeco Silver badge

2 wrongs

This doesn't look good for either side.

As a shock to absolutely no one, Uber is mostly pasty, male at the top

ecofeco Silver badge

Re: Is it really necessary to troll us with racist clickbait headlines?

Because Uber hasn't been on record as being very very stupid?

Do you keep up with the news?

ecofeco Silver badge

Re: SOP

It went right over your head, didn't it?

Why didn't they send a mixed group?

And yes, if they had sent a group of five of any one race and gender, it would still have been laughable.

Robots are killing jobs after all, apparently: One droid equals 5.6 workers

ecofeco Silver badge

Re: please help me with the math here

Good catch.

I wonder if they are inferring secondary displacement. (the workers who provide services outside of the factory with the robots)

ecofeco Silver badge

Re: my robot

Will that be like the paperless office then?

How'd that work out?

ecofeco Silver badge

Re: Validate the study

The industrial revolution resulted in very violent upheaval well into the 20th century.

Millions prospered, but millions died. And millions are still living in poverty even in the U.S.

Not a pretty model.