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Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

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Post by CM30 »

ilrwbwrkhv wrote: post #396
brewdad wrote: post #390

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Certainly not everyone, but a lot of the people who have entered the field in the past decade are chasing the money. The never had the passion for it but they were and are good at it, so here they are.

The last remaining field is game dev. The pay is low and react kiddies cannot learn it in a week. I wish the pay was higher buy the passion remains there.

And if that ever feels too corporate/safe, there's also fan game development/modding. The lack of legal ways to monetise your work there means that everyone who'd only be interested in the field for money is quickly filtered out, leaving only those willing to plow a decade or so of their life into something for no financial benefit.

Plus if you go back far enough, you can work on something where there's no room to abstract out anything and your code has to be optimised for the bare hardware itself, which is always an interesting challenge.

Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

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Post by jchw »

AgentME wrote: post #356
jchw wrote: post #212

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Not that I necessarily advocate for frameset insanity, but you know what? That is a shame. My controversial (?) opinion is that browsers should literally never break anything that was once a part of the web platform unless there's simply no other choice. If the size of it is getting too big... first, stop adding more shit. (And then maybe, implement some old features in terms of some newer ones. Not really "web platf…

Framesets still work as far as I know, they're just no longer recommended for a few reasons. Browsers already try very hard to never ever break anything, at least not anything that's been commonly supported for years or has made it into a standard. The main places browsers have broken compatibility with old content are related to plugins like Flash and Silverlight, which were always controlled by a single vendor inst…

Yeah I don't really count Flash or Silverlight as parts of the "web platform" personally, though I will re-iterate that I am still very pleased with the Ruffle project nonetheless. From a practical standpoint, Ruffle does a lot of good even if Flash always was proprietary and not really a part of what the web platform really was at its core.

I hope continues to work into the future. I'm sure eventually it will wind up on the chopping block, and personally I think that'll suck.

Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

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Post by netcraft »

dgb23 wrote: post #7

> A dog that my aunt has uses a button to tell her if she's hungry or tired. I‘m intrigued! We also have two dogs and the more I know them, the more I‘m fascinated by their ability to tell us exactly what they feel. I didn’t know they can learn to use buttons to do this.

check out Bunny: https://www.instagram.com/whataboutbunny/?hl=en

Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

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Post by rokisen157 »

yreg wrote: post #175
rokisen157 wrote: post #92

7 years old? Don't force kids If you need your kid to be kid. Hand coding HTML is just trash than collecting leaves & beautify the kindergarden book. I've no memory for last 10+ years other than computer and programming. All I've pretty beautiful memory from childhood.

I have great memories of using computers as a little child, including tinkering with html and beginner css. I would never trade them for collecting leaves. Your feelings are not universal.

Those are virtual, don't lie that you was felt it. Photo studios in india still using CRT monitor for setting colours because they don't feel/recogonize correct colours in LCD/LED.

Kids are universal even in all species. I can do those tinkering work in my old age which one you did in your golden age. Apart from the shake of argument, I'm really sorry for your loss :(

Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

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Post by rokisen157 »

episteme wrote: post #181
rokisen157 wrote: post #92

7 years old? Don't force kids If you need your kid to be kid. Hand coding HTML is just trash than collecting leaves & beautify the kindergarden book. I've no memory for last 10+ years other than computer and programming. All I've pretty beautiful memory from childhood.

What makes you think they were forced? Or doesn't spend the rest of their time collecting leaves? You know nothing of this family.

Kids are universal. I've met some parents with their kid asking me to tech them something. I can see they are not interested at all. All I've seen is their parent just forcing them.

Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

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Post by rokisen157 »

jbjbjbjb wrote: post #106
rokisen157 wrote: post #92

7 years old? Don't force kids If you need your kid to be kid. Hand coding HTML is just trash than collecting leaves & beautify the kindergarden book. I've no memory for last 10+ years other than computer and programming. All I've pretty beautiful memory from childhood.

Maybe the kid likes to learn about computers and there’s enough time to do both.

I've not seen any gentle pups either elephant cubs. Kids are universally same even in all species. But may be.

Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

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Post by Grimblewald »

altdataseller wrote: post #391
dkarl wrote: post #381

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I miss the fun in software development in the workplace. Something has changed. When I started 20+ years ago, people would get excited about something new they learned and rush to tell other people about it. Now everybody is grim, too busy grinding and "managing their visibility" to show any pleasure. If it was just me and my friends who were joyless now, I'd chalk it up to us getting old, but my coworkers who are th…

I would not assume they’re miserable because I probably would have the same reaction if I was them. We have just been bombarded with so much technology and advancements in the past two decades that it really takes a lot to impress us. We’ve had ppl conputing, smartphones, electric cars, semi-autonomous driving, VR and ChatGPT. A tool that parses Parquet is very very low in the totem pole, compared to all the new tech…

It doesnt help that current quality of life is pretty grim, downright terrible if youre young, heck even if youre pushing into middle age. Possibly beyond but I dont have as much perspective for that demographic.

things that give you the mental resources to take the time to have fun with things are simply not avaliable to most of us these days. As a simple example, young folks have near no chance of ever owning a home, and it is sold as a personal failure. As it being a failure to grind sufficently. Natural human urges and desires, like having a family, are increasingly out of reach and are again sold as personal failures.

Everyone is grim, because the situation is grim. If we dont take the time to recognize how grim it really is, we will be in no position to start fixing it.

Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

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Post by Grimblewald »

jstanley wrote: post #362
HaZeust wrote: post #248

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Kind of reminds me of the quote from the Steve Jobs movie: "The most efficient animal on the planet is a condor. The most inefficient animals on the planet are humans. But a human with a bicycle becomes the most efficient animal. And the right computer -- a friendly, easy computer that isn’t an eyesore but rather sits on your desk with the beauty of a tensor lamp -- the right computer will be a bicycle for the mind.…

We were promised bicycles for the mind, but what we got was public transport for the mind.

In many cases id say the grindwheel of the mind. Inefficient and has the sole purpose of inflicting suffering. Perhaps not by 'design' but certainly through effect.

Re: My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

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Post by rokisen157 »

Zambyte wrote: post #176
rokisen157 wrote: post #92

7 years old? Don't force kids If you need your kid to be kid. Hand coding HTML is just trash than collecting leaves & beautify the kindergarden book. I've no memory for last 10+ years other than computer and programming. All I've pretty beautiful memory from childhood.

> I've no memory for last 10+ years other than computer and programming. If you are saying this in a negative light, you should really work on changing that. Try finding things local to you that you can participate in.

Yes, I'm frustrated of me doing it. I am working for the change.
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