Posted on 05/31/2018 3:41:16 PM PDT by ml/nj
I'm a (fifth year) 24/7 listener. I try to stream the show each evening when I get home from work. After three failed attempts I was forced to download the podcasts (mp3) for each hour.
So I'm listening now and Rush has chirped non-stop for ten minutes at the start of the show about the greatness of today's "upgrades." I'm not impressed.
I've sent a complaint with technical details but I doubt I'll get anything more than a pro-forma response.
Maybe someone on Rush's staff will notice this and let him know that at least this loyal, 25+ year listener is not pleased.
ML/NJ
IMHO, the quality of web development has gone severely downhill. Lots of pretty sites out there, but they take forever to load, often have functional issues, and cross-browser testing appears to be a relic of the past.
Rush brags about being a tech wizard.
He’s also done a lot of “told you so”s this week — playing his past sound clips where he thinks current events have borne him out.
Not good radio.
I’m sure it works if you have the latest superwompadyne iPhone 10.
This is just what happens when a bunch of Public School graduates go to Higher Education, they spent their whole life in their momma’s basement and the only Real Hands on Experience they have EVER had involved a computer screen and their pants down at their ankles.
No, because...(drumroll)...they are in a Rush.
Today was one of those days Rush was un-listenable to ... Turned off after 10 minutes, came back a while later, was still rambling. Love Rush but that’s all I know ;(
Most of our conservative commentators engage in a lot of “schtick”. How about Tucker, Sean, Laura each telling you they are the only one covering the same story you’ve seen covered all day? Just part of the show. LOL Rush likes to “predict” something, then 30 minutes later “I told you so” he just happens to see a report confirming his prediction.
I am one of the last of a dying breed — old Mainframers who understood Production Disciplines, Test Cycles (real ones, not the nonsense that passes for it these days), and so much more.
The kids of today (anyone under 50) just slap-dash and deploy. True for MS and certainly true for websites.
I work with an ERP and INEVITABLY there is no or little documentation (much less approval chains) for mission critical application changes.
For the last 20 years it has been like being in a sea of children.
Yeah. I have seen them read information from another website and act as if they had cracked the enigma code
Having been involved in software development in the past, I know that testing that works perfectly when doing lower level testing can encounter unanticipated problems when it is scaled up (i.e., when the number of simultaneous users is vastly increased). There are ways, in development and testing, to simulate a scaled up volume of simultaneous users but that doesn’t always detect everything that can go wrong in actual “production”.
If I would make one recommendations to Rush it would be that when he first goes live he should INITIALLY just make LOW-KEY announcements that his site has a redesigned version released. Rush was TALKING IT UP BIG TIME TODAY. He likely generated an unnaturally high number (perhaps millions) of his listeners simultaneously trying to open his site just out of curiosity — users who wouldn’t otherwise have “tuned in”.
Speaking of Sean ...
The bantering between him and Linda and the rest of the crew is excruciating.
Not to mention his bragging about his martial arts skills and training with his sensei.
More important though is his habit of interrupting and speaking over his guests. And just when they’re making an important point! Again today with Gingrich and Andrew McCarthy.
More important though is his habit of interrupting and speaking over his guests. And just when they’re making an important point!
Straight from the Bill O’Rielly school of broadcasting.
I used to get so mad at Bill when he had a guest and he asked a question and as the guest just begins to answer Bill jumps in and changes the topic.
How true!
Finally there are more security concerns. Code would be more secure if programmers understood how the frameworks work. But they don't. Instead they rely on the framework creators to find and fix the security holes. But often they don't even know how it really works. There is now too much unnecessary complexity driven by feature creep.
Disappointed. I was hoping that this post was about some new music or other content from that three-piece rock band from Canada named Rush!
It sounded like an hour.
Love the guy for the invaluable research he provides but when he goes on and on about his website and apps...ugh.
I'm listening to him less and less. I turned on a history podcast after I switched Rush off. I learned about the Winter War between Finland and the Soviets.
Dennis Prager is live during Rush hours. He is on fire these days. He has an app if your stations don’t carry him. He totally gets what is going on today and most hours are gems.
Love Rush, listen almost everyday. App works great for me:)
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