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 ;(
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.
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”.
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.
Love Rush, listen almost everyday. App works great for me:)
Yeah, I can't believe he spent most of the opening monologue on his apps/website.
It’s called “Agile”, “Scrum” and “Extreme Programming/Development”.
It’s the bane of IT.
It started out as a method to develop little applications for Smart Phones quickly. It has since become a “thing”.
For the stupid and uninformed.
The idea is, knock out a story, don't run it past anyone, don't proof read it, post it. Don't read it after it's online. It is embarrassing to send an article, that is so amateur, to someone. If someone points out an error, ignore it. Drudge is great on putting up bad headlines and never fixing them.
If I offered any of them to be a free editor and proof-reader, they would probably ignore me.
The first half hour today was a waste.
I tried listening today and it sounded like he was in an awful echo chamber.
Is Rush still doing commercials INSIDE his podcast? That’s why I quit 24/7, darned if I was going to PAY to hear him talk about Life Lock.
After scrolling thru some of the comments I see much agreement that our conservative commentators are good, but losing the cutting edge, I agree. If you’re not constantly improving, you’re going backwards.