Why you shouldn't rant while being drunk
Ignorance is bliss. And unfortunately it seems the internet is
messing that bliss up for me. Over the years my internet behaviour
has changed. One important reason is that there's so much on the
internet nowadays. You can literally find anything online. And with
that, you'll almost always find a solution for your problem
instantaneously.
And that kinda sucks. It sucks, because it inhibits the way you
solve problems. Earlier, you'd have a problem and after some
thinking, tinkering and trying, you might be lucky enough to have
found something that solved your problem. The solution might not
have been elegant, or working that good, but you were happy to have
solved the problem.
With the internet as it is, the solution is already somewhere
online. And most likely people are ranting against eachother to
discuss whether a solution is elegant or not. Some clever smugs
might have posted a brilliant and elegant solution which is working
great. In the end you end up fetching that solution from the
internet and using it without even thinking about it very long.
And with all the clever solutions being available, you'd be stupid
not to use the new way of solving your problems. As the new
solutions for your problems become more and more rapidly available,
you are in a continuous tredmill of implementing new solutions all
the time. The question is whether it is really necessary.
You have to update your Microsoft Office suite every year or two,
as you have to have the latest version for some reason. The old
suite apparently deteriorates over time, and starts to suck as it
gets older? For the occasional letter you write, do you really need
the newest wordprocessor? I bet 90% of the people could even do all
their work with a old version of WordPerfect for DOS. But then
again, you want to insert your silly cliparts of cats into your
document as well of course.
Same with browser development. We used to use plain HTML files. As
time progressed, we wanted to make more fancy webpages. As all the
markup cluttered our HTML files, we invented stylesheet to separate
content from markup. We also wanted stupid animations and effects
on our websites, so after using Macromedia Flash for about a
decade, we switced to using javascript to do that for us.
The thing is, CSS is apparently such a bitch to work with in a
normal way these days, that you'd better use a preprocessor to
compile CSS files for you from script, in order to work with it at
more advanced webdesigns.
You need JS frameworks to work around the silly quirks of the
javascript implementations in various browsers.
Darn it, when we were young, we had to set the font-type with a
font-tag in our HTML code. And that was the only way to do it!
The thing is, we were fine with it. And we could still be fine with
it. Lot's of website markup barely serves any purpose anyway. The
only purpose it seems to serve is advertisements on your stupid
webpage.
Recently i found myself browsing a website, using a modern browser
on a pretty new quadcore processor computer. The surprising thing
was that a advertisement on the website was slowing down my browser
tremendously. The thing was stuttering like an epileptic on acid at
a techno rave. I was confused, as i had Flashblock installed to
disable all the Flash crap you could get. I figured an animated gif
shouldn't slow down the browser that much, unless it was really
large and my computer had problems downloading and placing the
whole thing.
It turned out, that it wasn't a gif animation in the end. The
advertisement turned out to be an SVG which was animated in some
way and some transformation effects in the animation caused the
computer to think it should throw all its resources into rendering
a stupid advertisement.
Of course the implementation of SVG is great and all, but if it's
used to display shitty advertisements which slow down a quadcore
processo, then i'd rather not use it at all.
Boohoo, they don't make history like they used to. :(
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