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posted by dsk on November 22nd, 2011 at 10:11PM

>And my youth was pretty hellish.

You may have convinced yourself of this ... yes.

> And who ever said the pinnacle was the 90s?

I did about you. Because it's true.

>All I argue for is open standards

No, you don't. You don't give two shits about open standards. What you argue for is an inferior, archaic world that nobody wants to go back to because that just so happened to be the first thing you were exposed to.

JavaScript is an _open standard_ (formalized as ECMAScript). An incredibly exciting technology that countless companies are pouring billions of dollars into. And you, the old fart that you are, you don't get it. Running a full-featured, rich application by simply navigating any old browser to a URL, sound exciting? Yep. But you don't get it. How about being able to push thousands of polygons per second and create high resolution CG worlds, by again, simply navigating any web-browser to a url, exciting? Not to you, you don't get it.

Kinda like how an old fart doesn't get what this new fangled internets are for. Why, he says, i can just mail letters.

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posted by dennisn on November 22nd, 2011 at 10:16PM

I've already explained the problems with JavaShit in another thread [1] a few days ago -- and it's not it's openness as I even mentioned here. Read more carefully next time.

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posted by dsk on November 22nd, 2011 at 10:26PM

So tell me, why is everyone (except you) so excited by it. Why are countless startups basing their products around it. Why are huge companies throwing billions of dollars into JS related development. Why do millions of users love it.

See, you.don't.get.it. You just don't, and it's sad. I think the problem is you have an inflated ego and cannot see the limits of your reasoning.

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posted by dennisn on November 22nd, 2011 at 10:38PM

I'm pretty sure I already answered all these questions before as well. JS, like Flash, is targeted towards the retarded masses -- the moms and dads who are finally coming online, the hyperactive kids, etc. There is lots of money to take from the millions of them, no doubt.

And, like I remember explaining to you before, there is just about nothing substantial that JS can do, that cannot be done far better with existing languages and software. All it does is helps to centralize the code for a specific company (another great reason for companies to invest in it :), and reduce choice for users (great for newbies).

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posted by dsk on November 23rd, 2011 at 12:56PM

>JS is targeted towards the retarded masses, the moms and dads who are finally coming online, the hyperactive kids

No it isn't. Many brilliant people are very excited about where the web is heading. The dinosaurs are few and far between.

>there is just about nothing substantial that JS can do, that cannot be done far better with existing languages and software.

That's what I mean when I say you don't get it. That's why you stand alone, while the rest of the world moved on. You're clinging to a deprecated era, for nonsensical reasons.

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Would you stop with the bullsh by dennisn on November 23rd, 2011 at 1:15PM.

>Would you stop with the bulls by dsk on November 23rd, 2011 at 8:04PM.

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posted by dennisn on November 22nd, 2011 at 10:18PM

[1] http://dennisn.mooo.com/m...ory.php?sid=5987

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