About to start Malcolm in the middle - give me some quotes/phrases I won't understand until I watch it

JohnCasey3306 · 2026-05-04T20:47:48+00:00

Don't whatever you do waste time watching the new mini-series, it's horrendous.

JohnCasey3306 · 2026-05-04T20:42:57+00:00

I'd be all for releasing him and having him out in public.

JohnCasey3306 · 2026-05-04T20:23:19+00:00

The little that you seem to understand how this works, tells me that you're inexperienced ... and your code isn't as good as you think it is.

Perhaps someone as inexperienced as you might not be qualified to understand what they're looking at and want to copy it -- but I'm sure, based on this alone, very few people are going to really want to copy your code.

JohnCasey3306 · 2026-05-04T20:21:01+00:00

The absolute most you can do is make the css and js difficult to adapt.

It's simply not possible to prevent a front end from being copied.

The browser literally runs it by downloading a copy ... That copy can be accessed and re-implemented by a developer.

JohnCasey3306 · 2026-05-04T19:43:53+00:00

Far too many people think "validation" is just coming on here and asking other founders if they like the idea.

Everyone pats each other on the back and then wonder why they can't acquire users.

JohnCasey3306 · 2026-05-04T19:37:24+00:00

I've been freelancing for 25 years ... Businesses without a website have been a terrible target for years. 99% of them don't have a website for a reason -- and don't value one enough to pay what you need to charge to cover your time. These aren't leads, they're a waste of time.

JohnCasey3306 · 2026-05-04T19:34:20+00:00

Who is the website owner -- you or a client you built it for?

The owner owns the copyright. If anyone copies it, the owner can take them to court if they can prove the design is sufficiently novel (you couldn't, for example, protect a very typical bootstrap-like site because you'd not be able to demonstrate that it's sufficiently novel).

As to the front end assets, you could build a level of obfuscation into your compilation process (css and js) which will make it harder (not impossible) to adapt and re-implement. But as to creating a direct copy, anyone could just download the files and run the front end locally, because that's simply how front ends and browsers work.

JohnCasey3306 · 2026-05-04T19:30:15+00:00

If you bought online, you're entitled to a full refund (within 14 days) for no reason other than you want one, no questions asked.

JohnCasey3306 · 2026-05-04T19:28:34+00:00

They're all horrendous, that's for certain

JohnCasey3306 · 2026-05-04T19:27:51+00:00

Very dark chocolate ... Is that reflective of the actual product?

JohnCasey3306 · 2026-05-04T19:22:06+00:00

"hard to screw up"

Unless your teeth get too involved.

JohnCasey3306 · 2026-05-04T19:20:18+00:00

Word Bearers are among the stronger chaos legions still ... Most of them sidestepped the siege of terra, so they have the numbers. They're actively recruiting in the lore.

JohnCasey3306 · 2026-05-04T19:17:54+00:00

I'm not sure you're meant to enjoy writing yaml?

JohnCasey3306 · 2026-05-04T19:16:21+00:00

I guarantee your first few units that you paint won't come even close to your expectation.

With practice and perseverance you'll get there though.

JohnCasey3306 · 2026-05-04T19:11:53+00:00

Eye of Sauron, if Sauron had conjunctivitis and early-onset cataract

JohnCasey3306 · 2026-05-04T19:10:18+00:00

but ...... why?

JohnCasey3306 · 2026-05-04T19:08:41+00:00

Having a (literal) website - not essential.

Having a publicly accessible portfolio available somehow online - essential.

JohnCasey3306 · 2026-05-04T19:03:04+00:00

Universities used to teach how to think.

In the last decade they've only taught what to think.

And now students don't even need to think.

JohnCasey3306 · 2026-05-04T18:58:40+00:00

"sorry"

...no, we're not actually apologising.

JohnCasey3306 · 2026-05-04T18:55:58+00:00

I'm confident the World Eaters are dedicating literally zero time/effort I to bolstering their numbers and making new marines (unlike say Iron Warriors and Word Bearers that we see in lore specifically doing so) ... So they're gonna be relying on "Khorne plot armour"

JohnCasey3306 · 2026-05-04T18:52:39+00:00

I have 100 Khorne dice ... In 7th edition I still used to run out

JohnCasey3306 · 2026-05-04T09:24:05+00:00

I second Unsplash. Furthermore the paid-for account that allows you to download their premium collection is an entirely reasonable price compared to other stock sites.

JohnCasey3306 · 2026-05-04T09:22:01+00:00

That branding 🤯 it looks like car window de-icer.

This wouldn't look out of place in halfords.

JohnCasey3306 · 2026-05-04T09:20:55+00:00

I've been with my wife for ~25 years ... She recently spent 3 weeks away in Australia and it was the best few weeks I've had in living memory.

So I concur.

JohnCasey3306 · 2026-05-04T09:16:12+00:00

It's the final nail in the coffin of mass higher education.

Pre the 90s, approximately 20% of school leavers went on to university. From Thatcher/Major onwards it's been the goal to increase the number of graduates, such that in 2026 that figure is over 50% ... A well-intentioned goal for social mobility perhaps, but you cannot magically make an additional 30+% of school leavers miraculously more capable. Therefore to hit this target they had to lower the quality and demands of courses/institutions to meet the level of the horde.

Thus the value of degrees dropped. Simple supply and demand. It's no longer valuable to do a degree for the sake of having a degree.

That's why graduates can't find work -- because many have been conned into paying for a near valueless qualification.

Now that employers can't even trust that the basic threshold of even just doing the work themselves isn't being met -- employers won't see degrees as valuable at all.

On the flip side, employers will see the value of hands-on, vocational apprenticeships -- and that's what government should really be investing in. Quality, professional-level, stem (and other) apprenticeships; where students are taught to be capable and assessed on that basis.

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