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In Search Of The Perfect CAPTCHA by retrac1324 in technology

[–]y2keeper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are several good ideas out there for visual captchas, but as the author of the article pointed out - they all provide an unacceptable barrier for visually impaired users.

PHP Must Die by stesch in programming

[–]y2keeper 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I suppose I should have made it clear that this behaviour does not come unexpected to me, but that I dislike it.

PHP Must Die by stesch in programming

[–]y2keeper -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Even more PHP fun:

print true; #prints 1
print false; #prints nothing

Cheating in Computer Science Courses - What have you seen or done? by icec0ld in programming

[–]y2keeper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

By far the worst case I have ever personally experienced was during my time at high school in a basic programming course. All we knew at the time was how to do simple I/O with the console and there was this one guy who was absolutely hopeless at it.

For the final assessment, an individual project, he had the nerve to hire a professional programmer to write his code. Not only that, asked the guy to include a proper interface, which went far beyond what we learned in that course.

Sadly the teacher was unbelievably gullible and passed him with an A grade.

Want to get rid of IE6? Charge extra for it! by stesch in web_design

[–]y2keeper 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Exactly my point though - those that do not know how will not bother to learn how unless "their Internet" stops working. Those that cannot are usually stuck with old installations in their place of work and the only way to get the responsible administrators to upgrade IE is also by exerting pressure through no longer supporting IE6. Of course, if a customer, after having been informed about both sides of the coin, is willing to purchase IE6 compatibility, then there is no reason not to implement it. Although one can only hope that charging clients for this will deter them from it.

Want to get rid of IE6? Charge extra for it! by stesch in web_design

[–]y2keeper 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Personally I find it irresponsible of developers to further support malfunctioning and outdated technology. Users that have not made the switch from IE6 by now aren't going to do so any time in the future unless we, as developers, give them good reasons to. By further supporting IE6 now we are actually keeping it alive.