Bladtman

The bicycle thing is great, thanks for sharing.

Those that aren't "strict" in certain areas. Examples:

* Those without memory management (I'm not talking about garbage collection, though there seems to be a correlation). Buffer overflows/overruns and its cousins have caused many security flaws, including heartbeat and even flaws in java, where it interops with C programs for performance's sake.

* Syntactical leniency wrt. scope can lead to errors like apple's infamous "goto fail"

I agree entirely with the sentiments here, but I wouldn't consider it a security issue. A safety issue more like.

In software in general, the past is the future. Things were going great, then everything went to shit in the 2000'nds.

Also; end-to-end encrypted chats in telegram (they call them "secret chats") won't follow you between devices. A secret chat started on one device, won't be accessible from another. This makes them far less useful, and dissuades users from using them. Again; comparing whatsapp to telegram in terms of security is apples vs oranges.

Telegram rolls their own non-standard crypto protocol as I understand it. This is a bit of a no-no when it comes to security. More importantly; chat's arent' end-to-end encrypted by default (I can't find a way to enable it in the web-app), which means the telegram-whatsapp comparison makes no sense. Whatsapp is secure, telegram is not.

I think I'm in love.

Good for you, and good for OP. I'm really not trying to denigrate anyone, but OP is complaining that he doesn't get interviews. If his reviewers think like I do, using spans correctly in his html, and "playing the game" (which is what others are suggesting) won't do him any good.

I disagree. Maybe you are right, maybe this isn't the reason he doesn't get interviews, but if someone sent me that portfolio, I would not give the application a second look.

Well, thanks for pointing it out. Either way; an insult wasn't a good way to end it.

I changed it to something slightly less inflammatory.

Probably not, but I did think a conclusion was necessary.

I should add that this is not meant to discourage you. As always in life, you have three options: 1. Be good. 2. Get good. 3. Get out.

I'm not saying you need to take option 3, I'm just saying maye option 1. is out of the question.

You might not like this, but here are my honest thoughts: You seem to be selling yourself as a web designer, but your website is terrible, and so are it's contents.

I realise this is subjective, so I won't try and justify my thoughts. Frankly I don't care enough to debate them anyway, so you can take it or leave it, as you please.

Your designs aren't minimalist, they're just minimal; empty, underdone. And even then your colour palettes are grating. Not to mention that o23.io, days and skyler look pretty identical.

Maybe the reality is that no-one wants to hire you, because you, or the works you use to advertise yourself, aren't quite as good as you might think.

Interesting. So for you the change was on desktop, not laptops. What changed you mind wrt price? I wasn't under the impression that apple computers have gotten more expensive than they were before?

Are there any of those just-now-or.recently-switching devs in here? It would be interesting to hear their opinion, rather than guesswork.

Serious answer: Because many developers regard assembly as some sort deep magic only understood by elder gods. This, of course, comes from some vague (and not entirely correct) understanding of "assembly" running beneath everything else, and thus being fundamental, yet not immediately useful to a large category of developers today. Hence it seems important but archaic. Archaic + difficult = elder knowledge.

I don't like the aluminum bodies (as a matter of taste, I think they are ugly). But carbon fiber isn't functional. I've had a carbon-fiber-body laptop for ~3 years now. In that time, I've had to replace the fan twice. My bet is the flexible carbon fiber allows more bending than the electronics can actually handle. The flexibility also makes it feel cheap; why would i want a laptop that gives in when I type?

If you can use this forum, you can use slack.

Never heard of gatling either. Thanks. How many local machines did you need to hit the "breaking point"? Seems like local bandwidth / available machines etc. could quickly become a bottleneck.

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I was not aware of that, thanks. Knowing how many requests you can handle before you need to upscale must be nice. Would you do something like that again on a different project?

"The site shows blank page without JS enabled" Oh my goodness, a website that requires a web browser to use! How will we survive..

Unless you are batman.

What's so bad about crazy? Do what makes you happy OP, what else is there?

By someone who clearly cannot count to 4?

Well it's not like it's an uptime-critical service or anything, so several hours of downtime and non-responsiveness is no problem. Oh, wait.

Idea from https://xkcd.com/528/