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I've been mentoring a graduate who applied to over 400 roles and got very little feedback, which pushed me to look more closely at what's happening at the entry level.

It seems like a combination of factors. Fewer junior roles, more experienced engineers in the market and teams getting more productive, which reduces the need for entry level hiring.

The part I find more interesting is the longer term effect. If fewer people can get into the industry now, the pipeline that produces senior engineers over time gets thinner.

Curious whether others are seeing similar patterns.

The web is getting bigger, there is no denying that. People developing responsive sites irresponsibly, adding large images, videos and JavaScript libraries and frameworks.

What I don't understand is why search engines don't punish those individuals with larger pages rather than move everyone to something new? Is this taking us back to the mobile site days?

I love the concept of getting core content to the user fast but what is stopping someone adding a 2MB amp-img to their page and then we are right back where we were before?

I think that's a fair assessment. If people can grasp creating small independent deliverables for their projects (of any size) then things become a lot easier to estimate. Monitor velocity and pull less into future sprints if you're still getting it wrong.

If there is a piece of functionality that brings unfamiliarity to the delivery team then create a spike ticket to investigate (though use them sparingly).

If you break things down small enough, really understand your velocity and have a transparent relationship with your product owner then there should be no need for any stress from anyone.

If you're a designer looking for work, befriend a handful of good quality developers and likewise - if you're a developer, make friends with the odd designer or two. You will find very quickly that if they have client work, need your expertise and you're their go to person then you won't be short of work.

Angular and Backbone applications aside, doesn’t this just boil down to bad development and lack of understanding?

I’m a firm believer that the web should be usable with JavaScript disabled, JavaScript is there to add a layer of interactivity to your web page, not core function. All those people that keep coming up to me quoting ‘but everyone has JavaScript enabled’ miss the point - the web needs to be accessible and JavaScript isn't the answer.

Unfortunately I would disagree with this. Break points shouldn't be device specific. They should be as the name suggests, where the design breaks.

Not strictly true - https://secure.runescape.com/m=weblogin/loginform.ws?mod=www

This was so frustrating, to add the item to your cart, to then be thrown constant errors and being unable to proceed.

Of all the people, you would have expected Google to be able to handle the traffic.

I stand corrected, but for anyone wanting a smaller phone the Mini might be the phone for them. I'm all for 'bigger is better' and will be getting the Nexus 4 when it comes out - at that list price, you can't really go wrong.

The 4" Galaxy S3 Mini might be the phone for you. With the smaller size and packing the same punch as the main S3, it's a clever move by Samsung to cater for individuals such as yourself, at the other end of the market.

There is also this snazzy site to get the full zoomed out version: http://xkcd-map.rent-a-geek.de/

It's interesting and slightly scary the CDN issue. Several months ago when there was an issue with Google's CDN, an awful lot of websites fell over as they never had a local backup in place.

Hopefully as jQuery usage grows people come to understand the need for fallbacks.

This is a fantastic site and I used to use it a lot, the problem I find though is creating the initial sprite to use.

I found the following site a lot easier if you just export all the individual icons in bulk, it then auto generates the sprite and the positions needed for your CSS:

http://instantsprite.com/

I love how everyone screams about the 'open' web and yet these conference tickets are priced so highly.

I think conferences are a fantastic idea.. you meet like-minded individuals and hear from really passionate presenters but the prices are crazy and thus I have only ever been to 1.

I understand how there are certain costs to be factored in like venue and speakers costs but come on, there must be something that can be done so developers from all backgrounds can take part in such events.

Dribbble.com is fantastic, clicking on the user to find their personal website makes it approachable.

There is also Forrst.com, though the quality has been slipping over the past year but they have a directory of designers.

Don't forget builditwith.me who make it incredibly easy for you to search for designers specifically.

If it's a startup and the budget is small then finding a like minded individual is your best bet, who is willing to help out or potentially swap services, rather than approaching a freelance designer directly.

Is it just me or does that map functionality throw a wobbly in Chrome on Mac?

By using a magic mouse and a single swipe backwards/forwards - which is to zoom in/out respectively (similar to a mouse wheel), causes the page to freeze and for Chrome to kill it due to it being unresponsive.

This functionality works fine on the generic MapBox demos.

It's a shame because custom maps are a good idea, especially when you have so much flexibility over the styling, I just like using gestures to make zooming that little bit easier.

Incredibly poor list, can't believe this story has even been up-voted. The year of 2011 would have made just a little bit more sense.

The photographer has gone about this the wrong way - the cost is actually his experience and time.

It's like the 'Picasso Principle' where a woman approached Picasso for a sketch, he did something in 5 minutes and quoted her $10,000.

She said 'it only took you 5 minutes' and his response was 'no, it took me a lifetime'.

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You think they would have made more of an effort with the catalogue on offer before launching..

I can appreciate that UK will have different licensing laws in place than the US, but what's on offer now is a real turn off and a disappointment.