yesteryear

The games we had yesteryear sucked. Really, really sucked.

I don't know if you have a gold mine there or the cutting edge life's work of someone from yesteryear.

And the person who sold yesteryear's equivalent knew their stuff... more than just another cellphone sales clerk.

A 10x engineer of yesteryear might actually be a 100x engineer today. But if you give a bad engineer modern tools, it just allows them to fail faster.

I'd also dispute Gerstenzang's basic premise that modern engineers need to know less than yesteryear's. 20 years ago, you could write an entire app in Visual Basic.

It's a damning commentary on yesteryear's Journalism still not getting it.

We can decry the loss of innocence -- or the loss of some kind of better work ethic from yesteryear -- all we want, but it won't bring the good times back. Let's just move the industry forward and make the best of our latest batch of talented brats.

This reminds me of the "information wants to be free" and "the internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it" slogans of yesteryear. The internet isn't magic.

Modern PHP is not the PHP of yesteryear. With Composer for dependancy management and sticking to the PSR's you can build very stable, testable, and modern applications that change minds about PHP.

A lot of innovation can be realized by searching through the discarded piles of yesteryear's ideas and asking, for each one, "are the reasons this was discarded still valid?" Young developers have the advantage of fresh eyes.

So you're saying that one of the spectacularly failed Windows powered tablets from yesteryear would succeed today, because the "timing is right"? No. Those products were terrible, horrible, awful products, that's why they failed.

Then you learn something else and hopefully realize that yourself of yesteryear still managed to write good, maintainable software, but that your current self would consider the old self a charlatan. Lists like these reflect your own experience.

>Some companies today and many companies of yesteryear had a different relationship with their team members: that of the husband / wife level of commitment. The relationship was more like parent & child than that of husband & wife.

But let's be clear, we should have our design follow our policy, not our policy follow bad designs that were put in place by roadway engineers of yesteryear. That message seemed to be lost in the race to tell us something tantalizingly counterintuitive.

Reddit is a content creation and discussion community, basically a centralized version of the forums and bulletin boards of yesteryear. Facebook is a photo, link, and life sharing network.

Take yesteryear's technology, repackage it in a safe design that follows trends established by others, sell for a price that is more than twice what the competitors charge because, hey, you're Apple and your customers will happily pay for your increasing margins. At least this time around, the MBAs didn't get to name it "iPhone Performa 551c".

I don't think Developer Tools are going to be able to allow overriding like this for long, or we're going to be seeing a lot of this on sites soon, just like the widespread right-click "disabling" of yesteryear.

This is something that should be celebrated, like Java's garbage collection of yesteryear. So yeah, they have a lot of political issues and their mainstream development community sucks, but make no mistake: Microsoft has some phenomenal technology.

Obviously, netbooks -- the hot category of yesteryear -- are not "tablets" and therefore don't appear on these charts, even though the most obvious reason I can see to buy an iPad alternative is to get a keyboard and/or the ability to run PC apps. And, of course, the eleven-inch Macbook Air isn't a tablet either.

What you end up with is a city that was originally planned and built for more people than live there, with vacant factories, warehouses, and office buildings from yesteryear that are readily and cheaply repurposed. Berlin's population is growing these days though, and internationals, people from other parts of Europe, and other parts of Germany are flocking to the city.

It's not like banks of yesteryear were so magnanimous. Back in the Great Depression, it was the banks that screwed over so many farmers and home-owners that many states, including California, made mortgages non-recourse meaning that banks could only take back the house in the case of foreclosure, something that many people took advantage of during the latest housing boom.

It's a shame VC's are so quick to invest in the latest fad because of some temporary "traction" for online games lacking any sort f substance and basically being rips of Maxis titles from yesteryear. I've sat in various lunches with VC's where they basically say to each other "hey, we missed out on the Instagram deal, what are the other photo sharing apps in the space we can invest in."

It's intellectually dishonest to pretend that knowledge acquired by programmers of yesteryear was innately better and more detail oriented. Of course there are more mediocre programmers now because there are orders of magnitude more programming jobs, but there are more great programmers too, and it would very foolish to write off someone's talents simply because they do not share the same arcane but relatively useless knowledge that an old-timer posesses.