Aapis

Every few months I pop in to see what's new and exciting around here.  So far I am disappoint.  Forums are the same, people are the same, art is the same, the site even looks the same.  It used to be different many moons ago, you could disappear for a month and come back to a whole new version of dA and 14,000 new people to troll. Seems like it's stagnated a bit over the past decade.

Advertising has been around since exactly 1322 and was originally created to convince muggles that the king is actually a good bro.  Citation required. As I'm sure you all know, ever since then it has become propaganda.  It's so much more than the benign little banners you see occasionally (that nobody ever clicks, yet still makes companies billions of dollars), but I'm sure you already know that.  I know for a fact a lot of you care about your privacy and are actually informed about the issues we internet denizens are facing right now.  NSA, FBI, GCHQ, whoever's doing it, it's bad.  You know it, I know it, James Bond knows it.  But this pos

I consider myself a pretty decent programmer.  I understand a lot of C-like languages even though I can't write most of them.  Python, PHP, Scala, Java, Javascript.. all pretty straight forward. Then suddenly, Ruby on Rails.  Now everything is a Ruby app. Visually, it looks like someone threw python and perl together.  I don't mind python.  I do mind perl.  Those of you who know perl, you're like a wizard or something.  The only people I know who still understand it are those who started programming when UNIX was all the rage.  But today it's makes a partial resurgence, syntactically anyways, in Ruby.  And that's where you've lost me.  Lots