This is a good catch. This is almost certainly a development version of facebook that gets rolled out internally before it hits the world, or even A/B testing.
That's very weird. I'm seeing the same thing from any new machine from which I hit the page. If you search google, that's definitely the landing page. If you refresh the message goes away.
"Go Daddy opposes SOPA because the legislation has not fulfilled its basic requirement to build a consensus among stake-holders in the technology and Internet communities"
What bullshit. That's the exact opposite of "strongly opposed." That's the equivalent of "We're opposed to it because you are?"
GoDaddy can go burn. Hopefully they collapse as a company.
Purchasers need to get their heads out of their asses. It's awesome that you got a stipend, but I've born witness to the following phenomenon.
"I need a $300 SSD."
"No, here's another $1200 desktop instead. Does that work?"
Until every developer is crying out in revolt, companies and individuals will keep making this same mistake. It is unacceptable to throttle a Core i7 with 16GB+ of DDR3 RAM with a 7200RPM hard drive for costing concerns.
Price per GB is a crap metric; price per used GB would be more relevant. If your test data is terabytes, you externalize to servers or lock yourself into only being able to work off a desktop. I also question whether or not a subset of that data could be run locally, and the CI system could run a full stack.
This just sounds like a justification of a bad test environment.
I also can't think of any project that compiles "in a second or two". Compilation and tests usually run build time into the minutes quickly, and time grows linearly, or possibly superlinearly with a project assuming even mild test coverage.
If you're locked into a desktop, you're locked into a network, and you can stick big data on a NAS or centralized server for re-use and testing. Or do you copy and paste the terabyte of data to every new developer?
Intelli-J -> Auto-format on check-in, and I auto-format as I go. I have software to write, and I refuse to waste my time on your wild notions of column spacing you haven't codified into a tool or language.
I honestly don't care what format is used, so long as a format is used and it's automatic. Whitespace-important languages are nice I guess, but I still feel bad dicking with whitespace. It's faster just to throw down all the required bits, or let the IDE do it for you, and then auto-format or let the commit auto-format later.
"Coding Standards" should apply to the topics discussed in Clean Code - smaller classes, methods, proper design, etc. Meetings based around discussing whitespace convention are worse than setting cash on fire.
