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I don't think it's that search engines will cease to exist; but, in my opinion, the shortage on people coming from search engines is based more in how lazy people have gotten and have gotten used to having choices brought to them in social networks (i.e. Facebook likes/pages) instead of just searching for them. I believe you would get more traffic for a site, by connecting it with other websites and advertising it maybe in signatures in forums, social networks, etc. With this you are going directly to the people and telling them "here's my site on , I see you are looking for things related on that, it might help you", that's a direct approach and will definitely land you more users than simply the search engine. Also, the search engine will give people many options and sometimes your site will be on the first page of results but not high enough for the lazy people to click at, people just really like things with an easy way out. I know of a ton of people who are just lazy and click on the first link they see and then move on, it's like they don't try anymore, lol. In my opinion you should always keep the search engine as an option, I believe things to be cyclical, and I think that social networks will go on a passive in a few years, and then search engines would raise again for people to find things.
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This is true, I agree completely with you on this one. These brands, M&Ms & Starbucks to use the ones posted at first, can definitely risk doing this. People already know what to expect and no matter how the logo looks as long as it has the main idea of the original one it will work. Yes, it's true that with all the go-green campaign and what not these days these companies can definitely lean towards this style and still work and sell; while looking eco-friendly and saving some money as they go with it. But a new brand or new business can't risk it; they need to go out of the minimalistic look in order to catch the people's attention, of course it all depends on what you are trying to sell. I think some things may work if they start with a minimalistic logo/design, but it's definitely not for every brand/company to start with, most times you need to start with a "bang", once people start talking and using one thing of the logo/design to represent your brand then you can start to go towards the minimalistic look entirely.
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I used to be on the TNR train, mostly because professors/teachers would demand the use of it for reports and such, but for a couple of years now I've been using Arial or Calibri for web and programs; more Calibri than Arial, don't know why honestly. About the Comic Sans hate, I've seen a ton of people bash others for using this font, specially around campus, also happens with the Papyrus font, those two seem to be hated wherever I go. I do agree that they are a bit overused. About the site, it's actually a really nice find, thank for the share Jessi .
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I watch the show as well, and did try the voting, didn't see the 404 but I noticed the broken image. Also another thing they seemed to have missed was the "only letting people vote 10 times per contestant" rule. They say you can only vote 10 times per contestant, but you don't get a message saying that you have already voted 10 times to stop you, you could kept voting, I think they missed a bit out on this unless the site is just accepting until the 10th vote and then the others are just empty entries, but if it's a mistake then that can be something bad for the contest. They should just disable the voting button when the count reaches 10 for the contestant, like I've seen other websites do for shows like this.
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I used Ubuntu a few years ago and this feature is honestly what I miss the most. It's not even because of just changing to take a breather from what you were doing but also it helps with space and having things organized. It's definitely good if you have OCD, lol. I tend to leave desktop shortcuts for the programs I use the most; usually I pick a side of the screen to order them accordingly to what they are: games, graphic programs, programming, browser and college files, etc. With the feature in Ubuntu I would just use a a different desktop for each thing and sometimes it helps with focusing on that which you are trying to do, it was better for me to be able to concentrate on programming than trying to watch videos or playing some game.
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Darknite, I do have to agree it's definitely not the best language out there and could be the main cause for migraines to a ton of people, lol, but yeah still something to be working with. I see what you mean Bryce, thinking about it, maybe I shouldn't have been so surprise with people looking for programmers in it, like I said on my previews post. Probably the programmers that were working with it for the past, maybe, 10 years, got tired of it and asked to change projects or just retired, creating the need to look for new people.
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I had a forum some years ago, decided to play around with the CSS sheets and change values in every other line and running it to see what happened, this was purely out of boredom. I found it to be quite interesting so I decided to go a bit more into it, ended up going to a bookstore and searching for a book on the basics on CSS. Eventually I started getting nothing from the book so I decided to search for more about CSS online and reading a few tutorials. HTML was different, some months after my little adventure with CSS I found out that my older brother was taking a class on HTML in college, he taught me the basics and helped me out to understand it. Also got a book on the basics of HTML and just went along searching online everything that would stop me from achieving what I wanted.
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I've always heard this is one of the top reasons as to why learn Ruby. Having read some tutorials and programmed simple things with it I would have to say it is true, it seems to be a very simple language and needs very little written to get the same results you would with a different language. I apologize though if I'm wrong, which I could be since I honestly haven't programmed anything big using it, and maybe it stops being simple after a bit, but at least I have to say that on the basics it seems to be simple and easy, and in my opinion very programmer friendly.
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What was the First Programming Language You Learned?
Rayru18 replied to Hardison's topic in Programming
I would have to say it was Visual Basic for me, quickly followed by COBOL and JAVA, this was all due to classes at college. But way before college I had taken into myself to learn Web Development, and started with CSS then HTML. I have to say that Visual Basic was fun to learn and dragged me into programming, and learning other languages; I would love to deny that it was because of how "easy" and "simple" Visual Studio made programming be/seem, but I can't. That feeling quickly went away when COBOL happened for me, , suddenly programming became a war with periods and errors, but after getting the hang of it (going from Visual Basic to COBOL has not been one of my smartest decisions), I have to say that the love for programming was still there and showed me that I could handle it. -
Most of the times I hear people say it's a dead language, I decided to take an elective class in my college on COBOL, many people said it was just a waste of time, money and space for a better class; I honestly think it wasn't. In my opinion, maybe COBOL is just not high and living as it once did a long time ago, but I've seen more and more recruiters look for people with experience in the language, this is due to the fact that the people on the teams they've had working on COBOL are either moving to some other project or retiring, and with many people just saying that it's a "dead language" and a "waste of time" it's being harder for them to actually find people with at least basic knowledge on the language. I understand the fact that they could just migrate the information and things they have on that language to a newer one, but some companies can't deal with the risks of migrating years of data and having something happen to it. I have a friend who just started working a few months ago and to our surprise it was with COBOL, turns out he got the position thanks to taking the class as an elective; I've also talked with a few recruiters and they are amazed and glad to see that there is still people, who are about to finish college, that have some knowledge in COBOL. Things like this are just a few that make me feel towards saying that it wasn't a waste of time, even if all those periods do make us go crazy at times. I honestly would like to hear other people's feelings towards this matter, so do you think it's worth learning at least the basics of this language, or do you think it's just a waste of time? Thanks in advance!
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Currently finishing my Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems, had to take a class (a few years ago) on Databases, was a bit scared at first but honestly turns out it grows on you. Pretty much started using Access, due to the class, but I've been poking around Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server, on my own time. Was able to be part of an online expo, in which experts in Microsoft SQL Server gave presentations, was an excellent way to polish what I had learned from class and, also, learn new things. Also, working as a graphic designer at my college was able to work creating and fixing some databases in the office I was working at, so that gave me a chance of practicing everything and see if I had actually learned anything. To imbamancer: Depending on your professor is pretty much how you will learn, I'm a firm believer that in the IT field it's just not enough with what they teach you in class. So in my honest opinion, I would say start dedicating some time to it on your own, and try to get as much practice as you can, it will not only help you as a professional, but also in the class it will help you go along with the professor and probably save you some time. In my experience, with the class I took, there was a lot that was left behind due to lack of time, so they just taught what they thought was necessary, but in reality it was just not enough to even call it basics (in my opinion).
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