There has been a single sign on for most services for a long time (although the login page was different in some cases depending on which service you were accessing).
The difference now is that they re designed the log in interface to be the same across services and I have also only noticed the new design in the past week or so.
I agree, also I personally prefer the idea of having things separate, HTML for the structure, CSS for the style, and JavaScript for the behavior. You can create very clean and neat pages like that especially if you don't mix each technology e.g. keep everything separate in different files..
I am however open to new ways of doing things so I will keep an eye on this, but I must admit, that index page looks a lot more daunting to edit than a normal HTML page, especially if you are not familiar with JavaScript.
Except CSS sucks for styling. You can't even make a "scroll to top button" disappear with CSS because it doesn't know if the document is at the top. CSS is missing a ton of things.
I mean I want that button to disappear when the page is already scrolled to the top. The scrolling up part I'm fine with making with JS. I just don't feel right about attaching a scroll handler to have a very unoptimized implementation of such a thing since that scroll handler will fire EVERY SINGLE SCROLL. But the browser could optimize away "is document at the top" CSS calls by knowing we scrolled down (and by definition we can't be at the top then).
Internet has made a big difference for kite boarding, but I would say it has had the same effect on windsurfing recently so I don't think the comparison is necessarily correct. Rather it is the differences in the sports themselves that are making windsurfing lag behind:
1) windsurfing is much harder to learn and not as enjoyable at first (in fact it can be a pain) so people give up quicker
2) kitesurfing, for the new guy, is a lot more spectacular and gets a lot of "wows" on the beach, so it attracts more people
3) I must admit kitesurfing equipment is a lot lighter and easier to carry around
4) Windsurfing, being an older sport, has an "old" image. People generally think its slow and boring, and that you need huge waves to have fun. However things have changed drastically. Take a look at a few videos on http://www.continentseven.com to see what I mean
Side discussion- As a kitesurfer/snowboarder/skater I think can appreciate the more technical aspects of windsurfing and not just look for 'wow' factor. But what I find difficult to watch in freestyle windsurfing is the 'sinking' or 'stopping' after tricks. It seems that in order to do anything really impressive you're going to just stop after you land. I think the best looking tricks in windsurf (and all of these sports actually) are ones where you leave the tricks with (close to) speed you entered with - such as certain tricks done on waves or some of the less technical 'pop' tricks. To me the root of this problem really comes down to the size of the gear you are having to throw around. In comparison, kitesurfing really frees your body up when riding and allows you to move around more in the air, as well as providing a 'pull' from with more freedom of control than a windsurf sail.
The developments in acrobatic paragliding follow a similar theme: it used to be you'd do trick A, then resume normal flight, then do trick B, resume normal flight, trick C, etc.
Well actually, you can do nearly all the tricks in windsurfing without stopping and sinking and coming out of it planing... it is just incredibly difficult to do though. Even the top surfers don't manage very often
It's true that windsurfing has progressed enormously in the last 10 years. However, the sport began in the 80s before the internet was commonplace and so its development was stunted in the beginning. I should have made the graph more clear.
That's really interesting. Although I've played around with a longboard I never got into skateboarding in a big way so I wouldn't feel qualified to write about it. Another interesting example is the Triple Cork in snowboarding:
Tony Hawk's first 900 was pretty neat. He was getting close to doing it, but couldn't quite nail the landing and it was decided to let him just keep trying until he got it. Even though it was over regulation time and it took him 10 tries they awarded him first place and none of the other competitors protested:
It may be just me, but I personally would not mention the lines of code as a success story metric.
I feel like lots of line of code usually means bloat.
That aside, I often use phpMyAdmin and it is a great tool for those quick little edits! And if you know already about SQL then it is really easy to use.
>if you know already about SQL then it is really easy to use.
If you already know SQL then its much faster to type a line into the CLI than click the mouse 50000 times in a web gui. However, I do use it so when I'm on call I can walk someone thru a simple password reset, or something of similar level, over the phone rather than spend 45 minutes find and plug in the laptop, VPN in, do 15 seconds of work, then shut down everything and put it away until next time. Someone completely incapable of finding the semicolon key on a keyboard can usually none the less be successfully talked thru clicking the mouse 5000 times on a web page.
I once looked at do.com a few years back. It was owned by Microsoft, and I thought they wont release that domain unless you pay them a hefty amount of money.
Off topic, I did not know about meanpath and I was looking for a (website) source code search engine for sometime.
https://meanpath.com/f/
If they opened all the search results I would surely use this often.
