Exactly. I’ve done “real programming” for four decades; early in my career I was writing assembler and regularly having to review compilers’ output because it was shit.
I do not still do that. You adapt and move with the times, or you find a new career.
The ones complaining now are mainly the people who thought “cutting and pasting stuff from Stack Overflow without ever understanding it” was skilled labour.
Ahh, Romania, truly the driving sucks. Wonderful people who all turn into complete numbnuts the minute they get behind the wheel of a car. Genuinely the worst drivers I have ever known outside of Asia.
The death rate isn’t helped by the “wearing a seatbelt makes me less virile” (with its corollary “wearing a seatbelt as a passenger is insulting the driver”) culture still dominating, either.
The patent is not on haptic feedback. The patent is on a very specific means of implementing haptic feedback using ferrofluids and electromagnetic actuators that it is claimed (and Apple deemed it good enough to copy, so presumably truly) allows for both a smaller implementation than typical mechanical haptic feedback (i.e. the off-balance-flywheel approach of phones of old), while also allowing for low- or zero- noise compared to “speaker or piezo” based haptic feedback.
There are a lot of shit patents in the world, but on a surface reading at least this seems sufficiently novel that I don’t see why it should be invalid. One also presumes that if Apple had any grounds to invalidate it on prior-art they would have done so.
Well, now I feel old.
I do feel like anyone who hasn’t had to write multiple-hundred-page technical documents in Framemaker on an HP-UX C100 workstation with a couple of hundred MB of RAM shouldn’t be allowed to complain about any modern office software.
And don’t get me started on “automating the secretarial pool for fun and profit with WordPerfect DOS macros.”
Kids today…
Yeah, but the US sense of “free speech” is that everyone can say “Heil Hitler” on the Internet, but the media isn’t allowed to say anything bad about the President under threat of being banned from the White House. It’s a very particular sense of “Free Speech” that protects neo-nazis but bans late-night comedians.
If it’s still unclear, don’t worry, J.D.Vance will be on another of his lecture tours of Europe to explain it all again soon enough.