Agreed. That said, for people who aren't necessarily programmers at the start of the process, producing useful things makes it a lot easier to justify the continued learning required to get there.
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a) Install a FOSS OS instead
At what point, I wonder, does that cease to be a snarky response? We are now apparently at the point where you have to jump through hoops to save your own files on your own computer.
It's not Windows 8.1 that's bothering me so much as projecting what this path looks like in Windows 10.
At work we would kill to replace Skype with Hangouts, but with the same computers and the same microphones, everyone in Hangouts constantly hears themselves, while Skype reduces hearing yourself to a very rare event.
Also, this post describes today's book release as the "final" version, but the PragProg changelog calls it Beta 4.0.
That represents a very good effort to take an open project and keep it open. Two thumbs up for the community. Now, if we can just talk about silently munging data instead of giving proper errors...
One thing Apple has excelled at over its history is building a base of lifetime customers.
Now, Github's pushing it even further out of view than Bitbucket's location.
Language like Python and Ruby don't have IDE support like Java does because they don't need them. I'm reminded of the post, "IDEs are a Language Smell": http://www.recursivity.com/blog/2012/10/28/ides-are-a-langua...
It's sometimes a bit disconcerting how strong a learned dependence Java programmers seem to have with IDEs.
By all means, try and replicate this complete list in your Chrome browser: https://duckduckgo.com/bang.html. I'll wait...
What makes the DDG !bang system awesome is its enormity. You don't look up what !bang to use to search something. You assume it exists, do it, and 99% of the time, you're right. That's a game changer.
I don't write Perl, but I know !cpan exists. I don't even have to look. I don't even know exactly what site it's going to search. But I know if I !cpan twitter, I'm going to be looking at a list of Perl libraries for tweeting.
That's the DDG killer feature. You want to do some kind of site-specific search or lookup, you just type in the most logical sounding !bang and assume it will work. You're simply never going to replicate that inside your browser.
It was the bit about the Asia traffic reaching US landfall at Morro Bay and going to the San Luis Obispo data center before routing up to San Francisco that had made me remember the episode years later, just because I have a personal love with that area of the CA coast.
Maybe he did just say those things at election time and doesn't truly care. But assuming that to be the case for certain is lazy thinking.
The discussion I want to have is, what else could make a person who is dead-set against surveillance turn around so drastically once in office? What did he see, what did he come up against? Right or wrong, what scared him?
Unfortunately, we never have that discussion. Politicians are all just simple liars, it's as easy at that, there is no nuance to even remotely consider, blah blah.
Screen is, for all intents and purposes, a dead project. There's no co-invigorating going on. ALL new development is happening in tmux.
Got tired of waiting for Github to stop excluding my team because of the repo count nonsense, went to Bitbucket, never looked back.
Would gladly have paid Github a reasonable amount of money, but according to their silly metric, my little team required a Platinum account.
$20 a month for our sized team at Bitbucket and we have unlimited everything. For $25 a month at Github, we'd already be out of repositories just versioning our dotfiles.
Everything I saw about the "Steam Box" suggested to me that it would be an underpowered machine for more casual games.
But the great part about Steam is that I could build my own damn hardware and use Steam and Big Picture Mode on it. So now I have a legitimate mid-range gaming PC hooked up to my TV and launching Big Picture on startup.
As a Linux user and lover, the idea of an eventual Steam box running on Linux is an exciting idea, but in the meantime, I'm running my own box on Windows.
I used to rave about the old Blades interface and how, OMG, Microsoft made a great user experience, and how weird it was for me to feel so strongly positive about a Microsoft consumer product. So of course they destroyed everything about that interface that was so great.
When Steam put Big Picture mode in beta, I knew I was done with consoles. I got a cube-shaped PC case that was big enough for a full-size video card, put said video card with a nice Ivy Bridge i5 CPU in it, and my consoles got the permanent shut-down.
Also, LJ groups have not been successfully replicated by any of the other major social media networks.
My opinion of him and the Redis project increases further every time.
Yes, it is reasonable to expect all browsers to have JavaScript enabled, but that doesn't mean it should be carelessly used.
Facebook's former CTO has said that the only reason Facebook is still on PHP still today is legacy. It wouldn't be written in PHP if it were started today.
PHP once was the right tool for the job, but those years have passed. We have many better options now.
BBM brings to the table a sizable entrenched user base. I agree with the person that said this would have been an iMessage killer a year ago. But this will be crossplatform and iMessage is not. Good for us who aren't living entirely in the Apple ecosystem.
It was just a bit of a shock when I clicked the link. Since the link title was slightly different than what I named my slides, I just thought, "oh hey, another zsh comparison, let's see what this guy/gal said"...
I wrote this slide deck. It was a presentation I made for a monthly "tech lunch" my team has.
I made it after a couple of weeks of messing with zsh. It was for an audience of 4 other people who knew less about zsh than me. I can't believe someone posted it to HN!
That explains the "this slide deck is getting traffic" email I got from Slideshare this morning.