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VBA is joyless. I started my career as VBA dev. It was the shitiest job I've ever had and worst job I can imagine to do. Bloated unreliable with disgusting API (like try catching for contains method on collection).

in recent years even MS is releasing more meaningful open source code than Apple (eg. asp.net vnext, PCL) or I'm missing something

kudos for Firefox team. I hope they put more love in speeding up css animations (like here: http://bartaz.github.io/impress.js/#/bored)

pointless since it's obvious for you ?

Well...no. Apple is adding online sources to UI more or less same way as Ubuntu (I don't have opinion on whether it's good or not - I find it useless for me on both OSes).

My point is: there is an inequality of treating Ubuntu and Apple in HN comments in Apple's favour - that's all.

you still seem not getting this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apologetics

for me - if it wants to convince me to buy something it's an advertisement - no matter it's third party or not.

But as I said before I don't care - my only point is Apple...(trying not to be negative) fanboism level here (HN coments) is exceptional and that's funny :)

apologists - a person who offers an argument in defense of something controversial.

Defending Apple eg. very first comment below my comment claims Apple is not showing adds whereas someone showed this: http://i.imgur.com/1hdtCjB.png?1

being honest - I don't care that much. Really interesting (and somehow funny) are all those Apple apologists trying to rationalize/justify everything Apple does.

no - I'm suggesting both situations are equally unpleasant for users and HN crowd tends to absolve Apple for any 'crimes' they commit - it's just funny

(I'm using both Ubuntu and Mac on a regular basis)

can this be turned off ?

so Apple's false privacy statements are not as bad as Ubuntu's Amazon search results ?

Funny - just compare how Ubuntu was bashed for Amazon lens in Unity and how differently Apple is treated for the same (or even worse) things here on HN

According to this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/business/2000/microsoft/...

MS was making "illegal market-splitting suggestion"

and

"Microsoft began to use its market power to extract exclusionary deals with many of the largest [PC manufacturers and internet service providers]", threatening Netscape customers such as Compaq that if it tried to replace the Internet Explorer icon with the Netscape Navigator icon "

We can assume they've done many more bad things since their EEE attitude was proven many times (Bill Gates included - vide leaked email in antitrust case http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/... )

Things like this make me wonder if Windows (Server) ecosystem will be able to compete with Linux in long term.

I do realize corpo-world is filled with Windows Servers now but it seemed Linux/Docker could change this with containers as a 'standardized server app format' with super easy provisioning process.

Now since Windows will get more or less the same - Linux/Docker and Windows/Docker will compete on tools and raw perf.

So the point is Windows server is going to be non-CLI docker manager here to make it easier deploy Linux server apps on Windows ? Or am I missing something here ?

Got two web apps in production - one of them >10K LOC.

I'm former .NET dev missing IDE like VS in open source world - and Dart makes me quite happy. Dart has decent (not great...yet) IDE with nice debugger, sane SDK and very nice package repository (pub.dartlang.org).

Biggest flaw - it still has relatively small community/ecosystem compared to eg. nodejs.

That's why I use Ubuntu's default Unity on desktop and OSX Macbook these days. For me it just works.

Ubuntu has even more powerful window managing key bindings by default (on OSX I need Spectacle).

For all other things I just don't care.

> iOS lets me use [...]

And Web Components are bringing innovation (component based app building) to rusty world of web dev which is not restricted to rich western society (Apple).

I stopped ranting on JS - just use lang with good enough IDE like Dartlang (DartEditor or IntelliJ)

PS: previous comment was not "ad persona" - but if you think transpilation is "lame" - you don't know how hard it's to make performant transpiler and how wonderful piece of tech are some of those transpilers

Restricted App Store rules eg. disallowing external web browsers or interpreters hinder technology much more than web standards.

Talk is cheap - would love to see some of yours "not lame" piece of work.

yea because it's much better to have closed, restricted app markets (like Apple, Google, Microsoft ones) than web standards.

Firefox still does not seem to support fully web components (html templates, custom elements, shadowdom see http://caniuse.com/#search=shadowdom )

I hope they will get there fast - this will put pressure on dinosaurs like IE or Safari

Netflix should work on Linux natively (at least in Ubuntu) very soon http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/09/netflix-linux-html5-nss-c...

Your move Microsoft. If not now then when ?

compiles to JS so works on all modern browsers - wondering why bias like yours isn't downvoted

except Dart compiles to effective JS (see Dart perf) + mixins + await async (soon) + less verbose + good unified package system + ...

yea sure - almost nothing.

Bonus 2: you can support MS monopoly on desktop by using their blessed Windows-only tooling (VS.NET)

DART has Erlang style actors that support concurrent threads of execution - so yes. Shared memory no AFAIK, but Dart seems to have nicer syntax.

Every time I see things like this I'm grateful for Dart SDK

dunno - I'm not working with C++. To be honest I work mainly on Linux desktop now, so maybe I'm overestimating Chromebooks perf (eg. seen Chromebook with i3-4005U)

Nice but my next laptop will be some Chromebook + ElementaryOS rooted - if all you use is terminal/sublime and browser - Mac is a waste of money.