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by asdasf 13y ago
You are confusing a sense of accomplishment for happiness. That suggests that you may not have felt happiness enough (or recently enough) to recognize it.
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by asdasf 13y ago
Why 10 years? Given that we've known what a mess the software development world is for 50 years and nothing has improved, what makes you think anything will be better 10 years from now?
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by asdasf 13y ago
Why do you think responding to "you are making a bunch of uninformed assumptions" with more uninformed assumptions is productive? Protip: some of us saw this site when it was made 2 years ago. Some of us are even aware of the co
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by asdasf 13y ago
I'd be extremely surprised if they can. Just because there are a lot of options, doesn't mean there's any good ones. Tons of nearly identical, virtually featureless products does not make it easier to find one that actually
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by asdasf 13y ago
>Judging from the fact that their service has good reviews in major media and millions of users They have no reviews in major media. They have both good and bad reviews in minor media. The "millions of users" claim is not sup
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by asdasf 13y ago
>That's not funny or educational or even interesting. Two of those are subjective and I'll ignore. But it is educational, it links to alternatives to 37 signals products. >I can't really think of anything 37signals h
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by asdasf 13y ago
Why are you bragging about making a bunch of uninformed, knee-jerk assumptions about someone you know nothing about? And why is this trash the top comment? Whether or not $20/month is too much does not depend on whether you have $20
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by asdasf 13y ago
>The general consensus is that they do both Your claim is just as baseless as the one you are responding to, which was pointing out how baseless the original claim "they make good software" was. >not many unsatisfied custome
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by asdasf 13y ago
>I think it's because there are lots of PHP programmers who don't have the first clue about setting up an actual server on the internet (and keeping it up). Well PHP programmers are going to want to use PHP anyways. But as far
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by asdasf 13y ago
I don't understand why that is still something people care about in the days of $5 VPS hosting.
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by asdasf 13y ago
That's an arbitrary and useless guideline, using made up numbers. If losing 1% of your potential users costs $100k in lost sales a year, and 20% of my time costs $20k, then spending that 20% time seems like a pretty good idea.
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by asdasf 13y ago
>Walter is saying you can't have good error messages without semicolons That is what he said though. I understand it is one example for a larger point, but it is an example that doesn't support that point at all. It is pretty
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by asdasf 13y ago
I think this shows that Walter has lots of compiler experience, not so much lots of language design experience. You can't get good error messages without semicolons? How can anyone say something that absurd in a serious article? Hav
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by asdasf 13y ago
Well one other difference is that D is a systems language, and Go is nothing even remotely close to a systems language but initially claimed to be one. There is not much demand for a new systems language, most people are happy to use highe
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by asdasf 13y ago
Your own examples contradict your hypothesis. Ruby is a generic scripting language, it is not better or worse than python or perl at anything. Rails made ruby popular due to evangelism, not solving a problem others do not (notice how rail
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by asdasf 13y ago
Useful tab completion, more useful commands, catching Ctrl+C like a shell is supposed to do instead of exiting like an asshole, etc. Can you give an example of your opposite experience? I've literally never met someone who has used b
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by asdasf 13y ago
>As JavaScript is basically a required feature on the web these days, who cares? People who don't live in a fantasy bubble world where that is true? "Hey, just throw away 1% of your potential user base for no reason" isn&
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by asdasf 13y ago
The problem with that is confusing users. When you have a "login with firefox" option you will get "but I don't use firefox anymore, I switched to chrome".
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by asdasf 13y ago
>It's just a heavily biased article is all Yes, but as I said I don't see any indication that the bias is towards "enterprise" at all. Python's use in statistics and related fields is quite small compared to its
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by asdasf 13y ago
Really a shame they used the mysql protocol. The mysql command line client is terrible compared to psql, and the mysql lib is much less pleasant to use than libpq.
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by asdasf 13y ago
What are you basing that on? They have python as #1 by a large margin, when literally every other language popularity measure has it somewhere down the list below java, C++, PHP, etc. If it were skewed towards "enterprise" users
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by asdasf 13y ago
Why is this here? Because MIT is ostensibly a tech school so it is "6 degrees" relevant? "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon"
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by asdasf 13y ago
Except that provides absolutely no evidence to support the hypothesis. People have variations in wrists and forearms too, it does not follow that some people are "morphologically incapable" of using a mouse for example.
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by asdasf 13y ago
>What the hell are you talking about? Exactly what I said. You can go read your post if you have forgotten its contents. >not end users who remain, for the most part, unaware of whatever issues may lie under the hood. You are simply
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by asdasf 13y ago
1. The link you provided does not support your absurd claim in any way. 2. It is not a well written about issue at all. If it was you would show some support for it rather than try to deflect. 3. Of course not. But your claim is still abs
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by asdasf 13y ago
I have never seen a gentoo users with any more knowledge or experience than ubuntu, mint, mandrake, etc users. They are in fact almost exclusively people who used a "noob" distro, then switched to gentoo to feel "advanced&qu
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by asdasf 13y ago
No, specifically gentoo users can. The distro literally serves no real purpose, nobody with any unix experience would consider using it. It is quite literally the distro for people who don't know what they are doing, but want to feel
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by asdasf 13y ago
DO is not an alternative to AWS, it is an alternative to EC2. If you want to tell people not to use AWS, you have to provide an alternative to AWS. Even google's AWS-like offering is missing tons of things lots of AWS customers rely
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by asdasf 13y ago
>If they were using Arch or Gentoo at home, If they are using gentoo, you should be finding someone else. Gentoo users are typically the most dangerous combination of profoundly ignorant, yet absurdly overconfident in their abilities.
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by asdasf 13y ago
>There's nothing wrong with language evangelism He says, after suggesting you can't trust what someone says because they are an evangelist. >Kmett has, I believe, taken on a larger role in Haskell, perhaps officially with FP

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