bye_amzn

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   by bye_amzn 10y ago

   Let it suffice to say that Linux distributions (and some closed OSes) try very hard to prevent package fragmentation. Experience has shown many times that excessive fragmentation leads to proliferation of unmaintained libraries.
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   by bye_amzn 10y ago

   > Not sure why you got downvoted https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_emotion
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   by bye_amzn 10y ago

   Node is quite bad - it encourages a proliferation of small libraries and remove the needs to move the versions forward. This, in turn, leads to a wasteland of old, unsecure, dependencies in the long them.
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   by bye_amzn 11y ago

   This might be very true for startups, unfortunately, but it's not true for Amazon/Google/Facebook and so on
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   by bye_amzn 11y ago

   Ex Amazon here. I've done a lot of interviews and I've never seen candidates being refused an on-site interview for having extensive Windows experience. Still, the hire rate would be really low. Most would have little knowledge
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   by bye_amzn 11y ago

   > We are richer Averages are very misleading.