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I see the reason for the complains, but I do not agree with the basic premise. It should not be "I hate almost all software", it should be "I hate my employer a
by theamk 10y ago
I see the reason for the complains, but I do not agree with the basic premise. It should not be "I hate almost all software", it should be "I hate my employer and the job I am stuck in".
I mean, this person is writing for Solaris/Illumos (judging by SMF references and autoconf complains). Yeah, running modern stuff on solaris sux, unless you have a sysadminny mindset. This is clearly not for him. Fine -- different people like to optimize different things: user experience, internal code beauty, maintainability, code robustness, number of platforms supported.
No one should be forced to work on stuff they don't like. There are lots of jobs, and most of them do not require SMF, DBus, /usr organization, or volatile variables.
- Retra 10y agoMost of them require other stuff that's still just as awful.
- cocktailpeanuts 10y ago> This is clearly not for him. Haha I had a good laugh. He created node.js.
- 234dd57d2c8dba 10y agoSo what? It probably started off as a fun hobby project like "I bet I can write a fast server in javascript." That was probably all he was interested in at first. Now he deals with problems that are not fun and not anywhere near that original hobby. These problems are clearly not what he considers fun at all, therefore I don't see any reason why you had to be snarky with the OP.
- cocktailpeanuts 10y agoNode was written in c++. Not even sure if you read the original article, because that's far from what I took away from it. I guess we all choose to see what we want to see. There's a difference between someone complaining when they are bad at something, and someone complaining when they're good at something.