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My god, with them together, what great software will they make!
by napierzaza 16y ago
My god, with them together, what great software will they make!
- jacquesm 16y agoI have the hardest time figuring out if you're serious or sarcastic.
- adolph 16y agoI think the comment cuts both ways at the same time.
- rbritton 16y agoThink of what great software activation schemes they will make!
- seldo 16y agoAnd the updates! The glorious, unending stream of modal software-update dialogs!
- prawn 16y agoAdobe Updater wanted to be updated the other day. I had to laugh.
- NickPollard 16y agoRecursion is a vital part of software development.
- benologist 16y agoCould be worse .... Apple could buy them, making an incremental Photoshop update 6 gig + an hour to install.
- aniket_ray 16y agoNot sure why you were downvoted. You made a valid point. Slightly offtopic but since people are dicussing updates. Updates are an important part of the sotfware lifecycle. It's no big deal that sometimes the updater might need to be updated. I personally get a bit angry when of all people, software engineers get annoyed about updates. You should know better that the update to software would push better algorithms, reducing CPU and memory usage while it might also have security fixes making software more secure. Nobody (not even Apple) makes perfect software. There is no such thing as bug free code. Updates fix bugs. I understand it is a bit psychological too, since people complain more about free updates than paid ones. Engineers should promote updates amongst friends and family and not deride updates in public.
- Kliment 16y agoThere's updates and there's updates. If an update automagically installs itself and restarts your machine because you went to the kitchen to make yourself a tea and a sandwich and you lose work, that's one thing. Same if an update forces you to wait for it to download and install when you really need to get some work done. Bonus negative points if you are on a connection where you pay by the kilobyte with international roaming. If an update asks for consent, installs cleanly without breaking things or making your machine unusable for the time, and does not destroy your work if you aren't paying attention, that's another thing. There's a good reason people dislike updates. The correct thing to do is fix them, not advocate them.
- davidmurphy 16y agoThis is my single favorite comment on Hacker News, ever. Well done.
- gizmomagico 16y agoImagine the combined security vulnerabilities! A never-ending stream of patches!
- bad_user 16y agoFunny story ... Adobe shipped a broken update manager with CS4. Then to patch people's computers, they relied on notifications given when visiting websites like ... http://community.adobe.com/help/ http://community.adobe.com/help/ It required users to manually download and install a patch :)
- commieneko 16y agoAs Judge Doom said, "My God, it will be beautiful..." edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gURUMv7qZW0#t=1m58s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gURUMv7qZW0#t=1m58s
- rbanffy 16y agoThink of what great patent lawsuits would they make!
- WalterGR 16y agoIs either company particularly litigious? Microsoft has filed on the order of 5 patent lawsuits in the last ever.
- rbanffy 16y agoDon't think only about lawsuits but also patent extortion. If their IP lawyers send a threatening letter and the receiver just complies and pays, we usually never get to hear about it. A lawsuit is like having to beat up somebody to make an example out of him. It only happens when people refuse to pay for protection.