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> - 'Everything depends on something else' - really? Yes. Really. > Most 'installed software' doesn't depend on a whole lot else. Yes it does. Your ignorance

> - 'Everything depends on something else' - really? Yes. Really. > Most 'installed software' doesn't depend on a whole lot else. Yes it does. Your ignorance of this fact does not make this any less a fact. > Does the author really mean server software? Development environment? All of it.

jariel 6y ago
I thought this was satire when I first read it. But no, people around are really do have serious challenges with language sometimes. Here's some help: The vast majority of software that users install on their computers depends only on what the user would perceive as the 'OS' itself. For example, if one were to install 'some app' that works for Mac OSX version X.X and later, there wouldn't be any contemplation of 'dependencies', to the point wherein the vast majority of users wouldn't even grasp the concept. Granular package or system-level dependencies are something that only developers are aware of. Of course, the fact that nobody but developers would contemplate 'dependencies' should be obvious to anyone who interacts with regular people.
- yakshaving_jgt 6y ago
  > the fact that nobody but developers would contemplate 'dependencies' should be obvious Is it perhaps lost on you that the vast majority of people discussing this technology are developers? And you accuse me of having serious challenges with language. Yikes. > The vast majority of software that users install on their computers depends only on what the user would perceive as the 'OS' itself Yes. And those dependencies are implicit. You know, exactly as the article describes. > to anyone who interacts with regular people This is a thinly-veiled ad-hominem argument. Does this approach of snootiness and condescension normally work for you when interacting with “regular people”?

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> - 'Everything depends on something else' - really? Yes. Really. > Most 'installed software' doesn't depend on a whole lot else. Yes it does. Your ignorance

by yakshaving_jgt 6y ago

jariel 6y ago
I thought this was satire when I first read it. But no, people around are really do have serious challenges with language sometimes. Here's some help: The vast majority of software that users install on their computers depends only on what the user would perceive as the 'OS' itself. For example, if one were to install 'some app' that works for Mac OSX version X.X and later, there wouldn't be any contemplation of 'dependencies', to the point wherein the vast majority of users wouldn't even grasp the concept. Granular package or system-level dependencies are something that only developers are aware of. Of course, the fact that nobody but developers would contemplate 'dependencies' should be obvious to anyone who interacts with regular people.
- yakshaving_jgt 6y ago
  > the fact that nobody but developers would contemplate 'dependencies' should be obvious Is it perhaps lost on you that the vast majority of people discussing this technology are developers? And you accuse me of having serious challenges with language. Yikes. > The vast majority of software that users install on their computers depends only on what the user would perceive as the 'OS' itself Yes. And those dependencies are implicit. You know, exactly as the article describes. > to anyone who interacts with regular people This is a thinly-veiled ad-hominem argument. Does this approach of snootiness and condescension normally work for you when interacting with “regular people”?