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"Cascade of Attention Deficit Teens" - it's a phrase coined by jwz (of Mozilla fame) to refer to how some some projects (he specifically targeted GNOME) tend to

by smcl 4y ago

"Cascade of Attention Deficit Teens" - it's a phrase coined by jwz (of Mozilla fame) to refer to how some some projects (he specifically targeted GNOME) tend to throw out mature-but-imperfect code and rewrite it from one version to the next rather than addressing bugs and problems in the existing software. I think it's a little unfair of him to single out young developers, but I have seen the 1.x -> 2.x rewrite before too so he's not wrong overall. If you want to read the original article search for "The CADT Model" - I would link to the article but JWZ shows requests with referer "news.ycombinator.com" an image that you may not like if you're at work :) edit: oh I just clicked the link someone posted (in a [Dead] comment), it seems he has removed the functionality I described

lwkl 4y ago
> edit: oh I just clicked the link someone posted (in a [Dead] comment), it seems he has removed the functionality I described Your browser probably just doesn’t send the referer header to protect your privacy.
majou 4y ago
Still has the referrer troll.
- smcl 4y ago
  Weirdly I am now seeing it again. I don't know what happened :-S
account42 4y ago
> I would link to the article but JWZ shows requests with referer "news.ycombinator.com" an image that you may not like if you're at work :) IMO anyone who has not configured their browser not to send cross-domain Referer headers deserves whatever they get. There is no user benefit for this privacy leak and browsers should have trashed it decades ago.
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anthk 4y ago
Gregory Casamento needs to build a GNUStep PPA for Ubuntu based distros, it would work great on libre derivatives such as Trisquel. Parabola has badly maintained repos for it, lacking even Gorm and ProjectCenter. We need a DE for legacy devices as XFCE's development is not a sure thing with further GTK+ releases tied to Gnome and Red Hat.
hedora 4y ago
> I think it's a little unfair of him to single out young developers Yeah, though I think of “teenage” more as a mindset in this case.
pmontra 4y ago
Sometimes it's easier to rewrite a module, given inputs and outputs and a good test suite, than to understand how it works. This is even more true if the original developer is no more available. Rewriting a whole big library, not easy either way.

by smcl 4y ago

lwkl 4y ago

> edit: oh I just clicked the link someone posted (in a [Dead] comment), it seems he has removed the functionality I described Your browser probably just doesn’t send the referer header to protect your privacy.

majou 4y ago

Still has the referrer troll.

smcl 4y ago
Weirdly I am now seeing it again. I don't know what happened :-S

account42 4y ago

> I would link to the article but JWZ shows requests with referer "news.ycombinator.com" an image that you may not like if you're at work :) IMO anyone who has not configured their browser not to send cross-domain Referer headers deserves whatever they get. There is no user benefit for this privacy leak and browsers should have trashed it decades ago.

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anthk 4y ago

Gregory Casamento needs to build a GNUStep PPA for Ubuntu based distros, it would work great on libre derivatives such as Trisquel. Parabola has badly maintained repos for it, lacking even Gorm and ProjectCenter. We need a DE for legacy devices as XFCE's development is not a sure thing with further GTK+ releases tied to Gnome and Red Hat.

hedora 4y ago

> I think it's a little unfair of him to single out young developers Yeah, though I think of “teenage” more as a mindset in this case.

pmontra 4y ago

Sometimes it's easier to rewrite a module, given inputs and outputs and a good test suite, than to understand how it works. This is even more true if the original developer is no more available. Rewriting a whole big library, not easy either way.