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Why would your eyebrow raise a bit when you hear a developer say they use any particular OS? What do you gain by having such rigors? Why do you assume your op

by jawngee 17y ago

Why would your eyebrow raise a bit when you hear a developer say they use any particular OS? What do you gain by having such rigors? Why do you assume your opinion is absolute? (Which is must be for you to cock an eyebrow in what I'm assuming is disgust or mistrust). What do you do when someone tells you they develop on Windows? I'm imagining a groin pull, or something of that magnitude.

scotty79 17y ago
Maybe it's just involuntary reflex. I met someone who said he works as admin and complained he can't find a job in the town he lives (he commutes more than 4 hours a day). I couldn't understand that, but later in conversation I learned that he's a windows admin. Then I had the eyebrow rising involuntary reflex and everything became clear to me. Windows admin skills are kinda useless in town where most companies can't afford to use MS solutions where good open source alternatives exists, let alone employ many windows admins.
- randallsquared 17y ago
  Small-town businesses usually do use Windows, except where they're hoping their ancient DOS solution doesn't die.
  - scotty79 17y ago
    Not in my country. And if they do they don't have money to hire administrator. Son in law of the owner can usually take care of things well enough.
jrockway 17y ago
I am just surprised. I remember how much stress I went through to get basic things working, and I am surprised that other people were willing to waste so much time. (Example: installing libxml2 for XML::LibXML and the system perl.) So it's not disgust at all, it's just shock. I keep hearing how nice of a development platform it is, but I couldn't get even the simplest things to work. (I used OS X for 2 or 3 years about 4 years ago. I still use it for my under-TV computer, as I am too lazy to configure Ubuntu there. But I am close to not being too lazy...) Anyway, Linux is broken for many users, but not those that use conkeror, emacs, urxvt, xmonad and has Intel wireless and video. I am the user that Linux is best for.
- jawngee 17y ago
  That makes more sense :)

by jawngee 17y ago

scotty79 17y ago

Maybe it's just involuntary reflex. I met someone who said he works as admin and complained he can't find a job in the town he lives (he commutes more than 4 hours a day). I couldn't understand that, but later in conversation I learned that he's a windows admin. Then I had the eyebrow rising involuntary reflex and everything became clear to me. Windows admin skills are kinda useless in town where most companies can't afford to use MS solutions where good open source alternatives exists, let alone employ many windows admins.

randallsquared 17y ago
Small-town businesses usually do use Windows, except where they're hoping their ancient DOS solution doesn't die.
- scotty79 17y ago
  Not in my country. And if they do they don't have money to hire administrator. Son in law of the owner can usually take care of things well enough.

jrockway 17y ago

I am just surprised. I remember how much stress I went through to get basic things working, and I am surprised that other people were willing to waste so much time. (Example: installing libxml2 for XML::LibXML and the system perl.) So it's not disgust at all, it's just shock. I keep hearing how nice of a development platform it is, but I couldn't get even the simplest things to work. (I used OS X for 2 or 3 years about 4 years ago. I still use it for my under-TV computer, as I am too lazy to configure Ubuntu there. But I am close to not being too lazy...) Anyway, Linux is broken for many users, but not those that use conkeror, emacs, urxvt, xmonad and has Intel wireless and video. I am the user that Linux is best for.

jawngee 17y ago
That makes more sense :)