BrenBarn

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by BrenBarn 3y ago
That answer is still basically money, though. Did they consider selling it to an employee or group of employees? Did they consider giving it to an employee or group of employees? And even if none of those happened, if the new owners ran
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by BrenBarn 3y ago
And yet they're trying to convince the EU they're not a gatekeeper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38399123
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by BrenBarn 3y ago
It's something I've been thinking about lately. I feel like most of the value and importance of things come when people are doing things they think are worth doing in a way that they think is more or less the right way to do them
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by BrenBarn 3y ago
It depends on what your goals and constraints are. If you want to write a "traditional" desktop app, I would say the most powerful framework is Qt (you can use either PyQt or PySide). But there is a substantial learning curve as
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by BrenBarn 3y ago
I'd say the main issue is that governments have failed to put in place guardrails that penalize those who pursue monetary value over all else.
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by BrenBarn 3y ago
> I’d seen the consequences of that over and over: brilliant technologists who could build just about anything but who stared blankly when the question of the ethics of their work was broached. This is something I've seen as well, i
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by BrenBarn 3y ago
I hate to see more and more people switching from Mercurial to Git. The way to overcome the "network effects" is exactly for large projects like Mozilla to stand tall and say clearly that they are going to use Mercurial because i
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by BrenBarn 3y ago
"How We Think" by John Dewey.
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by BrenBarn 3y ago
> Expect things to keep getting worse or revert to the old version of the internet of scattered low power sites and forums. This is actually the most mood-lightening comment I've seen on this matter. A return to the internet of 15
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by BrenBarn 4y ago
But if it doesn't, then it's not really an alternative to Mathematica.