MrRage

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by MrRage 18y ago
Could you quantify "ugly" and "difficult to use"? I use FogBugz, and while it's not the most beautiful thing I've ever seen, it's far from ugly. But then beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so it's said. I don't find it hard to use at all
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by MrRage 18y ago
You're comparing apples to oranges. You could also say, "Whereas Cocoa is still philosophically crippled by Apple's intent to create a platform for Mac development and not a true cross-platform development platform."
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by MrRage 18y ago
Ultimately everything's a number in a computer, so this is not something only in C. It's just C's low-level nature.
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by MrRage 18y ago
First off, Ayn Rand is dead. She didn't write the article. Second, this is basically an ad hominem argument. I agree Ayn Rand was overrated, but that doesn't mean that this article has some truth to it, despite coming from an objectivist.
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by MrRage 18y ago
Teaching languages are stripped down on purpose, so I don't consider that a valid criticism. Pascal was fine for teaching structured programming in its day.
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by MrRage 18y ago
How did Pascal fail to teach computer programming in the '80's? (While we're at it, how does a programming language teach at all?) My impression is Pascal got replaced by Java in intro to CS courses.
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by MrRage 18y ago
This is a really hard to decipher blob of text. Care to point out some examples of offending entries and interpret what they mean?
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by MrRage 18y ago
Amen. I've settled on Vista as my main OS recently. It's not like I'm some noob. I've used Windows, OS X, and Linux extensively. I understand why others choose differently. I've tried to do RoR on Windows, and it runs like ass. Running poor
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by MrRage 18y ago
Please, elaborate. What wrong reasons is Ruby popular for? What is the foolish philosophy around Ruby?
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by MrRage 18y ago
Heh. Have you ever read comments on YouTube?
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by MrRage 18y ago
Yeah, most shows suck. But there are many, many shows on lots of channels. There are shows worth watching, though. There are some TV shows, IMO, that are works of art, rivialing some of the great movies out there.
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by MrRage 18y ago
> Data trumps arguments always. I wish that was always true.
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by MrRage 18y ago
The Island on Lost, perhaps?
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by MrRage 18y ago
2 points: 1. the Win32 API is not the only thing to develop on Windows with. Personally, I find C# &.NET to be much more comfortable to program in than Objective-C & Cocoa. 2. There is no silver bullet. Some platforms are better at
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by MrRage 18y ago
RMS is influential and has done many things, but this article was about influential on the web .
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by MrRage 18y ago
Out of curiosity, what replacement to Terminal.app would you recommend? Bonus points if it doesn't involve running X11.
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by MrRage 18y ago
I agree with what you said about about intuitive UIs. Intuitive just means familiar. After enough time, emacs (or vi, or any text edit) will be come familiar, i.e. you won't have to consciously think about using the editor. At that point it
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by MrRage 18y ago
Your old boss is not really cocky, just a fascist control freak.
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by MrRage 18y ago
To be pedantic, there is such a thing as an 'inclusive or'. The two options you gave aren't mutually exclusive, so someone could both like the title and watch the video.
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by MrRage 18y ago
I don't think this is an "issue" to Microsoft. I doubt that they want to officially support .NET on more than their own platforms. .NET is becoming more and more tied to Windows anyway, e.g. WPF.
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by MrRage 18y ago
He fucked a founder over...and over...and over...
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by MrRage 18y ago
In makes sense in practice too. I'll never touch a bargain bin of CDs at a store.
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by MrRage 18y ago
"... it doesn't look native to Windows." Ha! Most Windows apps don't look "native." I don't even know what "native" means, because it seems even Microsoft can't even keep it's apps consistent with each other.
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by MrRage 18y ago
How about "That raises the question..."?