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by Pacabel 12y ago
Ruby on Rails apps have started causing a lot of problems for a lot of people. Any small initial gains obtained by getting Ruby on Rails web apps put together and deployed rapidly have time and time again been lost many times over due to pe
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by Pacabel 12y ago
A lot of the problems with JavaScript aren't "caveats and idiosyncrasies" or "quirks". They're rather horrible and unjustifiable flaws, plain and simple.
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by Pacabel 12y ago
"Nerds" and "hipsters" are both rather distinct groups of individuals, and within each of these groups the individuals share a number of traits in common. Given that the traits are quite specific and isolated, it's
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by Pacabel 12y ago
I didn't read the article, and I wasn't responding to it. I was responding to what tpeng wrote. I'm merely making observations about the situation we have today. I think there is, indisputably, a rather distinct "nerd&qu
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by Pacabel 12y ago
The Carlton Banks character was not a "nerd". He represented a well-to-do/preppy/Ivy League/conservative/Republican/fratboy/"acting white" persona that contradicted with the poor/street
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Where do you see "hipsters" fitting in to all of this? There has, obviously, been a huge influx of "hipsters" into the software industry as of late. And I think they're very distinct from "nerds". I define
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Well, the feature that you're suggesting be removed is pretty much the only thing that distinguishes this from low-end text editors. It's perfectly sensible and appropriate that such a request would be rejected. It's really n
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Why wouldn't you just use a minimalistic text editor like Notepad or nano, then? They avoid the distractions of spell checking and all that, while still saving files locally, and while still allowing you to delete text you've writ
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Yes, a professional should be prepared for unexpected customer requests with tight deadlines. And the response to such a request is to just get the work done. That, of course, involves being prepared for any service outages that might inter
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Yes, I agree that some Firefox users had moved to Chrome early on, and that Google does have the potential to market Chrome more forcefully than Mozilla can for Firefox. I don't think that the timing is all that relevant, though. This
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Blaming Mozilla's decreasing influence on a vague and alleged "Google-Apple-Microsoft industry alliance" isn't really accurate. While the corporate players involved may just happen to have interests that might align some
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by Pacabel 12y ago
That's very true. And as more and more people move away from Firefox due to Mozilla's bad design decisions as of late, their limited influence diminishes even further. Their 15% to 20% share of the browser market just can't c
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Don't get me wrong, change to make things truly better is probably worth it. But I'm not convinced that's what we're really seeing with Rust any longer. Many of the recent changes seem to be what I'd call "osci
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by Pacabel 12y ago
For a language that's supposed to have its 1.0 release later this year, these sure sound like pretty significant breaking changes.
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by Pacabel 12y ago
When the problems no longer exist, I'll have nothing to bring up. The ball's in Mozilla's court now when it comes to resolving these problems.
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by Pacabel 12y ago
All sorts of assets have been stored in version control systems for decades now. That includes designs, images, documents, specifications, and so forth.
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by Pacabel 12y ago
How many of those are voluntary, active users, though? I see them more as "victims" of it, who are subjected to it without giving much consent at all. Somebody loads a blog article or some other web page that uses Disqus for accep
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Umm, we used to call those "personal websites". They were the norm during much of the 1990s. They did take some time, effort, skill and money to set up, but they did give far more control over what information was shared, and who
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Those kind of problems you mention aren't isolated to C, though. The exact same, or very similar, problems exist when using scripts written in Perl, Ruby, Python, and other scripting languages.
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by Pacabel 12y ago
How do you figure that? That comment that you replied to matches reality very well. Perl 6 is nearly 15 years old now. There have been many attempts to implement it during this time, and none of them have really been usable like Perl 5&#x27
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Yes, I think Mozilla has collectively made some very bad choices these last few years. And, yes, I will express my displeasure when Mozilla and their actions are the topic of discussion. I know I'm not alone in these beliefs. Just look
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by Pacabel 12y ago
On one hand, it's good that such extensions exist. But it's getting very tedious having to install so many these days to replace functionality that was removed, or to fix up functionality that has been broken or made worse.
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by Pacabel 12y ago
What's the current roadmap for getting Rust 1.0 out the door? Last I saw, there were over 1500 issues in the project's GitHub issue tracker. Even assuming a lot of those may no longer be relevant, and assuming minimal growth, that
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Well, after each desktop Firefox update I ask myself, "Am I better off now than I was with the last version?" In the Phoenix, Firebird and Firefox pre-4 days, I'd quite often find myself answering with "Yes". Since
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by Pacabel 12y ago
I occasionally use Firefox and other offerings from Mozilla. And so I'd be very willing to directly donate money to them, as well. However, a lot of their recent actions have seriously dissuaded me from doing so. Desktop Firefox, for e
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Yes, that's obvious. What you've missed is the overarching issue here, though. Mozilla will strip out useful functionality from Firefox (like the status bar, for example), and anyone desiring such functionality is told to install
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by Pacabel 12y ago
If this functionality really must be supported, then why isn't it just offered via an extension? Those Firefox users who want this functionality have the option of installing that extension. Otherwise, it doesn't interfere with ot
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by Pacabel 12y ago
That is a very academic way of looking at it. In practice, it's often good to have comments that explain what the code is doing, even if the code itself is quite understandable. It can be a lot quicker to read and understand a one-sent
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Like I said in the comment you replied to, if you have a better term, please mention it here. I don't think that these people, or more specifically their attitude and their approach toward software UI design, are "nebulous" n
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Right. If there's bytecode of any sort that needs to be converted to machine code on the fly, then we aren't dealing with a native app. We wouldn't consider a Java app running on HotSpot on a desktop or server Linux system to

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