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by bruce511 5mo ago
Your categorization of math, logic and programming as "girly" is hilarious. When I grew up those were the very definition of "not girly". Our math and comp sci faculties at uni would bend over backwards for any of the gi
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>> If I want to keep my job I need to use it. So use it. I've been programming for 45 years, and I've found it to be a really useful tool. I'm still writing code, still doing all the fun stuff, but I'm moving along
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>> People say communism is worse, but the problem is that communism was a response to capitalism. Capitalism of a sort, but not how we understand it today. If we're talking about the Russian revolution of 1917 that wasn't re
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>> But maybe you're talking about even older software? Maybe.
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Personally I don't like the tab key for field change. Firstly it was a breaking change from dos. Dos programs used Enter. And enter meant you could capture numeric data using 1 hand, since the numeric keypad has an enter key. That mean
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by bruce511 5mo ago
People sometimes underestimate how much work goes into a new business. The idea that you'll fill "spare time" with a business is laughable. (I'm not thinking of a making-money-from-my-hobby side gig, but an actual busine
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>> How is that successful cross platform? Because hundreds of developers, multiple open source projects and the backing of major corporations made it happen, not because Microsoft wanted it but in spite of it. In this case the route t
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I concur. The article defines "success" in the Windows context as being "available everywhere". It does not address how it got to that point. And sure, you might not like Microsoft, and you may not like how it became suc
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I don't think you need to question the moral source of wealth to justify taxing it. Tax law certainly doesn't require justification. Neither does public sentiment. Personally I'm in the camp that wealth could be taxed far mor
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Psychologically it can be more important to understand why you asked a question than in getting an answer. I wrote the reply so the asker could reflect on the motivation which in turn can lead to a more satisfying outcome than simple agreem
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Why do you care? I mean that seriously. Sometimes when one asks a question the asking may be more insightful to you than the answer. I mean, you'll get a bunch of answers here, reflecting a bunch of opinions. But why do you care about
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I think this us a fair feeling. One chooses a house based in part on the area as the specifics of the house itself. Wanting the neighborhood to remain unchanged is a reasonable desire. Unfortunately, as much as you desire it, it's not
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>> both will struggle hard to actually turn a profit some day, let alone make back the massive investments they've received. I'd agree with you, except I've heard this argument before. Amazon, Google, Facebook all burne
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>> build it and they will come" was true in 2005 and hasn't been true since 2015. It wasn't true in 2005. It wasn't true in 1995. It's never been true. I joined a fledgling industry in the mid 90s. There were
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>> The process is fun. Abandon the idea of making money, and it becomes more enjoyable. 100% this. Some things you do in life are for money. Other things are for fun. Turning fun into money usually removes the fun part. We have a word
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by bruce511 6mo ago
You are of course entitled to your opinion. And you're free to code apps for any platform or language you like. Clearly though the world is using the web platform for writing applications. And I for one like the fact I can book a car,
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Infinite scrolling is just a feature. It can be used for good or evil.
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I concur that most web sites could use less JavaScript. And a lot of (but not all) cosmetic uses for JavaScript can be done in CSS. Of course for web apps (as distinct from web sites) most of what we do would be impossible without JavaScrip
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Consider your experience up to now as an education. The hard part is not building a working product. The hard part is finding people to use it. Yes, building the working product is the fun part. Yes it's the part that overlaps your cur
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by bruce511 6mo ago
I follow your logic here, and it's certainly a coherent argument. That said, there are perhaps some factors you are overlooking which matter. The first is that no amount of certification solves the actual problem (which is that securit
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I'm not sure I agree. Given that the area in question here is the southern United States, and considering that racism is alive and well there, indeed with people groups they have met (and who speak English), I'm not convinced that
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True, if the presence of active terrorist organizations is beneficial then this is a win. Politically it might suit Israel to have overt enemies. I'm not sure it's necessarily advantageous to the population, but that probably does
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Winning is not the absence of anything negative. Winning is emerging in a stronger position than before. Yes the US started the conflict for reasons which are unclear. Yes a lot of lives were lost, and a lot of infrastructure destroyed. Bec
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by bruce511 6mo ago
I clearly don't know you or your specific situation, so take this with appropriate caution. It sounds to me like there is much in your life you cannot control. That sucks. Sorry for that. But it seems like this specific thing is someth
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by bruce511 6mo ago
I applaud your dedication to not succumbing to the appification of everything. Unfortunately you are an outlier and society is not built for outliers. Equally, unfortunately, the opinion of outliers does not really help the argument for a m
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I get the concept of this at a principle level. But how does it play out for you? I mean, to what extent do you succumb to the monoculture because while principles are good, you live in the real world? So, like, what phone OS do you use? Th
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by bruce511 6mo ago
Thanks for the feedback. So hosting on say Wix is still Open Web? I suppose, is the converse free? Is a site that allows access without a login Open Web? Like say YouTube?
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I feel like you're describing pretty much every industry ever. You could be talking about food, or insurance or cars or planes or health or (dare I say it?) politics. Of course there are well understood commercial reasons for industrie
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by bruce511 6mo ago
To be honest, I'm not sure I even understand what the term "Open web" is supposed to mean? Does it mean that each individual and company is hosting their stuff on their own physical hardware? Is it OK to use say AWS? Does it
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by bruce511 6mo ago
As someone outside the US I certainly feel this way. The underlying point is that the American public voted for this. They saw his first term, a million people dead from covid, and thought to themselves "I want more of that guy".

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