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by danssig 15y ago
It would probably be more effective and work faster if victims of this nonsense just started showing up at these people's houses with ski masks and baseball bats.
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by danssig 15y ago
>I think it requires a naive and backwards view of human psychology to assume that money is the sole or primary incentive to create quality music or software. When will you make it? In the evening when you're off from work? What abo
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by danssig 15y ago
It's not ironic. He made his living (little as it might have been) by doing what he wanted to do. He wasn't cleaning toilets on the side to supplement his hobby of composing. Other people making more money off his work doesn't change any
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by danssig 15y ago
> I remember when it seemed like I could just open something up and start hacking on it without having to hold tens of thousands of lines of code in my head, spread over dozens of files. Here's me telling you what's wrong instead of lis
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by danssig 15y ago
>In fact, I don't know many of my favorite musicians today who make a living from their music. They all work day jobs. What a nightmare. You mean I have to do this job I hate for the rest of my life because I should want to do the thin
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by danssig 15y ago
It could be that, or it could be that the very best stuff was discovered years ago.
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by danssig 15y ago
What do you expect? There is no such thing as "secure job" anymore so the only way to secure your lifestyle is to make as much money as possible. I would love to make things that benefit everyone and give them away for free but there's n
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by danssig 15y ago
I suspect bmw and benz put a "usa" at the end of their name for their US branches since they're German companies that probably sell more cars in Europe (total out-of-thin-air guess).
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by danssig 15y ago
But UNIX/Linux does suck and few are going to work on these extremely hard problems because UNIX/Linux are good enough.
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by danssig 15y ago
bold face lies, i.e. "in print".
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by danssig 15y ago
Are you new here? Facebook has "lied through its teeth" from day one and it's never hurt them.
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by danssig 15y ago
Well, if they want to break more into the mainstream they will have to move closer to what users are used to. Personally I think it is a bold move to copy OSX instead of windows (if that's what's going on). The kind of people who like th
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by danssig 15y ago
A text editor or an IDE? An IDE can make you many times more productive than you could ever be in a text editor.
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by danssig 15y ago
Fine, you caught me. I'm indeed to lazy to go look this up for you just to prove that Java has more libraries than some dead (as in COBOL-dead) programming language.
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by danssig 15y ago
The main reason to date three people at a time is to find a wife.
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by danssig 15y ago
Yes, OS X got this very right. It's really nice when some big library gets upgraded I don't have to worry that half the applications of my system have to be simultaneously upgraded.
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by danssig 15y ago
You had me until "straying so far from the path of the UNIX philosophy". UNIX is a huge part of the problem IMO. Worse is better. Systems like Linux are the enemy of progress because while they suck horribly, they work much better than s
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by danssig 15y ago
Not than Java, no way.
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by danssig 15y ago
Are you seriously challenging this? Java was the number 1 language for years with all kinds of big businesses throwing people at it. Java easily has more libraries than any other language. No matter how obscure the subject, I've never ha
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by danssig 15y ago
Then why are you in a hurry to get married? I would expect dating to just be for fun at the student phase.
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by danssig 15y ago
What are you wasting all your money on then? If you don't have the money to take a girl out do you really think you're financially stable enough to have a family?
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by danssig 15y ago
No, I didn't drop a link farm because I figured most people would already knew this. I mean, it doesn't even pass the common sense test: if hard work = success why aren't most, say, Mexican immigrants loaded? I suppose it depends on what y
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by danssig 15y ago
You're right, of course. So that means that while perl runs on every major OS, python and ruby run on every major OS, the JVM and the CLR (and can use the libraries from each of these).
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by danssig 15y ago
This was the case years ago but by now with all the people working in python and ruby I don't believe for one second that CPAN has some commonly needed library that they don't. And if your only consideration is the size of the library, don'
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by danssig 15y ago
>Or are you making the point that all these languages are "fast enough" and so a perf difference between them isn't important for real-world use? I'm saying perl might be faster at some loop that adds 1s together, but ruby might be fast
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by danssig 15y ago
Like the "unrecoverable backlash" they suffered for the App Engine pricing scandal, the net neutrality scandal, "If you have something to hide..." and their making a big stink about pulling out of China and then not actually doing it until
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by danssig 15y ago
I meant to say "in general performance", i.e. of a complete application. Micro benchmarks mean less than nothing in that case. Python is obviously plenty fast: Blender (3D modeling application) is written in it. There is also Twisted an
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by danssig 15y ago
>There is just no dispute that smart people working hard can put a few million in the bank after several years of all out toil in the Valley. This statement is either utterly nonsensical and backed up by nothing or it's circular in natu
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by danssig 15y ago
Are you actually under the ridiculously naive impression that hard work = success? I thought that had been satisfactorily disproven years ago.
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by danssig 15y ago
I'm not sure there's even a slight edge in performance these days and even if there were, you have more options with Ruby/Python (e.g. IronRuby/IronPython for the JVM, etc.).

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