glaurent

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by glaurent 13y ago
Anybody else thinks that the 'Adams' character is the typical bipolar ?
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by glaurent 13y ago
it's not just the caliber of the ammo, it's also the velocity. I'm certainly not an expert, but I did my military service in a base used for tank training. Back then, it was already a done deal : no armor could resist the amo
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by glaurent 13y ago
but it's still below the levels of 1970.
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by glaurent 13y ago
He was not a hacker and that's precisely why he could lead the creation of great end-user products. He certainly did know a whole lot about programming : check his WWDC 97 address, in particular this sequence at 22' : http://www.youtube.co
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by glaurent 14y ago
I switched to OS X in 2008. Prior to that, I had been using Linux since 1995, and contributed quite a lot to Free Software (Gnome, gtkmm, KDE, Rosegarden). May be I saw one too many Apple add on a billboard. Or may be after trying my mom's
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by glaurent 14y ago
Tk ? Seriously ? > at least 80% of my development I can do on my Linux machine. That's the whole problem right there. The remaining 20% are all the desktop-integration features and UI polish that is not cross-platform, but which makes
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by glaurent 14y ago
The fundamental flaw in CatB is that it was essentially an adaptation of ESR's libertarian creed, that Free Market is infallible and would always boil down to the best optimal solution. While that may work on the scale of a single project,
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by glaurent 15y ago
Compared to the Java and C# libs, yes, the C++ std lib is small. In terms of complexity and ease of use, it's a different picture.
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by glaurent 15y ago
I know Objective C, C++, Java and have basic knowledge of C#. Of all these I'd rate Objective C as the easiest to learn and to handle. It's much more forgiving and easy on the programmer, and the syntax is trivial. You seem to make a big ca
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by glaurent 15y ago
> On a personal note, the effort required to maintain a stable Linux desktop made me switch to OS X in 2007, after using Linux for 13 years. I did the exact same thing (except in early 2008 - been using Linux since 1995), for the exact
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by glaurent 15y ago
Even if you're replacing the software, having the source allows you to ensure that your replacement is fully backwards compatible with the original Same answer : True in theory, very rarely practical in reality. The only thing that really
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by glaurent 15y ago
> Considering the huge progress that was made in the 90'ties on Linux and the lack of progress done after OS X came, I think it is safe to assume that OS X played a major role here. Progress in software development is not linear. You qu
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by glaurent 15y ago
> Community development seems to work well enough for individual projects, but not in-between projects that's pretty close to saying that community development doesn't scale, isn't it ? :-)
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by glaurent 15y ago
> Basically OS X destroyed Linux's chances on dominating the future desktop. Yeah, because the constant feuds within the Linux community, the failure to settle on a common desktop platform, the crowd of "I-want-to-write-yet-another-irc-
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by glaurent 15y ago
> he did change the system from the inside Yeah, no, not really. Linus did, by precisely following that advice : compromise and be practical. Yes, he couldn't have done it without rms's previous work, but without Linux, Free Software wo
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by glaurent 15y ago
Wow, very cool to see a post from you top-ranking here :-) Hope to see you at the next Open Coffee Sophia :-).
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by glaurent 15y ago
Code completion in XCode 4.2 using llvm/clang has improved a whole lot. I'd say it's on par with Eclipse now.