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by jw14 7y ago
No. Git did not prove that Linus could more more than a one-hit wonder. It proved halo effect is real. Mercurial had a better interface and early on was equal or better (as far as I know) for most things. Everyone went with Git because Linu
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by jw14 7y ago
I'm self-taught since age 16. I've been able to write a for- loop since age 16. Maybe it helps that I'm self taught in a pre-google, pre-stackoverflow world. Any beginning programming book will teach for-loops. I do have gaps
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by jw14 7y ago
I've been wondering for a long time about this. My thinking has been that while apps should be sandboxed given China, its (apparent) goals and (apparent from media) past behavior I'm thinking they would invest as much manpower as
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by jw14 7y ago
Glad this didn't turn into a flame war. I like the idea of sharing everything in theory but I don't yet see how to make a living without putting a price tag on something. Working as a contractor writing closed source software and
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by jw14 7y ago
Interesting. From my perspective it's the GPLv3 that's the issue. When I'm looking to build something and I see a GPLv3 widget I think "Oh man, so my options with this will be very limited. I won't be able to do nor
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by jw14 8y ago
Over the years we've had many cross platform GUI frameworks. Both native (wxWindows, SWT) and non-native (Swing, Qt). Everyone was trying for "better". There have always been questions of adoption, stability, fidelity of the
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by jw14 8y ago
As an Atom user I wanted to try this because historically Atom has been worse than VS Code at large files. I don't have a 500k word text file laying around, but I tried an 80k line SQL script. FWIW, it's 8.5mb and the Atom wordcou