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by pionar 14y ago
Seriously? Business software isn't about "what they want", it's about coming up with a solution to meet a business need. If the customer can't define what their business need is (the why of specs), then they have no reason to be in busines
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by pionar 14y ago
I'm a developer working on enterprise-level software that's been around 18 years. Talk about legacy code! It's gone from a C++ Windows Desktop/Server app, to ASP, to C#/ASP.NET, to now a SAAS C#/ASP.NET/WCF system.
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by pionar 14y ago
No, it's up to the project. You can use Team Foundation Server on Codeplex, but not everyone has that, and although it's "supposed" to work with a subversion client, the support there sucks.
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by pionar 14y ago
It's not really that surprising, Microsoft has been quite FOSS-friendly for about five years now. A good chunk of their web stack (MVC, the ASP.NET membership providers, Entity Framework, Web API, Web Pages) are all open-source - http://a
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by pionar 14y ago
Or that they will be, or that FB wants to create its own language ala Google.
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by pionar 14y ago
OT, but it took me way too long to figure out how to make the slides advance. I'm an idiot :)
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by pionar 14y ago
If you ever find yourself saying the words "x needs to be properly censored", you should get a bad taste in your mouth. I would.
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by pionar 14y ago
Then it's not peer-to-peer.
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by pionar 14y ago
haha, Ireland, i.e. - I see what you did there.
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by pionar 14y ago
While that may be true, it is also true that the environment is shaped by the people that inhabit it. Most of the people in the US come from immigrants, people who weren't afraid to set out on their own to a new place. Those kinds of peop
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by pionar 14y ago
There's a difference between a bug and being tied to a platform for one application. To be fair, you can always switch to another OS (or even another distro) and use chromium.