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by sinh 9y ago
I don't think we mean the same by "control".
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by sinh 9y ago
> Have you ever used Windows? Indeed, since 3.11. I switched my personal and academic stuff completely to Linux in 1998. I've developed about 6 years with embedded Windows Systems. Today I use Windows for some non-development tasks
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by sinh 9y ago
There is a qualitative difference which makes it beyond improbable that the changes we observe happen by chance. Let's say your assumption is that the things we observe happen by chance. Now, we have, say 100 years of temperature recor
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by sinh 9y ago
> Also, I highly admire Stallman's dedication, and I hope that you're going all the way by only using free software and services, and not just when it suits your narrative. I do not agree to that. Improvement is always graduall
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by sinh 9y ago
I replicate my answer to a different comment here because it applies identically to this one. There is a number of issues with Surface and touchscreens. First, my impression is that Microsoft Surface hardware is, too, heavily advertised in
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by sinh 9y ago
There is a number of issues with that. First, my impression is that Microsoft Surface hardware is, too, heavily advertised in developer forums and social media. Again, one needs to discern the desired association which that PR effort want
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by sinh 9y ago
Well, if Linux developers are better paid this will naturally increase supply. And this happens, of course. But why should pay companies more for Linux when they can develop stuff on Windows, and pay less? Wouldn't it be dumb to use th
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by sinh 9y ago
> Rather, smartphones changed the game in such a way that Microsoft's core strengths didn't seem so strong anymore. That was a dependency game. Windows had created an incredibly strong lock-in effect, leading it to become like
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by sinh 9y ago
> Now I see ads for foot fungus! I noted that, too. Advertisers have become really good at tracking health-related issues. For example, some ten years ago, I bought some device on Amazon for coping with some sensory disability issue. I a
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by sinh 9y ago
> Sorry I disagree, first many people who work in IT are _forced_ to use Windows as their primary host at work. I would consider it a bad use of my experience to develop on Windows. The market agrees with me, experienced Linux developers
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by sinh 9y ago
IIRC this is thought as a deliberate temporary solution because Rust does not yet has a stable ABI. There is no fundamental obstacle to build dynamically linked (shared) libraries in Rust.
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by sinh 9y ago
I still don't get why a developer would want to use Windows at all when he wants to use GNU/Linux tools. I don't know how to call it, but there is a mutant inner platform effect at work (or is it mutant outer platform?) . The