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by tabtab 6y ago
As far as developer productivity, the desktop-oriented IDE's were indeed better. Yes, you had less choice, but that didn't matter much if tried to think like a plumber instead of Picasso. The problem was that deployment and instal
632.
by tabtab 6y ago
The features you list are not necessarily mutually exclusive, but too many think they are, and that's the problem. For some reason people seem to think it's either rich GUI -or- web. With a decent stateful GUI markup standard, we
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by tabtab 6y ago
Re: Obviously, WYSIWYG and other graphical builders will always need a specific IDE in order to do RAD, but these are special cases, not the norm anymore. I don't know why it died, WYSIWYG and GUI-friendly IDE's allowed higher p
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by tabtab 6y ago
The larger-scale lesson is that life has proved difficult to identify. We don't know all the inorganic paths to life-like signs. It will probably take a microscope to give definitive evidence, not chemistry.
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by tabtab 6y ago
I still don't get the new "distributed" version of c2.com. It looks like a failure, based on traffic rates. Ward is a smart person, but he laid an egg on that project. (Ward pretty much invented the wiki concept.)
636.
by tabtab 6y ago
That's part of the reason why Europeans are trimmer and healthier.
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by tabtab 6y ago
I have three major comments about this. First, most countries use a lot of public transportation, which often requires walking roughly a mile to and again from work and commerce centers. This "forces" them to get regular exercise.
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by tabtab 6y ago
There were lawsuits flying left and right over the origin, which scared a lot of resources away from it. (It turned out Ashton-Tate stole it from NASA's JPL, who modified some of the keywords, but stole the concept from a defunct compa
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by tabtab 6y ago
Example "complex client logic" that we can analyze here? As far as programming language syntax preferences, that's a different subject, and largely subjective.
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by tabtab 6y ago
HTML was originally for relatively static documents and still works relatively well in that domain. But for almost everything ELSE it turned into a convoluted mess, requiring UI rocket science to manage, and bloating up development. I obser
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by tabtab 6y ago
One thing I find is that academic-oriented debaters often view the criteria for the value of a tool/language/system/etc. very different than those used to thinking in terms of business (profit, resources, deadlines, etc.). Fo
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by tabtab 6y ago
I've been looking for something similar that either has a markup language associated with it or is easy to add one to. I wish to prototype a GUI markup standard with it as a proof of concept so that we can have GUI-over-HTTP instead of
643.
by tabtab 6y ago
I'm not sure if this is sarcasm. I'm confused. Without children, humans cease to exist. Although, arguably there are too many humans already.
644.
by tabtab 6y ago
correction: "and threw it out" (replacing it with Dot-Net, which wasn't backward compatible.)
645.
by tabtab 6y ago
See nearby for my early-car analogy.
646.
by tabtab 6y ago
I agree that our current tooling requires more "rocket science" than it should to do ordinary things. I'm not sure how to fix the entire industry, but the first step to solving a problem is admit there is one. Early cars we
647.
by tabtab 6y ago
For who? Its bad points were mostly fixable. MS just stopped working on it an threw out it.
648.
by tabtab 6y ago
Not quite what I said. I said they are not needed for rank and file application (domain-centric) development, IF the tooling and programming language are decent. If you bring up a scenario, I can probably poke holes in it. Done it many ti
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by tabtab 6y ago
This is largely because JavaScript has weak areas.
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by tabtab 6y ago
Most rank-and-file development doesn't need async and HOF. If your framework does, it's either screwed up or for a special/rare niche. I've been in these debates many times, and when examples are given I can usually trac
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by tabtab 6y ago
Visual Basic 6, Delphi, PowerBuilder, Paradox, Oracle Forms, etc. They had warts, but generally got better after each release.
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by tabtab 6y ago
Too many things in web-ville are becoming black boxes, or at least dark-grey boxes. ORM's, route mappers (with URL beautifiers), most "progressive" UI kits, etc. This is usually "solved" by hiring technology-specifi
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by tabtab 6y ago
Younger boys who get a lot of exercise consistently perform better in school on average. The "problem" is that girls don't need as much exercise. Coordinating the difference confounds US schools.
654.
by tabtab 6y ago
Big GUI apps don't need a big download packet, assuming a good "GUI browser" that can shift most domain logic to the server. Just make each window/form/panel an independent packet. An application can have say 5,000
655.
by tabtab 6y ago
"Unbuild the wall!"
656.
by tabtab 6y ago
It should be weighed like any non-trivial investment. Present an estimated yearly cost curve for keeping the system versus overhauling it: two curves. Upper managers will probably relate to that better than techno-speak. Typically a replace
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by tabtab 6y ago
I found XUL kind of cryptic and round-about. Maybe its philosophy somehow paid off in the longer run, but it's not newbie-friendly, discouraging fiddlers and experimentation. And Java damaged its client-side reputation via the Applet f
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GUI's still the pinnacle of productivity, let's help them out
5 points by tabtab 6y ago|4 comments
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by tabtab 6y ago
Being Mozart was often in debt, it wouldn't make sense that he wanted to please musicians over paying customers. But who knows. Maybe his desire to test the limits of music subconsciously overrode financial worries, and that's why
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by tabtab 6y ago
I've been accused of being a troll multiple times. It typically happens when I spot vague but powerful claims from somebody who claimed to be highly educated. For example, somebody may claim that a programming or software technique is

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