This is precisely it. Linux is not unix. It only vaguely and superficially resembles unix. Those of us who like unix aren't using linux anyways. If you want to use unix, do so. But suggesting linux distros need to be a…
You are confusing a sense of accomplishment for happiness. That suggests that you may not have felt happiness enough (or recently enough) to recognize it.
Why 10 years? Given that we've known what a mess the software development world is for 50 years and nothing has improved, what makes you think anything will be better 10 years from now?
Why do you think responding to "you are making a bunch of uninformed assumptions" with more uninformed assumptions is productive? Protip: some of us saw this site when it was made 2 years ago. Some of us are even aware…
I'd be extremely surprised if they can. Just because there are a lot of options, doesn't mean there's any good ones. Tons of nearly identical, virtually featureless products does not make it easier to find one that…
>Judging from the fact that their service has good reviews in major media and millions of users They have no reviews in major media. They have both good and bad reviews in minor media. The "millions of users" claim is…
>That's not funny or educational or even interesting. Two of those are subjective and I'll ignore. But it is educational, it links to alternatives to 37 signals products. >I can't really think of anything 37signals has…
Why are you bragging about making a bunch of uninformed, knee-jerk assumptions about someone you know nothing about? And why is this trash the top comment? Whether or not $20/month is too much does not depend on whether…
>The general consensus is that they do both Your claim is just as baseless as the one you are responding to, which was pointing out how baseless the original claim "they make good software" was. >not many unsatisfied…
>I think it's because there are lots of PHP programmers who don't have the first clue about setting up an actual server on the internet (and keeping it up). Well PHP programmers are going to want to use PHP anyways. But…
I don't understand why that is still something people care about in the days of $5 VPS hosting.
That's an arbitrary and useless guideline, using made up numbers. If losing 1% of your potential users costs $100k in lost sales a year, and 20% of my time costs $20k, then spending that 20% time seems like a pretty…
>Walter is saying you can't have good error messages without semicolons That is what he said though. I understand it is one example for a larger point, but it is an example that doesn't support that point at all. It is…
I think this shows that Walter has lots of compiler experience, not so much lots of language design experience. You can't get good error messages without semicolons? How can anyone say something that absurd in a serious…
Well one other difference is that D is a systems language, and Go is nothing even remotely close to a systems language but initially claimed to be one. There is not much demand for a new systems language, most people…
Your own examples contradict your hypothesis. Ruby is a generic scripting language, it is not better or worse than python or perl at anything. Rails made ruby popular due to evangelism, not solving a problem others do…
Useful tab completion, more useful commands, catching Ctrl+C like a shell is supposed to do instead of exiting like an asshole, etc. Can you give an example of your opposite experience? I've literally never met someone…
>As JavaScript is basically a required feature on the web these days, who cares? People who don't live in a fantasy bubble world where that is true? "Hey, just throw away 1% of your potential user base for no reason"…
The problem with that is confusing users. When you have a "login with firefox" option you will get "but I don't use firefox anymore, I switched to chrome".
>It's just a heavily biased article is all Yes, but as I said I don't see any indication that the bias is towards "enterprise" at all. Python's use in statistics and related fields is quite small compared to its…
Really a shame they used the mysql protocol. The mysql command line client is terrible compared to psql, and the mysql lib is much less pleasant to use than libpq.
What are you basing that on? They have python as #1 by a large margin, when literally every other language popularity measure has it somewhere down the list below java, C++, PHP, etc. If it were skewed towards…
Except that provides absolutely no evidence to support the hypothesis. People have variations in wrists and forearms too, it does not follow that some people are "morphologically incapable" of using a mouse for example.
>What the hell are you talking about? Exactly what I said. You can go read your post if you have forgotten its contents. >not end users who remain, for the most part, unaware of whatever issues may lie under the hood.…
1. The link you provided does not support your absurd claim in any way. 2. It is not a well written about issue at all. If it was you would show some support for it rather than try to deflect. 3. Of course not. But your…
This is precisely it. Linux is not unix. It only vaguely and superficially resembles unix. Those of us who like unix aren't using linux anyways. If you want to use unix, do so. But suggesting linux distros need to be a…
You are confusing a sense of accomplishment for happiness. That suggests that you may not have felt happiness enough (or recently enough) to recognize it.
Why 10 years? Given that we've known what a mess the software development world is for 50 years and nothing has improved, what makes you think anything will be better 10 years from now?
Why do you think responding to "you are making a bunch of uninformed assumptions" with more uninformed assumptions is productive? Protip: some of us saw this site when it was made 2 years ago. Some of us are even aware…
I'd be extremely surprised if they can. Just because there are a lot of options, doesn't mean there's any good ones. Tons of nearly identical, virtually featureless products does not make it easier to find one that…
>Judging from the fact that their service has good reviews in major media and millions of users They have no reviews in major media. They have both good and bad reviews in minor media. The "millions of users" claim is…
>That's not funny or educational or even interesting. Two of those are subjective and I'll ignore. But it is educational, it links to alternatives to 37 signals products. >I can't really think of anything 37signals has…
Why are you bragging about making a bunch of uninformed, knee-jerk assumptions about someone you know nothing about? And why is this trash the top comment? Whether or not $20/month is too much does not depend on whether…
>The general consensus is that they do both Your claim is just as baseless as the one you are responding to, which was pointing out how baseless the original claim "they make good software" was. >not many unsatisfied…
>I think it's because there are lots of PHP programmers who don't have the first clue about setting up an actual server on the internet (and keeping it up). Well PHP programmers are going to want to use PHP anyways. But…
I don't understand why that is still something people care about in the days of $5 VPS hosting.
That's an arbitrary and useless guideline, using made up numbers. If losing 1% of your potential users costs $100k in lost sales a year, and 20% of my time costs $20k, then spending that 20% time seems like a pretty…
>Walter is saying you can't have good error messages without semicolons That is what he said though. I understand it is one example for a larger point, but it is an example that doesn't support that point at all. It is…
I think this shows that Walter has lots of compiler experience, not so much lots of language design experience. You can't get good error messages without semicolons? How can anyone say something that absurd in a serious…
Well one other difference is that D is a systems language, and Go is nothing even remotely close to a systems language but initially claimed to be one. There is not much demand for a new systems language, most people…
Your own examples contradict your hypothesis. Ruby is a generic scripting language, it is not better or worse than python or perl at anything. Rails made ruby popular due to evangelism, not solving a problem others do…
Useful tab completion, more useful commands, catching Ctrl+C like a shell is supposed to do instead of exiting like an asshole, etc. Can you give an example of your opposite experience? I've literally never met someone…
>As JavaScript is basically a required feature on the web these days, who cares? People who don't live in a fantasy bubble world where that is true? "Hey, just throw away 1% of your potential user base for no reason"…
The problem with that is confusing users. When you have a "login with firefox" option you will get "but I don't use firefox anymore, I switched to chrome".
>It's just a heavily biased article is all Yes, but as I said I don't see any indication that the bias is towards "enterprise" at all. Python's use in statistics and related fields is quite small compared to its…
Really a shame they used the mysql protocol. The mysql command line client is terrible compared to psql, and the mysql lib is much less pleasant to use than libpq.
What are you basing that on? They have python as #1 by a large margin, when literally every other language popularity measure has it somewhere down the list below java, C++, PHP, etc. If it were skewed towards…
Except that provides absolutely no evidence to support the hypothesis. People have variations in wrists and forearms too, it does not follow that some people are "morphologically incapable" of using a mouse for example.
>What the hell are you talking about? Exactly what I said. You can go read your post if you have forgotten its contents. >not end users who remain, for the most part, unaware of whatever issues may lie under the hood.…
1. The link you provided does not support your absurd claim in any way. 2. It is not a well written about issue at all. If it was you would show some support for it rather than try to deflect. 3. Of course not. But your…