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sounds like a programmer problem, not a gentoo problem.
If it moves, compile it
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I think that is part of the issue, but not most.
Most linux users expect choices. Ubuntu doesn't allow you, at least in any reasonable way, to decide which of the implementations you want to use. It's fine to make unity and mir the defaults in your package, but I should be able to make a decision if I want to. The way they are doing it forces us as users to do what they think is correct regardless.
If it moves, compile it
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loctrice wrote: Most linux users expect choices. Ubuntu doesn't allow you, at least in any reasonable way
I don't find that to be true... for example, I hate Unity, but it's really simple to go back to the Gnome shell, takes all of three minutes. Download the gnome-shell and run the installation, log off and log back on and you're done.
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Fair enough. I stopped paying attention after they took the option of "classic" gnome out of the installer. As soon as unity came out, I went to gentoo.
If it moves, compile it
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Yeah, it's still easy to do but it's not part of the installation process any more.
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loctrice wrote: Most linux users expect choices. Ubuntu doesn't allow you.. to decide which of the implementations you want to use
Sure it does, you can install Ubuntu, or you can install another distro, you have that choice.
The part that appears to be sticking in OSS advocate's craws, is that they can see into the future far enough to realize that if Ubuntu is successful, a developer ecosystem will grow up around it that will create sofware that doesn't run on just any distribution of Linux. Well, duh. If you want a large base of users and a developer ecosystem to grow, you have to give them stability, which means stepping off the Linux distro jogging machine. By limiting your choices about the OS as a user, they hope to give you more choices about what applications you can use in the future.
If you don't like it, use the choice they've given you, vote with your feet and switch to another distro. If they're wrong, they;ll fall by the wayside, just like a bunch of other distros over the years.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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That's exactly what I did. I switched to another distro ASAP.
If it moves, compile it
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Better it's better than X.Org or Wayland, they're walking too close to the edge...
In any case, you can take the less evil side of the story, they're competing against Wayland, and competition (and more than that the right to choose) is always good.
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RafagaX wrote: they're competing against Wayland, and competition (and more than that the right to choose) is always good.
True... competition is always good.
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It's been quite awhile since I debugged a computer program. Too long. Although I miss coding, the thing I miss more is the process of finding and fixing bugs in the code. Especially the really hard-to-track-down bugs that have you tearing your hair out - convinced your code cannot possibly be wrong - that something else must be the problem. But then when you track down that impossible bug, it becomes so obvious. I wanted to write here about the most fun I've ever had debugging code. And also the most bizarre, since fixing the bugs required the use of an oven. Yes, an oven. It turned out the bugs were temperature dependent.
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The freemium or free to play (F2P) business model is still new and in an immature state. There are some early adopters that have used exploits or tricks to squeeze money from their players, while others created what we call a “pay-to-win” experience where you’re almost guaranteed to win if you pay money. While these tactics may have generated a lot of revenue for these developers, as the market, business model and player expectations mature, these tactics will become less and less accepted by players. They probably won’t go away all together, but it’s better to get ahead of the curve and start designing and executing smarter games today. Here are examples of 5 of these tactics... This article does not contain any paragraphs that must be unlocked through in-app purchase.
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I am not a computer scientist. Or to be accurate, I am a computer scientist by adoption. I adopted the discipline, having as a background systems engineering, and the discipline adopted me. Of course, the result is that shamefully, I miss large parts of the proper formation of a computer scientist and have had to acquire the requisite knowledge, at least sufficient to 'pass' as a computer scientist, subsequently. Perhaps however, this has given me a more sensitive appreciation of the elegance of computer science and of its 'ninja arts'. Here are my selected five, which exemplify the intellectual and technical tools that computer scientists are able to bring to bear on complex problems. Sorry, there's nothing in this article about nunchucks and throwing stars.
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Hopefully just a brief post in response to one I consider to be spectacularly wrong.... The author of the above-linked post knows a hell of a lot about TDD and the various disciplines that go along with it, and I’ve generally got a lot of respect for him and his work, but when you’re wrong, you’re wrong, and when you’re an authority figure and you’re wrong it needs to be pointed out in case you make a lot of other people wrong too. OMG, someone is wrong on the internet... about TESTING!
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I didn't get my hands on VisiCalc until 1981. The first thing any Apple ][ VisiCalc user had to know was that the '/' (forward-slash) key brings up the menu on the top row of the screen. You used the left and right arrow keys to pick a top-level command, and hit RETURN. At least some of the commands then had a sub-menu which would appear on the second row, and then you'd hit RETURN again to execute the command. It was a really elegant system for using just four keys to represent a command hierarchy on two lines of all upper-case text, just 40 characters long. That was about 8% of the total available screen real estate, which was otherwise occupied by some status readouts - location, cell contents, formula, etc. To this very day in Office 2010 on Windows the '/' key puts focus on the "Ribbon".
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Netflix just used the quiet Friday afternoon to announce that it is effectively ending its public developer program. Netflix will stop issuing API keys immediately and will not accept new API affiliates. The company will no longer offer a test environment for developer and its developer portal is already set to be read-only. Netflix’s OData catalog, which was never updated all that regularly in the first place, will be retired a month from now on April 8. If you're using that database as an example, time to update your articles.
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Universities are not offering the IT programming skills that firms need, according to global research. Skills in programming languages like Cobol, CICS and JCL are essential to support business-critical IT systems that underpin many organisations today, but the majority of IT courses don't support them.... Respondents were also asked how they thought their IT course students felt about learning Cobol skills, and 39 percent said their students viewed Cobol as "un-cool and outdated", with 15 percent saying they wouldn’t know what Cobol was. There's also worryingly low enrollment in Conversational Latin.
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Learning Latin would be more interesting.
Q. Hey man! have you sorted out the finite soup machine?
A. Why yes, it's celery or tomato.
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dusty_dex wrote: Learning Latin would be more interesting.
sure - and if you can get a job and pay your bills by learning that knowledge, why not ?
as for COBOL, there's still a fair bit of work out there in it, so, so much for it being 'uncool'
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Well that's the upside.
If I could do what Richard Pryor's character did in Superman III and siphon off the fractions of $0.01c at a financial institute, and get away with it. I'd be very interested in that job.
Q. Hey man! have you sorted out the finite soup machine?
A. Why yes, it's celery or tomato.
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I got my first programming job by writing games in COBOL on a TI-990 while waiting for the batch jobs I used to run for a printing business
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When I was in college, we were required to take 3 semesters of COBOL programming. While I have not used COBOL since I left college, many of my colleagues have.
We are constantly told there is a large body of COBOL code that needs to be maintained; whether that is true or not is not for me to say.
I will, however, make this observations: at the top of the banner for CodeProject is an advertisement for Visual COBOL. If COBOL is a 'dead language', why is there a Visual instance of it? Why would a for-profit company create a product for which there should be no market?
Tim
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Most of the criticism about Windows 8 is around how Microsoft attempted to bridge the gap between a modern touch-based, tablet-centric (if you will), UI and the traditional desktop. Now this is actually a complex situation, because we aren’t just talking about UI but also about a new app model. In theory you could have one without the other. In previous posts I’ve talked about why the overall re-imagination of Windows, including all these elements, was important. So as one thinks about various alternative scenarios you have to consider that not all of the modernization would have necessarily occurred. A touch too much?
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Terrence Dorsey wrote: What if Microsoft had done Windows 8 differently?
They did.
modified 11-Mar-13 0:02am.
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It has been out for three days, and SimCity is broken. Seriously, unplayably broken. As a long-time fan who's been looking forward to this week for many years, this is a huge, frustrating disappointment. The worst part? The main issue isn't with the game itself, but an entirely unnecessary and completely avoidable always-online Digital Rights Management (DRM) system that's keeping millions of fans from playing the game they paid for, when they were told they'd be able to play it. Here's what the past 10 years of online DRM has taught anybody who's paid the slightest bit of attention.
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