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Why Developers Are Switching To Macs
snydeq writes "Programmers are finding themselves increasingly drawn to the Mac as a development platform, in large part due to Apple's decision to move to Intel chips and to embrace virtualization of other OSes, which has turned Mac OS X into a flexible tool for development, InfoWorld reports. The explosion of interest in smartphone development is helping the trend, with iPhone development lock-in to the Mac environment the chief motivating factor for Apple as a platform of choice for mobile development. Yet for many, the Mac remains sluggish and poorly tuned for development, with developers citing its virtual memory system's poor performance in paging data in and out of memory and likening use of the default-network file system, AFS, to engaging oneself with 'some kind of passive-aggressive torture.' What remains unclear is whether Apple will lend an ear to this new wave of Mac-based development or continue to develop products that lock out uses programmers expect."
... so they get the girls!
"Before RMS spoke about it most of you were for Cloud Computing now you are against it. You're a bunch of sheep."
Exactly what I thought! What sheep, changing their mind after being convinced by a well-reasoned argument from someone with a track record for making good predictions!
And if you're not an arrogant bastard, who really isn't a sheep? How many of us really come up with original (or at least self-created) ways of deciding to do things? The decently smart among us are just good at figuring out which smart people to follow, and spend the rest of our time enjoying our lives.
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