... what a complete and utter bullshit: "... where the culture clash between the remorseless competition of the US tech industry and the locals' respect for tradition and deference to established interests is especially stark" Maybe it's more that in Europe countries have not been taken over by commerce to the degree that has happened in the US. Maybe that NY Times reporter baby could buy a passport and take time to visit some European countries once. Indeed, when you want to do a business in a country, you obey simple rules, nothing more, apparently Uber has issues with that, and perhaps that attitude is typically American, who knows. That arrogant crap company is doing the same here in Indonesia; simply ignore laws and court orders, hoping they can strong arm local and national governments into compliance, disgusting!
Yup. Ubuntu is hardly more than glorified Debian. Except they use their homegrown UI now I think, not Gnome. Gnome became impossible to use after Gnome devs insulted the world by dumbing it down to a wallpaper with three buttons or so.
Another stab at appification of the open internet. The only reason companies keep doing, trying this, is because internet via a browser, using open standards, does not give them the leeway they desire. The leeway to force ads upon us without recourse, to implement artifical profit models that would be defeatable if people keep using open internet via open standards and open software. God I hope it fails, fails horribly.
In the sense that getting things done takes more and more clicks and time? I find myself installing more and more Windows-unsuck tools again of the type that I really thought belonged firmly to the Windows 3 - Windows 98 past.
When will this news item stop being regurgitated. OF COURSE information will be found on discarded storage devices. We know, it's logical and expected, and we have been informed by jobless journalists a zillion times already.
"There's a shockingly large number of emotionally immature and insecure people in the Kernel community, and a great many people meet the wrath of those people for no good reason."
Precisely the problem. And their presence, the culture, has been initiated and is being maintained by Linus. It is classical narcissistic behaviour; surround yourself with people whom you feel pose no danger to your world view in which you are a god. It results in a mob of people stupider than the narcissist, willing to follow and OK him on anything, and who display much the same (narcissistic) traits.
Indeed! Not literally of course, but still. Linus has been and still is in charge, and has managed OK. But has also kicked out quite a number of good professionals, for no other reason than his narcissism, ego and at times completely dysfunctional communication.
The Windows GUI (The combined failure of Gnome, KDE, FVWM, Mintamon, Cinnamate and whatever you have more is outright sickening) Active Directory plus its supporting GUI programs Powershell
It's probably partly true. But only for the case where the software you are going to write is not big or complex. As soon as that aspect comes around the corner, people with a mind trained in logic and structural thinking (mathematicians, physicists), have a very clear advantage, and it will show in the the quality and maintainability of the code.
I was doing the same years ago already, in an environment no less where all installation and / or use of (ooohhh! EVIL!!) open source or anything that the company did not have to pay for was forbidden and punishable. Braindead managerial wankers. Interesting to hear it still happens:).
Well... I was looking for an X-server for my PC. Then I started looking on NewsNet for such a thing, and I found Debian:).
Version 0.93R6, in 1996 it was I think, on a pile of diskettes I think numbering 23. I read the first ideas about what Ian wanted the thing to be and immediately liked his attitude and approach. It was what kept me with Debian, even when later RedHat and others came and gained popularity. I knew with the solid technical and social basis and fanatic aspiration towards architectural perfection it would survive.
+1 For this. I was one of the first persons to start using Debian, when they were still on a.out... Even at that time already, the "being helpful" and "friendly support" were a sham. People in Debian IRC have always been introvert, rude and aggressive. Luckily all of that is more than made up for by the fantastic system that Debian is.
You are either ignorant on Windows or insane. Powershell -the default shell on Windows for years in a row already now- easily obliterates anything Linux has.
Mind you, this comes from a Linux user and proponent. I've used Powershell for tasks at work since version 1.0. This version still had some serious shortcomings, but it already made clear that it would be shiningly bright soon. A promise it indeed fullfilled reaching version 2.0.
I repeatedly wrote and used a fairly big pile of scripts, over various platforms. Shell, but mostly Powershell on Windows, starting from when it was just available.
It worked wonders: I made information gathering scripts to scrape ALL available sources, dynamically queried from the devices, or static from other sources, including whatever crooked enterprise solution was already wasting electricity. I had them run one a or a few times per day generating raw results. Then a second layer of scripts would make useful combinations and comparison lists. A third layer would then form presentation lists. I made the third type available to complete idiots, the second to lesser idiots, and the first to nobody (no higher level available...)
It worked wonders, everybody wanted and used that information, I could usually provide any "report" almost on the spot, whereas previously, making such a "report" would have been a regularly repeated onetime action (!), requireing a small project, weeks of time, and mostly lots of networking, server, and most of all database "experts" claiming it was difficult and infighting each other.
The only thing is: do it under the radar of management, they need their enterprise systems and projects to be able to claim success.
I sure hope Chromium will leave out or at least disable that crap. This is what you get when people mistakenly think that webpages are an application interface; depressing horror. Browsers displaying webpages are not an application interface, they never were, and are completely unfit for it. What Google is doing with this abomination is just ignoring that reality and taking that insane idea closer to its logical conclusion of utter, irreversible insanity.
This guy deserves the motherload of upvotes. God I get sick with the lies of apple's so-called usability superiority, based on outright lies, but echoed by so many fanatics that most reasonable people seem to not dare to react anymore.
How about women first making sure they are as good as men? ANd if you really want to go this path, how about caring about less pay for shorter people? For people with a weird voice? For people with disabilities? For people with an eccentric hairdo? For people who stink? Frantic feminist freak, bah.
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... what a complete and utter bullshit: "... where the culture clash between the remorseless competition of the US tech industry and the locals' respect for tradition and deference to established interests is especially stark"
Maybe it's more that in Europe countries have not been taken over by commerce to the degree that has happened in the US. Maybe that NY Times reporter baby could buy a passport and take time to visit some European countries once.
Indeed, when you want to do a business in a country, you obey simple rules, nothing more, apparently Uber has issues with that, and perhaps that attitude is typically American, who knows.
That arrogant crap company is doing the same here in Indonesia; simply ignore laws and court orders, hoping they can strong arm local and national governments into compliance, disgusting!
Yup. Ubuntu is hardly more than glorified Debian.
Except they use their homegrown UI now I think, not Gnome.
Gnome became impossible to use after Gnome devs insulted the world by dumbing it down to a wallpaper with three buttons or so.
Another stab at appification of the open internet.
The only reason companies keep doing, trying this, is because internet via a browser, using open standards, does not give them the leeway they desire.
The leeway to force ads upon us without recourse, to implement artifical profit models that would be defeatable if people keep using open internet via open standards and open software.
God I hope it fails, fails horribly.
To be called, iOU I guess.
Nothing new, just walk on. He rants because that's his natural state. Can not wait for the fool to disappear.
In the sense that getting things done takes more and more clicks and time?
I find myself installing more and more Windows-unsuck tools again of the type that I really thought belonged firmly to the Windows 3 - Windows 98 past.
Debian
Google has a browser that generates desktop notifications?
I never noticed. My virus scanner must have caught them, and so it should. Derailed Google fools, what was in their heads, soup?
Good thing they're removing it.
AGAIN???!!! :/
When will this news item stop being regurgitated. OF COURSE information will be found on discarded storage devices.
We know, it's logical and expected, and we have been informed by jobless journalists a zillion times already.
"There's a shockingly large number of emotionally immature and insecure people in the Kernel community, and a great many people meet the wrath of those people for no good reason."
Precisely the problem. And their presence, the culture, has been initiated and is being maintained by Linus.
It is classical narcissistic behaviour; surround yourself with people whom you feel pose no danger to your world view in which you are a god. It results in a mob of people stupider than the narcissist, willing to follow and OK him on anything, and who display much the same (narcissistic) traits.
Indeed!
Not literally of course, but still. Linus has been and still is in charge, and has managed OK.
But has also kicked out quite a number of good professionals, for no other reason than his narcissism, ego and at times completely dysfunctional communication.
That sounds pretty buzzword compliant.
The Windows GUI (The combined failure of Gnome, KDE, FVWM, Mintamon, Cinnamate and whatever you have more is outright sickening)
Active Directory plus its supporting GUI programs
Powershell
It's probably partly true. But only for the case where the software you are going to write is not big or complex.
As soon as that aspect comes around the corner, people with a mind trained in logic and structural thinking (mathematicians, physicists), have a very clear advantage, and it will show in the the quality and maintainability of the code.
I was doing the same years ago already, in an environment no less where all installation and / or use of (ooohhh! EVIL!!) open source or anything that the company did not have to pay for was forbidden and punishable. :).
Braindead managerial wankers.
Interesting to hear it still happens
Well... :).
I was looking for an X-server for my PC.
Then I started looking on NewsNet for such a thing, and I found Debian
Version 0.93R6, in 1996 it was I think, on a pile of diskettes I think numbering 23.
I read the first ideas about what Ian wanted the thing to be and immediately liked his attitude and approach. It was what kept me with Debian, even when later RedHat and others came and gained popularity. I knew with the solid technical and social basis and fanatic aspiration towards architectural perfection it would survive.
+1 For this.
I was one of the first persons to start using Debian, when they were still on a.out... Even at that time already, the "being helpful" and "friendly support" were a sham. People in Debian IRC have always been introvert, rude and aggressive.
Luckily all of that is more than made up for by the fantastic system that Debian is.
"It lacks a powerful shell"
You are either ignorant on Windows or insane. Powershell -the default shell on Windows for years in a row already now- easily obliterates anything Linux has.
Mind you, this comes from a Linux user and proponent. I've used Powershell for tasks at work since version 1.0. This version still had some serious shortcomings, but it already made clear that it would be shiningly bright soon. A promise it indeed fullfilled reaching version 2.0.
I repeatedly wrote and used a fairly big pile of scripts, over various platforms. Shell, but mostly Powershell on Windows, starting from when it was just available.
It worked wonders: I made information gathering scripts to scrape ALL available sources, dynamically queried from the devices, or static from other sources, including whatever crooked enterprise solution was already wasting electricity. I had them run one a or a few times per day generating raw results.
Then a second layer of scripts would make useful combinations and comparison lists.
A third layer would then form presentation lists.
I made the third type available to complete idiots, the second to lesser idiots, and the first to nobody (no higher level available...)
It worked wonders, everybody wanted and used that information, I could usually provide any "report" almost on the spot, whereas previously, making such a "report" would have been a regularly repeated onetime action (!), requireing a small project, weeks of time, and mostly lots of networking, server, and most of all database "experts" claiming it was difficult and infighting each other.
The only thing is: do it under the radar of management, they need their enterprise systems and projects to be able to claim success.
I thought I read "Microsoft Servers on Ships" :)
Can not be true, right
Hm, 200. That's about the year Google's sharp decline began. Not in profits, I'm sure, but in making fun, innovative, and usable products.
Oh, the one that actually worked well?
Thanks, Google!
I sure hope Chromium will leave out or at least disable that crap.
This is what you get when people mistakenly think that webpages are an application interface; depressing horror. Browsers displaying webpages are not an application interface, they never were, and are completely unfit for it.
What Google is doing with this abomination is just ignoring that reality and taking that insane idea closer to its logical conclusion of utter, irreversible insanity.
This guy deserves the motherload of upvotes.
God I get sick with the lies of apple's so-called usability superiority, based on outright lies, but echoed by so many fanatics that most reasonable people seem to not dare to react anymore.
How about women first making sure they are as good as men?
ANd if you really want to go this path, how about caring about less pay for shorter people? For people with a weird voice? For people with disabilities? For people with an eccentric hairdo? For people who stink?
Frantic feminist freak, bah.