If you don't understand how building software works, then you're just a bad developer. Thankfully for you, the standards have fallen quite low, so you can still make a living as a developer even if you require development environments and frameworks to do everything for you in a way that you cannot control and adjust.
The only area where I see potential for Linux as a professional deverlopment plattform is the web. All important browsers work on Linux and the server stack is home turf. But also in this park Mac comes out ahead, with webdevs on OS X actually taking care of web dev and not coming up with a new wizzbang server framework or something.
Linux is actually mostly used for complex systems, deployments of services requiring some sort of cloud infrastructure, or by people that care about performance.
I have a master's degree in computer science, and I also worked in academia for a few years (I turned down a PHD offer, but I still did a bit of applied research). I would still consider myself self-taught.
I saw this poll, but I just didn't vote since I had no idea how to. I write software, usually in C++ because that's a universal language suited to everything. Their categories are awful and make no sense unless you're a junior developer working at a web start-up.
I'm usually more interested in what motivates the change than the change itself. It's my project, I understand the code, so any change is trivial, but it might not align with my goals.
I systematically google anyone who sends me a pull request. I assume most people do the same. Why wouldn't you be curious about that person that not only uses your software, but also took the time to fix a bug in it?
All goods derive their value from what people are willing to pay for them. Only if that value is higher than production costs is the product actually produced.
Lowering the price to something close to production costs only happens if there is sufficient competition or if it opens additional markets which mean more profits down the line.
Every 5 years, AMD makes a big announcement like they're going to open up their technology. None of these efforts were maintained, it felt more like "we're giving up on this old architecture, but here are the specs, in case you want to do our job in our place".
I'll be more impressed when they can commit in the long term.
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If you don't understand how building software works, then you're just a bad developer.
Thankfully for you, the standards have fallen quite low, so you can still make a living as a developer even if you require development environments and frameworks to do everything for you in a way that you cannot control and adjust.
Linux is actually mostly used for complex systems, deployments of services requiring some sort of cloud infrastructure, or by people that care about performance.
They need to make sure the managers can use the laptops too.
I have a master's degree in computer science, and I also worked in academia for a few years (I turned down a PHD offer, but I still did a bit of applied research).
I would still consider myself self-taught.
I saw this poll, but I just didn't vote since I had no idea how to.
I write software, usually in C++ because that's a universal language suited to everything. Their categories are awful and make no sense unless you're a junior developer working at a web start-up.
I was interested until you said this.
Now the project needs to die.
Too bad, I would have joined the military otherwise.
I thought this was going to be a story about Undertale, I'm disappointed.
Isn't like how humans learn the arbitrary values of society as well?
Not everyone is like you, Paul.
And there is no expectation of privacy if you publish info about you on the Internet.
I'm usually more interested in what motivates the change than the change itself.
It's my project, I understand the code, so any change is trivial, but it might not align with my goals.
I systematically google anyone who sends me a pull request. I assume most people do the same.
Why wouldn't you be curious about that person that not only uses your software, but also took the time to fix a bug in it?
You're confusing liberalism and libertarianism.
All goods derive their value from what people are willing to pay for them. Only if that value is higher than production costs is the product actually produced.
Lowering the price to something close to production costs only happens if there is sufficient competition or if it opens additional markets which mean more profits down the line.
And if so, who is it?
It's probably just positive discrimination letting women off, or some white knights taking the blame for women.
Congrats, you just demonstrated that you know nothing about typography.
Americans gotta be American.
I find it entertaining to watch how uneducated, narrow-minded and chauvinist American are.
Right, and that's extremely confusing because elsewhere in the world S means Summer.
WET/WEST, GMT/BST, CET/CEST, etc.
There is nothing "standard" about a time zone, so the deduction that S refers to summer time makes more sense.
Europeans don't put "Standard" in their time zone, because that's meaningless.
also what is this 27th month they speak of?
Every 5 years, AMD makes a big announcement like they're going to open up their technology.
None of these efforts were maintained, it felt more like "we're giving up on this old architecture, but here are the specs, in case you want to do our job in our place".
I'll be more impressed when they can commit in the long term.
Don't people already do this to avoid being tracked?
People watching child porn are not a danger to my children.
Liking things you don't like is only a disorder if you're a Nazi.
what you're describing is called a computer monitor.