Sorry, ASCII text doesn't translate sarcasm very well. Maybe a ":-)" would have been helpful.
Besides, not everyone reads Dilbert, so I took the comment at face value.
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Why, oh why, does my program crash It's driving me nuts and giving me a rash The debugger won't help, I let out a yelp, I should just stick to scripting in Bash.
Yeah, you're right, I suck as a poet.;-)
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I am also a musician and coder. I play guitar, do a lot of improvising, but not much song writing. Programming is much harder, it takes real effort. You have to think ahead, look for potential problems, and be much more analytical. Playing music is more physical and emotional, not intelectual like programming is. Anyway, I find the 2 tasks to be almost polar opposites of each other. When I'm sick of programming I reach for my guitar to take a break, because it puts my brain into a completely different mode. Maybe writing songs and lyrics is closer to programming than what I do (improvising on guitar or playing along with MP3's, mostly).
You are right, but you are taking my point to the extreme. My point was that a database admin/programmer could make his application more reliable, and do it in less time if he used a database server which supports many of the features that are missing in MySQL. Sure the MySQL version will run a tiny bit faster, but in most cases the trade off of the developers time is probably more valuable. That's why I use PosrgreSQL.
I think you've stumbled onto something here, this must be the formula the/. editors are using!
What's better: MySQL, PostreSQL, or alternative option Oracle. What's better: Linux, Windows, or alternative option FreeBSD. What's better: Red Hat, Suse, or alternative option Debian. What's better: GPL, BSD License, or alternative option QT License
Is speed really that big an issue? Just throw faster hardware and more RAM at the problem. Spending a lot of time working around the limitions of a faster but less featured program doesn't seem to be good use of a developers time... Just my opinion.
Who cares... TV is such crap these days, if it weren't for my wife I would cancel our digital cable and put up an antenna.
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Yep, I do this a lot.. Here is a tip: F6 will put the focus on the task bar in explorer, which makes it even easier! (sometimes you have to hit
F6 twice, if you have a split window, such as when the tree view is on the left)
The guy is a brialliant programmer, and he put his heart and sole into E. Actually, I used E almost exclusivly for a couple of years before Gnome and KDE sort of took over. It must be dissapointing to have put that much time and effort into a project and watch it fall by the wayside and be largely ignored (especially when Sawfish became the primary WM for Gnome), I think I'd be pretty bitter too. Anyway, it sounds like he's given up on desktop systems and moved to devices, which will probably be better for him since small devices can't have the bloat of KDE and Gnome.
Perhaps Red Hat are going in the right direction by giving a trial membership for one machine on their up2date service. I've found using it even easier than apt-get
Easier to use, sure, but has up2date ever crashed your system to the point of not being bootable? It has for me. Has apt-get ever done that? Nope.
Try "testing". I'm not a Debian user, but my understanding is that "testing" is actually fairly stable (I've heard that it's comparable in stability to Red Hat releases), and only a few weeks behind "unstable".
Correct, Debian "Testing" is probably more stable than any version of Red Hat I've tried. New or modified packages spend a few weeks in the "Unstable" distribution and most bugs are found and fixed quickly. I've had good luck running Testing over the past few years. There is the occasional dependency problem (nothing as bad as what you'll find in Red Hat, and don't get me started on up2date), but try running apt-get again in a day or two and it is usually resolved.
The problem with the installer is not that it's text base, the problem is that it doesn't auto-detect a lot of hardware. I installed Suse 8.0 recently, and everything ran perfectly out of the box. Sound, video, everything perfectly working with no effort from me. I love Debian and apt-get, so I keep trying it every 6 months or so, but I find it always takes so long to configure (manually setting up X, lots of problems with sound, etc). Maybe other people have had better luck on different hardware.
I remember Racing Construction Set and Adventure Construction Set on the Commodore 64.. The hours spent playing those games and building my own. I don't know about using more brain activity, but it sure added many extra hours of fun to a game. I think with Adventure Construction Set you could build stand-alone games and distribute them to your friends.
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Besides, not everyone reads Dilbert, so I took the comment at face value.
It's driving me nuts and giving me a rash
The debugger won't help,
I let out a yelp,
I should just stick to scripting in Bash.
Yeah, you're right, I suck as a poet. ;-)
I am also a musician and coder. I play guitar, do a lot of improvising, but not much song writing. Programming is much harder, it takes real effort. You have to think ahead, look for potential problems, and be much more analytical. Playing music is more physical and emotional, not intelectual like programming is. Anyway, I find the 2 tasks to be almost polar opposites of each other. When I'm sick of programming I reach for my guitar to take a break, because it puts my brain into a completely different mode. Maybe writing songs and lyrics is closer to programming than what I do (improvising on guitar or playing along with MP3's, mostly).
Just keep your fingers ready to hit ALT-TAB so she won't catch you downloading pr0n!
You are right, but you are taking my point to the extreme. My point was that a database admin/programmer could make his application more reliable, and do it in less time if he used a database server which supports many of the features that are missing in MySQL. Sure the MySQL version will run a tiny bit faster, but in most cases the trade off of the developers time is probably more valuable. That's why I use PosrgreSQL.
"Pointy Hairded Boss" .. a Dilbert comic strip reference.
Yeah, but the probably didn't have a PHB riding their ass every day demanding a 60 hour work week.
Do you use assembler for all your programming? Or have you ever created a bash script, perl script or C program? If so, why?
What's better: MySQL, PostreSQL, or alternative option Oracle.
What's better: Linux, Windows, or alternative option FreeBSD.
What's better: Red Hat, Suse, or alternative option Debian.
What's better: GPL, BSD License, or alternative option QT License
Rinse, repeat!
Is speed really that big an issue? Just throw faster hardware and more RAM at the problem. Spending a lot of time working around the limitions of a faster but less featured program doesn't seem to be good use of a developers time. .. Just my opinion.
Sounds like you could borrow something from Cowbow Neils collection, that might do the trick!
Yeah, I do have a VCR also. If I did cancel cable I would probably splurge and buy a DVD player also, so I wouldn't be completely in the dark.
Well, it's a good trade off ... I spend all my time hacking around in Linux while she's watching TV, so we're a perfect match! ;-)
Who cares ... TV is such crap these days, if it weren't for my wife I would cancel our digital cable and put up an antenna.
Yep, I do this a lot .. Here is a tip: F6 will put the focus on the task bar in explorer, which makes it even easier! (sometimes you have to hit
F6 twice, if you have a split window, such as when the tree view is on the left)
Just don't hire any more ex-microsoft employees, you'll be better off! ;-)
Just disable it in the BIOS and put a BIOS password in place.
Sounds like another Slashdotter in the making!
The guy is a brialliant programmer, and he put his heart and sole into E. Actually, I used E almost exclusivly for a couple of years before Gnome and KDE sort of took over. It must be dissapointing to have put that much time and effort into a project and watch it fall by the wayside and be largely ignored (especially when Sawfish became the primary WM for Gnome), I think I'd be pretty bitter too. Anyway, it sounds like he's given up on desktop systems and moved to devices, which will probably be better for him since small devices can't have the bloat of KDE and Gnome.
Easier to use, sure, but has up2date ever crashed your system to the point of not being bootable? It has for me. Has apt-get ever done that? Nope.
Well said!! Maybe Debian should change the names from "Stable" and "Testing" to "Server" and "Workstation".
Correct, Debian "Testing" is probably more stable than any version of Red Hat I've tried. New or modified packages spend a few weeks in the "Unstable" distribution and most bugs are found and fixed quickly. I've had good luck running Testing over the past few years. There is the occasional dependency problem (nothing as bad as what you'll find in Red Hat, and don't get me started on up2date), but try running apt-get again in a day or two and it is usually resolved.
The problem with the installer is not that it's text base, the problem is that it doesn't auto-detect a lot of hardware. I installed Suse 8.0 recently, and everything ran perfectly out of the box. Sound, video, everything perfectly working with no effort from me. I love Debian and apt-get, so I keep trying it every 6 months or so, but I find it always takes so long to configure (manually setting up X, lots of problems with sound, etc). Maybe other people have had better luck on different hardware.
One of my favorite features of that game was the different gravities, hitting a jump in almost zero G was pretty neat!
I remember Racing Construction Set and Adventure Construction Set on the Commodore 64 .. The hours spent playing those games and building my own. I don't know about using more brain activity, but it sure added many extra hours of fun to a game. I think with Adventure Construction Set you could build stand-alone games and distribute them to your friends.