"..Net is for developers who don't want to develop, just use. " I think.Net is fine as a technology, the problem is it's tied to MS operating systems. You get RAD tools with most commercial IDEs, even if it's for a native language.
1, Doesn't Flex and Air work through the regular Flash plugin? I know people always complained about Flash on Linux, but I think it's usable by now. Although I use a 32 bit OS. 2, Isn't it that the developers tools don't run on Linux, but the end product does?
Disclaimer: I have never developed with Air or Flex.
"However, lately I came out of my ivory tower and stood eye in eye with experts from the industry who largely believe that they are professionals and really do great stuff. They also use the fumbling approach. The main difference is the call it agile."
You mean, cowboy coding is now called agile? I thought Agile still has documentation/process just somewhat lighter than RUP/waterfall.
So much about.Net cross-platform. At least with Java you have to go out of your way to create platform dependency (like hard-coding path separator as "\", and not querying it from the System object), or use 3rd party non-portable libraries with JNI bindings. Hell, they would have faired better even if they just used some Adobe Air based solution. Or just use ASP.Net and no Silverlight. They just choose the worst possible solution for a public facing portal.
To GP's defense, dpkg wasn't mentioned in the summary. And honestly, people rather donate for end-user applications. I'd expect FSF to finance basic infrastructure projects.
I have no problem with flash on Ubuntu LTS 10.04 LTS. On youtube even fullscreen video worked perfectly out of the box, although I had to paste some magic words to terminal to get fullscreen video working for all sites.
So companies wouldn't get sued for patent infringement, but invidual engineers for causing loss of profits by leaking secrets. Expect to see even worse NDA and noncompete clauses in employeed contracts.
I understand that Stallman and Linus, and the Red Hat emplyees can make a living out of it, but most people can't. There are very few FOSS jobs, and even promising projects (e.g. Synfig, or Pencil) can't get enough donations to keep it going for the developers as a full time job. (And these only survive because people do it on their free time/in their parent's basement etc.) There's no universal business model for FOSS, on the other hand there's an universal business model for proprietary software.
You get one SSL connection from your phone to the Amazon server, and they get one from the Amazon server to the destination server with your credentials. So you have to trust Amazon not abusing their position by stealing your private keys. But Amazon pretends in their FAQ that their presence in the chain isn't a risk factor at all.
I don't know what are you talking about. Agile has much smaller overhead than e.g. RUP or SCRUM. So would you please tell, what is your reference point when evaluating Agile?
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Why don't adult people in Florida have any sort of group awereness and vote on a presidential candidate who is not D or R?
". .Net is for developers who don't want to develop, just use. " .Net is fine as a technology, the problem is it's tied to MS operating systems. You get RAD tools with most commercial IDEs, even if it's for a native language.
I think
1, Doesn't Flex and Air work through the regular Flash plugin? I know people always complained about Flash on Linux, but I think it's usable by now. Although I use a 32 bit OS.
2, Isn't it that the developers tools don't run on Linux, but the end product does?
Disclaimer: I have never developed with Air or Flex.
Stop fighting me or I'll have to kill you.
And how is this relevant? This guy didn't fight, just said things the CIA didn't like.
"However, lately I came out of my ivory tower and stood eye in eye with experts from the industry who largely believe that they are professionals and really do great stuff. They also use the fumbling approach. The main difference is the call it agile."
You mean, cowboy coding is now called agile? I thought Agile still has documentation/process just somewhat lighter than RUP/waterfall.
So much about .Net cross-platform.
At least with Java you have to go out of your way to create platform dependency (like hard-coding path separator as "\", and not querying it from the System object), or use 3rd party non-portable libraries with JNI bindings.
Hell, they would have faired better even if they just used some Adobe Air based solution.
Or just use ASP.Net and no Silverlight. They just choose the worst possible solution for a public facing portal.
I guess IBM's slogan should be - as variation of Google's "Don't do evil" - "Automating evil".
Could you elaborate how "copywritten" makes sense in OP?
To GP's defense, dpkg wasn't mentioned in the summary. And honestly, people rather donate for end-user applications. I'd expect FSF to finance basic infrastructure projects.
Well, I wouldn't opensource the content creation tools (did you mean that bu dev tool?), but yeah, the runtime could be opensourced.
Except that it didn't. They used an inaccurate Atlas.
Don't worry, we will put our cities under gigantic glass domes.
I have no problem with flash on Ubuntu LTS 10.04 LTS. On youtube even fullscreen video worked perfectly out of the box, although I had to paste some magic words to terminal to get fullscreen video working for all sites.
I know. It's just too small, and is on the wrong place.
So companies wouldn't get sued for patent infringement, but invidual engineers for causing loss of profits by leaking secrets. Expect to see even worse NDA and noncompete clauses in employeed contracts.
Chrome still starts up much faster than Firefox. And swapping tabs is much nicer in Chrome as well. And you get a Reload button as well.
Just because some people win the lottery, it doesn't everyone can win the lottery at the same time if they try hard enough.
I understand that Stallman and Linus, and the Red Hat emplyees can make a living out of it, but most people can't. There are very few FOSS jobs, and even promising projects (e.g. Synfig, or Pencil) can't get enough donations to keep it going for the developers as a full time job. (And these only survive because people do it on their free time/in their parent's basement etc.) There's no universal business model for FOSS, on the other hand there's an universal business model for proprietary software.
Rob Malda for president!
Just an idea. I guess that after leaving Slashdot he has now enough time to run for presidency.
That sounds fine and dandy until you want to move out of your mom's basement.
You're right, I meant waterfall and other traditional techniques.
You get one SSL connection from your phone to the Amazon server, and they get one from the Amazon server to the destination server with your credentials. So you have to trust Amazon not abusing their position by stealing your private keys. But Amazon pretends in their FAQ that their presence in the chain isn't a risk factor at all.
Give him some slack, he could have inserted an xkcd link as well.
I don't know what are you talking about. Agile has much smaller overhead than e.g. RUP or SCRUM. So would you please tell, what is your reference point when evaluating Agile?