Why should the skill of self-promotion be any different?
For one thing, self-promotion appears not to be taught well in school. For another, somehow the tech field tends to attract people with disabilities that affect social skills.
PHP 7 has completely addressed one of the real issues, namely parse errors in include being fatal, by introducing engine exceptions. Function argument and return value type hints add some of the benefits of Python-style strong typing to PHP. And though associativity on ?: is still on the less useful side for reasons of backward compatibility, the new null coalesce operator ?? is on the proper side for chaining.
I've tended to use the term "use" to mean use of a program as a tool, which FSF calls freedom 0, and "reuse" to mean use of a program as a software library, freedoms 1 through 3.
"Yeah, there is no submarine copyright. It is either you’ve seen another work and you are copying it and therefore you know, as the person who is doing the copying that you are doing it, or you are not copying at all."
I wonder if Mr. Robertson has heard of Bright Tunes Music v. Harrisongs Music and Three Boys Music v. Michael Bolton. In both cases, a plaintiff owning copyright in a musical composition successfully argued that a songwriter should be held liable for having accidentally copied the plaintiff's song after having heard it performed on the radio years ago. The wide exposure given to popular music through radio and other mass media essentially turns a copyright into a patent on a short snatch of melody, where it can be presumed that other composers will have heard it at least once. And I find this dangerous for the viability of releasing video games as free software.
It's only edit warring if you try to reapply your edit. If you instead discuss the revert in a civil manner, there is no war. If discussing the revert has not worked for you, I'd like to see diffs so I can help you figure out what went wrong and why.
verifiability and not truth
If you have pre-2001 citations, you have verifiability.
placing undue importance on a marginal opinion
If you have pre-2001 citations, plural, the opinion is not marginal.
If I want to learn programming, I'll install Eclipse / Visual Studio / gcc / whatever.
Install them on what hardware? You can't install a compiler on a flip phone, iPhone, iPad, or game console, which are devices often used by children as a substitute for a general-purpose computer. Or were you referring to leasing a VPS and using an iPhone or iPad to SSH to that?
It's about preserving the economies of scale of programming as a hobby. As mobile devices continue to encroach on the PC's turf for more and more applications, students are more likely to end up with access only to locked-down devices, such as game consoles, iPhones, and iPads. A cheap computer such as the Raspberry Pi is commonly touted as a workaround in comments like this and this.
There should be nothing but panic at Mozilla right now when looking at those numbers.
But what does Netcraft say about the numbers? I know it offers an anti-phishing extension for Firefox, but has it released any news stories about Firefox's decline?
To break such a citation feedback loop, prefer a pre-2001 citation for claims about applicable topics. By the time Wikipedia came around, the Scroll Lock key had been present for well over a decade, so if there were a citation, it's more likely than not that there would also be a pre-2001 citation.
Perhaps what #51029267 meant is that you ought to have read through sudo(8) and sudoers(5) not just before you visudo but even before you sudo in the first place.
Indies are huge on PC (as they are on mobile), so that's all left. [...] Heck, while there are a few stubbornly PC only developers, many former PC only developers branched out to consoles
So in your opinion, at what point does a PC game developer stop being "indie" and start being "stubborn"?
That'd be fine if there were viable PC counterparts to certain console exclusives. Does PC have a flagship fighting game with terrain and platforms (like Smash Bros. or PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, not like Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat, which are flat plane fighters)? Does PC have a flagship kid-friendly third-person shooter (like Splatoon)?
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Why should the skill of self-promotion be any different?
For one thing, self-promotion appears not to be taught well in school. For another, somehow the tech field tends to attract people with disabilities that affect social skills.
If discussing the revert has not worked for you, I'd like to see diffs so I can help you figure out what went wrong and why.
If you are on the wrong side of the groupthink or disagree with one of the wikipedia untouchables you WILL be screwed.
I hate to have to say it, but [citation needed]. I'd understand better if I could verify what you're talking about through diffs.
The last time I compared Eevee's "fractal" article to ManiacDan's "hardly" rebuttal, I found that PHP's alleged problems fit into two categories: those that can be easily worked around with coding standards, and about a half dozen real issues.
PHP 7 has completely addressed one of the real issues, namely parse errors in include being fatal, by introducing engine exceptions. Function argument and return value type hints add some of the benefits of Python-style strong typing to PHP. And though associativity on ?: is still on the less useful side for reasons of backward compatibility, the new null coalesce operator ?? is on the proper side for chaining.
I've tended to use the term "use" to mean use of a program as a tool, which FSF calls freedom 0, and "reuse" to mean use of a program as a software library, freedoms 1 through 3.
I didn't need non-free Flash because I just read the transcript in Firefox on GNU/Linux.
"Yeah, there is no submarine copyright. It is either you’ve seen another work and you are copying it and therefore you know, as the person who is doing the copying that you are doing it, or you are not copying at all."
I wonder if Mr. Robertson has heard of Bright Tunes Music v. Harrisongs Music and Three Boys Music v. Michael Bolton. In both cases, a plaintiff owning copyright in a musical composition successfully argued that a songwriter should be held liable for having accidentally copied the plaintiff's song after having heard it performed on the radio years ago. The wide exposure given to popular music through radio and other mass media essentially turns a copyright into a patent on a short snatch of melody, where it can be presumed that other composers will have heard it at least once. And I find this dangerous for the viability of releasing video games as free software.
edit warring
It's only edit warring if you try to reapply your edit. If you instead discuss the revert in a civil manner, there is no war. If discussing the revert has not worked for you, I'd like to see diffs so I can help you figure out what went wrong and why.
verifiability and not truth
If you have pre-2001 citations, you have verifiability.
placing undue importance on a marginal opinion
If you have pre-2001 citations, plural, the opinion is not marginal.
In fact, Android has AIDE, an app for apping other apps. I was wondering more for students whose parents have bought heavily into the iOS ecosystem.
LUDDITE Linux can't play Halo!
Nor can Windows 10 play Gran Turismo 7. Only Orbis OS on PlayStation 4 can, and Orbis OS is based on FreeBSD.
If I want to learn programming, I'll install Eclipse / Visual Studio / gcc / whatever.
Install them on what hardware? You can't install a compiler on a flip phone, iPhone, iPad, or game console, which are devices often used by children as a substitute for a general-purpose computer. Or were you referring to leasing a VPS and using an iPhone or iPad to SSH to that?
I think the idea is to pick up a cheap keyboard and mouse at the local Goodwill store. It already has HDMI out to work with your existing HDTV.
everyone has a phone these days.
A user-programmable one? Flip phones aren't user-programmable, and iPhones aren't very much so either. Even a brand-new iPad Pro can't run Xcode.
It's about preserving the economies of scale of programming as a hobby. As mobile devices continue to encroach on the PC's turf for more and more applications, students are more likely to end up with access only to locked-down devices, such as game consoles, iPhones, and iPads. A cheap computer such as the Raspberry Pi is commonly touted as a workaround in comments like this and this.
Slashdot's formatting protocol strips out the paragraph breaks in article submissions.
Even if you use <p> tags to set off paragraph elements?
There should be nothing but panic at Mozilla right now when looking at those numbers.
But what does Netcraft say about the numbers? I know it offers an anti-phishing extension for Firefox, but has it released any news stories about Firefox's decline?
To break such a citation feedback loop, prefer a pre-2001 citation for claims about applicable topics. By the time Wikipedia came around, the Scroll Lock key had been present for well over a decade, so if there were a citation, it's more likely than not that there would also be a pre-2001 citation.
Probably because Wikipedia aims not to include crap. I'd be interested to see the third-party sources that name you as the inventor of Scroll Lock.
You probably did not see the movie.
Highly likely.
if I had a dollar for every time I chased after a car driven by mad scientist with aliens in the trunk, I'd probably have 3 dollars.
Do you work for border patrol? And what was the scientist so mad about?
Not everyone lives alone. It's possible for a household to have more than one gamer.
Perhaps what #51029267 meant is that you ought to have read through sudo(8) and sudoers(5) not just before you visudo but even before you sudo in the first place.
How is gmail (an email provider, with a web UI) competition to Thunderbird (an email client)?
Gmail's web interface as an interface to Gmail is competition for Thunderbird as an interface to Gmail.
I use Thunderbird to read and send emails on my gmail account
That depends on how long Google continues to offer Gmail access through other clients without charge.
Use slack
Then which email client should Slackware users be using?
Isn;'t that what shared libraries are for?
Yes, provided that upstream can be bothered to keep a stable ABI in the shared libraries.
Use webmail.
And entrust one's private key for signing and decrypting messages to whom?
Indies are huge on PC (as they are on mobile), so that's all left. [...] Heck, while there are a few stubbornly PC only developers, many former PC only developers branched out to consoles
So in your opinion, at what point does a PC game developer stop being "indie" and start being "stubborn"?
That'd be fine if there were viable PC counterparts to certain console exclusives. Does PC have a flagship fighting game with terrain and platforms (like Smash Bros. or PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, not like Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat, which are flat plane fighters)? Does PC have a flagship kid-friendly third-person shooter (like Splatoon)?