Then, if you think about the code for cells...in "evolved" eukaryotes, there are not only long sequences of DNA inserted from viruses ages ago, there are copies of genes that just don't work because they're mutated. Talk about junk code.
Just goes to show the strenght of test driven development.
Didn't read TFA. But I'm not surprised by the fact that a nongeek has issues with installing Linux. I put my mother on Linux about six months ago because of didn't enjoy doing virus cleanups every sunday dinner and still getting phone calls during the week about strange dialog boxes.
Now, there is no way on earth my mother could install Linux, in this case Ubuntu which is probably the simplest distro out there, by herself. There is also no way on earth she could install Windows by herself. But <i>using</i> Linux is no problem at all for her. I've got her setup with OpenOffice, Kmail and Firefox and she's doing just fine. Mind you, this is a person who has a hard time separating the concepts "cassette" and "diskette".
Linux will get into the home when the default preinstalled OS on a box you get at Walmart is Linux. And that won't happen any time soon. Yes, I know that you can <i>already</i> get a Linux box at Walmart, but I don't think they're actually moving that many. And 90% of those who buy them probably install a pirated MS OS anyway.
The first desktop Linux will hit in a major way won't be the home desktop but the corporate. Companies with hundreds of desktops and an IT-department that looks after them are the folks who can really benefit by moving to Linux. They can save on licences and administration, get more performance out of their hardware and improve security. They put together their own boxes and save on MS tax. If they need to add functionality to some application it will be a lot cheaper than if they did it under MS.
We're going to see a lot more of Linux at work in the near future. Then in, ten years or so, things will start to happen at home.
That's ok though, you don't have to use rails just because its the latest fad.
Well. You're sort of right. But you're also completely
wrong. Large mindshare translates into large userbase which translates
into good community support and a multitude of add on modules and more
mindshare and so on. And anyone who's using an unknow pythonic
framework will be missing out on all that.
I just did my first project in
CherryPy and it's been a very nice experience. But already now I'm
thinking of doing my next project in Rails.
And of course, the guys behind Rails are to blame for this.
15% - 30% faster! Wow. I hope anyone who ever developed anything
for java is reading this so that they can start reimplementing all
their code right away.
Another showdown I'd like to read about is that between Rails and
Cherrypy. Not in terms of
technological superiority, but in terms of marketing skill. Why is the
web abuzz with Rails, while Cherrypy is almost unknown.
This
isn't flamebait. I'd really want to know how they did it.
This is happening here in Sweden to. A company called elib has monopolized the emerging ebook
market.
Their businessmodel is quite interesting. They provied
ebooks to public libraries. Patrons can download the books for free
and the library foots the bill.
Elib made a user poll and it turned out that 4% (IIRC) of the users
were reading the books on their cell phones.
Here's
an article (in swedish) I wrote a while back on the ebook
situation over here.
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Didn't read TFA. But I'm not surprised by the fact that a nongeek has issues with installing Linux. I put my mother on Linux about six months ago because of didn't enjoy doing virus cleanups every sunday dinner and still getting phone calls during the week about strange dialog boxes.
Now, there is no way on earth my mother could install Linux, in this case Ubuntu which is probably the simplest distro out there, by herself. There is also no way on earth she could install Windows by herself. But <i>using</i> Linux is no problem at all for her. I've got her setup with OpenOffice, Kmail and Firefox and she's doing just fine. Mind you, this is a person who has a hard time separating the concepts "cassette" and "diskette".
Linux will get into the home when the default preinstalled OS on a box you get at Walmart is Linux. And that won't happen any time soon. Yes, I know that you can <i>already</i> get a Linux box at Walmart, but I don't think they're actually moving that many. And 90% of those who buy them probably install a pirated MS OS anyway.
The first desktop Linux will hit in a major way won't be the home desktop but the corporate. Companies with hundreds of desktops and an IT-department that looks after them are the folks who can really benefit by moving to Linux. They can save on licences and administration, get more performance out of their hardware and improve security. They put together their own boxes and save on MS tax. If they need to add functionality to some application it will be a lot cheaper than if they did it under MS.
We're going to see a lot more of Linux at work in the near future. Then in, ten years or so, things will start to happen at home.
Have a look at Web development with Python
Well. You're sort of right. But you're also completely wrong. Large mindshare translates into large userbase which translates into good community support and a multitude of add on modules and more mindshare and so on. And anyone who's using an unknow pythonic framework will be missing out on all that.
I just did my first project in CherryPy and it's been a very nice experience. But already now I'm thinking of doing my next project in Rails.
And of course, the guys behind Rails are to blame for this.
15% - 30% faster! Wow. I hope anyone who ever developed anything for java is reading this so that they can start reimplementing all their code right away.
Another showdown I'd like to read about is that between Rails and Cherrypy. Not in terms of technological superiority, but in terms of marketing skill. Why is the web abuzz with Rails, while Cherrypy is almost unknown.
This isn't flamebait. I'd really want to know how they did it.
This is happening here in Sweden to. A company called elib has monopolized the emerging ebook market.
Their businessmodel is quite interesting. They provied ebooks to public libraries. Patrons can download the books for free and the library foots the bill.Elib made a user poll and it turned out that 4% (IIRC) of the users were reading the books on their cell phones.
Here's an article (in swedish) I wrote a while back on the ebook situation over here.