Years later I tried again, this time with Gentoo. I could get things to compile, so I gave up again.
Ah yes, a common problem with long-time Windows users. I know it's tough to figure, but getting things to compile/work properly is a *good* thing.:P
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There were 4 things that gave Google the market back in the day:
1) Speed
2) Clean *meaningful* results without ad clutter
3) Caching
4) a cute name that was easy to remember and type
I was totally married to Altavista for the first couple of years of the internet boom, but once I saw the clean presentation and excellent caching at Google, I never turned back.
Microsoft's problem is that they didn't figure out a way to buy Google before they got too powerful. It certainly seems like they were content to let the big engines (Yahoo and Google) figure out the market, but now they're too far behind. This will be fun to watch.
The only reason Perl is considered "bad" is because you can actively (sometimes even passively) write a program that no one but yourself will understand. That's a reflection of whichever primate happens to be at the keyboard, not the language.
I learned Scheme in university and although it starts out feeling strange and inefficent to write, you eventually learn its benefits and appreciate the elegance involved. It's more like learning to write equations in postfix notation (later in life) - at first it looks like a jumbled mess, but once you learn it you realize that it's not so crazy after all.
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[i]Lather, rise, repeat.[/i] That sounds like an appropriate description of the typical patent office examiner's day... :P
Years later I tried again, this time with Gentoo. I could get things to compile, so I gave up again. Ah yes, a common problem with long-time Windows users. I know it's tough to figure, but getting things to compile/work properly is a *good* thing. :P
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There were 4 things that gave Google the market back in the day: 1) Speed 2) Clean *meaningful* results without ad clutter 3) Caching 4) a cute name that was easy to remember and type I was totally married to Altavista for the first couple of years of the internet boom, but once I saw the clean presentation and excellent caching at Google, I never turned back. Microsoft's problem is that they didn't figure out a way to buy Google before they got too powerful. It certainly seems like they were content to let the big engines (Yahoo and Google) figure out the market, but now they're too far behind. This will be fun to watch.
The only reason Perl is considered "bad" is because you can actively (sometimes even passively) write a program that no one but yourself will understand. That's a reflection of whichever primate happens to be at the keyboard, not the language. I learned Scheme in university and although it starts out feeling strange and inefficent to write, you eventually learn its benefits and appreciate the elegance involved. It's more like learning to write equations in postfix notation (later in life) - at first it looks like a jumbled mess, but once you learn it you realize that it's not so crazy after all.