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Comment Re:Is TIOBE reliable? (Score 1) 348

Depends on what you mean with 'reliable'.

I'm sure the numbers are correct. But they only track what languages people talk about.
While popularity is one reason for people to talk about a programming language, there are many others.
Newer languages will get more traffic than older ones since people have more questions about them.
More complicated languages will get more traffic because people have more problems with them.
Also, the granularity sometimes seems off. Assembler is a good example: there really isn't a single assembler language; there are many different ones. How useful is it to lump them all together?

So this index does provide some interesting data, but you have to be careful when trying to draw any conclusions.

Comment Huh? (Score 4, Interesting) 376

If the customer wishes to continue with their upgrade at the designated time, they can click 'OK' or close the notifications with no further action needed.

Isn't that exactly what they were doing already in the criticized "nasty trick" dialog?

Let me quote from the slashdot submission on that thing:

"This means dismissing the box does not dismiss the update."

And now it reads:

"If the customer wishes to continue with their upgrade [...] they can [...] close the notifications with no further action needed"

So they are "listening to user feedback" by doing the exact same thing a second time?

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