I feel sorry for you if you saw what I said as carrying a chip and whining. I suspect you see in others what is inside of you. Give up your hate and maybe you can succeed too.
I'm sorry, but there's no way your post could've been taken any other way. If your words were true, you certainly are a little angry man. A better man would have responded in a much different way - but you don't understand that because you're blinded by bitterness.
After 8 years of hardcore gentoo usage on home desktops and production servers, I'm a bitter, shell-shocked ex-user taking refuge with ubuntu.
I love the idea of gentoo but I just don't think it can work in practice at scale.
I always refer back to this forum post because it captures all of the problems of gentoo in a lengthy snapshot. That post is 26 pages long and started in 2006.
I love gentoo. About a year ago I got fed up with gentoo and installed other distros certain I'd never go back. But soon I was missing gentoo so I got back onto it for a few months. Then it broke again as usual just doing routine updates. That was the straw that broke the camel's back. I'm now on ubuntu and I'll try anything before going back to gentoo.
In "Perl World" keeping Perl modules up to date is important. In "Distro World" maintaining a consistent and maintainable distro is important. These two desires are at odds with each other.
I'm assuming you mean CPAN World? Because in perl world we want a stable base, too. Barring security bugs, you just can't willy nilly update a module in production.
Your post is really annoying. Did you mean to be so obnoxious? And +5, Insightful. Come on, php isn't popular with slashdotters but whatever one calls reverse fanboyism it isn't cool either.
No, features that make web development "dead simple" are those that actually do something to make web development simpler...
Absolutely. And PHP does it. That's why it's so popular. There may be even more that can be done but if no popular language is doing it already that argument is kind of pointless.
You contradict yourself.
No he doesn't. You might not like scripting / dynamic languages but taking the best (or a good stab at taking the best) of scripting, C and perl can actually make some things more straight-forward. Need a regular expression? Used to function calls rather can syntactical regex? Need perl regex? preg_match.
Patently false. PHP has no dependency on Apache now, it originally used CGI, and continues to support CGI, FastCGI, and operation as a module in web servers other than Apache (such as IIS). The CGI startup overhead problem has many solutions, such as FastCGI, AJP, proxying, etc.
Patently missing the point. PHP and Apache go together so well it created the LAMP mindshare space.
But "not in-process" does not imply the use of CGI, and it does not imply the use of any system with long loading times. Furthermore, "in-process" is potentially insecure and can be less reliable - as all code runs in the same process.
Who cares? His point is startup cost which is generally higher for forks vs modules and you're just plain going to get more scalability compared to the traditional perl cgi forking method. Hence mod_perl.
Give me a break. You can dislike anything you want but why do you even bother when you don't have all the facts.
+5, Insightful. Dear me...
I've long been enamored with and have long wanted to emigrate to New Zealand and, in spite of this story, I'm still interested in getting down there.
I have a lot of web resources about emigrating but I can't for the life of me figure out how to move there and be sure I'll have a job when I get there (I'm a developer / sysadmin). I don't see a lot of tech jobs so I have no confidence about initiating a process to move there.
If you're from New Zealand, what is the best chance of success for emigrating?
I've been investigating project management solutions at work and there are some real high quality open source solutions, but they all lack everything that goes before the work breakdown phase.
What about the requirements engineering phase? You can largely make your own solution for the gathering, but the structuring of requirements (to be later turned into tasks) is something all of the packages miss.
There are certainly requirements engineering solutions out there. I have a list of two dozen or so I'll need to review. But nothing really catches my eye.
What do you recommend, Slashdot?
Hear, Hear!
People "think" wikipedia isn't a credible or reliable source. I can only assume these people have never used it intensively.
You're already +5, Interesting or I'd wish I had mod points...
The link you provide is an impressive tablet. It's price point is great too for what you're getting. Why can't we find that in the neighbourhood tech store??
Ah, looks like KDE4 which I'm waiting until some distro gets that really polished. Can't say much about it.
You're right the context menu is a little weird. Is there a hover-over message for the icon? Maybe all those items make sense related to the icon?
I will say KDE3.5 has been great. While 4 reminds me of vista, 3 reminds me of Win2000 / XP classic UI. Productive, efficient, and KDE provides so many customization options (which I do use on many windows).
What's wrong with KDE? I've used it for over a decade and every time I try something else I start missing all the little things that allow me to make my KDE desktop mine.
I'm actually installing ubuntu w/gnome on another desktop as I write this. I dread finally having to move but kde4 hasn't be tailored by the distributions well enough yet for my liking.
I love KDE, what's not to like? From my perspective, I think I'm on one exterme of the power user spectrum so I find gnome doesn't cut it for me.
I don't think you understand what hurdles you have to go through to open previously closed code in an enterprise. There are so many IP traps they're afraid of.
Just look at all the excuses nvidia spews for not opening their linux drivers.
I don't know that good US people are any better than good Indian people,
That is all anyone considering outsourcing has to understand. Just that one little fact. Fast, cheap, good, pick any two.
Think about the 80s generation growing up with computers and especially their experience with IBM Model M Clicky keyboards (still available here and here!).
So many people already feel so sentimental of our clicky keyboards that we're buying them up on ebay and stock piling a couple "just in case".
So, yeah, you better believe 20, 30, 40 years from now people will look at certain iconic computer products and think real nostalgically about them. They already do and like a good wine age makes them only more desirable.
Happiness is twin floppies.
