Nah. Win10 looks like the modern GNOME3 desktop: beatiful as a hand-drawn picture, but just as useful.

DTP was always a branch on its own. Most of the time you just start PhotoShop/etc, and pretty much never switch to another application. I'm not sure how Win8 could have improved (or changed) your workflow, because you rarely see the OS anyway.

In a way, it is similar to the Internet surfing workflow. The only time you see or use the OS is to start the browser. After that, everything is done inside the browser, which is largely OS independent and can be used to the same effect under literally any OS.

Welcome addition. Who knows, probably Win20 would finally allow users to configure system keyboard shortcuts. Then it would be almost at parity with Linux of 15 years ago.

Interfaces are dumbed down for touch UI. That's the main problem.

Application are also getting increasingly dumber and dumber. Because from perspective of some, if you can't make feature "beautiful" for the touch UI, then there is no point in providing the feature.

The modern OSes, including Win10, as if competing who can make a bigger clusterfuck out of the UI.

Some say it is because of the touchscreen support. But in my experience it sucks even more with the touchscreen. Unless you play movies or listen to music. Because even moderately involved browsing (say going through the bug tracking) is already rather tedious.

At least under Linux, I can replace the UI with something user-friendly like Xfce or LXDE. Useless with touchscreen - but fully usable with the mouse and not fucked up.

And even at that - legal boring stories: USA company comes to another market and ignores the local laws; but drat, USA can't bomb it to ruin provisionally, because unfortunately they are both members of the NATO. Oh tragedy.

Oh please. Business intelligence is one of the oldest types of software in existence.

That's basically how/why the computers were commercialized. Otherwise they would have stayed a toy of scientists and a tool of military.

Why the hell Uber/etc are on /. front page at all?

I do not see any relevance to - or deep profound effect on- IT/etc.

The Uber - and its failing outside USA - are so non-news.

Tried SC, tried FA.

Was somewhat disappointed, and in a sentimental rush came back to the original - TA (and TA Kingdoms) - which are still are fantastic games even by modern standards.

P.S. Also, proportional unit sizes suck.

I'm not sure in what kind of barbaric anarchy you are living to give you that perspective, but you can't be more wrong.

Again, Germany is highly individualistic. Respect for privacy is very high here. What you say is simply fictitious because most neighbors have no idea what other neighbors doing, because they do not poke nose in others affairs - not without an invitation.

But yes, if you do openly something illegal, just like in any other country, you would be reported to authorities. That's because law (which is the same literally all around the world) makes you an accomplice if you do not report crime.

If you were ever convicted in Germany, that might explain your sentiment.

Germany is highly individualistic. Yet, if you put individual over society, than it simply means that there is no cohesive society. And the society is there to deal with global problems of which there were plenty in recent times.

Mafia? Organized international crime syndicates? Fit your requirements perfectly.

I do not think it is anti-business per se.

In one German book about business, in the basics, I have read that business is like a privilege bestowed for the benefit of the society. And imagine that: there were no mention of money nowhere near the definition.

In other words, it is not seen as a device for personal enrichment. And it is handled as such, at the very least, to cause no harm to people and society.

In the end, I do not see the lack of an overcrowded tech town as a shortcoming. If a packed tech community is your thing, then there are several cities with strong tech sector - Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt, Dresden, Nuremberg, etc, their satellites - which provide enough opportunities for businesses and workers.

That is not uncommon opinion.

But IMO the opinion is biased by the human perception.

For example, some interesting areas of algebra are so weird and require such level of (let's call it) free thinking, that the normal human brains simply refuse to work with them. Or the brains simply fry after too much trying. The tales about mathematicians degenerating as human beings as they advance in the math, have unfortunately a lot of truth to them.

My personal counter-argument to the opinion: show me a "1" in the nature. Because even a singular particle isn't really "one".

And the question is much easier on normal people, compared to: show me a 0 in the nature? The very concept of the zero - of what it represents - is unnatural.

Shameless plug for Germany.

Though I do not have personal experience working/living in UK, over the years met lots of people who were simply orgasmic after the move from UK to Germany. Especially the London with its outrageous rent prices.

Munich is good place too. And if you are in the financial software, Frankfurt am Main is the place to go.

Much better living standards than the UK in general and London in particular.

The language in large cities in general is not a problem too. Some companies (esp international) require the fluent English, and often offer help to those who just move from abroad.

You have mixed up your sciences.

Div by zero is not defined in the math, in the definition of the operation division.

Div by zero is defined in the applied math.

Ah, you naive physicists. Your attempts at trying to attach the math to reality always make me smile. And your believe that the human words mean the same thing in math - that's just hilarious.

Because, it is just math. It's human invention and we can do whatever we like with it.

But to the point: division by zero is not illegal - it is simply not defined.

The usual mathematical workaround is to simply define another operation - "zivition" or whatever you like - which is just like division, but in case of X/0, it has value of X or 1 or 0 or whatever you like. Or one can even go step further and define the zivition as ternary operation: ziv(X, Y, Z) = { div(X,Y), Y!=0; Z, Y==0 }