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Comment CLI doesnt guarantee same changes (Score 1) 617

" If you write a script, you're certain that the changes made will be identical on each box. If you're doing them all by hand, you aren't.'"

No... if you write a script, you're certain that the change ATTEMPT made is the same. The changes may very well not be the same, if one of the boxes is messed up, but you can be certain it wasn't because you did it differently on that box. That's the difference between a GUI and a CLI... you get a same attempt guarantee, which allows you to blame the box instead of yourself when management comes asking why it failed.

Comment Re:Albini's story redux (Score 1) 495

The point is that the company will find some way to try to claw back that investment, and unless you do extremely, exceptionally well on ROI, you will not be rich at all. The truly insidious part is that as you start to make more, the label rigs the ROI against you by taking out more pr and stuff in the name of selling more, when really it just eats away at your profit.

Comment Still programming (Score 1) 256

Every attempt to make programming "not programming" succeeds in specially crafted demos, but still fails at anything larger than the tiniest apps. Take a look at google's own screenshot of a game made with this... it still looks like regular programming, only perhaps grosser and more confusing because the blocks stretch out in unjustified directions. At least with a font-based programming language you can use a fixed-width font.

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