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[Michael_S]

Good point. I suppose that could be the entire problem. NTFS is slow. Git-for-Windows, which I use at work on a laptop with an SSD, has to do all sorts...

[Michael_S]

I understand that, but my impression is that in terms of stability Windows Server has improved exponentially since NT 3.51 but Linux is still ahead....

[Michael_S]

For what it's worth, that was my exact experience at the tiny company I worked at from 2005 to 2013. I talked them into running a few Linux servers while...

[Michael_S]

I understand that, but considering the extra money they get selling Windows Server licenses, and the higher cost of using Windows on all of the cloud...

[Michael_S]

I'm thrilled Windows consistently takes a beating, but surprised too. I wonder what Microsoft is doing wrong technically speaking (without regards to...

[Michael_S]

Thanks for the explanations. Everything you wrote makes sense except for one bit. With respect to performance, my understanding is that in long-running...

[Michael_S]

Sorry I'm late to respond. Thanks for taking the time to reply. Interesting. I do all of my package management from the command line, which is a mixed...

[Michael_S]

For what it's worth, I have an AMD (well, at the time ATI) Radeon HD 5770 video card and I'm running the open source driver, and I've never had a problem...

[Michael_S]

I specifically wanted to debunk three pieces of Weasel's assertions:

1. All of the other languages are slower than C/C++. Rust, Nim, and...

[Michael_S]

Most of those languages put their core language runtime into the binary, so if you changed the code to do something more substantial you wouldn't add...

[Michael_S]

Hello World on my computer:
C: 8kb, runs in 0.002 seconds.
Objective-C: 8kb, runs in 0.002 seconds.
Nim: 8kb, runs in 0.002 seconds....

[Michael_S]

I hadn't fired up Wine in a while but one of my kids asked to play StarCraft 2 last week. It took some juggling of settings to get it working, but after...

[Michael_S]

I think PIP / NPM / CPAN / similar is fine when you're a developer building something that's going to run on a server, or getting the project done is...

[Michael_S]

I haven't dived into GTK code. But the toolkit keeps getting new releases and it has partial (full?) Wayland support. So I don't think it's stuck in...

[Michael_S]

What's wrong with the GTK stuff? As an end user of Elementary that never looked at or worked with the code, everything was excellent....

[Michael_S]

Per the Medium post linked from the article, "And while we do our best to make the update process smooth, you will likely not have as good of an...

[Michael_S]

I don't have any statistics to back this up, but my impression was that Perl was more popular than those three in the 1996-2000 period so most people...

[Michael_S]

Perl has an image problem. It was the hot language during the dot-com boom which means hundreds of thousands of people that couldn't write a program...

[Michael_S]

I disagree with [email protected] on the reasons to ban relationships at work. I think they still should be banned, but for a different reason:

- If...

[Michael_S]

I don't see any public price listing and I don't feel like contacting sales just to have curiosity satisfied. I'm happy to see this, but it would be...