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[Michael_S]

There is a package manager for Powershell called Chocolatey that provides something exactly equivalent to the apt-get experience.

Just to...

[Michael_S]

There's nothing preventing a Windows Admin from being a PowerShell wizard and working as fast as a good Linux admin. But even though I know people like...

[Michael_S]

Most Red Hat/CentOS releases have a support cycle near ten years. How does Windows beat that?

Sure, if I was going to build a corporate...

[Michael_S]

Linux is too popular for Microsoft to ignore it, even Windows Azure is approaching 50% Linux servers.

But I suspect the billing has to do...

[Michael_S]

Every large software project has security vulnerabilities of all kinds. If you re-read what I wrote, I never said anything about other kinds of security...

[Michael_S]

The Linux kernel, Chromium, Firefox, LibreOffice, ffmpeg, iOS, Android, Windows, games, LibreSSL, OpenSSH, virtualization hypervisor software, *everything*...

[Michael_S]

Thanks. I knew that optimization is a slower process, but my understanding of most C++ project development cycles is that the engineers use quick compiles...

[Michael_S]

I think we're mostly agreed. I think the D leads (Bright and Alexandrescu) use D as a playground for features so that they have the best background before...

[Michael_S]

Go had Google's backing and Rust didn't start as an official Mozilla project but it was adopted by it and has theirs. D has its own merits on par with...

[Michael_S]

What is this, drive-by-shit-on?

1. Yes, some high profile projects use the (excellent) LLVM/Clang compiler suite. But since Linux and...

[Michael_S]

Right now Perl 6 has a dedicated but tiny user base. But the language has everything and the kitchen sink for features, without all of the implicit variable...

[Michael_S]

Good point. Hack might have effectively been PHP++ for a while, but that's no longer true.


Interesting point. I'm trying to think...

[Michael_S]

Well, I think there's a difference between creating a new language to do what you want versus evolving an existing one. My understanding is that Hack...

[Michael_S]

So, it seems like a common development pattern is to build something and then later rewrite it in another programming language as their needs change....

[Michael_S]

I still don't blame them for focusing on Windows first, when the great majority of their users are on Windows. But it's nice to see this happen.
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[Michael_S]

If you use an aggressive ad-blocker or NoScript that's not bad. If you run without one or with a weaker one, you're losing out on a lot of useful performance...

[Michael_S]

My understanding is that these companies operate on razor thin profits per unit, so even if the price difference between four USB 2.0 slots and four USB...

[Michael_S]

The only thing I use Wine for these days is Starcraft 2, and 3.14 fixed bugs with it. I have to launch it twice each time, the first time hangs and then...

[Michael_S]

We don't have the right to tell other developers how they spend their time. So yes, I would prefer if all of the Linux desktop contributors in the world...