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I'd think I have very high expectations on my self, but that don't make me compare myself to others. The reason I aim for perfection is purely philosophical. If I don't make things as good as I can, why do them at all? Only people who do things for worldly matters like money and status, walk around and compare them selves to others in this silly way. :S

Maybe I'm an exception then, because I can't relate at all to this. I've got enough interesting thoughts inside my head that takes up most of my concentration, so I would not have time to care about what others do and don't.

I don't think removing features is a problem in it self but the Gnome product has been run like Facebook or any fucking website the last couple of years. Features come and go between releases, half implemented changes trough out the desktop and so on.

Normally when you make a products you decide the features and when those are stable, they are set in stone trough out the history of that whole/stable version. If the Gnome team was serious about their product in anyway they would not even pretend to have a stable product, but kept 2x as the stable release until the whole feature set was coherent between all applications.

"I recently pulled a random selection of 10 websites from the sites I visit every day and found clear Twitter Bootstrap signatures on 0 of them."

Great tips! Thanks! :)

This is like the strangest blog post I've ever read. He concludes that the best thing is to unfollow people you don't like, and also that you should focus on positivism. Yet apparently something is bugging him enough to write this rant as if any one of those that he calls out even would care? :S

How narcissistic are people these days? You where not born into this world to be exempted from negative people, morons, idiots, insults, offenses and whatever life throws at you!

Edit: Let's all create a blog post and announce it on HN, anytime you unfollow someone because you got a little offended for them speaking their mind. I'm sure this will be a wonderful place then!

It's like a curse in the software industry to innovate oneself to death.

Back in 2000? Good tools like Make where built in the 70s that's utilized by Autotools and other great build systems to bridge the gap between different platforms, so that you don't have to distribute as the author of the article we're discussing, a whole runtime with all dependencies.

I think todays programmers is doing everything back ways. First they think about what language they want to use, then what libraries do they need, and then finally on what platform will it run and how will it be deployed.

In the old days everything was much easier. First you chose a platform, depending on budget, support and so on. When you decided what platform to use, that then dictated what libraries you had at hands, and what package manager you needed for deployment.

That maybe sounds very limiting, but on the other hand you don't always have to come up with new solutions how to bundle and deploy stuff all the time...

Haven't you seen them? I hear they're everywhere.

"The intruder had good intent with trying to "secure" our personal information. But despite nothing being hacked, as it was only a 'threat', we still need to tear down and build up the system from scratch again. In the spirit of transparency we've waited 72 hours before giving you this nonsense bullshit. Please note that some (that is all) of you will from now on get regular viagra offerings in cyrillic. Good for you!"

Could be a new kind of meta-ddos. Announce a site has been hacked on Reddit/HN, and the news about the hack becomes the hack. :D

And how about all "forgot your password" forms that might be exploited on other services. An other service you not been using for long sends you a "long time no see" promotion and your old account is in someone else's hands.

I think there's been a lot of lessons lately about why Internet should not be centralized...

That was my whole point...all these NLP, coloring personalities and all other bullshit HR and management people are into is only due to their lack of ability to read and sense people. If they don't come up with all this bullshit, they'd be completely lost (just to fall back on looks).

Didn't read. But why does all this "Management" experts seems to love awful stock-photos? And why are these Management/HR people always obsessed to come up with rules and guides, as if they ironically are to incompetent to handle people so they need a manual...

The best kind of friends are those that right out calls me idiot when they see I'm doing something idiotic. It's liberating, because we both know that the harsh tone is not due to my whole being being defined as a idiot, but that specific thing I did was indeed stupid and he/she cared enough about me to tell me straight out...

I actually think all this ambivalence is Ubuntus bigest problem. Now it has become apparent that all along they wanted to go down the path of only using the kernel, and then build a whole new software-stack on top of it, just like Android.

But they have not communicated this to the community, all the community has seen is half-hearted attempts to contribute (to projects that they where going to get rid of anyways) and sporadic design changes that went to far away from the vanilla experience of gnome (making it feel fragmented), and then ultimately replacing fully functional software (with software that's full of bugs and obviously not stable yet).

Now, in the normal Linux community world, everything above seems like total madness, unless as stated in the first paragraph your endgame was all along to replace everything to make a unified product. If they only communicated this, I think they would have gotten alot of support and understandig instead of alienating them selves.

I would think Linus has some form of light asperger, and when he calls someone "dick head" thats not aggression against a physical person but in this case to the fact that someone pushed code that does not build. He's to rational to mix up personal feelings against somebody and the quality of the code. The only way to get offended when Linus goes of in a rant is to think that he does.

Also maybe it's the fact that I'm Finnish too, but the best teachers from school I remember where those that valued perfection, and I don't think they raised their voice to abuse one, but to make a point...

I can still remember a computer teacher who went bananas every time someone used the carriage return in the middle of a paragraph, and physically broke of the key from the keyboard, just to show that It wasn't supposed to be used that way. Maybe some people got offended or scared, but to me it stuck, the importance between separating visual appearance and semantics...

I hear CSS4 will be fully Turing-compatible...

"Suppose you want to add a main menu. It's not always an easy task."

Tying your shoes are not always an easy task, let's spend 2 years building a shoe tying machine! In a hundred lifetimes well saved in the time it took building the machine on tying shoelaces. I bet it's well worth it!

Edit: "You need simple semantic markup that gives you room to grow."

As far as I can tell your script only generates a list. If it's semantic or not depends entirely on the context...

I think it's interesting that in this time of fancy collaborative tools like github, the trend no longer seems to be collaboration but to reinvent everything as a "one man show". And it becomes apparent with new technologies like Go and redis where there are like 10 different implementations of the same database libraries at any given time, but they are all gone within a month...

Okay, this is the end for me on Hacker News. The comments here clearly shows that this place is just a bunch of 14 year olds who don't know the history of the web, don't understand how CSS and HTML came to be, and now reinventing things thats already been solved.

The whole industry is fucking killed by people who replaced books by stack overflow, and every sane programmer is doing management because they can't compete in salary with people who make logos i CSS...I mean the logos looks the same don't they?

Why is the only way to talk to a DB with an ORM? Why cant you have SQL in the code? Sounds like you think the only way to write well structured and clean code is by introducing more layers of complexity?

Design is about function, not in first hand about esthetics. Now for some reason good esthetics and good function often correlate, as good esthetics helps our pattern matching brains to do its work by dividing content in grids, making text readable, using colors to give things emotional meaning and so on.

Design has always been a subset of a craft. I think when this changed was when every fucking celebrity would start calling them self clothing designers without ever been using a sewing machine. So they change their own title from some kind of manager to DESIGNER because it sounded cool...

And now all fucking hipsters think they can be designers without knowing shit about the craft in the field they are working in...