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I love it, because it has cut my commute down 10 hours/week and my dedicated meeting time 10 hours/week. That's 20 hours. Now I can dedicate 5 hours of that to taking walks or naps or cooking healthy food. 5~10 hours of that for more work. And 5 hours for the company. Generally a win for everyone, I think.
Out of (say) 5~12 "values" that might matter to most persons - they are in different order, and change the way we process data. To provide a simple example, some people value freedom (autonomy) over safety, and others value safety over autonomy.
So even if people share the same assumptions about how the world works - and they have the same ideology as their tribe - disagreements will still arise.
For me the biggest problem is discovering/finding (often accidentally) where I need to introspect and/or drill-down.
It doesn't occur to me to examine unexamined assumptions - at all. It's like a blind-spot until one-day: Bam! "You need to go verify this assumption!" (Or conclusion or chain-of-reasoning or theory or whatever)
Do you expect other people to read and summarize, so that you don't have to? (I'm guessing "Yes" - which is why you asked...)
Do you generally get a good response to this? Or ignored? Or a hostile response?
But I buy a shit-ton of stuff at ~10/months (maybe $5, maybe $20), but if they jack their rates I will go one-off again.
I don't know if I am unique (and thank you for answering the question), at a certain level like JetBrains IDEs or Sublime or O'Reilly - I just pay it. It starts to wear on one over time....
Apple kills me. I tend to release things on Linux or Windows. Maybe Windows. But iOS - You have to have a Mac and a Development platform and subscription. I think they must hate developers. I would pay them for product sold - but can you at least make dev tools a little cheaper? I run into this issue in university dev-camp conversations a lot..
I've notice that a lot of people on HN don't want to pay $20/month (or whatever) for things that save them hours and hours of work. I don't understand this unless they don't make much per hour (and this is a global community - so that may be real!).
How would one go about pricing for a global community? I'm assuming that my laziness drives my willingness to pay $20/month for something that is essentially outside of my cone-of-expertise, and I find value in that, but others done? (I also value time over money - which I have learned is not universal).
OK. That was a meandering comment - I apologize. Thought?
I value yours.
You have different experiences than I do - so our conclusions will differ.
That said - I "feel" as if C++ is a dangerous serpent of a language. Maybe I need to spend 6 months re-acquainting myself in complex environments with more developers than just me, and re-evaluate that presumption on a medium-size project.
Thank you.
In my case - C (as a language) had a smaller footprint, and if the targets were limited, it was easier to learn, to lint and to code-inspect.
Admittedly, this was mostly before C++14. I guess this might be a case of "once bitten, twice shy".
Thank you.
EDIT: BTW -- I am not going to argue with LUA throughput. I'm still not sure what the thinking was there (maybe time-to-prototype?) - but C plugins run faster than Apache's do. By, like, a lot. (And I like Apache! ...Having used it since 1996)
Platform wars are over-ish. We have the same compile targets. What they call "Undefined Behavior) is relegated to ... well ... platforms we are not supporting.
C is fast - simple - easy(ish) to learn, and easy to "fuzz" in testing.
I can't speak to LUA - but C++ looks like a mine-field (to me).
Why do you declare that C++ is "better"? (Seriously interested - I don't even know enough these days to have a debate. I just gave up on the C++ hell-hole years (decades?) ago, and maybe should have kept up)
In fact, I think that drives a lot of these "what is better" debates in threads here. Some people go "Google Drive is better, because I get 2TB/month for a flat-fee that bundles the other services" (I do that plan too - I just subscribe to everything - to match the client's work flow. Where it really sucks is that I commercially subscribe to 3 (4?) commercial video conferencing systems).
I am not going to choose to save $5 when it stands in the way of me making $100. I find that thinking impoverishing, and time-wasting, and frankly stupid.
Even if I have to pay a designer $1000 to remake my slides after the content is settled for a client trying to pay me $15K, so that they can raise $2.5M, I'll gladly pay it! That doesn't seem to be the mindset here? (Or maybe I'm just coming across the people that shill for Vultr over Digital Ocean (or God-forbid - AWS!) - instead of focused on velocity of earnings. Maybe I just come across the wrong posts)
But, that's me - and I suspect I am not the majority here.
For the extra buck-or-two per user per month - I just like the fact that it "just works" for most people and little tech support. (Although I do miss the RSS feed on events that they removed that helped me keep track of all of the "stuff" "the people" were doing with "all the files". I'm sure there was a reason - but that was actually the only feature that made me think that they and Box.com might be comparable in that area)
I've always looked at it (esp. with STL) as kind of a "Swiss-Army-Chainsaw" and you were going to shoot your eye out. Maybe that view is old and things are better - but I learned a while back that sending a young gun into a C++ application's code-base would lead to a world of pain)
Maybe that learning is no longer accurate? What do you think?
EVERYBODY lacked business acumen. Motorola, MOSTEK, TI (although they were better than most), Apple, Radio-Shack (Tandy), Tramiel, Commodore, Amiga and Intel. What a mess! It's a wonder that they ever got out of the swamp.
I guess MS, ARM and Intel all turned out doing OK. And, Steve Jobs grew up and returned (in greater numbers with a turtle-neck!) and became an incredible intuitive design-evaluator and huckster (is that what you call the person who starts a new religion?), but having lived through so much of this (including Compaq and Star (the Dallas one - not the Xerox one - but that counts too!), [EDIT: I forgot about ComputerLand and their sinister hand in all of this - and of course Garry Kildall missing the IBM meeting - I'm not even getting into the software stack with zip-zip-zimmerman] and the origins of Dell and the ending of Compaq (and Tandem and DEC and HP!), everything seems to chaotic and random.
I know that we all (probably) like to feel like we are the gladiators on the field, and winning from strategy and planning and cunning and intelligence and skill - but in retrospect - everything seems so random to me.
Maybe I'm just getting old and cynical.
Other than one-off q&as, I don't understand why email isn't still the best thing we have?
How could we expect it? After 35+ years (BBS and Usenet onward), we've learned that they are often not.