jrnewton

Can someone explain this?

With "enterprise" software, you can often get away with a clunky program, because the people who are using it have all been trained on what to do. If doing X makes the application crash, that's okay—they can just be taught not to do X any more.

http://www.vim.org/htmldoc/pattern.html#/magic

"A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will shoot someone or, more likely, order someone shot"

Can we please finally just accept that ES is much more than just a browser extensibility tool? For most developers, this is their first exposure to a classless prototype-based object-oriented language, and unfortunately, most developers don't ever bother exploring it beyond "How do I make my web page do that floating image thing...?" Gah.

I never managed to use XEmacs for very long, because it crashed a lot

but then

XEmacs doesn't crash any more often than Firefox

and

XEmacs may crash even less than Eclipse and IntelliJ

For me Firefox and Eclipse are rock solid. So what is it? Does "a lot" mean every 6 months? Or every day?

the latter cancels the former.

or how about, "blogging results in very little software being built".. i never understand how anyone has time to actually code when all they do is write blog entries about writing code...