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If your bread and butter is implementing projects for dishonest cs students, that would make a lot more sense.
So what is the purpose of writing? It turns out that there is one, and that it has nothing to do with communication. It’s that writing clarifies thinking. [1]
If by "disappointment" you mean Cryptonomicon stretched the turgidity of Snow Crash to its theoretical page limit, you may have a point.
Most people do say that. What programmers cannot grasp is progress is about giving people what they want, not what is rationally best. Most scientists want to knock out a paper or presentation, and make it home on time for dinner.
More "nature of the beast" in my opinion. Science measures itself by how many alluring women it can date; engineering, by how long it can keep the wife happy.
While most programmers have reached this conclusion, they're generally not day-in day-out jupyter users. They need to understand *everything* is transient for scientists who optimize for proof-of-concept and publish-and-forget-it paper writing.
The latter needs to accept that most users, particularly scientists, reject out-of-hand anything requiring configuration or compilation no matter how trivial.
But it's all moot since org-mode is largely promoted by non-scientists (computer science is not a science), and should a wysiwig-inclined scientist ever get past the emacs obstacle, he'll balk at the awkward BEGIN_SRC incantations.
Jupyter's ipynb format is only slightly more amenable to git than say an MSWord doc. Nbdime and friends will never get you to a point where git+jupyter will be worth the ugly.
Every ten year old realizes the easiest way to sustain the lemonade stand is not giving away the lemonade.
In the words of Chris Farley, "sounds like a personal problem."
Look around, your eminence. Most of our species prefer not working at all, and if we must, prefer expending the least mental effort.
Actually emacs is the only one, and it's definitely out of the question for a C#, mouse-heavy talker who found setting up Sublime confusing.
When you learn to code, you'll have many fine text editors to choose from.
Nothing except human nature. Ethics, business ethics particularly, is empirical. Usury was a bad word for most of human history. Now we just call it financing.
If only for forward progress's sake, one should accommodate human nature, not catechize it.
But I can't modify Coca-Cola or KFC's eleven herbs and spices either.
It's called intellectual property, and it's undergirded economies both West and East since ancient times.
If existence is tantamount to corporate sponsorship, then GNU Emacs never existed. It'd take one or two graybeards with too much free time to sustain Atom. Just look at the current Emacs maintainers.
Why play the business game in nightmare mode?
Leverage is real, folks, i.e., I can withhold my software if you don't pay up.