Some (many) people find it easier to learn a small number of predefined class names that accomplish what they want without having to know hundreds of different CSS incantations when they’re just trying to make a simple site.

Sorta like how people use a command-line instead of just writing the code themselves.

Trying to read that article gave me cancer.

Write a new game from scratch in under a month… for $50? Yea no thanks. Maybe $5000.

Open source is the very worst thing currently going on because it is so incredibly exploitative, it’s far more exploitative than any actual company is of the workers who work at the company.

Even the people who are getting paid in open source are getting massively underpaid to do it compared to how much the people who are using their code are making, it’s nothing compared to the power that is accreted by the people who have co-opted that work thanks to the open source model. And then mark zuckerberg gets to define how the internet works despite having paid for almost none of the software that his company actually needed to make that work.

It’s like feudalism or serfdom, these people did the work and got nothing for it. It’s like you took the worst aspects of capitalism for workers and the worst aspects of socialism for workers and put them together, that’s open source. You get no power and you get no money.

It’s exploitative whether the people chose to be exploited, just because someone chooses to let you exploit them does not mean that you didn’t exploit them. And for the record that’s how most exploitation works; convincing people to do something that turns out to be very bad for them and very good for you, and that’s exactly what the open source movement has turned out to be.

I really don’t see the “we post stuff on github under a gpl2 or lgpl or apache or mit license”, all that is to me now is just exploitation. You can say that there’s solutions but until someone demonstrates that those solutions work, it’s the standard “real communism has never been tried” argument. AGPL is the only thing that I’ve seen so far that’s an attempt to fix these fundamentally unfair compensation practices.

see https://programming.dev/post/43956110/21568407

Why? He claims there is no benefit yet wouldn’t have his own game without it.

AI slop strikes again

Isn’t it Shift+Enter on PC?

I could not even view it on firefox as I got endless captcha loops.

You don’t need open-watcom to compile 9x applications from other OSes… both gcc and clang, as well as wine, have multiple options for cross-compilation, no VM or docker needed.

I routinely use all 3 methods for compiling my own 95/98 applications from Linux.

For gcc I use the mingw toolchain, which is available as the mingw-w64 package on Debian-based systems, or https://mxe.cc/.

For clang I use clang-cl with the VC6 SDK. clang-cl pretends to be the Microsoft cl.exe compiler and actually works quite well if you know the right options to give it.

And finally, using wine you can either run the original MSVC toolchain compilers, or versions of gcc that were compiled to run on Windows directly; there are both old and new gcc versions that can produce Win9x binaries if you know where to look.

Some resources that have helped me over the years as well:

https://glizda.wordpress.com/2021/05/19/compiling-programs-for-windows-95-and-pentium-in-2021/

https://web.archive.org/web/20230905023821/http://www.nosubstance.me/post/coding-windows-cpp-on-linux-2/

https://github.com/fsb4000/gcc-for-Windows98

Yea this is some BS… gnome doesn’t need any help to burn their own reputation to the ground, this is just a hitpiece by yet another one of their out of touch high and mighty contributors.

lol, lmao even

What I’ve seen lead to success:

• Arrogance
• Overconfidence
• Schmoozing with the right people
• Doing flashy work, whatever that means in a given situation

What I have seen lead to failure or, at best, being undervalued and ignored:

• Caring about teammates and your future self
• Caring about the end user and the business itself, when it conflicts with something sales, marketing, or a PM want
• Creating resilient, well-engineered systems

It’s the same problem as anywhere else. Well-crafted systems are invisible and taken for granted. Saving the day by putting out a fire is applauded, even when you’re the one who laid out the kindling and matches. Managers at all levels care about their own ego more than the company, product, or team.

Maybe I just spent too much time with ex-Microsoft hacks.

Sorry but I have no idea what you’re talking about… and I wasn’t referring to any specific company

I just want them to stop acting like egotistical know-it-all jerks all the time. They love to speak in black-and-white absolutes and IMO it just shows how much they really don’t know.

I think Dunning-Kruger also applies to smart people… you don’t stop when you are estimating your ability correctly. As you learn more, you gain more awareness of your ignorance and continue being conservative with your self estimates.

https://www.theblackproject.net/opinion-resources/like-it-or-not-everything-is-political

Still no full-duplex?

No idea it was just a possible theory

I find it surprising that JSON is so omnipresent when there are far more efficient alternatives

Do you also find it surprising that different types of food exist? /s

If Firefox dies then they don’t have to pay their anti-monopoly bribe money.