Well, the Xbox launcher is a slow bloated POS that always complains its not up to date so you cant play until you update.

I will buy games on steam before installing the gameplay free version in the Xbox app JUST because the launcher is such a PoS. Laggy and bloated.

JS developers are typically less experienced, less qualified developers who tend not to know all the ways you can be exploited by software from a 3rd party.

A very simple example of this is that almost all who use NPM have their builds configured to use the very latest version of each dependency, which means they have no idea what code is actually used each build.

This practice is encouraged by the community, and it takes extra effort to pin versions. This is pretty basic engineering stupidity, but its the NPM way.

Then th ey usually build their app each time it starts. It's not recompile, it goes and pulls down the dependency, whatever the latest version is ... each time it runs.

So even if it was built and 'released' with version X of its dependency, it could restart with X.1, or same version number, but hacked version upstream ( this has literally happened multiple times over the years ) because there is no validation.

Then, the "language" is so broken and non-standard there are dependencies for some silly shit, like parsing tabs correctly, and so each dependency you pull in, it may have a dependency tree of another hundred things.

The end result is pulling in even though basic things, you pull in hundreds of other dependencies. All of them set to then pull the latest version of child dependencies without any sort of validation.

NPM is used by a bunch of immature developers who lack the experience to understand that pretty much everything they consider a feature of the language is in fact a flaw that other languages/ecosystems dont allow for or highly discourage.

JS/NODE/NPM are designed around and encourage anti-patterns the rest of us stopped doing years ago.

Well, as typical with a JS fanboy, you need to get your facts straight. This is why the rest of us dont take you seriously.

Quantum computing is very very very rarely faster than classical computing today. It has NO practical value and its big "wins" have been simulated in most cases, about what they'll be able to do eventually after working out more bugs. It is currently 100% useless beyond research.

But this is exactly the kind of uneducated decisions that come from JS developers.

NPM is just one, but not the only example required to understand why your a dumbass to use JS for anything. That level of craptastic pervades the entire JS ecosystem. Im sure you think NPM is wonderful.

Meh, I too call bullshit on your claims.

45 years? That puts you in a pretty small group of people. All of which have enough experience to know why those languages are ones you run away from.

OR your last 45 years of "programming" experience has been at the Excel macro/VBA level, in which case you arent qualified to be at the big boys table either.

I'd like to believe you, but my 25 years of building complex systems has seen how people trying to use kiddie languages for anything beyond a basic ops script ends badly and takes years to unwind.

If you've been using those languages for serious work over the last 45 years, I'm the guy who has to come in and replace your jumbled pile of crap script after you get fired.

The fact that you dont understand that those aren't appropriate for most things is a strong reflection on your lack of engineering prowess and actual experience. Use the right tool for the job, and dont build yourself into a hole.

You arent magically different than every other low grade Javascript dev, you just dont realize it.

Linus doesn't brow beat anyone.

He just doesn't put up with arrogant and ignorant snowflake developers who think they are gods gift to the world.

He doesn't care about your little feelings, He cares about code quality. And every single time you saw Linus go off on someone- it was after the person pushed back like they were king shit and acted like Linus wasn't the kernel maintainer for 30 years and that their 6 month journey into writing Linux device drivers for their unheard of project for the first time makes them Billy Bad Ass know it all.

Linus is a douche to douchebags, rarely if ever does he go off on someone that doesn't 100% deserve it.

Stop crying

Thieves generally steal the phone first, then they see east it is.

Buying a cheap phone that is indistinguishable from an expensive one doesn't help you.

Ticket master charges delivery fees regardless of method. Digital tickets still have a $7.50 fee or something stupid. It goes up from there.

There will be a middle man for 99.999% of the apps out there. No indie/small dev runs their own stores. You just dont know who the middle will be anymore. Could be some 3rd party in Nigeria working with the Prince so Flappy Bird can sell you new flaps.

Yay! I can worry about who Im give my Cc# to again, and how they store it

Well considering Epic and Tim Sweeney are really shifty people, im not sure it will change anything.

Epic is a scamming company that rips off 13 year olds.

Tim Sweeney can't keep his word or follow through on what he said he'd do, except sue Apple. Fuck his local community, they don't maold.

The Epic store is so shifty that the only games anyone has on it, we're given away in a weekly special in an attempt to get users. But no one even gets the freebies anymore, it's just not worth it.

Tim Sweeney and Epic are EXACTLY the kind of organization Apple was trying to protect against and they were right.

OMG yea, Apple doesn't take 30%. WHO THE FUCK CARES. No one that matters cares that Apple takes it. The only people that do are the greedy grifters (Epic) and shifty business models on the verge of failure (Spotify). No anyone can take your money, personal information and detailef purchase history and sell it to the highest bidder.

Congratulations, you get to go back to the Internet shitfest that was pre-iPhone. That was wonderful. Every half wit without a clue running their own insecure, ready to hack "shopping cart".

If you're happy about this, you utterly fail to understand what you've lost and are the type of person to cut off your nose to spite your own face.

Its worse than just tracking cookies. If you use google to login to them, the try to sneak in a consent to monitor your email - the literally read the email looking for stuff related to other retails and put it in their app and website for tracking. Got an email from amazon? The shopify app will notify you with a device notification everytime AMZ sends an email update about the product.

After I dealt with them for a single transaction - never again, scummy fucking company

I'm not sure what was supposed to be gained by such ignorant statements.

You are the CEO of a company thats been involved in net neutrality fights and law suites for decades - and you claim you don't understand anything about it?

You suck at your job, or you're posturing lying ahole.

To be fair, its verizon, he sucks at his job and is a lying ahole knowing full well that everything he says related to this topic is bullshit :/

I have average complex taxes - home, stock, and few properties, cars. No business of my own.

ALL of the documents related to those are sent to the IRS electronically at the exact same time they are shipped to me.

There is nothing for me to do but agree with what they've already been told assuming it's correct (it has been for the last 5 or six years at least.

There is no value in me filing taxes with paper forms and There is only additional cost to use some shut like TurboTax - which, BTW costs as much as a human being and you STILL DO ALL THE WORK, you just don't use a pencil and calculator. And TurboTax has very little special sauce to find you taxes breaks. It's complete shit.

The vast majority of the population has ALL of There tax data sent directly to the IRS already. You are an exception, not the rule. To be fair, a fairly common exception - but let's be honest, it sounds like your one of those people who will itemize their taxes and spend 6 hours doing them in order to save a couple hundred dollars - which is less savings than the time you spent doing them.

The rest of us would like proper free electronic methods to file and say "yep, that's right!"

That list of alternatives is pretty out of touch with reality.

GIMP will never be a photoshop alternative. The ignorant attitude of its contributors, and ignorant fan boys that insist it's just as good are more of the problem there than the software.

The software could easily be fixed, but it's managed by a bunch of aholes that think the problem with it's horrid UI is the users.

The Dreamweaver alternative list might as well include notepad. Seriously, NetBeans is the top listed Dreamweaver alternative? Nothing on that list of alternatives for Dreamweaver is even in the same category.

    Has anyone contributing to this list actually used Dreamweaver or Photoshop?

OSS fanboi-ism and thinking some app that feels like Oracle designed the UI in 1970 are alternatives to the industry standards just makes you look ignorant and disconnected and it's why no one listens to you. Some photoshop guy tries GIMP - and immediately regrets questioning giving Adobe money.

You guys don't understand that learning that shitty UI will cost an efficient designer 10s of thousands of dollars in time lost to relearning some shifty half assed gui.

Sure GIMP can do almost everything PS can do ... almost. But you need to switch from thinking like an artist to being a software developer to figure out where that feature is buried ... and how much script you have to write to actually get it to do the same thing PS does with a simple dialog and OK button.

These artists don't have the time nor interest in learning some shifty app because some techies insist that buried deep in it is the most unexpected way.

They aren't that popular, I didn't know who they were until last year and I've spent a bit of time sense banning them from my email and getting them out of my Gmail, which they gained access too cleverly during a checkout because I wasn't paying close attention to the oath consents.

Luck shopify, used them ones, was such a shifty experience I won't buy from the store again even though the product was great.

They seem to be that really godaddy of shopping sites, shifty in every possible way

I don't need to ready anything in the article, and could be entirely wrong - but there is no chance in hell I would tie my hardware business to Adobe license/tax hell. Even if its 'open' according to them. Without knowing anything more I know this is a way for them to achieve a lock-in of some sort so they can force their will on manufactures.

There is exactly 0 chance that any of this was done for the good of the industry. Its Adobe, they want to be the industry by themselves.