imho on the desktop side of things, development is stagnating, because mobile apps are the current focus of the industry.

and with apps, multiple environments, and i mean osx and windows, web applications simply win. and with web applications winning, the other "already existing" multiple environments, that are ignored for the most part by the client business, as in linux, bsd, etc. became silently accepting that shift, since, what runs on a browser, also runs on their browser.

so if you are not catering a specific OS audience, using desktop apps will kind of end up in creating an electron app. otherwise, you would use c# for windows, xcode for mac. the only exception is games, where there is still a larger audience on the desktop market, which has it's own set of engines, and the *nix world of course, where you split into factions of gobject/gtk+, c++/qt, and whatnot.

i used delphi as well for applications. i also suffered java as not being really ui friendly. by now if i really have to create an application, which supposed to work cross platform on a desktop i would probably make a simple Python/Qt app, or i would target only one operating system, using e.g. c# for windows. something i would have never thought i would do 10 years ago.
on a sidenote, i find it bizarre, that all the computing power we got in the 90s is basicly now used to run browsers as virtual machines for apps that do less, than their desktop counterparts ten years ago.

but i also have to note, that desktop development mainly uses the toolsets created by the desktop manufacturer, and those toolsets are also shrinking to a few dev engines, and this reduction of competition is a message in itself.

I think he meant the OS2 Warp users.

partly agreed.

i know geeks who use macs, nerds who use macs, and nerds who dont use macs, nerds who are not into computers at all.

i still prefer thinkpads, and i think i definitely am a geek.

I don't feel the creator of this chart was geek nor nerd enough to understand the diminishing difference, and was clearly driven by dork desires

i had the same answer, without the link planned.

not only this, but there is already a good way of increase innovation... by doing other stuff not related to the problem, but indirectly related to problem solving. may it be cooking, playing, reading, taking a walk or making sports.

so increasing innovation cannot be automated. any human with a critical amount of life experience understands this.

exactly.

the research field of AI already considered the idea of "artificial intelligence" to be more "solutions based on imitating intelligence", and it has long been postulated, that while the dream is still the real thing, it probably will not be possible with electronics (which do great in calculus, but still have problems with parallelism).

the results in the last decades were OOP, neuronal networks, or the good known Spamchecking algorithms.

But the approach to learning in all these cases is still very different each time. I am e.g. not sure, if spam filters really use neuronal algorithms - it mostly concentrates on the relations of words in a text, or the alterations of a word in a text, and how to use the statistical data about these relations to flag content which is probably spam.

Since humans (or any intelligent mammals) learn to learn by playing, both establishing recognition of rules, and the usage of data, I wonder if it will be ever possible to have an abstract learning machine, which not just "learns", but also learn "what to learn", and "why to learn" on its own. But each respective problem is getting addressed.

Oh yes, and the latest implications, like gamification in industry, and the revelations of the true meaning of "playing", researched more in social and psychological sciences is maybe also an indirectly linked to the field of AI. Which still has a long way to go in a society, where "playing" is associated with "kids", and a waste of time.

being historically accurate, gnome is actually the anti-kde

born out of doubts about the qt license, gnome since then was hijacked by the ideas of a little corporationist weasel, first trying to reimplement more "windowsness" and since the ongoing success of apple, trying to imitate that.

in this sentiment, i always hated gnome, especially in the years, where it was the default desktop on all the major distros. Too many options is what life is about, as long as the important ones are still there, there is no problem of complex user interface settings.

While I still silently hope for gnomes complete demise, I wont say KDE is perfect either, but for the intellectual and creative mind, who tries to mold the desktop system to his will, it has "almost enough" options. How to categorize settings and hide those which seem "over the top" in "Extras" is another topic.

True, there is also a community behind it, many people who contribute on their own, still, Ivan's job is to review and test and be critical, for his audience, so an ongoing discussion about who made Fedora is useless at this point.

Even if tastes sour, Critical Reviews are a help for an open minded development team.

Availability creates possibility.

He isn't an idiot. You are.

Making guns available to anybody is a stupid idea, except if fighting a corrupt regime.

Most of the world has not such big problems with gunshot kills, because guns are not available.

Of course, the mental ones still kill. But it's not just mental ones, who kill, sometimes it's people who call others idiots and getting angry with a gun, they are not supposed to have.

You need natural light for vitamine D, but thats basicly it. So, no, its not just "light missing".

how would we measure height anyway in one number through all frames of reference?

height in itself is a relative/local definition anyway. because we are spacedust.

i see this much simpler. trillian had a pro version, costed money, and even if it looked hackier, miranda was faster in keeping up. windows geeks chose miranda, and they were the only ones interested in multi-ims anyway.

not to mention the zeitgeist of computing in that era. putting stuff on your desktop which can change its color or appearance was the toy nowadays given to you more commonly in software designs. so while trillian looked cool, miranda could look cool too and worked and had all those badly programmed sad plugins you could try through.

it is kinda similar to the fight between winamp and sonique.

really liked it actually, thank you for flaming a good episode.

hash tables are pretty important, and he almost covered everything quite entertainingly. He definitely makes his students listen, very good teacher.

I agree, MIT and CMU do brilliant stuff too, but I am not sure, if watching the best will help you understand them, especially after reading your comment

I say GIZ would be a nice format for zlibbed gif. it would also ease the use as a verb.

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