Don't know why others are giving you sensible answers, but you using the words 'Brendan Eich baby' shows your level of trolling. If you want a _good_ discussion, stop doing that.
Apple had a point, that they were cooler. They were saying, "hey, we are different". How does what Microsoft's saying about Google not apply to it? MS doesn't care about your privacy any more than Google. With the Snowden revelations and all, they have no case to make.
Wow, didn't expect they were selling merchandise. This is a new low even for Microsoft. Microsoft were never considered to be a company which puts ethics over money, and this just shows that they are jealous. They would do worse if they were in Google's place.
But selling merchandise? Come on, really! Is there at least one person in the world who could use these items and make it seem like they are making a fair point?
Dash, sometimes, is horribly slow. Rest of Unity has gotten usable, but Dash is a pain even now. Canonical should really focus on it's performance since it's the most important part of Unity experience.
My parents are both 50+. My Dad's a Sales guy and my mom is a high school teacher in a primarily non-English, government school. They use Ubuntu for all their tasks. Mostly includes Browsing(YouTube, Epapers), talking to my sister in the States (Hangouts), Media (music, photos and videos) and LibreOffice. The stuff they discover sometimes amazes me, all along I've been believing this would be too hard for them.
I recently stumbled on this document called 'Deconstructing Deferred' (http://goo.gl/RSg5ja) by Guido. This seems like a commentary on ideas he learnt from Twisted's Deferred. I think this was while developing Tulip.
> I just get the feeling that Oracle doesn't really give a shit about anything other than that god damned boat.
I was helping out a cousin install Oracle on Oracle Linux, and I found it way too complicated to set up. Installing their flagship product on their official distribution was a pain. All they could have done is provide proper repos/rpms. It's sad that they couldn't get that right.
I use the Nightlies, and am really digging the new stuff that's coming in. What I want the most is, a DevTools-level universal shortcut to focus onto the Web Console prompt. I know that C-S-k is the Web Console short-cut, but when focus is on the other parts of the Web Console, pressing C-S-k just closes Dev Tools. I like how Chrome uses 'Esc' to focus on the prompt, and I find it a very superior UX.
Yes, they do. These laptops are not different from their Windows counter-parts. They were manufactured/assembled with Windows as the target OS, but in a country like India, where financial feasibility is a major factor, providing options with free OS (thus reducing the Windows tax) helps. It was Free DOS for several years, now it's Ubuntu. I think this is one such example, where GNU/Linux being 'free as in free beer', really matters.
Several retail outlets in India sell Dell laptops pre-installed with Ubuntu. It is considered equivalent to DOS, in that, choosing an Ubuntu laptop will save you a few thousand rupees compared to the same laptop with Windows (also helps that most such configurations also omit the almost-ubiquitous and mostly un-neccessary NVIDIA graphic cards). Many customers prefer this because they have easy access to pirated Windows copies. Though due to this, several of them get introduced to Ubuntu, and many continue using it. It especially helps having someone you know who is a Linux user and can help with any gotchas. I've helped several friends and cousins who got Ubuntu with their laptops.
For me though, having a pre-installed Ubuntu is a great way to ensure all the parts of the laptop are working properly.
Adding to what others said, someone I know is planning to use this as a starting point for understanding version control systems. The reason stated was it's simplicity.
Is there a mass CoffeeScript-answers-to-JS-Questions taking place on SO? Without even pointing to some instances of CoffeeScript-ers arrogance/mischief, ranting like that is not a nice thing to do.
I think you should first explore Computer Science in general. You should start with a good programming language, a high-level, beginner-friendly, very web-favored one. Pick Ruby or Python. Then grab courses on Algorithms, Databases, Computer Networks and an other area you wanna explore. You don't need to complete them, but just get a feel of what they have in store for you. Make sure you write some code as part of the Algorithms course.
Web development is not just using frameworks. There is real Computer Science involved for building and maintaining any substantially complex web-app. Apart from this, there will almost certainly be domain-specific knowledge required for a complex web-app.
If you get a hang of programming, and love the CS concepts you are trying to learn, you can then build a career path accordingly (may be college?). If you are dis-inclined, then you can get to learn Rails/Django, and keep free-lancing.
I think at the age you are in, you should not miss out on getting a chance to learn some serious CS.
This is a totally bullshit way of managing a FOSS project. You should never remove working code from a FOSS project if someone is already maintaining it and that someone represents a major chunk of your users. I hate that Ubuntu guys are moving away from X/Wayland (so suddenly and in a close-is way), but treating them like this indirectly is wrong. We got to play fair with the FOSS eco-system.
> People in India don't even have the reasonable expectation of riding a public bus without getting raped to death
Why so many negative votes? What was wrong about me being offended by such an insensitive statement. The statement was factually incorrect. Is it not arrogant to comment on a country like that without data?