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Their main worries with open-source seem to be: 1 Fear of losing control (over their vision and centralized design of computation and representation of the Wolfram language). This …

I never know when they talk about "Wolfram" whether they mean the company or the person. And then I think what an egomaniac one must be in order to name an invention/creation after…

Sort of Wolframs reply to why Wolfram is not open-source: https://blog.wolfram.com/2019/04/02/why-wolfram-tech-isnt-op...

fyi, I found an old HN thread on a similar topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=626491

Hello! I am a sw dev for 10+ years now but I always liked working with my hands, for example in my workshop and I like the outdoors as well. Also I like beeing with people, having …

Good analogy! btw. I asked the question a year ago whether this whole "boss as a service" was viable and I think it is one of those things that you can't really imagine until you t…

- Concentrate on one thing. - Make something you need and would pay for. If it already exists somewhere, find a good reason why you need to do it at all (and not just use the exist…

Thanks! I am reading HN for this kind of hints.

Do not get blinded by enthusiasm. Think on your own. I had a startup, co-founder persistet on bad tech, never stood up to him. Startup failed - and all for the wrong reason. I basi…

Thank you for stepping in and trying to clarify. English is not my native language - that is why I sometimes struggle to explain myself better. The most valuable stuff you learn in…

I see this more clearly in hindsight. By pure accident I ended up in software development: My mother found this university, I did not have anything else on my mind at the time, jus…

I would argue it is not about the little facts, such as specific sorting algorithms, but its more about learning how to approach a CS task, how to abstract and how to reason about …

Studying does involve a big chunk of practial work, so you get both theory and practise. If you don't know the basics it would be very hard to do any "real-world development". So w…

This seems optimized for creation of small apps (and is also presented very well). But what striked me watching the intriduction video: When you revisit your a written app, it seem…

It seems programming bottoms up is the only way to go - consider coding with your bottoms down, quite embarrassing.

This. Be a highlevel programmer: know enough languages to pick the right one for the task at hand. Do not take part in language wars.

I am grateful that my father was using Linux exclusively pretty much from the mid 90s on and we never had another OS at home.

Danny Wallace - Yes Man Clifford Stoll - The Cuckoo's Egg

Physically a BitCoin is, when you look at it with your own eyes, nothing, not even air. And probably everyone knows what a fork is (metal thingy for eating stuff) ... so here is yo…

I have a big pile of files (text, pdf, images, tars, zips, all kinds of stuff) that contain ideas, concepts, software prototypes, sketches and stuff like that ... and it just sits …

You are in a very good position: you can pay your bills AND you have some more time on your hands. Start an own side project instead of working for someone else. This is from a fat…

> ... it's not a great language; Yes it is. > it's a clusterfuck of "cleverness" which lets "clever" people implement horrifying glass cathedrals that shatter as soon as you open t…

I begin to find the constant bashing of Perl amusing. Such a great language, people just use it and it gets stuff done. I have no explanation as to why people hate it, other than b…

The problem is, money loss through poor software quality is (and maybe can) not be calculated in a way that, for example time (for development) can be measured. Often the arguments…

As far as I can tell this is not open source. It seems to be a toolkit/framework and is supposed to be the basis of actual applications with focus on augmented reality. I don't thi…