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Modern Web 101: From Free Software Fetishism to Free Web

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Re: Modern Web 101: From Free Software Fetishism to Free Web

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This could lead somewhere, but I think he's shooting himself in the foot by dissing vi and emacs. That's like telling a developer his girlfriend is ugly and then trying to sell him something.

Not all developers are found of vi and emacs.

Indeed, I prefer vim over vi.

Re: Modern Web 101: From Free Software Fetishism to Free Web

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Foreword : For someone whom I have met much more time lobbying/selling the virtue of Free Software to the administration to have his private owned companies make benefits from the public money, it is the kind of shaming on Free Software devs I take a moral stance in NOT accepting. I might have heard him on the phone asking our company to rig a market by agreeing on price while on an open invitation to tender. So, I h…

What do you use in order to read infos via CLI ?

Re: Modern Web 101: From Free Software Fetishism to Free Web

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As opposed to any aspect of web development, UNIX has the nice feature of being somewhat well-designed. If we're going to try to make a universal content platform, we should at least wait until someone does a good job of it. Javascript and HTML are really poor choices for the majority of tasks.

> UNIX has the nice feature of being somewhat well-designed. Some people would disagree. http://www.vbcf.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/BioComp/training...

Worse than the modern web, though? Unix is at least designed for what it's used for (mostly), and while X is an absolute mess, it was also designed to do what it does.

Re: Modern Web 101: From Free Software Fetishism to Free Web

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My first experience with "the cloud" was around year 2000 when saving a rather large school project, and after the semester when the next patch of students was gonna continue the project, the hosting company was gone ... We did however manage to find the project on the HDD of the computer that had been used.

When going through the apps recommended by this article, several of them are abandoned, and some of the reviews says "I lost all my work".

Re: Modern Web 101: From Free Software Fetishism to Free Web

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post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> UNIX has the nice feature of being somewhat well-designed. Some people would disagree. http://www.vbcf.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/BioComp/training...

Worse than the modern web, though? Unix is at least designed for what it's used for (mostly), and while X is an absolute mess, it was also designed to do what it does.

The sad thing about UNIX fetishism is buying computers able to be 3D graphics workstations, use them as twm was the latest revolution in window managers and work as if one just had multiple PDP-11 instances running simultaneously.

In any case POSIX doesn't allow for much more anyway.

As for the modern web, it should just fade back to being the old web with HTML/CSS and leave interactivity to native applications.

Re: Modern Web 101: From Free Software Fetishism to Free Web

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post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What makes it sound illegal? Genuinely curious.

Here were I live You it's always max 3 months

Paid or unpaid?

I don't think unpaid internships or traineeships are legal here. But a paid traineeship is essentially a job contract for a limited duration project -- to wit, "the malineen project".

Re: Modern Web 101: From Free Software Fetishism to Free Web

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I don't understand why people buy chromebooks to then enable the developer mode which can wipe your data if you are careless and then install a different operating system or crouton instead of just getting a equivalent laptop with windows and then do the same.

I thought Chromebooks were like the MacBook Air -- very thin/lightweight.
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