Bootloaders are small, but very important software.
Bootloaders are small, but very important software. k/q is small but a very useful interpreter. There are so many examples, but it appears that to "the market" the most valued software development is large scale. The sentiment is create and contribute to large projects or go home. Stupid, but true. "Do one thing well" is more than just a UNIX philosophy. It is an essential truth. Most programs are lucky if they can do one thing "well". How many so-called "engineers" are afraid to write small, trivial programs lest they be laughed at? Large programs often become liabilities. Can we say the same for small programs? If it happens, write a new one. Maybe a user with an unmet need would rather have a program that does the one thing they want as opposed to one program that can allegedly do everything... whereby they are granted their wish through addition of "features". More internal complexity. And majority of users only using a fraction of the program's feature set. Waste.
Posted by aplorbust on Dec 15, 2015, 2:42 PM
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I left Gnome 3 for Mate early on and I never looked back, but here are the issues I remember.
Yay, I found my people… I switch between Android and iPhone every few cycles, and I really do miss my swipe keyboard on Android.
> LLMs to me are just another tool.
I used to be one of those people that would countdown the hours to Apple's launch events and tune in for the live stream.
> "Over the years it has been clear that we in the “open source” camp (as opposed to the “free software” camp) were wrong all along.
> So you trusted 22-year-old coffee junkies copying and pasting from stack overflow 10 years ago Absolutely yes...
I don't want to Godwin this thread so early, but you know what analogy I'm thinking of.
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Bootloaders are small, but very important software.
Bootloaders are small, but very important software. k/q is small but a very useful interpreter. There are so many examples, but it appears that to "the market" the most valued software development is large scale. The sentiment is create and contribute to large projects or go home. Stupid, but true. "Do one thing well" is more than just a UNIX philosophy. It is an essential truth. Most programs are lucky if they can do one thing "well". How many so-called "engineers" are afraid to write small, trivial programs lest they be laughed at? Large programs often become liabilities. Can we say the same for small programs? If it happens, write a new one. Maybe a user with an unmet need would rather have a program that does the one thing they want as opposed to one program that can allegedly do everything... whereby they are granted their wish through addition of "features". More internal complexity. And majority of users only using a fraction of the program's feature set. Waste.
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