Comments on: [rant] Desktop application complexity (part 2) http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/2010/12/12/rant-desktop-application-complexity-part-2/ World Organi[sz]ation Of Broken Dreams Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:35:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: jcm http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/2010/12/12/rant-desktop-application-complexity-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-134384 jcm Fri, 14 Jan 2011 15:54:00 +0000 http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/?p=934#comment-134384 Yes, CADT is exactly right. Yes, CADT is exactly right.

]]> By: Anon http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/2010/12/12/rant-desktop-application-complexity-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-134296 Anon Sat, 08 Jan 2011 11:37:45 +0000 http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/?p=934#comment-134296 You've just articulated CADT ( http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html ). I have friend who have been driven to Macs because of this - the burn out catches up with you in the end. My own thinking is that this is just a symptom of open source - without the massive resources to maintain the old way of doing things with shims, the only way progress can be made is with these endless rewrites. You’ve just articulated CADT ( http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html ). I have friend who have been driven to Macs because of this – the burn out catches up with you in the end.

My own thinking is that this is just a symptom of open source – without the massive resources to maintain the old way of doing things with shims, the only way progress can be made is with these endless rewrites.

]]> By: My name is Barney http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/2010/12/12/rant-desktop-application-complexity-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-133696 My name is Barney Tue, 14 Dec 2010 08:56:35 +0000 http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/?p=934#comment-133696 You're right. You’re right.

]]> By: Matěj Cepl http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/2010/12/12/rant-desktop-application-complexity-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-133508 Matěj Cepl Mon, 13 Dec 2010 10:06:31 +0000 http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/?p=934#comment-133508 You rant about changes every ten minutes? Let me compare it with the kernel (which I suppose you would claim to be much better in this department than Gnome). So, gconf's first commit is http://git.gnome.org/browse/gconf/commit/?id=7c6fe0a88f4024261bdde8a6d2f888fbc3ac6b92 ... that's from July 1999. Hmm, what was the kernel in July 1999? You rant about changes every ten minutes? Let me compare it with the kernel (which I suppose you would claim to be much better in this department than Gnome). So, gconf’s first commit is http://git.gnome.org/browse/gconf/commit/?id=7c6fe0a88f4024261bdde8a6d2f888fbc3ac6b92 … that’s from July 1999. Hmm, what was the kernel in July 1999?

]]> By: Corey Burger http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/2010/12/12/rant-desktop-application-complexity-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-133429 Corey Burger Mon, 13 Dec 2010 03:04:17 +0000 http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/?p=934#comment-133429 Damn kids! Git off ma lawn! :) Damn kids! Git off ma lawn! :)

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