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Based on the title, why give drivel an audience?
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Some fool wrote: As you may all know, developers are a social tribe that is well known for using MacBooks with stickers on them.
Seriously?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I couldn't bring myself to read it (the whole article that is).
Sounds like it was written by someone who really doesn't know what we do, and how we do it. I could be wrong.
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I would never put stickers on my iCrap development machine! Mainly because I don't have one, have never had one, have never wanted to have one and would refuse one if offered.
I got a scam call the other day from "apple support" saying they had detected a problem with my MacBook. I said, "Yes, the problem is that they are too expensive but I solved that problem by not travelling all the way to the Apple Store to buy it on sale with a special discount." "Oh really?", they replied, "How much did you save?". "I saved 100% plus tax in the process." "Wow! Good deal!", they said - at which point i got bored, hung up and blocked the number.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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It might make an interesting poll...for professional work only, what OS do you actually develop on?
I'd bet at least 80% of us here are using Windows and VS. I personally do not know a developer who uses a mac for work...but then again, I don't know that many developers in the real world. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Indeed.
Windows and VS is simply what I do now (mostly).
I prefer OpenVMS, but I'm glad I don't have to use a VT100 anymore.
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Jeeze, are we supposed to take advice from someone who can't even set up his monitor correctly?
His web-site profile says: I live in London, where I help to deliver great products.
Cool.
But we've already established that I don't like fast-food pizza, so I'm somewhat dubious of the "great".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Under his "Most annoying issues I encountered" He lists "You never know if an issue is Windows related, Linux related, or even some software running on Windows like the Windows Defender Firewall."
I think my list of most annoying issues would include:
People who can't be bothered to learn the skills to figure out the origin of an issue.
I work largely on Windows based system with a very small amount on Objective-C(shudder).
However the real meat of professional web software development nowadays concerns concepts that are cross platform and the OS you are working on is largely incidental.
When I am debugging calls to a REST API I am more concerned about the tools I have available rather than what OS I am working with - and Postman works very nicely in Windows.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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The more pertinent question is "Is Windows an option for developers?"
I've just about had it with Windows automatic updates. Now that I can do web development with .NET Core on a Linux box, and there's good IDE's from JetBrains out there, yeah, I'm ready to ditch Windows for any kind of development.
Hmmm, might be an idea for my next IoT article, haha -- a full C# ASP.NET Core web development environment on an rPi!
Latest Article - Azure Function - Compute Pi Stress Test
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Marc Clifton wrote: Hmmm, might be an idea for my next IoT article, haha -- a full C# ASP.NET Core web development environment on an rPi!
That would be frickin' sweet. 
TTFN - Kent
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Who would want to reach 800M users? And on a platform where you might still have a chance at actually selling non-trivial software instead of an advertisement delivery system or data gathering system.
Do it while you can because the capability of actually being in the software business to sell software is eroding away all to quickly. Pretty soon, we will be in the same shoes as musicians. You can't sell the music so use it to sell something else, or as a way into acting, or to get corporate sponsorships. Will we have to start dancing in booty shorts to sell software before long?
Explorans limites defectum
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The whole article can be summarized as "it's hard because it's not what I'm used to", and really, this goes both ways.
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Carlos sweetie, go back to your yoga and crystals world. The grownups are talking.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Obviously written by a non-Windows dev who thinks the only "real devs" are those who only use mac or linux
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I might give him some credit if he suggested using a Linux system. But he went full "vs OSX".
You know, that OS made for people that don't know how to use computers. When I see a professional using one, I always imagine a baker trying to work to scale with an EZ-Bake oven.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
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Should you always knock before you open the fridge, in case there is a salad dressing?
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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A cool idea. Lettuce leaf it up to the viewer as to what they might behold[^].
(Maybe not safe for work - this, neither[^])
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I would agree - those links probably don't belong in the lounge at all.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Some may be against the slaw.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Just my way of showing you the virtues of vegetarian. Otherwise, what salad to do?*
* OK - I know what you were going to say - but most of us don't have (or want) ready access to sheep.
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We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Salad?? Me like bacon! So I don't carrot all.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Oh I had this pasted into an email to my wife.
But I'm gonna save this for dinner prep tonight.
I'm gonna know on the fridge door and listen for a response.
When my unsuspecting wife asks WTF am I doing, I'm gonna drop that punch line and her eyes will roll back in her head and never come back.
This is gonna be fun. 
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Most of the main shelf of my fridge has been dedicated to the Open Sauce Movement.
I'm ok with Open Sauce. It's the Movement that worries me 
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So that's why the peppers turn red!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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... about Tech Support[^]
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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