Development in general has gotten kind of awful. Docs for everything always seem to be out of date. If you're doing web development your life is spent trying to figure out whether the docs are wrong or whether you're doing it wrong or whether that random post on stack overflow from a year ago is wrong.
Don't even get me started on ancient locked threads on SO that only apply to old versions of something and every time someone asks about a new version their question is just marked as a dupe and trashed.
Regardless, it seems that this dev's final straw was that Microsoft wouldn't push their app because it competed with Microsoft's own app. Now they're jumping over to Apple? Have they never heard of the problems devs on iOS have had with Apple stealing their app's functionality and then removing them from the marketplace? All of these walled gardens suck.
I gave up on MSFT in like, middle school. I've been on a full boycott for the last year or so, apart from Minecraft on PS4 (sometimes I like something more stable than my Pixel 2015 LS, and I'm not building a rig until Vega and Ryzen are looking good. Once that happens, I might still wait for APUs, then build an awesome rig at a later date, assuming that either AMD will keep up the good work, or (not holding my breath for this next one) Nvidia starts making CPUs. I hate Intel for the same reason I hate Microsoft, they're the mob of the tech industry. Cooperate, or we'll come for your kneecaps ability to sell computers.
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3 u/ForgotMyName 27 Feb 2017 21:39
Development in general has gotten kind of awful. Docs for everything always seem to be out of date. If you're doing web development your life is spent trying to figure out whether the docs are wrong or whether you're doing it wrong or whether that random post on stack overflow from a year ago is wrong.
Don't even get me started on ancient locked threads on SO that only apply to old versions of something and every time someone asks about a new version their question is just marked as a dupe and trashed.
Regardless, it seems that this dev's final straw was that Microsoft wouldn't push their app because it competed with Microsoft's own app. Now they're jumping over to Apple? Have they never heard of the problems devs on iOS have had with Apple stealing their app's functionality and then removing them from the marketplace? All of these walled gardens suck.
0 u/therealkrispy 03 Mar 2017 08:12
repository based distribution ftw, like Cydia and most Linux distros.
1 u/therealkrispy 03 Mar 2017 08:05
I gave up on MSFT in like, middle school. I've been on a full boycott for the last year or so, apart from Minecraft on PS4 (sometimes I like something more stable than my Pixel 2015 LS, and I'm not building a rig until Vega and Ryzen are looking good. Once that happens, I might still wait for APUs, then build an awesome rig at a later date, assuming that either AMD will keep up the good work, or (not holding my breath for this next one) Nvidia starts making CPUs. I hate Intel for the same reason I hate Microsoft, they're the mob of the tech industry. Cooperate, or we'll come for your
kneecapsability to sell computers.