jacmoe

It's more polished because the (almost) entire team of OpenOffice left and created the LibreOffice project, AFAIK.

Same as what happened with MySQL -> MariaDB.

I have removed my Google Analytics tracking code from my sites, and have abandoned Disqus in favour of a self-hosted commenting solution.

Since I am not setting any cookies, I have also removed the EU Cookie Policy script (which, ironically, uses a cookie...)

I can do this, because I am writing my own content management system.

I probably should add a "You are not being tracked by this website" 'thingie' ?

I wrote a blog post about it, though..

Did I say something wrong?

I mean that it is only natural that like minded people seeks one another, and group up in clusters.

It is human nature.

Yes, it's expensive, but there are also opportunity, and humans are opportunistic creatures.

Because developers are social animals too?

Good advice, but loaded with assumptions that may or may not be true.

The original article, and the response, are two views of the "problem" at opposite ends of the spectrum (so to speak).

Depending on the context, both are right. And also wrong. ;_)

I agree. But there is one difference between watching a crappy TV show and playing a crappy Video Game: You are actively engaged in playing the game. No matter how trivial it is.

Of course, if you pick a more challenging game, like an RPG/Puzzle, then the difference grows greater.

I also agree that it is more fulfilling to create something.

Which is the reason why I myself like to create ...

...

video games! :)

Win-win: you get to create it, and play it.

Yes, I actually do have this backwards .. in more than one way ..:P

Sorry, I was thinking of Lua for Qt5 .. That was silly!

And, it is a pity about PySide, it was a neat project. :(

PyQt5 does not seem to be maintained. The last couple of times I checked it, it was pretty dead: one maintainer with no time.

Black History Month - that's why.

If you want to own (and control) your site's comments, then Isso is for you.

It is that simple. :)

Your server, your data.

Disqus is offering you a free service for a reason: they want to make good use of the data that your site comments contains.

They also want to hi-jack the community that you have built around your site - or rather: what Disqus has fooled you into believing that you have.

Don't worry about Juvia. Project has been dead for years..

This is an Open Source and self-hosted alternative to Disqus.

It is not a product.

And, as such: doesn't need to market itself.

Use it if you want to. Or not.

I wanted to use it, but couldn't make it run - I am not a Python guy, so I went for HashOver (PHP) instead. Not because HashOver is better, it's not, but because I need to be able to modify/fix the software, and I know PHP better than Python.

But I still believe that Isso is the best self-hosted and open source Disqus alternative in existence.

Ubuntu - Canonical in general - is not a good representative of "Open Source". They don't contribute back to Debian, don't cooperate with the Gnome project (Unity?), and there are other options out there. They are good at marketing, though. Ubuntu feels like a wonky OSX clone..

What really annoys me is that they have made people in general think of Linux as "Ubuntu". There are other options. :)

I am a happy Debian KDE/lxQt user not using *untu. :)

The idea is much, much better than the name :)

Do you know who Marco Cantu is? Apparently not. ;)

I have been following Lazarus / Free Pascal for years - and, as it turns out, started using it in earnest one week ago. It's great! :)

Please search before jumping to conclusions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ObjectVision

:)

Do you even know what RAD means?

20 years ago, RAD meant that you could drop visual components on a form, add some events, set some properties, and hit the green run button to compile and run it.

A very visual way of programming.

QtCreator with it's visual designer comes close, but then you have to suffer a more unforgiving syntax (C++), a complex macro compiler (MOC) and not at all easy cross-compilation / distribution.

I am actively using Lazarus. It is not split into anything other than Free Pascal (the language) and Lazarus (IDE and visual component library).

Don't blame the forks, mods and spin offs on Lazarus / Free Pascal. It is a sign that the project is alive and doing well, IMO.

The looks? It looks like any other Qt / GTK 2/3 application. Fairly modern.

But I agree with you on some of the points - but the part that I like the best is the fact that it's fully open source. It's really nice to be able to look at the source to everything when developing your own applications.

Yes, the site itself, including the docs, looks dated and does a poor job of selling it. That's Open Source, the good and the bad.

Edit: The project does have a (mandatory these days, I reckon) Github mirror, if that would make you more happy. :)

Lazarus and Free Pascal has made me return to the wonderful world of RAD and Object Pascal. :)

I was a Delphi addict in the 90's. After Borland screwed up Delphi - including the Kylix disaster - and since I am now a full time Linux user - Lazarus is the only option.

I have been following the Lazarus / Free Pascal project for years, and I think now is a good time to pick it up.

I wish that it had more traction, though.

Because they are not competing with another! :)

Taken from Dave Cheney's https://dave.cheney.net/2015/07/02/why-go-and-rust-are-not-c... ->

"Rust competes for mindshare with C++ and D for programmers who are prepared to accept more complex syntax and semantics (and presumably higher readability costs) in return for the maximum possible performance. For example, micro controllers, AAA game engines, and web rendering engines."

"Go competes for mindshare in the post 2006 Internet 2.0 generation of companies who have outgrown languages like Ruby, Python, and Node.js (v8) and have lost patience with the high deployment costs of JVM based languages."

There is something really wrong about Biicode. They seem to be way too focused on marketing and buzz words and popularity instead of just letting the software do the talking.

People want instant gratification... Seriously. Use TextMate if you want a quick to learn, but limited, editor.

I do not question that he would agree with you. He's not smarter than me, though. :) Or Jeff Pace: http://jpace.wordpress.com/2011/12/30/ergonomic-emacs-keybin...

UndoTree is a true godsend! It basically shows a graphic over the undo tree and lets you navigate it. Really handy. :)