Software developers who never have, and never will have to, use the software for real.
Yes. The customer doesn’t necessarily know what’s possible or know how to articulate what features they want. I spent one week in a position where I was using my own software for production and immediately made several simple enhancements once I had hands on experience with the expected business process.
Every programmer should go through an exercise like this at least once in a while.
Schools close in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Pittsburgh as new blast of snow hits Northeast
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10909751 [https://lemmy.world/post/10909751] > More than 100 million Americans are under winter alerts Friday as a storm hits the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast and another brutal surge of Arctic air pushes into the South.
Sopranos, Game of Thrones. Basically anything produced for HBO.
I caught the first 2-1/2 seasons of The Wire because of a promotion on Hulu.
It boils down to: I’m a cheapskate.
They’ve been separate desktop environments from the start. From top to bottom they share nearly nothing. The compositors, window managers, toolkits and shells are all different.
They also are ideologically opposed. If they merged, which direction would they go? The more feature-rich KDE? Or the more streamlined Gnome? Such a merger would lead to infighting and stagnation.
This is before even talking about the actual code underlying both environments.
I think it’s better for everyone if they stay as two separate projects.
Right. Is it 10 figures? 7 figures?
… 5 figures?
