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Re:What we learned from rewriting our robotic control softwa... by s73v3r on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @08:04PM (#10503887)
There's also nothing professional about irrational hatred of a platform, or having the need to complain about another's choice of platform.
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Re:What we learned from rewriting our robotic control softwa... by stefantalpalaru on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @08:48PM (#10504054)
What's irrational about disliking an environment hostile to developers? When you you do robotics, you want full control over the software, so the natural fit is some Linux variant, not OS X or iOS.
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Re:What we learned from rewriting our robotic control softwa... by pjmlp on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @12:44AM (#10504824)
Hostile to FOSS developers you mean.

Many of us don't have any issues with comercial vendors.

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Re:What we learned from rewriting our robotic control softwa... by stefantalpalaru on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @09:50AM (#10506916)
Many of you have no issues with the lack of quality in your work.
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Re:What we learned from rewriting our robotic control softwa... by pjmlp on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @12:34PM (#10508130)
Actually, I am the opinion all types of software should suffer the same legal penalties and quality control that other industries have in place.
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Re:What we learned from rewriting our robotic control softwa... by s73v3r on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @12:38PM (#10508169)
I could say that far more about FOSS developers. Many of them operate under the idea that they bear no responsibility for the software they write, and as such, have no impetus toward quality.
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Re:What we learned from rewriting our robotic control softwa... by s73v3r on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @12:37PM (#10508157)
Yeah, no. I've never bought the "hostile to developers" argument. Try again.

"When you you do robotics, you want full control over the software"

And OS X gives me this.

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Re:What we learned from rewriting our robotic control softwa... by stefantalpalaru on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @04:57PM (#10510089)
Maybe you don't realize that "software" includes the kernel. Is it even possible to do a real-time fork of it like people did with RTLinux, RTAI and Xenomai?

Of course it's not, because OS X gives you shit and you invested so much in it already that you have to convince yourself that it tastes good.

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