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Re:Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Build Systems (2012) by jonex on Sunday January 21, 2018 @03:19PM (#16199759)
You do realise that it's quite a request to make? Getting a specific book and going trough it, until you reach enlightenment? Personally I'd say that any build system requiring me to read a full book to understand it has already failed to fulfil the requirements I have. Any time I don't have to spend fiddling with or learning about build systems is time well spent in my world.
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Re:Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Build Systems (2012) by jonex on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @03:41AM (#16221280)
Ok, just wondering, why would I get down-voted for this? I must have misunderstood the idea about down-voting, to me it looks like people are just expressing disagreement, I thought it was about discouraging impolite discussion?
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Re:Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Build Systems (2012) by Annatar on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @04:02PM (#16226278)
Read my last reply to the moderator and you will get an inkling as to why.
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Re:Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Build Systems (2012) by jonex on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @05:07PM (#16226799)
From that comment it seems that the down votes are about expressing anger that people like me have the opinion that build systems are a second order priority.

I can't see how the comment itself should not be allowed as part of a discussion about the level of reading should be required to participate in a conversation about build systems?

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Re:Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Build Systems (2012) by Annatar on Thursday January 25, 2018 @03:17AM (#16229534)
The comment isn’t disallowed; the downvote count just tells you how many people disagree with your statement and think you’re wrong about what you’re saying.

By the way, Make is so powerful that not only can it be used as a build engine, but for day to day system administration, web development and general task automation as well.

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Re:Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Build Systems (2012) by Annatar on Monday January 22, 2018 @05:24AM (#16203319)
Do you want to master it or not? Your choice, but you won't master it via "Stack Overflow".

What would you have done if you had grown up at Bell Labs, refused to read manual pages?

Is it worth using shitty software or putting up with shitty software or reinventing the wheel over and over and over again just because you feel like mastering something is too much work? If it is... it's just one more reason for me to exit this industry, for I do not want to keep such company.

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