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Re:The Makefile I use with JavaScript projects by nineteen999 on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @04:59PM (#16487495)
> It seems that 90% of computer use has moved into the web browser.

This is an extremely (web) developer-centric viewpoint IMHO.

Try telling 3D modellers/sculptors, games programmers, audio engineers that 90% of their computer use has moved into a browser. They will look at you with a blank face since they all require traditional "fat" desktop apps to get their work done at professional level.

And those are just the examples I can find off the top of my head, I'm sure I could think of more.

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Re:The Makefile I use with JavaScript projects by jwdunne on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @05:52PM (#16487981)
Do all of those computer users constitute more than 10% of computer users? I don't think there's even 5% of computer users there.

Talking about 3D modelling, game programming and producers like they're the majority is a technologist-centric view.

Most computer use is by people who think the web is the internet and use 'inbox' as a verb.

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Re:The Makefile I use with JavaScript projects by nineteen999 on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @10:37PM (#16489478)
> Do all of those computer users constitute more than 10% of computer users? I don't think there's even 5% of computer users there.

So as stated that was the list of the top of my head. I just pulled from my personal list of hobbies, things that I use a computer for other than programming or automation.

Within 50 feet of me at work there are a whole bunch of electrical engineers who spend 90% of their time in some fat app for designing, I dunno, telco electrical stuff.

In the fishbowl next to that, are 50 network operations staff who spend 90% of their day in "fat" network monitoring applications.

I'm just pointing out if you look far enough there are plenty of people using apps outside a web browser for their daily work and hobbies.

In my nearly 25 career in IT I have never heard people use 'inbox' as a verb (as in 'inbox me?'). Sure some people must say it sometimes, but I think this is overstated and another example of programmer cliche or hyperbole.

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Re:The Makefile I use with JavaScript projects by dec0dedab0de on Thursday March 01, 2018 @07:22AM (#16491410)
Most computer use is by people who think the web is the internet and use 'inbox' as a verb.

I think most of those people dont use general purpose computers anymore

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Re:The Makefile I use with JavaScript projects by com2kid on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @07:44PM (#16488721)
> Try telling 3D modellers/sculptors, games programmers, audio engineers that 90% of their computer use has moved into a browser. They will look at you with a blank face since they all require traditional "fat" desktop apps to get their work done at professional level.

I'm talking about overall computer use. For certain professional fields, yes, apps still matter. But I'd take a guess that the majority of screen time with computers now days involves a web browser.

Heck as a programmer (not web), I am probably 50% in browser looking things up.

At most offices, computers are used for web browsing, and Microsoft Office.

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Re:The Makefile I use with JavaScript projects by nineteen999 on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @10:40PM (#16489495)
> Heck as a programmer (not web), I am probably 50% in browser looking things up.

I should have put web in square brackets eg. [web] to indicate "optional". You seem to fall into the category I was describing.

Use an IDE (other than Atom), eg. Visual Studio, Eclipse, IntelliJ? All fat apps.

Use VMware workstation or Virtualbox? Fat apps.

> At most offices, computers are used for web browsing, and Microsoft Office.

So is that 90% web browsing and 10% MS Office? BTW, Office365 is still fat application (or suite of them) last time I looked.

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