The State of the Art is Terrible

Re:The State of the Art is Terrible by grepper34 on Monday October 03, 2011 @08:46PM (#3068864)

Totally agree, I still remember the pain I had almost a decade ago install something as simple as a Borland C++ IDE. What a nightmare that was for a newb like me, zero resources online to dig through. Today, you want setup and IDE or get iPad development going? There are TON's of resources with thousands of examples. Hitting an error when setting it up? Copy, paste that error into Google. 9.9 times out of 10 you get someone who hit that error before and has already solved it.

I'm just not buying into this "oh, life is so hard to set stuff up nowadays" routine...

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Re:The State of the Art is Terrible by mikecsh on Monday October 03, 2011 @09:43PM (#3068996)

I don't think the point of the article is to say "oh, life is so hard to set stuff up nowadays".

Rather, the point is that it is easier and more pragmatic to rush ahead with an imperfect technology stack and achieve great things than it is to spend the time and effort to reach "a better place".

I love how far technology has come, I love writing iOS software and appreciate the resources at my fingertips via Google. However I have a similar range of experience as the article's author, and I completely agree that while great things are being done with technology as it is today, it's very sad that we have limited ourselves to only reach where we are now rather than where we may have been.

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Re:The State of the Art is Terrible by desireco42 on Monday October 03, 2011 @09:08PM (#3068919)

Dude, I would get Borland any day of the week instead of Apple. Just hit F1 if you are not sure what command does.

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