@NTripleOne in my last company I heard stories about similar occurences. Only people there sent emails to the whole team asking them out for a beer and offering to pay for everything.
But the worst prank was when someone forgot to lock the screen for xth time, so a colleague sent email from his account to HR asking to reduce his wage by 10% because 'I love this company so much'. And they processed it and the poor guy could not get them to revert it.
Just lock your PCs people

I used to call it hate on JS, but it was childish, because I was forcing my knowledge and approaches from different environments on something that had its own way that I refused to learn for over a decade. That is being an ignorant.

So no, you never really have the right to hate anything, since it usually means you don't get it. You may dislike it, that is fine, but hating is juvenile and unprofessional.

Judging from your reactions it seems that I triggered you a bit, for which I apologize, it was not my intention. But you sort of shown what I was talking about in the main rant and upvotes show that there are many people like that

@Zaphod65 because seriously, modules work exactly the same in both languages. Methods require you to use 'self' in arguments and documentation tells you to never change it. 'Objects', which really pains me to calls them that, only support variables, that can also be callable. But that's it.

Are there differences? Of course. Thank god that python uses methods for everything and does not support superglobal variables that alter internal workings of functions. But ffs it is a language designed to replace Perl in system development and apart from syntax and already mentioned things, it is the same baseline.

And for the love of god, you worked with PHP for two years and think you've earned right to hate? No. You can hate it when you understand it, not spend time with it.
I disliked javascript for 10 years but realized at all times that I am trying use the language in ways it was not meant to be used. I knew that I understand roughly about 60% of its internals, which is not enough for hate

@g-m-f yeah in theory, but in practice the web part was designed to be like an application over the http protocol. So not exactly purposed for web

@Zaphod65 ok please educate me about them then

@cybojenix how in the hell is python better than php?

@uddinstock thank you, as you can guess from the post, i dont really get outside much so sometimes i kinda forget such things :/

There is a script, i do not recall the name, but it fixes your last command when you type 'fuck'. Adds sudo, corrects filenames and such. Try googling it, its a lot of fun + very useful too :)

@sebastian or use dos2unix after the copy

@wsloth
2. There are much better documented projects than MSDN. I tore some of my hair searching for very specific things there.

3. That sounded so aggresively, it makes me doubt your point #1.
Please tell me what is Windows and .NET about. Because I know it as a software platform designed to work mostly within its own habitat.
"Stability and latest updates" are priviledges you get for buying a license EVERYWHERE.
And do you know which OS is used in most cases when stability is of utmost importance?

4. Why do you think that VS is the best IDE? Because the plaftorm is so convoluted that you need to import multiple libraries that can screw with your root namespace?

Main issue with MS related devs is that they have a hammer and everything seems like a nail to them.

@FitzSuperUser my point was that there is no learning curve for day-to-day tasks. Because it handles more or less like Windows.

@FitzSuperUser please tell me which distros have you tried.
Because nowadays major Linux distros are basically like Windows in those exact points.
I admit it is hard to choose from the plethora the right one, but in Fedora or Ubuntu you do not need command line ever if you are a basic user.

@drRoss please tell me you are kidding. It does not download drivers for you and it never did. The only thing it has is drivers for major hardware inside the installation. And it ends there.
Linux actually downloads needed drivers on some distros. Even as plug'n' play. Plus all the software you need.

@drRoss but then why should they? What is their main motivation? They are a company with money in their mind, while Linux foundation is there to make software.
Disregard everything else, that bottom line remains.
Yes Redhat and Canonical are also companies, but founded on Linux, instead od having a history of fighting it at every turn

Seriously people, it's 2016.
Major Linux distros get installed by pressing enter x times, just like Windows.
What is your beef with steep learning curve when they have interfaces for many things just like Windows has.
What is up with this thread?

@drRoss no? Since when windows downloads and installs everything for you?

@ninjatini no, PHP is still more readable and 'prettier' than ruby. Personally I do not like python, it does many things it promises not to do but still acts all cool.
With PHP you know what you get into and there are very few surprises.

Though in reality that is never a good idea :)

Vim is love.
Vim is life.

@tahnik oh man, have you ever worked in a finance sector IT? Regardless of the importance of it, there is always at least 10x oversaturation of useless BS, where people dont actually do anything just talk about things they have no knowledge or control over.
They even outsource some of the real hardcore stuff, yet keep messing with the third party while doing their job.
Sorry for not being specific, NDAs are a real thing there.
Finance IT is one of the worst environments for people. You are way better off in casinos, and morally its almost the same.

Windows as a 'superior enterprise platform' is a joke, and the few things you could only do there are getting ported by Microsoft itself.
The only cool thing MS has is the SQL server, which still does not have an equal in open-source stack (really hoping they add master-master replication to Postreg 10). And that is being ported too.
Yes you can do some Percona cluster but no, it is not comparable.
Apart from that? I can not remember anything else. You even have tools that work with Windows stack seamlessly. While it is pretty bad the other way around.
For me MS is way too big of an investment in both time and money and in most cases it can get done faster and for free in Linux.
With enough thrust even pigs can fly, but it is never a good idea, specially when they fly over your head.

@Paramite and MS is the radioactive chemical that wants to purge said cancer i guess

And true hapiness requires all the hosting services to have unlimited speed on their connections too :)

Every time I hear an argument like this I have to ask: have you ever seriously tried Linux for at least a couple of years? Because I have and I am never developing in Windows ever again.

The system is orders of magnitude slower, works OK on SSDs but on cheap hardware is close to unusable.
There are always hidden 'features', that update your settings, then it annoys you about disabling them, and sometimes stuff stops working until you let it have its way.
Viruses and the protection against them is another headache.

Those are just some of the problems with Windows. Now why is Linux different?

Anything you have there can be changed.
You have virtualization in the kernel.
It actually teaches you a lot about the operating systems in general.
Has a very good community.

It sucks that Adobe and DirectX are not there, I am aware of that. Though you can try it under the wine.

But for anything else, Linux is far superior and a much secure way of doing things. And it pushes you forward.

@azous yeah for a neat $20/swing

dwm for over 2 years... I use it everywhere, laptop, desktop, work, and I love it :)

its ++age, otherwise you get the pre-incremented value instead of the actual one

is that i3/dwm/some other sort of window manager instead of a desktop environment?

The first response to such claims should always be: 'How would we know' :)

next try m.2 or direct pcie drive :)