arcimboldo

arcimboldo , 10 months ago to programmer_humor in single binary executable and dlls

Great idea. I’m sure Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, and almost every company that makes money with their software will be super happy to share their source code with me!

Edit: typo

arcimboldo , 10 months ago to programmer_humor in single binary executable and dlls

When a basic dynamic library needs to be updated because, for instance, there is a big security issue, then all your statically linked binaries will have to be updated. Which means every one of those developer teams need to keep track of all the security fixes, release a new version of the binary and push it, and every user will have to download gigabytes and gigabytes of data.

While if you have dynamic libs you only have to download that one, and the fix will be pushed earlier and all the apps will benefit from it.

arcimboldo , 11 months ago to linux in Keeping and running frequently used commands

Bash is a shell but it’s also a programming language, so between functions, aliases and scripts you can do anything you want without depending on an external program that might break, not be maintained anymore and you need to install everytime you reinstall, a machine.

I just have to restore my .bashrc and ~/bin…

arcimboldo , 11 months ago to nostupidquestions in Is having an Android really a deal-breaker for some people?

It took me quite some time to understand what OP was talking about…