Posts by vgiannadakis

Microsoft C# chief Hejlsberg: Our open-source Apache pick will clear the FUD

Re: >Everyone has his own little psychopathy.

"Java's a spawn of theoretical computer scientists, not people who target productivity."

You obviously are, at the very best, an incompetent programmer. More probably, the only form of "programming" you accept is shell scripting, otherwise you wouldn't complain about LANGUAGE-built-in file copying commands.. o.O

Your quote above is exemplar of your inability to judge a programming language. Yeah right, Java is not productive, tell that shit to the MILLIONS of Java developers around the globe, many - if not most - of them from developing countries with ZERO investment in Computer Science until 15-20 years ago!

Canonical flings out Ubuntu 12.10 – now with OPTIONAL Bezos suck

Re: Has there been a paradigm shift and nobody told me?

You have a very egocentric way to view the world now, don't you? Just because nobody at your school complains to you about the choices you've made, doesn't automatically make them happy!

With the exponential increase of information on the Internet today - and the similarly growing reliance of people on it to work / live - Search is quickly becoming a necessity. Using the Internet mostly means "Googling" these days. People tend to use their computers like they are "the Internet" - for many there is no distinction - so it is only logical that Search functionality rises to the surface.

There's also another reason that Search is useful, besides finding stuff that you don't remember where you put: time efficiency. You don't necessarily have to NOT know where you put something to search for it, you can search for it because it is QUICKER to do so. Quicker than opening a file manager and navigating to it. For example, on Unity I hit the Windows key, type "wish" and it shows me "Wish you were here" from my Pink Floyd collection. One click and I'm enjoying my music.

Search is of course no panacea, but it CAN be very useful. As long as it doesn't hog resources. Canonical with Ubuntu and Unity seem to have found a nice way to do it.