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Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

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last edited by BillSeitz on Aug 22, 2008 6:52 pm

has been assimilated into the world. Fifth, as the center of gravity in the developer tools industry shifts to the uber-tools, it will become more and more difficult to stay outside of one of the big uber-tools. Pretty soon, complete projects set up for ubertool X,Y or Z will have the network effect of getting all developers on those projects to use the same uber-tool. Think of the "office wars" on a smaller scale and to a very different audience you have the general flavor of it. One final and largely uninteresting side-effect is that I have - partly as a consequence of the reasoning presented in this article - begun using an uber-tool (Eclipse as it happens). After years of avowing that I would never succumb to using one of those newfangled all-singing and all-dancing [IDEs], here I am, dragging and dropping my way through a software development project. My resistance was ultimately futile. Will I be happier? More productive? I don't know. Will I be less out of touch with 21st century software development realities? Yes.


 



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