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The Divine Right Of Piracy

Webdev Programming Frontend

9 days ago 84.6K views 0 shares

The Divine Right Of Piracy

Ah, the subscription model. Adobe's prices are so high they've single-handedly funded more piracy than a Caribbean rum festival. When your monthly Photoshop fee costs more than your car payment, suddenly that torrent site doesn't seem so sketchy. The best DRM protection Adobe ever created was making their software too expensive for anyone to afford legitimately. Fun fact: Adobe's subscription model was actually designed by the same person who invented printer ink pricing - Satan.

We Have Programming Language At Home

Programming Algorithms Math Physics

22 days ago 76.9K views 0 shares

We Have Programming Language At Home

This is the programming equivalent of asking for McDonald's and your mom saying "we have food at home" — except the food at home is MATLAB. If you've ever had the misfortune of using MATLAB, you know it's that weird cousin of programming languages that engineers and academics love but actual software developers avoid like a production bug on Friday afternoon. It's powerful for math and matrices (hence the name), but coding in it feels like trying to build a website using only a scientific calculator. The $2000+ license fee is just the cherry on top of this engineering department nightmare.