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Your software is just fine - well written, functional... I'm going to continue using the Host File Engine by mmell February 17, 2017

Your premise that hostfiles are a good way to deal with advertising and malvertising is quite valid - by JazzLad April 20, 2016

his hosts program is actually pretty good by xenotransplant August 10 2015

his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources by alexgieg September 25 2015

I like your host file system by Karmashock September 09 2015

that APK guy, I use his host file by rogoshen1 Tuesday March 03, 2015

I personally use a HOSTS file blocker produced from a genius called APK by 110010001000 October 27 2017

* Linux model = faster/more efficient.

APK

P.S.=> APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit for Windows https://www.google.com/search?...

Your software is just fine - well written, functional... I'm going to continue using the Host File Engine by mmell February 17, 2017

Your premise that hostfiles are a good way to deal with advertising and malvertising is quite valid - by JazzLad April 20, 2016

his hosts program is actually pretty good by xenotransplant August 10 2015

his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources by alexgieg September 25 2015

I like your host file system by Karmashock September 09 2015

that APK guy, I use his host file by rogoshen1 Tuesday March 03, 2015

I personally use a HOSTS file blocker produced from a genius called APK by 110010001000 October 27 2017

* Linux model = faster/more efficient!

APK

P.S.=> APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit for Windows https://www.google.com/search?...

Your software is just fine - well written, functional... I'm going to continue using the Host File Engine by mmell February 17, 2017

Your premise that hostfiles are a good way to deal with advertising and malvertising is quite valid - by JazzLad April 20, 2016

his hosts program is actually pretty good by xenotransplant August 10 2015

his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources by alexgieg September 25 2015

I like your host file system by Karmashock September 09 2015

that APK guy, I use his host file by rogoshen1 Tuesday March 03, 2015

I personally use a HOSTS file blocker produced from a genius called APK by 110010001000 October 27 2017

* Linux model = faster/more efficient

APK

P.S.=> APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit for Windows https://www.google.com/search?...

Well shit, that took all of 30 seconds. https://support.google.com/pix...

That's pretty neat. Another example of making the same energy do two things at once is using a heat pump to heat something and cool something else at the same time, like this or this.

I love seeing those on parked vehicles

Or did she earn the job and did the research like everyone else.

Just read her papers, and you know for sure.

If you cannot parse what she wrote, you better shut up.

- James Watson, Nobel Laureate, discoverer of DNA structure, one of the most important discoveries in the history of biology
- Tim Hunt, Nobel Laureate
- James Damore, not a Nobel Laureate (what were you thinking, James?)
- Alessandro Strumia, scholar that contributed to science more than Jess Wade (see https://scholar.google.com/cit...)

The second one is dated 2018 but it shows a plot that stops before 2000.

This is the first hit on google search: https://www.google.com/imgres?...

Mashiki wrote:

It's a witch hunt, the person who made this into an issue went out of their way to make it an issue. They're part of a extremist feminist group that has a history of getting offended because they want to be. Behold the piece of shit. An archive just in case. And enjoy the witch hunt in action.

This is everything that hasn't been scrubbed by CERN and may be incomplete. It's another Tim Hunt, Mat Taylor, donglegate in action. But remember, SJW's really aren't the problem...no no, they're just misunderstood, really out for the best, trying to make the world a better place by stomping on your face.

The twitter post you're calling "piece of shit" is @jesswade:

"When people in positions of power in academia behave like this and retain their status they don’t only push one generation of underrepresented groups out of science, but train others that it’s ok to propagate this ideology for years to come."

The "witch hunt in action" link shows a collage of Kavanaugh headlines by the poster @BeastOfWood with lines like "white male entitlement", and "white male supremacy" marked, it's not evident to me how the poster or the collage is relevant. The last link is just the same slides as posted in the summary.

It's a witch hunt, the person who made this into an issue went out of their way to make it an issue. They're part of a extremist feminist group that has a history of getting offended because they want to be. Behold the piece of shit. An archive just in case. And enjoy the witch hunt in action.

This is everything that hasn't been scrubbed by CERN and may be incomplete. It's another Tim Hunt, Mat Taylor, donglegate in action. But remember, SJW's really aren't the problem...no no, they're just misunderstood, really out for the best, trying to make the world a better place by stomping on your face.

It's not a matter of natural resources, but rather a matter of the scaling of production. If you continue to expand, you can make more food... until you've exhausted fertile land and good climate, and then you're pouring in more irrigation, more tillage, more fertilization, getting less yield, and investing more labor (cost) to produce less food.

This scaling happens with all sorts of resources. At a point, a method of production can't scale with more human labor performing the same tasks. Productivity decreases once you hit that carry capacity. There are also bottlenecks such as shipping (moving stuff requires a lot of coordination and physical trafficking space), as well as the inertia of capital investment (you don't build another billion-dollar fabrication campus for a two-year, hundred-million-dollar market spike).

In educational terms:

A layman would perhaps expect that with doubling of all productive factors, the output will also double and with trebling of factors of production, production would also be trebled, and so on. But actually this is not so. In other words, when all inputs are increased in the same proportion, the total product may increase at an increasing rate, are a constant rate or diminishing rate. Accordingly the returns to scale could be ‘increasing, ‘constant’, or ‘decreasing’.

Early on, you have increasing returns to scale ("Economy of Scale"). In the middle, you have constant RTS. At the upper end, you have decreasing RTS. This is represented in introduction of new products, which we can see in cell phone technology, and is fairly generic.

Power is a simple example. If you run a motor at high output, it becomes less-efficient and consumes more fuel; you could build more motors, but single, large engines are more-efficient than several small engines. Eventually, you hit a feedstock problem: you need refined fuel to obtain maximum efficiency, yet fuel refinement also requires more resources, pumping raw fuel out of mines faster is difficult, and you wind up running burners hotter and losing more energy along the way.

This is all fine until you realize spreading out by building more power plants and more refineries raises complexity of some logistics geometrically, others exponentially, so you suddenly find yourself sitting on a superlinear factor: you can scale efficiently for a while, and then you need to find a way to more-efficiently generate power. Solar, wind, and geothermal energy don't require feedstock distribution, and so their much-lower logistics (to handle less-intensive maintenance) kicks you back down to the linear portion of the curve, restoring economies of scale.

You just need to figure out how to build those power sources efficiently.

This, of course, ignores basic economic policy issues like scaling minimum wage: if you scale it to inflation or otherwise less than productivity, you start creating poverty-stricken societies which can't purchase as much, and a demand bottleneck. If you scale it with productivity, you constrict job growth, although your economy stays healthy.

http://www.videolan.org/ The one linked on their site: https://play.google.com/store/...

The keyword search that worked for me:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%25s...

I am generally unimpressed by DDG searches for many things, especially technical stuff. Too much spam gets promoted to the top of the listings. And by default Strict filtering is set and you only get a few results. In fact, when trying to craft a keyword search I couldn't figure out how to deliver 30 results per page, that is a bit of a problem, even startpage allows you to get 20. And since such a high percentage of the DDG results are crap that means a lot of scrolling. But a keyword search is useful for some sorts of stuff. For instance Google searches are surprisingly crummy for technical stuff because too many old results are promoted to the top. But technical crap evolves quickly, so I just want stuff from the last year or so.

This is my keyword search for Google for the last year, 100 results, safe search off, keyword: gy

https://www.google.com/search?...

It is easy to set up keyword searches (in Firefox, Chrome seems to make it a PITA). Just set up the search any way you want, then bookmark it and then substitute '%s' for your search term 'foo'

see here.

Freedom requires a measure of power. Would you give up all your guns? Your military? No? Why not?

I have to point out that perovskites have been the hot research topic for low-cost solar cells for several years now. It's nice that slashdot suddenly noticed them, but mentioning one research group, while ignoring a hundred other research groups working on perovskite solar cells, is a little misleading.

For more information, here are 33,000 papers to read: https://scholar.google.com/sch...

uh no.
It is TESLA, that reduced the cobalt used in the cells.
You will notice that it is Panasonic (using Tesla's R&D) that will remove ALL COBALT from their li batteries soon.
LG is currently using 612 (i.e. 6 parts nickel, 1 part Manganese, and 2 parts Cobalt), and trying to get to 811.
Tesla 2170 started several years ago as 811, and they are working to change it to 810. IOW, Cobalt will be a none-issue for Tesla on the next version.

the original cell was one the cheapest and highest density. Now the 2170 has 50% increase in volume for 200% energy. as to pricing, Hyundai/Kia pay cost or less from LG. LG continues to sell at decent prices to GM and non s. Korean firms. In addition add in the fact that Tesla has a fraction of Cobalt that others use. Then add in S. Korean one of a number of nations that are manipulating their won vs. the dollar. Sorry, but I seriously doubt that the others come close.

I'd be willing to bet dollars-to-donuts that Patricia had a huge rule in convincing her father to do a 180 but I think we need more facts to determine that though. Speaking of facts, there are few that rather stand out to me after reading Tiago's perspective. Paraphrasing:

Interestingly enough Linus' daughter, Patricia Torvalds, activist of "Guerilla Feminism, supports the Post-Meritocracy Manifesto which was created by Stupid Juvenile Whiner Coraline Ada Ehmke, the latter who also created the Code of Conduct.

I don't care who Patricia Torvalds is.

Systemd is already bad enough.

Linux cannot, and MUST NEVER be tainted by political freaks.

Obvious? No.

Does the meta narrative have a SJW theme all over it? Maybe.

I'd be willing to bet dollars-to-donuts that Patricia had a huge rule in convincing her father to do a 180 but I think we need more facts to determine that though. Speaking of facts, there are few that rather stand out to me after reading Tiago's perspective. Paraphrasing:

Interestingly enough Linus' daughter, Patricia Torvalds, activist of "Guerilla Feminism, supports the Post-Meritocracy Manifesto which was created by Stupid Juvenile Whiner Coraline Ada Ehmke, the latter who also created the Code of Conduct.

Ruby's CoC is simple and to the point. It is summarized as "Matz is nice and so we are nice," commonly abbreviated as MINASWAN.

But Ruby's simply CoC "wasn't good enough" for Coraline though. After Coraline's attempted hijacking of Ruby's CoC was 100% shot down by Matz ...

We have set our Code of Conduct.

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/c...

I hope it works. We may upgrade it if something happens.

Matz.

... Coraline continued being a shit stirrer. Notice how the community basically told her to "fork off". (Pun intended.)

Matz isn't alone. Other have voiced their criticism of her CoC:

Given a choice between only two extremes, I'd far rather have Linus Torvalds telling me I'm an idiot and my code is shit, then exist in an offense-taking culture where various forms of criticism are re-branded as "harassment."

Back in 2013 Stupid Juvenile Whiner Sage Sharp targeted Linus. Failing that, she is now targeting Ted Tso calling him a "rape apologist".

Funny how these people love to play Judge, Juror, and Executioner, all at once without any evidence, and want to their CoC to be inclusive even when they aren't, but I digress.

What do these examples have to do with Linux, Linus, and the CoC ?

Eric Raymond pointed the dangers of meritocracy back in 2015. with his Why Hackers Must Eject the SJWs article. The example he brought up was about djangoconcardiff lying about patch rejection in the django community.

I noticed you have rejected some pull requests to add some good django libraries and that the people submitting those pull requests are POCs (People of Colour).

rosarior shut that down.

The pull request was rejected not the person. Of the people who did not had their patches accepted at least one submitted another pull request and was accepted or are contributors in my other repositories, disproving your basic premise.

There is no need for a code of conduct, there hasn't been a conduct related incident with the repository and nothing about a contributor comes into play when rejecting or accepting a patch (as proved above). An explanation is provided when a patch is rejected, and some have been left open to re-asses in a future time.

I'm not white and please don't make any other assumptions about me, they hold no relevance to the matter at hand.

Now I hate conspiracy theories with a passion but does the "recent" rash of CoC changes seem to be politically driven? Maybe. There SEEMS to be a larger narrative at play.

Regardless, I still think it is too early to tell but this inclusion of meritocracy is definitely something to keep an eye out for in the future.

..and a direct download link for those who prefer Google not be all up in their business:

https://drive.google.com/uc?id=17NBICP6OcUSucrXKNWvzLmrQpfUrEKuY&export=download

ed2k://|file|2018-The_Riemann_Hypothesis.pdf|216609|6EA74F07E381F0476EBCD79241DD0102|h=C3HYHSR44TE4NQXVMFWLNXZNNJ47LCIS|/

Your software is just fine - well written, functional... I'm going to continue using the Host File Engine by mmell February 17, 2017

Your premise that hostfiles are a good way to deal with advertising and malvertising is quite valid - by JazzLad April 20, 2016

his hosts program is actually pretty good by xenotransplant August 10 2015

his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources by alexgieg September 25 2015

I like your host file system by Karmashock September 09 2015

that APK guy, I use his host file by rogoshen1 Tuesday March 03, 2015

I personally use a HOSTS file blocker produced from a genius called APK by 110010001000 October 27 2017

* Linux model = faster/more efficient...

APK

P.S.=> APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit for Windows https://www.google.com/search?...

Your software is just fine - well written, functional... I'm going to continue using the Host File Engine by mmell February 17, 2017

Your premise that hostfiles are a good way to deal with advertising and malvertising is quite valid - by JazzLad April 20, 2016

his hosts program is actually pretty good by xenotransplant August 10 2015

his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources by alexgieg September 25 2015

I like your host file system by Karmashock September 09 2015

that APK guy, I use his host file by rogoshen1 Tuesday March 03, 2015

I personally use a HOSTS file blocker produced from a genius called APK by 110010001000 October 27 2017

* Linux model = faster/more efficient!

APK

P.S.=> APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit for Windows https://www.google.com/search?...

Your software is just fine - well written, functional... I'm going to continue using the Host File Engine by mmell February 17, 2017

Your premise that hostfiles are a good way to deal with advertising and malvertising is quite valid - by JazzLad April 20, 2016

his hosts program is actually pretty good by xenotransplant August 10 2015

his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources by alexgieg September 25 2015

I like your host file system by Karmashock September 09 2015

that APK guy, I use his host file by rogoshen1 Tuesday March 03, 2015

I personally use a HOSTS file blocker produced from a genius called APK by 110010001000 October 27 2017

* Linux model = faster/more efficient

APK

P.S.=> APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit for Windows https://www.google.com/search?...

Your software is just fine - well written, functional... I'm going to continue using the Host File Engine by mmell February 17, 2017

Your premise that hostfiles are a good way to deal with advertising and malvertising is quite valid - by JazzLad April 20, 2016

his hosts program is actually pretty good by xenotransplant August 10 2015

his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources by alexgieg September 25 2015

I like your host file system by Karmashock September 09 2015

that APK guy, I use his host file by rogoshen1 Tuesday March 03, 2015

I personally use a HOSTS file blocker produced from a genius called APK by 110010001000 October 27 2017

* Linux model = faster/more efficient

APK

P.S.=> APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit for Windows https://www.google.com/search?...

Last I checked, the Apple Music app for Android didn't run on tablets, even those running relatively recent Android 7 "Nougat". The app's Google Play page states that the app is incompatible with my Samsung Galaxy Tab A 8" (SM-T350). If Apple's acquisition of Shazam is intended to drive users to Apple Music, how will it benefit tablet users who can't even run Apple Music because it's not for tablets?

It benefits Apple because you'll want it so much you'll buy an ipad.

That's their theory anyway ...

Kill the Satanic Vampire now!

We tried.

But unfathomably moronic Democrats keep pining for Hillary! to ride in on Broomstick One and save the day.

Even though she'd probably be drunk, fall into one of her "naps", and crash into a tree...

Last I checked, the Apple Music app for Android didn't run on tablets, even those running relatively recent Android 7 "Nougat". The app's Google Play page states that the app is incompatible with my Samsung Galaxy Tab A 8" (SM-T350). If Apple's acquisition of Shazam is intended to drive users to Apple Music, how will it benefit tablet users who can't even run Apple Music because it's not for tablets?

Here's a nice example, Netherlands' former prime minister wearing an anti-drugs shirt while drinking beer.

On a related note, can anyone recommend a good lightweight XMPP chat client for Android?

https://play.google.com/store/...

Here is the paper with the alleged proof:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=17NBICP6OcUSucrXKNWvzLmrQpfUrEKuY

I never took proper mathematics at university so cannot begin to claim to understand any of it, but maybe someone else can.

dunno the source https://drive.google.com/file/...

Your software is just fine - well written, functional... I'm going to continue using the Host File Engine by mmell February 17, 2017

Your premise that hostfiles are a good way to deal with advertising and malvertising is quite valid - by JazzLad April 20, 2016

his hosts program is actually pretty good by xenotransplant August 10 2015

his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources by alexgieg September 25 2015

I like your host file system by Karmashock September 09 2015

that APK guy, I use his host file by rogoshen1 Tuesday March 03, 2015

I personally use a HOSTS file blocker produced from a genius called APK by 110010001000 October 27 2017

* Linux model = faster/more efficient

APK

P.S.=> APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit for Windows https://www.google.com/search?...

Your software is just fine - well written, functional... I'm going to continue using the Host File Engine by mmell February 17, 2017

Your premise that hostfiles are a good way to deal with advertising and malvertising is quite valid - by JazzLad April 20, 2016

his hosts program is actually pretty good by xenotransplant August 10 2015

his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources by alexgieg September 25 2015

I like your host file system by Karmashock September 09 2015

that APK guy, I use his host file by rogoshen1 Tuesday March 03, 2015

I personally use a HOSTS file blocker produced from a genius called APK by 110010001000 October 27 2017

* Linux model = faster/more efficient!

APK

P.S.=> APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit for Windows https://www.google.com/search?...

Your software is just fine - well written, functional... I'm going to continue using the Host File Engine by mmell February 17, 2017

Your premise that hostfiles are a good way to deal with advertising and malvertising is quite valid - by JazzLad April 20, 2016

his hosts program is actually pretty good by xenotransplant August 10 2015

his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources by alexgieg September 25 2015

I like your host file system by Karmashock September 09 2015

that APK guy, I use his host file by rogoshen1 Tuesday March 03, 2015

I personally use a HOSTS file blocker produced from a genius called APK by 110010001000 October 27 2017

* Linux model = faster/more efficient

APK

P.S.=> APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit for Windows https://www.google.com/search?...

Well, I'll put my name on that, systemd brings a lot of important features to modern systems, like being able to start network services after a request for the service is received, without dropping the connection or having to have a userspace middleman process that tries to queue as many of these types of requests as it can. The old way sucked hard, the new way with systemd is exactly what we were asking for... 20 years ago.

No. Just no.

Remember that Google engineer who wrote an epic internal memo about his time at Amazon that accidentally got leaked?
Anyway, read this part:

- monitoring and QA are the same thing. You'd never think so until you try doing a big SOA. But when your service says "oh yes, I'm fine", it may well be the case that the only thing still functioning in the server is the little component that knows how to say "I'm fine, roger roger, over and out" in a cheery droid voice. In order to tell whether the service is actually responding, you have to make individual calls. The problem continues recursively until your monitoring is doing comprehensive semantics checking of your entire range of services and data, at which point it's indistinguishable from automated QA. So they're a continuum.

If your services are waiting to start up, then by definition you are NOT monitoring them (otherwise, they would have already started up, no?)
BAD ENGINEER.

That systemd "feature" you tout is a terrible anti-feature for reliable production deployments.

Others in the thread were hating on binary logs, but having some structure makes it much much faster for security tools to parse the logs, and for humans, you just run a single command to get an all-text version if you want it; exactly as hard as running cat to get the text listing...

Bovine excrement.

Text logs have one killer compelling feature. Ironically, it's exactly the feature that you've mis-attributed to systemd.
The "structure" of a text log is that LINE ENDINGS DELIMIT LOG ENTRIES.

This structure is so universal that humans can open the logs in almost any text tool, and read, search, and even EDIT them!
A binary format requires a special tool just to show you where the records are delimited. Let alone reading, searching, or editing those records.

So this argument "It's faster for security tools!" is just excrement, pure bovine excrement.
Binary logs are both unnecessary and foolish.

Your software is just fine - well written, functional... I'm going to continue using the Host File Engine by mmell February 17, 2017

Your premise that hostfiles are a good way to deal with advertising and malvertising is quite valid - by JazzLad April 20, 2016

his hosts program is actually pretty good by xenotransplant August 10 2015

his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources by alexgieg September 25 2015

I like your host file system by Karmashock September 09 2015

that APK guy, I use his host file by rogoshen1 Tuesday March 03, 2015

I personally use a HOSTS file blocker produced from a genius called APK by 110010001000 October 27 2017

* Linux model = faster/more efficient

APK

P.S.=> APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit for Windows https://www.google.com/search?...

Your software is just fine - well written, functional... I'm going to continue using the Host File Engine by mmell February 17, 2017

Your premise that hostfiles are a good way to deal with advertising and malvertising is quite valid - by JazzLad April 20, 2016

his hosts program is actually pretty good by xenotransplant August 10 2015

his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources by alexgieg September 25 2015

I like your host file system by Karmashock September 09 2015

that APK guy, I use his host file by rogoshen1 Tuesday March 03, 2015

I personally use a HOSTS file blocker produced from a genius called APK by 110010001000 October 27 2017

* Linux model = faster/more efficient

APK

P.S.=> APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-1 32/64-bit for Windows https://www.google.com/search?...

Not mounting CIFS or NFS shares. That's the thing - fixing stuff eventually and then pretending it never happened fools some fanboys, but not those who had to keep a fleet of customized machines going. Here's a link to lots of links, that took one second to find:
https://www.google.com/search?...

Not covertly

https://www.google.com/maps/ti...
https://myactivity.google.com/...
https://myaccount.google.com/d...

Not covertly

https://www.google.com/maps/ti...
https://myactivity.google.com/...
https://myaccount.google.com/d...

Not covertly

https://www.google.com/maps/ti...
https://myactivity.google.com/...
https://myaccount.google.com/d...

Gordon Moore's paper seems pretty clear on component count. https://drive.google.com/file/...

Google's mission statement:

Our mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.

Limiting their search results in order to please the Chinese government doesn't help make the world's information become "universally accessible and useful".

Neither does suppressing a memo, which states that Google is helping the Chinese government find dissidents who want to spread information that the Chinese government doesn't want known.

They've already dumped the "Don't be evil" motto. I wonder if they'll also change their mission statement.

living paycheck to paycheck.

There's no middle tier because the middle class has been hollowed out and, well, the middle tier was for them. By "middle class" I don't mean the numeric definition but the more generalized one of a class that has a significant amount of discretionary income.

One thing that's important to realize is that the notion that people are "living beyond their means" is generally a false narrative used by the rich and powerful to keep you and me from questioning the system. There's tons of data to back this up. All the gains since 2008 have gone to the top 1%. Wages stopped growing (and is large swaths declined) in the 70s even as productivity exploded. Essentials like Housing and education are eating up 60+% of peoples income. The commodities market was deregulated resulting in massive food price inflation. For me, I'm going to pay approximately 50% of my income between taxes and healthcare this year and my roads are falling apart, I pay for my kid's school out of pocket and I hesitate to go to the doctor. Meanwhile my country's fighting 8 (count 'em) offensive wars (meaning wars against countries that didn't attack us).

Basically, there's a fall scale class war going on that only one side is fighting...

at least in America. It's not just because they're short sighted, see here or read up some more via google

This is also why 99 cent stores are a harbinger of doom for an economy. They make most of their money selling essentials (toothpaste, soap, toilet paper, etc) in reduced sizes at very high markups to poor people who only have a few dollars left after paying their bills. Me? I buy that stuff at a warehouse store and it saves me about $100 bucks a year vs a grocery store and closer to $300 vs a 99 cent store.

Wow, Apple fanboy much? Suckin' the big apple, eh? You are a fucking idiot if you think iOS is 100% open source. Why should anyone fight the vendor to service something they paid for? They make it intentionally difficult, speaking from the experience of actually replacing sealed-in batteries. It's cute (and ignorant) that you think Apple is an innocent lamb that doesn't spy. Of course, the rest of the ignorant Apple apologist blather in your post should have presaged that. Guess you've been living in a cave and you missed the zillions of news stories about them being a giant spying corporate asshole. Speaking of seeking great tools, I've already got that nailed (things like compilers and *real* tools that produce real results). So, that's why I didn't need to fork over $1000 and a bunch of personal liberty to Apple for an inferior, overpriced, spying, sealed-in battery, no headphone-jack, opaque OS, Chinese made, corporate ass-phone. If it means I don't have to put up with some asshole's horn-rimed glasses and Apple-latte attitude, then so much the better!

You make it sound like it's a huge grey area and everyone has their own standards, but really telling people to kill themselves because the world would be a better place without them is something that is pretty much universally unacceptable.

And this was over needing the root password too often in OpenSUSE: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+L...

Linus disagrees with everyone about the relative success of Linux vs GNU too : https://groups.google.com/foru... . He is modest, to put it mildly.

I think there's actually a point to Linus's more colourful explosions. Remember that most of the people working under him aren't employed by him. He can "fire" people by refusing to pull from them, but that's a pretty nuclear option. Other than that, harsh language is pretty much all he's got.

And when someone's paycheque boss asks them to do something Linus doesn't like (most common: getting a new product working with a fast ugly hack rather than a cleaner, more general solution), it can be useful to that person to be able to place a still-smoking e-mail on their boss's desk and say "see, I told you that wouldn't fly."

Definitely follow the links in the article to see the context. The explosions aren't just bullying; they're all surrounded by quite detailed explanations of why he's angry. "Please just kill yourself now" is the culmination of a post titled "Venting" and subtitled "you might want to avert your eyes now." It wasn't directed at a named individual, or necessarily anyone at all. It was "if you...think that my kids need to have the root password to access some wireless network, or to be able to print out a paper, or to change the date-and-time settings, please just kill yourself now. The world will be a better place."

He also doesn't bite the newbies. It's people he expects to know better he yells at. And he's not a hypocrite who can give but not take. I'm careful calling Linus wrong because he's usually right, but on the rare occasions I catch him out I've enjoyed abusing him right back.

This strong language is not itself sexist. Nor does it appear to be used in a sexist manner. But it ends up interacting badly with a broader societal double standard and produces a sexist effect.

The underlying problem is that women are judged far more harshly for assertiveness than men are. A man can be a complete bastard and still respected or even admired. There are plenty of Frank Underwoods doing quite well in the world.

(Former Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau comes to mind. "arrogant prick" is a pretty accurate summary of his personality. He was famously unsullied by humility. Fortunately, he was as smart as he through he was.)

But this is a real ongoing problem for female politicians. Remember "Nasty Woman"? Women walk a tightrope between being wallflowers and bitches.

Now, Linux development is done in public. All your interactions are immortalized in public mailing list archives.

A male developer can tell Linus to get his head out of his ass and not hurt his current or future job prospects in the least. As the article quotes Val Aurora as noting, a woman doing exactly the same thing experiences a lot of retaliation. People may not say so directly, but a woman acting like that is judged as an intolerable co-worker long before a man is.

That societal double standard is not itself Linus's fault, but it means that a rough-and-tumble development culture quite effectively excludes women.