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The Votemaster Is...Andrew Tanenbaum

Posted by Hemos on from the revealed dept.

A reader writes: " www.electoral-vote.com, a site of daily updated maps of the US electoral college based on a number of polls is probably a site that the policially inclined check daily. Well, it has been revealed that the person behind the site, AKA the votemaster, is none other than Andrew Tanenbaum, noted author of numerous CS books." He's also known for a little discussion with someone named Linus Torvalds.

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  1. oh ho ho ho... by Valar · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Bet you're wishing you went with that macrokernel now, eh?

    Ok, so actually the site is running Linux/Apache/mod_php.

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  2. After reading the debate... by piecewise · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    between Tanenbaum and Torvalds, I've discovered that Linus Torvalds really is a dick.

    Tanenbaum talked about the merits and critiqued what he saw as flaws of the Linux system. Torvalds ranted about how much Tanenbaum's project "sucks." What a complete dick.

    Anyway, it's good to learn new things about Linus. :)

    Electoral-Vote.com is a fantastic web site - especially if you look at the Averaged Polls version (linked from the home page) because it pulls together different state-wide polls and moves them together. Not exactly scientific - but it gives you a better glimpse of where things are moving.

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  3. Obligatory Linus vs. Tanenbaum Link by smcdow · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Here is a link to a nice summary of the famous discussion in comp.os.minix between Tanenbaum and Linus over Microkernel vs Monolithic System architectures.

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