My situation exactly, I totally sympathize with you, right down to the 2012 Nexus 7 and the exact same problems (minus storage issues). Was (and is) an amazing tablet, but it's becoming rather long in the tooth, and I think I may have to replace it soon, especially with the battery life having dropped dramatically. I'm currently looking at an Asus Zenpad C 7.0 , but I've never used it before, and so I can't make any statements as to the quality. Seems to be similar in spirit to the Nexus 7 (2012). If anybody has any expirience with this tablet, I'd love to hear it! (Or, other reccommendations would be much appreciated too).
Kind of interesting. From what I gather it's supposed to be the unstable rolling release branch of FreeBSD (-CURRENT), which presumably some Apple enhancements? Maybe the interface? I don't know, they're rather vague with what their ultimate goal is. The progressive part sounds like they intend for this to be something like Arch for Linux, but -CURRENT is not exactly a bastion of stability. It's the beta branch. Users won't want it because it's too unstable, and all the extras are going to make it unappealing for testing, I think. A neat idea, but I think this would be much better off if pulled from -STABLE or better yet, -RELEASE. THEN we'd have something quite interesting on our hands.
you cannot make a remark in public that glorifies or approves of the Nazis
This isn't just about the restrictions about Nazi-related speech; Germany also makes it illegal to insult people and insult religions, among other things.
then don't think of the Nazis. Think of the Klu Klux Klan.
Germany 1920's - no free speech - the Nazis take over the government.
US 1920's - free speech - there is a strong public backlash against the Klan, and by 1930 it had dwindled from millions of members to political insignificance
So, what did you want me to think about?
They are a different country, and frankly, I don't see why you expect that your view of free speech should be enforced everywhere.
It's not "my view", it's the classical liberal view. And I frankly don't care whether Germany enforces it or not. For all I care, Germany can go back to being a Catholic monarchy if it makes the Germans happy. I'm just pointing out that such laws (1) are a politically bad idea and don't work, and (2) are incompatible with the statement that a country has "free speech".
If you truly are American (as I presume you are), then you should be very familiar with them.
My family emigrated from Germany and I've lived and worked there.
I daresay Germany is far more accepting of free speech than the US on a cultural level
I daresay you're wrong.
See Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire: It's illegal in the US as well to say hate speech. At absolute best, the waters in that department are murky and it appears as though the government itself is split on the issue. I see an attempt at taking the moral ant hill, so to speak, without any justification that it prevents free speech. If you would like an impartial third party outside of the two of us to look at it, take a look at the Press Freedom Index. Germany ranks #12 and the USA ranks #49. So please, if either country here ranks as an indemocratic one, it'd probably be the one that also ranked as an oligarchy outside of this study, in another one (also independent of either one of us).
Also, I find it quite interesting that you've actually come from Germany. When you say you did, do you mean you and your immediate family did, or do you mean your great-great-great-great-great-grandfather's father did? I am a citizen by both from my parents (one American and one German), and I've lived in both before. You clearly think me to not know what I'm talking about, and you can think what you wish, but I do believe that at the very least I have a fairly informed opinion here, however it may vary from yours.
So if it wants to be a democratic nation, it should abolish the democracy that has upheld those laws? Abolish votes for better democracy!!
If Germany wants to be a democratic nation, it needs to stop criminalizing speech that the German state doesn't approve of. Is that so hard to grasp?
You know very well why those laws were passed. If you're from America, you're going to think they mean "a threat to the common people", or some vague crap like that. In actuality, they're very clear: you cannot make a remark in public that glorifies or approves of the Nazis. You are allowed to talk about them all you wish, and you can even campaign for it under a different name, but you cannot outright display hatred of another person's race or approve of the Nazis. It's exactly that. No more general than that. Given that the same law exists in America (not legally, but socially it does), I don't exactly see why you think this is totalitarian. Especially because social measures can go to anything society disproves of, while the law will always just limit this.
Now, the other reason why I believe you're in the wrong; Germany is not America, and is not beholden to implement what you suggest. They are a different country, and frankly, I don't see why you expect that your view of free speech should be enforced everywhere. I daresay Germany is far more accepting of free speech than the US on a cultural level - and if you want a reason why they have that law, then don't think of the Nazis. Think of the Klu Klux Klan. If you truly are American (as I presume you are), then you should be very familiar with them.
America can force their culture and laws because they are stronger than your country. Don't like it? Well too bad, because that's the order of things. You get out of line and America will invade and conquer your people.
I know it's you, Mr. Vladimir Putin (or one of his aides), but I want to test how well you can play your character. I'm one half German and one half American; now what would you say about me?
Considering how big of pussies Germans are, yes, they are.
Not bad, not a bad troll. If you try to slander the images as Russians, you get thought of as Russian trolls and ignored. So instead, now you become an Anonymous Coward and attempt to slander both Americans and Germans at the same time by pretending to be them. Nobody can prove otherwise, and the vast majority will never even think of that plan.
I do not agree with your morality, Mr. Vladimir Putin, but I respect your cunning, if nothing else.
Oopsie, forgot the closing tag for italics. My apologies for the bad formatting.
Considering how big of pussies Germans are, yes, they are.
Not bad, not a bad troll. If you try to slander the images as Russians, you get thought of as Russian trolls and ignored. So instead, now you become an Anonymous Coward and attempt to slander both Americans and Germans at the same time by pretending to be them. Nobody can prove otherwise, and the vast majority will never even think of that plan.
I do not agree with your morality, Mr. Vladimir Putin, but I respect your cunning, if nothing else.
Forget file browsing. Try finding a decent cdburner GUI frontend that doesn't pull in a bucketload of either KDE or GNOME dependencies!
I was a long-time KDE user and about a year ago decidedent to experiment with banning both Gnome and KDE from being installed and relying on lightweight window managers. It was only mean to be an experiment, I didn't really expect to go more than a week. Today I am using StumpWM combined with the pager (and only the pager) from Lxde. The only thing I really miss is K3b. Seriously, why does a program that is just a front end to cdrecord, which is more than capable of finding my burner rely on some integral part of KDE. If I install it without KDE it tells me I have no burners! Gnomes equivalent program did the same thing.
I guess I shouldn't complain too loud though. Maybe someday I will take the initiative and write my own burner front-end and not require a bloated desktop to run it. You can write the file manager!
Hello! I've considered looking at StumpWM, but I'm rather attached to my current setup with i3. If I may ask, why is it that you chose StumpWM over other window managers? What features does it have that you couldn't live without, in comparison to before? I haven't met many StumpWM users, so I haven't gotten the opportunity to ask this question...
"Not cohesive"? Does the author realize what KDE is??? It's an entire collection of software, and it's very cohesive. TOO cohesive, actually. KDE 3 was nice, but rather inflexible, and that's the same issue with 4.x. I like the idea behind KDE, consistancy, but I dislike how tied together everything is. I currently use a custom setup based around the i3 window manager, and while not perfect, it's pretty damn close to what I envision the perfect desktop to be. It's not what most people like, and tiling window managers take a bit of getting used to, but they're much more flexible in terms of customization. Plus, you know, there's the efficiency factor...
Anyway. Of all the ways I'd use to describe KDE, "kludged together" would not be one of them. It's very smooth, so long as you stick to exclusively KDE tools and they can meet your every need. If it does, that's great! It saves you a lot of hassle. If not, well, you usually wind up rolling your own solution. As nice as it is to have your own custom ecosystem you put together piecemeal, in that you know exactly what's in it and how it works, it's a huge hassle to keep it all updated and be able to smoothly work with it...
Linus mentioned a Swedish phrase: "Bränt barn luktar illa"
I got curious and ran it through Google Translate.
"Bränt barn luktar illa" in Swedish = "Burned child smells bad" in English.
What the hell?
Is that a bad translation or is that actually right? If that's right, that seems pretty grim to me. Would a native Swedish speaker on this thread be willing to explain that the origin of that phrase?
I'm not a native Swedish speaker, but I think I know the origin of this particular phrase. The original phrase is, I believe: "[A] burned child fears fire". It's the Swedish equivalent to "Fool me once, shame on you: fool me twice, shame on me" - once you've been bitten by a mistake, you become reluctant to do it again.
The joke here is that rather than being translated as "A burned child", it literally means "burned child", so you can interpret it literally and get a completely different meaning. Welcome to the dark Germanic-Scandinavian sense of humor: it may not be what you're used to, but it's no better or worse than your own.
Hi! I'm the guy who asked the question on functional languages. Mr. Torvalds answered my question beautifully and correctly, but I just want to make a small clarification to my original's tone (just for the record). If you read it, it kind of reads as though I have a negative slant against functional languages. I don't actually think that; I rephrased my question several times, and unfortunately I muddled it up in doing so. (The eye and the mind see different things, so the saying goes)
I think both low level languages and higher ones have their uses and purposes, I've used both, but I only do a bit of programming, a small amount compared to a professional. I was interested in what someone with significantly more experience than I thought, and I (personally) think his answer is spot on. I mainly wanted to be clear that I didn't intend to ask him a question as though I wanted him to favor one side or another, that was just an accident...
At the moment, nothing. It has a use for some small, niche scenarios, but it doesn't do anything for most of us here, and I really wish we would stop seeing stories on it every other week.
One of they few poorly understood concepts in software development is that improperly initialized (called seeding) DRBG will break your crypto.
For Linux, and especially for headless systems, use/dev/random for seeding. You want it to block if not enough randomness available.
C&C was my bread and butter series, Red Alert 2 and Generals are among my favorite games of all time. Red Alert 2 in particular was pretty well balanced multiplayer, and I'm sure there's still a community out there playing it competitively.
Warzone 2100 is a game you must check out too sometime, it's got an extremely interesting history behind it. Once a Playstation (not Playstation 2 or Playstation 3, just Playstation) game, it became an open-source PC game after the devs gave out the source code; I can't recall another game that's ever gone that route. Although it's in a bit of a slump in terms of development right now, it's got a small but dedicated community that's doing some fascinating work. In particular, since the game makes it so easy to change out the AI for an opposing side, it's got some extraordinary AI addons that actually play really well, and I haven't seen another RTS with the same focus on AI. I highly recommend you check it out if you ever feel bored on a weekend or so; it's definitely worth it.
They shutter Google Code, forcing anyone who had a project there to migrate everything, and now they plan to start it back up? Do they seriously think anyone is going to trust them again? I believe they shut down the old one because they felt Github dominated the field; Well, now they're entering the same field, but this time without the small (but loyal) userbase they had lastime.
I just can't get why they did this stunt - if they really wanted to enter the coding field, they could have just revamped Google Code. It'd still be a difficult task to displace Github, but now they just made it even more difficult for themselves for no reason at all.
A second question of mine. There used to be many different varieties of chips that were commonly used (SPARC, Power, RISC, etc.), and nowadays there;s mostly two (x86 and ARM). You've worked on the kernel for many, many years, and I understand that you once had a job related to working with them. So, I ask you this: did you have a favorite architecture that wasn't x86? Did you ever see any advantages working with these other chips? And, do you think it would be better if today's market had a wider variety of commonly used chip architectures?
While historically you've been a C and Assembly guy (and the odd shell scripting and such), what do you think of functional languages such as Lisp, Closure, Haskell, etc? Do you see any advantages to them, or do you view them as frivolous and impractical?
If you decide to do so, thanks for taking the time to answer my question! You're a legend at what you do, and I think it's awesome that the significantly less interesting me can ask you a question like this.
> I don't really have very strong feelings in this debate, but that kind of protesting isn't acceptable. Standing outside a government building or your company's HQ to protest, that's perfectly fine. However, once you start interfering with other people's lives (who aren't involved in this at all), I view that as unacceptable and utterly puerile. While I don't call for arrests like the other people who've posted ahead of me, I do hope the police force open the roads.
Democracy is about convincing the voting public. If you annoy the voting public so much, that they call on the government to give in just to shut up the protesters, then it's a job well done!
Of course though, it's a gamble. the police could use questionable (potentially illegal) strong-arm tactics to remove the protesters, with the blessing of the annoyed public. But this is France, a very pro-union country that regularly sees strikes by the public sector, and often with the public's support.
But then why don't the taxi drivers actually compete in the market? Offer better quality service, make apps that allow the same convenience as with uber, improve the condition of the cars, etc. THAT would be what's supposed to happen in a free market, and it's not like they can't compete. Maybe petition to lower the cost of licenses.
Besides, it's not like the taxi drivers are in the minority here. They've already won this argument; Uber is illegal in France, so I really don't see what they're protesting for.
However, once you start interfering with other people's lives (who aren't involved in this at all), I view that as unacceptable and utterly puerile.
Martin Luther King:
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.”
#1: The taxi drivers are not being persecuted by society.
#2: Martin Luther King Jr.'s cause is one that I believe is great enough to allow stuff like that, even though I don't agree with the way he did his protests. While I am neutral in this debate, the taxi drivers are not pursuing freedom to live or anything like that, but their jobs. If it was revealed that there were terrible conditions in the market of Estonian basket weaving, and they decided to march in front of your house and barricade your driveway, I highly doubt you'd have any sympathy.
#3: Please at least come up with something new to say as opposed to just copy-placing the same block of text multiple times on this story. It makes you look like a troll.
I don't really have very strong feelings in this debate, but that kind of protesting isn't acceptable. Standing outside a government building or your company's HQ to protest, that's perfectly fine. However, once you start interfering with other people's lives (who aren't involved in this at all), I view that as unacceptable and utterly puerile. While I don't call for arrests like the other people who've posted ahead of me, I do hope the police force open the roads.
I have a feeling all the people who are talking about their privacy being invaded have yet to read the summary. It specifically mentions websites associated with "business and financial transactions". Are you proposing that to run a legitimate business, you don't ever have to reveal to your customers such basic things like a phone number or a mailing address? I find it awfully hard to trust a business that doesn't want any interaction with its customers whatsoever.
The guy wasn't doing anything wrong. If a damn airplane or helicopter is afraid to run into a drone, that's their own fault.
The libs always want to regulate everything to death. The firefighters should just let it be...if he was buzzing around their heads or some shit then that would be understandably interfering. But he was not.
This idea that we need to destroy innovation... it's unamerican. The video he shot was very cool...and could have been educational to some.
I just think some people are afraid of the future.
You think flying an object into a plane's engine, potentially causing it to crash and causing massive damage to the ground, extending the length of the fire, and the death of everyone on board, to be "american", "very cool", "educational", and "innovative"?
I think it's stupid. Helicopters already give you a view of the fire from above, if that's really what you want, but the pilots there know what flight regulations are - not to mention have some actual training. On top of that, your right to fly a recreational vehicle is trumped by the right of the firefighters to save lives or limit damage, flying one yourself and interfering with their job in just plain inconsiderate - which I suppose might be "very cool" and "innovative" to you...
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My situation exactly, I totally sympathize with you, right down to the 2012 Nexus 7 and the exact same problems (minus storage issues). Was (and is) an amazing tablet, but it's becoming rather long in the tooth, and I think I may have to replace it soon, especially with the battery life having dropped dramatically. I'm currently looking at an Asus Zenpad C 7.0 , but I've never used it before, and so I can't make any statements as to the quality. Seems to be similar in spirit to the Nexus 7 (2012). If anybody has any expirience with this tablet, I'd love to hear it! (Or, other reccommendations would be much appreciated too).
Kind of interesting. From what I gather it's supposed to be the unstable rolling release branch of FreeBSD (-CURRENT), which presumably some Apple enhancements? Maybe the interface? I don't know, they're rather vague with what their ultimate goal is. The progressive part sounds like they intend for this to be something like Arch for Linux, but -CURRENT is not exactly a bastion of stability. It's the beta branch. Users won't want it because it's too unstable, and all the extras are going to make it unappealing for testing, I think. A neat idea, but I think this would be much better off if pulled from -STABLE or better yet, -RELEASE. THEN we'd have something quite interesting on our hands.
This isn't just about the restrictions about Nazi-related speech; Germany also makes it illegal to insult people and insult religions, among other things.
Germany 1920's - no free speech - the Nazis take over the government.
US 1920's - free speech - there is a strong public backlash against the Klan, and by 1930 it had dwindled from millions of members to political insignificance
So, what did you want me to think about?
It's not "my view", it's the classical liberal view. And I frankly don't care whether Germany enforces it or not. For all I care, Germany can go back to being a Catholic monarchy if it makes the Germans happy. I'm just pointing out that such laws (1) are a politically bad idea and don't work, and (2) are incompatible with the statement that a country has "free speech".
My family emigrated from Germany and I've lived and worked there.
I daresay you're wrong.
See Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire: It's illegal in the US as well to say hate speech. At absolute best, the waters in that department are murky and it appears as though the government itself is split on the issue. I see an attempt at taking the moral ant hill, so to speak, without any justification that it prevents free speech. If you would like an impartial third party outside of the two of us to look at it, take a look at the Press Freedom Index. Germany ranks #12 and the USA ranks #49. So please, if either country here ranks as an indemocratic one, it'd probably be the one that also ranked as an oligarchy outside of this study, in another one (also independent of either one of us).
Also, I find it quite interesting that you've actually come from Germany. When you say you did, do you mean you and your immediate family did, or do you mean your great-great-great-great-great-grandfather's father did? I am a citizen by both from my parents (one American and one German), and I've lived in both before. You clearly think me to not know what I'm talking about, and you can think what you wish, but I do believe that at the very least I have a fairly informed opinion here, however it may vary from yours.
If Germany wants to be a democratic nation, it needs to stop criminalizing speech that the German state doesn't approve of. Is that so hard to grasp?
You know very well why those laws were passed. If you're from America, you're going to think they mean "a threat to the common people", or some vague crap like that. In actuality, they're very clear: you cannot make a remark in public that glorifies or approves of the Nazis. You are allowed to talk about them all you wish, and you can even campaign for it under a different name, but you cannot outright display hatred of another person's race or approve of the Nazis. It's exactly that. No more general than that. Given that the same law exists in America (not legally, but socially it does), I don't exactly see why you think this is totalitarian. Especially because social measures can go to anything society disproves of, while the law will always just limit this.
Now, the other reason why I believe you're in the wrong; Germany is not America, and is not beholden to implement what you suggest. They are a different country, and frankly, I don't see why you expect that your view of free speech should be enforced everywhere. I daresay Germany is far more accepting of free speech than the US on a cultural level - and if you want a reason why they have that law, then don't think of the Nazis. Think of the Klu Klux Klan. If you truly are American (as I presume you are), then you should be very familiar with them.
America can force their culture and laws because they are stronger than your country. Don't like it? Well too bad, because that's the order of things. You get out of line and America will invade and conquer your people.
I know it's you, Mr. Vladimir Putin (or one of his aides), but I want to test how well you can play your character. I'm one half German and one half American; now what would you say about me?
Considering how big of pussies Germans are, yes, they are.
Not bad, not a bad troll. If you try to slander the images as Russians, you get thought of as Russian trolls and ignored. So instead, now you become an Anonymous Coward and attempt to slander both Americans and Germans at the same time by pretending to be them. Nobody can prove otherwise, and the vast majority will never even think of that plan.
I do not agree with your morality, Mr. Vladimir Putin, but I respect your cunning, if nothing else.
Oopsie, forgot the closing tag for italics. My apologies for the bad formatting.
Considering how big of pussies Germans are, yes, they are.
Not bad, not a bad troll. If you try to slander the images as Russians, you get thought of as Russian trolls and ignored. So instead, now you become an Anonymous Coward and attempt to slander both Americans and Germans at the same time by pretending to be them. Nobody can prove otherwise, and the vast majority will never even think of that plan.
I do not agree with your morality, Mr. Vladimir Putin, but I respect your cunning, if nothing else.
Forget file browsing. Try finding a decent cdburner GUI frontend that doesn't pull in a bucketload of either KDE or GNOME dependencies!
I was a long-time KDE user and about a year ago decidedent to experiment with banning both Gnome and KDE from being installed and relying on lightweight window managers. It was only mean to be an experiment, I didn't really expect to go more than a week. Today I am using StumpWM combined with the pager (and only the pager) from Lxde. The only thing I really miss is K3b. Seriously, why does a program that is just a front end to cdrecord, which is more than capable of finding my burner rely on some integral part of KDE. If I install it without KDE it tells me I have no burners! Gnomes equivalent program did the same thing.
I guess I shouldn't complain too loud though. Maybe someday I will take the initiative and write my own burner front-end and not require a bloated desktop to run it. You can write the file manager!
Hello! I've considered looking at StumpWM, but I'm rather attached to my current setup with i3. If I may ask, why is it that you chose StumpWM over other window managers? What features does it have that you couldn't live without, in comparison to before? I haven't met many StumpWM users, so I haven't gotten the opportunity to ask this question...
"Not cohesive"? Does the author realize what KDE is??? It's an entire collection of software, and it's very cohesive. TOO cohesive, actually. KDE 3 was nice, but rather inflexible, and that's the same issue with 4.x. I like the idea behind KDE, consistancy, but I dislike how tied together everything is. I currently use a custom setup based around the i3 window manager, and while not perfect, it's pretty damn close to what I envision the perfect desktop to be. It's not what most people like, and tiling window managers take a bit of getting used to, but they're much more flexible in terms of customization. Plus, you know, there's the efficiency factor...
Anyway. Of all the ways I'd use to describe KDE, "kludged together" would not be one of them. It's very smooth, so long as you stick to exclusively KDE tools and they can meet your every need. If it does, that's great! It saves you a lot of hassle. If not, well, you usually wind up rolling your own solution. As nice as it is to have your own custom ecosystem you put together piecemeal, in that you know exactly what's in it and how it works, it's a huge hassle to keep it all updated and be able to smoothly work with it...
Linus mentioned a Swedish phrase: "Bränt barn luktar illa" I got curious and ran it through Google Translate.
"Bränt barn luktar illa" in Swedish = "Burned child smells bad" in English.
What the hell? Is that a bad translation or is that actually right? If that's right, that seems pretty grim to me. Would a native Swedish speaker on this thread be willing to explain that the origin of that phrase?
I'm not a native Swedish speaker, but I think I know the origin of this particular phrase. The original phrase is, I believe: "[A] burned child fears fire". It's the Swedish equivalent to "Fool me once, shame on you: fool me twice, shame on me" - once you've been bitten by a mistake, you become reluctant to do it again.
The joke here is that rather than being translated as "A burned child", it literally means "burned child", so you can interpret it literally and get a completely different meaning. Welcome to the dark Germanic-Scandinavian sense of humor: it may not be what you're used to, but it's no better or worse than your own.
Hi! I'm the guy who asked the question on functional languages. Mr. Torvalds answered my question beautifully and correctly, but I just want to make a small clarification to my original's tone (just for the record). If you read it, it kind of reads as though I have a negative slant against functional languages. I don't actually think that; I rephrased my question several times, and unfortunately I muddled it up in doing so. (The eye and the mind see different things, so the saying goes)
I think both low level languages and higher ones have their uses and purposes, I've used both, but I only do a bit of programming, a small amount compared to a professional. I was interested in what someone with significantly more experience than I thought, and I (personally) think his answer is spot on. I mainly wanted to be clear that I didn't intend to ask him a question as though I wanted him to favor one side or another, that was just an accident...
For what are you using 3D printing for?
At the moment, nothing. It has a use for some small, niche scenarios, but it doesn't do anything for most of us here, and I really wish we would stop seeing stories on it every other week.
Why isn't 2D printing ever talked about?
One of they few poorly understood concepts in software development is that improperly initialized (called seeding) DRBG will break your crypto. For Linux, and especially for headless systems, use /dev/random for seeding. You want it to block if not enough randomness available.
Ehhhh, not always.
C&C was my bread and butter series, Red Alert 2 and Generals are among my favorite games of all time. Red Alert 2 in particular was pretty well balanced multiplayer, and I'm sure there's still a community out there playing it competitively.
Warzone 2100 is a game you must check out too sometime, it's got an extremely interesting history behind it. Once a Playstation (not Playstation 2 or Playstation 3, just Playstation) game, it became an open-source PC game after the devs gave out the source code; I can't recall another game that's ever gone that route. Although it's in a bit of a slump in terms of development right now, it's got a small but dedicated community that's doing some fascinating work. In particular, since the game makes it so easy to change out the AI for an opposing side, it's got some extraordinary AI addons that actually play really well, and I haven't seen another RTS with the same focus on AI. I highly recommend you check it out if you ever feel bored on a weekend or so; it's definitely worth it.
They shutter Google Code, forcing anyone who had a project there to migrate everything, and now they plan to start it back up? Do they seriously think anyone is going to trust them again? I believe they shut down the old one because they felt Github dominated the field; Well, now they're entering the same field, but this time without the small (but loyal) userbase they had lastime.
I just can't get why they did this stunt - if they really wanted to enter the coding field, they could have just revamped Google Code. It'd still be a difficult task to displace Github, but now they just made it even more difficult for themselves for no reason at all.
A second question of mine. There used to be many different varieties of chips that were commonly used (SPARC, Power, RISC, etc.), and nowadays there;s mostly two (x86 and ARM). You've worked on the kernel for many, many years, and I understand that you once had a job related to working with them. So, I ask you this: did you have a favorite architecture that wasn't x86? Did you ever see any advantages working with these other chips? And, do you think it would be better if today's market had a wider variety of commonly used chip architectures?
While historically you've been a C and Assembly guy (and the odd shell scripting and such), what do you think of functional languages such as Lisp, Closure, Haskell, etc? Do you see any advantages to them, or do you view them as frivolous and impractical?
If you decide to do so, thanks for taking the time to answer my question! You're a legend at what you do, and I think it's awesome that the significantly less interesting me can ask you a question like this.
> I don't really have very strong feelings in this debate, but that kind of protesting isn't acceptable. Standing outside a government building or your company's HQ to protest, that's perfectly fine. However, once you start interfering with other people's lives (who aren't involved in this at all), I view that as unacceptable and utterly puerile. While I don't call for arrests like the other people who've posted ahead of me, I do hope the police force open the roads.
Democracy is about convincing the voting public. If you annoy the voting public so much, that they call on the government to give in just to shut up the protesters, then it's a job well done!
Of course though, it's a gamble. the police could use questionable (potentially illegal) strong-arm tactics to remove the protesters, with the blessing of the annoyed public. But this is France, a very pro-union country that regularly sees strikes by the public sector, and often with the public's support.
But then why don't the taxi drivers actually compete in the market? Offer better quality service, make apps that allow the same convenience as with uber, improve the condition of the cars, etc. THAT would be what's supposed to happen in a free market, and it's not like they can't compete. Maybe petition to lower the cost of licenses.
Besides, it's not like the taxi drivers are in the minority here. They've already won this argument; Uber is illegal in France, so I really don't see what they're protesting for.
However, once you start interfering with other people's lives (who aren't involved in this at all), I view that as unacceptable and utterly puerile.
Martin Luther King:
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.”
#1: The taxi drivers are not being persecuted by society.
#2: Martin Luther King Jr.'s cause is one that I believe is great enough to allow stuff like that, even though I don't agree with the way he did his protests. While I am neutral in this debate, the taxi drivers are not pursuing freedom to live or anything like that, but their jobs. If it was revealed that there were terrible conditions in the market of Estonian basket weaving, and they decided to march in front of your house and barricade your driveway, I highly doubt you'd have any sympathy.
#3: Please at least come up with something new to say as opposed to just copy-placing the same block of text multiple times on this story. It makes you look like a troll.
I don't really have very strong feelings in this debate, but that kind of protesting isn't acceptable. Standing outside a government building or your company's HQ to protest, that's perfectly fine. However, once you start interfering with other people's lives (who aren't involved in this at all), I view that as unacceptable and utterly puerile. While I don't call for arrests like the other people who've posted ahead of me, I do hope the police force open the roads.
I have a feeling all the people who are talking about their privacy being invaded have yet to read the summary. It specifically mentions websites associated with "business and financial transactions". Are you proposing that to run a legitimate business, you don't ever have to reveal to your customers such basic things like a phone number or a mailing address? I find it awfully hard to trust a business that doesn't want any interaction with its customers whatsoever.
Then don't fly manned choppers, fly fire-extinguishing drones.
How much fire retardant does a drone carry?
Now how much fire retardant can a helicopter carry?
The guy wasn't doing anything wrong. If a damn airplane or helicopter is afraid to run into a drone, that's their own fault. The libs always want to regulate everything to death. The firefighters should just let it be...if he was buzzing around their heads or some shit then that would be understandably interfering. But he was not. This idea that we need to destroy innovation... it's unamerican. The video he shot was very cool...and could have been educational to some. I just think some people are afraid of the future.
You think flying an object into a plane's engine, potentially causing it to crash and causing massive damage to the ground, extending the length of the fire, and the death of everyone on board, to be "american", "very cool", "educational", and "innovative"?
I think it's stupid. Helicopters already give you a view of the fire from above, if that's really what you want, but the pilots there know what flight regulations are - not to mention have some actual training. On top of that, your right to fly a recreational vehicle is trumped by the right of the firefighters to save lives or limit damage, flying one yourself and interfering with their job in just plain inconsiderate - which I suppose might be "very cool" and "innovative" to you...