I've never been a fan, but increasingly, I find myself admiring his HUGE EGO, as I have one TOO, and what his HUGE EGO is doing with his VAST wealth (which I would like to have TOO).
Hitler was FREE to do what HE WANTED, too.
Simply put, nobody forces users to choose to fascist leaders. There are plenty of government, some good, some France.
Germany's extermination algorithms have made this world a better place.
I'm glad they don't have to appease anyone to keep offering that superior extermination!
What is your point? Maybe you're the inferior one?
I've noticed these days that YouTube is full of spam.
if I search for any movie I will see 20 links to what are supposedly pirate websites, although I suspect half of them are set up by the media companies as honeypots to identify people who want to pirate stuff.
if I search for a review of any product, from computer to a car, probably 10 video show up that are not reviews at all but are instead a few words of product information in slideshow format with really annoying music.
what is annoying is that the geniuses at Google could easily get rid of that spam but they do not. maybe they are not geniuses after all, but merely have huge egos.
I tend to agree. I only have chrome installed because I need flash to watch TV online from Comcast. who needs more crap from people that are complicit with government spying?
the journalists all claim that our beloved Googlers are super geniuses, completely without flaws. indeed I have interviewed a Google and I can assure you that their arrogance matches their Status is mega geniuses. please please don't tell me there was all vapid hype and that their egos are like inflated balloons!!
Technically, the acquisition of Hawaii was botched and it is not legally part of the United States. This may sound preposterous but it has been reported on. Essentially the United States to control of Hawaii in the same way that Russia took control of Crimea.
I personally have dealt with a lot of ruthless people in Silicon Valley. I would suggest that while Linus occasionally behaves badly he does so in defense of the kernel, which is a big deal, but in contrast people in Silicon Valley act badly in defense of their self importance, paychecks and career prospects, so their behavior can actually be a lot worse.
So I would ask Linus: how do you feel about people who act badly because of hubris, or in defense of self importance, paychecks and career prospects?
ARM has demonstrated that Big-Little pairings of 64- and 32-bit CPUs helps to save power.
For the non-ARM side of the industry, is there any point in pairing a slow, low-power MIPS processor, serving as the bootstrap processor, with a fast, high-wattage x86 processor serving as the application processor?
Can the kernel handle that pairing of two processors with different instruction set architectures running side by side and if so, how?
So many people have complained about your occasional mean language that surely you have had time to contemplate whether it's just you or practice there is something a larger trend within this industry that causes many software engineers to be rude.
In my personal experience, I do not think it's just you. working in Silicon Valley and interviewing in the Valley and elsewhere, I have found that there is something more than just rudeness that has become the status quo. It seems that everyone knows they don't know everything, but they feel compelled to pretend they do for career purposes, and that they have the best opinions, and that others know nothing and had bad opinions.
Is it possible in your view that engineers suffer from feelings of incompetence or ignorance and that they project that onto other people in a rude, competitive way? Is it possible also that there is a narcissistic component of this, because society has told programmers that they are super-smart, and super capable, even though typically neither is the case?
I am reminded of Socrates, who said: I am wise because I know I don't know. But I don't see a lot of that kind of wisdom in the industry these days. Related: Is CS a science
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Given that Yelp is known to be PROTECTION RACKET, maybe Google can pay them to censor the study, like Starbucks pays them to censor bad reviews.
Only a Nazi would refer to Godwin's law.
.... It causes software bugs by automatically importing malware functionality from other, less secure applications.
I've never been a fan, but increasingly, I find myself admiring his HUGE EGO, as I have one TOO, and what his HUGE EGO is doing with his VAST wealth (which I would like to have TOO).
Hitler was FREE to do what HE WANTED, too. Simply put, nobody forces users to choose to fascist leaders. There are plenty of government, some good, some France. Germany's extermination algorithms have made this world a better place. I'm glad they don't have to appease anyone to keep offering that superior extermination! What is your point? Maybe you're the inferior one?
It was an engineer who invented their motto. It was not the CEO nor founders!
if I search for any movie I will see 20 links to what are supposedly pirate websites, although I suspect half of them are set up by the media companies as honeypots to identify people who want to pirate stuff.
if I search for a review of any product, from computer to a car, probably 10 video show up that are not reviews at all but are instead a few words of product information in slideshow format with really annoying music.
what is annoying is that the geniuses at Google could easily get rid of that spam but they do not. maybe they are not geniuses after all, but merely have huge egos.
Hardly. The media have built up Google as the perfect company. Tech people have enormous hubris because of the media and techies themselves.
That's a dumb response. What are you, 12 years old?
I tend to agree. I only have chrome installed because I need flash to watch TV online from Comcast. who needs more crap from people that are complicit with government spying?
the journalists all claim that our beloved Googlers are super geniuses, completely without flaws. indeed I have interviewed a Google and I can assure you that their arrogance matches their Status is mega geniuses. please please don't tell me there was all vapid hype and that their egos are like inflated balloons!!
DO be evil? What about victims who NEED to be forgotten?
ooops typo. I meant " no more legally valid than"
Keep in mind that America's acquisition of Hawaii was no more the only valid then was Russia's recent acquisition of Crimea.
Just because someone is self desecrating and a walking slab of lard does not mean they don't have a valid argument. Your logic is fallacious.
Technically, the acquisition of Hawaii was botched and it is not legally part of the United States. This may sound preposterous but it has been reported on. Essentially the United States to control of Hawaii in the same way that Russia took control of Crimea.
I personally have dealt with a lot of ruthless people in Silicon Valley. I would suggest that while Linus occasionally behaves badly he does so in defense of the kernel, which is a big deal, but in contrast people in Silicon Valley act badly in defense of their self importance, paychecks and career prospects, so their behavior can actually be a lot worse.
So I would ask Linus: how do you feel about people who act badly because of hubris, or in defense of self importance, paychecks and career prospects?
Linux is simply the kernel and is not an operating system.
Hi Linus,
ARM has demonstrated that Big-Little pairings of 64- and 32-bit CPUs helps to save power.
For the non-ARM side of the industry, is there any point in pairing a slow, low-power MIPS processor, serving as the bootstrap processor, with a fast, high-wattage x86 processor serving as the application processor?
Can the kernel handle that pairing of two processors with different instruction set architectures running side by side and if so, how?
Linus, what do you think about the recent revival of the original series with Grant Imahara? http://io9.com/5896314/mythbus...
Always validate function parameters. Always check array indices.
he answered that question at the Debian conference last year.
Hello Linus,
So many people have complained about your occasional mean language that surely you have had time to contemplate whether it's just you or practice there is something a larger trend within this industry that causes many software engineers to be rude.
In my personal experience, I do not think it's just you. working in Silicon Valley and interviewing in the Valley and elsewhere, I have found that there is something more than just rudeness that has become the status quo. It seems that everyone knows they don't know everything, but they feel compelled to pretend they do for career purposes, and that they have the best opinions, and that others know nothing and had bad opinions.
Is it possible in your view that engineers suffer from feelings of incompetence or ignorance and that they project that onto other people in a rude, competitive way? Is it possible also that there is a narcissistic component of this, because society has told programmers that they are super-smart, and super capable, even though typically neither is the case?
I am reminded of Socrates, who said: I am wise because I know I don't know. But I don't see a lot of that kind of wisdom in the industry these days. Related: Is CS a science
Militaries have been working on microwave weapons for decades...
Objective C is more readable and easier to debug than C++. However on Linux it is a mess. GNU's implementation is not good.