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Turns out it is also quite easy to generate total and utter crap by writing about C++.

It is reasonable to speculate that C++ is more popular with beginner programmers than C, and that this may significantly affect the characteristics of a software project developed by a big team or community, as opposed a single particular programmer.

It is also reasonable to assume that trovalds speaks out of his experience and doesn't merely speculate.

As for me, his observation perfectly matches my personal experience.

When slamming an author of an interesting article over nonsense, hang your head in shame.

I think he meant that it is better not to worry about the code since it will stink no matter what you do...

Right, we are back to the days when taking ones photo was like stealing their life.

planetguy, how do you know if you really have conscious control right now or just imagine that you have?

I'm not joking either.

The article mentioned the Hindu dream-yoga, the practice of which was meant to make you ask such questions on your "waking" life.

1) There is a whole bunch of messages by Stallman in that thread.

2) That discussion triggered me to install the do-not-track-plus extension in Chrome.

Thanks Stallman!

As a guy who have been using VIM on linux for several years I say this:

Check out Komodo Edit! It has made a huge leap since it started.

It is an awesome editor for dynamic languages - particularly Python, JS, HTML, etc...

It simply does so much right, so do your self a favor and give it a try.

+1

Git's growing popularity is not an artifact of some packaging decisions by Debian. See Google insights for search: http://www.google.com/insights/search/#cat=0-5&q=git%2Cs...

Let the snake eat its own tail: https://developers.google.com/pagespeed/#url=https_3A_2F_2Fd...

Komodo Edit is a really good Open Source editor I recently stumbled into. It gets all the basic editing functionality right (and I am saying this as a VIM user).

For any thing else, I believe the OS is the IDE. An OS is in particular an integrated development environment. It contains all your favorite tools to get the job done.

To insist having all the functionality you need stuffed into a single unified plugin-ed application is like insisting to get the entire web into Facebook - it sucks.

That said, I recently had a surprisingly pleasant experience developing a C# project with VS 2010.

more likely, as 10^-20 is more likely than 10^-30?

when was the last time you have read python files of installed 3rd party software to find viruses and trojans?

and even if you bothered, by simple obfuscation you would need to be an expert to identify a trojan in a python file.

In addition a simple way to find or clean up such a virus would be to compile .pyc files from their sources during a virus scan.

in short that can't be the reason.

why not infect .py files directly?

I think the monkey problem is not a mathematical problem at all but a metaphor to the set of all authors excluding Shakespeare.

you can not have infinite number of monkeys since there is a finite number of bananas.

Received 100% from Rotten Tomatoes top critics: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the-social-network/?critic=c...

Never seen that happen before.

why not optimize such scenario's at application level?

It is possible to implement a trivial and transparent cache as decorator and apply it to particular bottle neck functions.

0 development effort, 0 running overhead, 0 maintainability issues

USB drives or memory are in the range of 10MB/s write and 15MB/s read.

Since you need to both write & read to transfer a file, you are looking at about 7MB/s file transfer which is about 50Mb/s (wireless order of magnitude).

Combined with the inconvenience, the benefits of this system are questionable.

The part where Aditya explains their 3 moto and in particular, moving fast / not being afraid to break the site - bring it down, may account for the recent chain of privacy fiasco.

Breaking a site is not just about down time, it may also have privacy and security implications.

I bet that slide will be gone by next talk.

By your logic, a person winning the lottery should cap at 100K and say no thanks, I rather not piss of my friends family and colleges.

Most likely the public interest in this project will die out within 1-3 months. Hopefully they will not ruin their future lives endlessly trying to reproduce this incredibly lucky strike.

But while their at it, they should get as MUCH as they possibly can and totally and shamelessly go for it, hacking, hiring other people to work with them, getting drunk in parties at the other side of the globe, whatever...

Giving that money back saying they are afraid to disappoint some anonymous crowd would be totally nuts.

Why would Google "donate" senior talent to a project which at this point is basically just some videos and badly designed logos for download?

Comments here are as insane as the amount of money these guys collected.

Shutting it down? are you for real?

Truth is Google Docs is utterly broken and unusable.

Google Beta corp is fond of releasing promising but half-arsed products, indefinitely & conveniently labeled Beta, and they seldom demonstrate any urgency to fix and improve them.

Mozilla should get their act together before its too late. Once they loose their mind share it will be over. Firefox on Linux is freezing and sluggish.

1. core 2 duo laptop is as powerful as desktop. 2. Lenovo t61 is excellently built - very convenient. 3. quiet! 4. near 0 electricity.