Also perhaps worth mentioning Baserock (http://wiki.baserock.org) which can reproducibly build an OS from sources in git and deploy the resulting artifact to various popular targets, kvm, virtualbox, openstack etc.
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It seems there's always going to be some people who complain that GNU/Linux isn't 'good enough' or whatever, and as a community we should simply ignore these people.
That aside, what we have here is a thread apparently devoted to shitting on the work of people who built something for fun and gave it away for free.
Good job folks!
I've always felt that I'm not nearly as talented as the folks around me, however I've loved computers since I was 10, I'm still in love and I'm always writing programs.
Ever since I realized I'm not the most talented at comp sci (mainly the mathematics) I've had problems with my self-esteem. As such, I find this article incredibly comforting. Thank you!
In any case, those were obviously examples, like I need to argue why life is awesome...
If you don't want to discuss it on HN, then don't post to HN...
Life is awesome, the sky, the sea, ice cream - all of it. I'm only sorry that I don't get to stay here longer.
Sure we suffer sometimes, and some people suffer more than others. But to insist that we stop reproducing in an attempt to end human life just to avoid pain...
And as for purpose, find your own purpose.
So I'm not sure, perhaps it is more about who you are than what you say. In any case, I have noted the general fall in quality of articles here, but, there's still some interesting stuff now and again... c'est la vie!
Have got to say I'm very excited about this site, it looks incredibly useful.
I think this is a critical point, has the author of LightTable considered what would happen with instant feedback for less trivial pieces of code?
Besides that, I think this critique is fair, because honestly when I saw LightTable, it seemed like smoke and mirrors. I have a friend quietly writing an innovative new text editor, I expect it will be more 'ground-breaking' than LightTable, but I don't see him trying to take everybody's money.
Still, building logic gates using crabs, very good. :)
However, getting negative karma hurts, for some reason. Often if I'm down voted, I assume I've done something wrong and either try to fix my comment or remove it altogether.
I hope no one down votes this comment down just to see if I remove it. :)
I'll admit I was quite a fan boy in my teens, but now I really just use Debian because it's what I'm used to, or most comfortable with.
I think GNU/Linux in general is a fantastic development environment.
But... maybe I'm just a chump...
Another thing that's important though, you need to be able to make the computer do fun things pretty easily, otherwise you'll (as a kid) loose interest.
Because it's more comfortable.
So, maybe it's possible that a woman might wear a low cut dress because it's more comfortable?
So is this just a problem of the previous generation or a problem specific to the workplace?
I really do feel for the author, I can't imagine how awful it must be to put up with that kind of thing everyday.
For any other language I just use gedit where I add line numbers, automatic indentation, current line highlighting, syntax highlighting and word completion.
Time and again I hear people in the lab complain about all these bugs in their applications, running Debian I can honestly say I don't have this problem. Ofcourse, I don't have the latest software either, but for me that's the price I pay for a stable system.
What if you don't know your "true character" How are you supposed to behave then?