robinh

"In the special case of floating overlays, I am a strange, strange person. I will not click on the close button, because I don't like clicking on an ad, even to close it. Instead, I will fire up the debugger and delete the ad from the DOM."

That's actually completely understandable, because in many pop-up ads closing it triggers something else, or something that appears to be a close button actually isn't, and so on and so forth. I find these ads to be the most intrusive and annoying.

If security is a priority, then set up a Tor node! :)

Please see my comment below: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4833953

"I know this is a cliche, but before writing comments like this ask yourself if a) you are unnecessarily discouraging somebody for no reason and b) you would have said the same thing about successful projects when they were first started."

a.) No, I don't think so. Considering the number of half-started kernels on OSdev.org, the creators of which incredibly often were convinced that they were going to create the newest awesomest kernel everyone is going to use, trying to get the OP to take a good look at his skillset seems like a proper thing to do.

b.) I would have, if the creators seemed completely ignorant about the basics of what they were trying to do.

This is not to say that I would tell the OP to give up on OS development - I personally love it. But I think a serious reality check is in order, and because we get people similar to the OP on the OSdev forums an awful lot, sometimes this frustrates me.

My point wasn't that OS development is impossible in VS. However, given how much the OP seems to know about the subject, and the fact that virtually all resources about it presume that one is using a Linuxesque environment, I wouldn't recommend VS.

Oh dear... overly ambitious plans, changing everything for the sake of change, fearing assembly, using VS for OS development, and not even knowing how the GDT and IDT work. There's so much wrong with this I don't even know where to begin. I sense a doomed project.