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The United States has become empire. We have the trappings of a democratic republic, but it's obvious that the law of the land is broken for those in power. No one should be surprised by this, it's evolution in action and the writing's been on the wall for years.

I have fond memories of the Goodyear blimps. Saw them scroll news about the Apollo missions back in the day. Caught one on radar repeater while doing maintenance at an airport, turns out the crew was staying at the same hotel near the airport.

I believe this is really going to hurt their effort to sell Azure more than anything else.

I'm spoiled using IPython on Linux. Even the latest PS IDE on Windows 2012 is a infant compared to the CLI tools on a Unixy OS.

I'd rather have people express how they feel directly instead of "professionally" backstab or marginalize me.

And the military doesn't breed "aggressiveness" outside of specific services and roles that require it. It does demand an inordinate "attention to detail" due to the fact lives are on the line, whether that be on ships, planes or just normal activities.

This "attention to detail" is also seen among other professions, but seldom in software outside of NASA/avionics/medical/etc...

Linus has laid out guidelines and expectations which while demanding, can be followed. If you can't test your code nor follow a checklist, then maybe you shouldn't submit patches to him. It's the military equivalent of passing barracks/quarters inspections, it should be elementary for professionals.

I need to stop watching my security cameras...

You should enlist in the military and see how well that works. :)

The licensing cost for SQL Server have increased over the years and limiting some of security features to the top tier sucks ass in this environment, but the training, documentation, knowledge sharing and community is better than any other technical community, closed or open sourced that I have found.

Really?

Anyone who wanted the CLI has had plenty of choices of various operating systems and distributions over the years. Ubuntu's strength is that it's useable and installable with a minimum amount of CLI. That means there's less of a barrier to newbies and casual users.

("Real" users can use blinking LEDs and chorded keyboards instead of fancy GUI cheats...)

The most common users I've seen in my area are drug users. Many have had the drivers licenses suspended or have sold their car for drugs.

Correct. But they had to reinvent the good features of big iron in the past three decades.

How many different varied offices and environments have you worked in?

If you are a Linux kernel programmer/submitter, you should know the situation by now. You don't have to submit code to Linus as he has stated, you can go through an intermediary. Don't waste his time, that's the most valuable thing he has.

As far as professionals cursing, I reckon most of the individuals on HN have never been in the military. There's a fine art of stressing the importance of paying attention to details, which good noncoms and shipmates enforce through creative profanity and rich English. It stress the importance of the situation.

"At that time, Windows 3.11 was wonderful. People were amazed by it."

These must have been people with little computer experience.

In '93 I also ran 3.11, at home. At work I had access to Big Iron, VMS, DG UX, and a hand full of other OSes. There wasn't a really decent Microsoft OS until Windows 2000. Microsoft was only god on the desktop because it allow the average user tools like Office. The engineers and professionals used Sun workstations and Macs, production used VMS, which was decades ahead of any of the PC OSes at the time.

I develop applications that skip the browser(s) and HTML. But it's not totally cross platform. But then again I don't develop for Joe Public most of the time either....

Amen!

The fact that it's still insanely easier to write desktop apps, using one or two languages and a layout manager vs. dealing with two decades of WTF! web programming makes me sad.

Trust or not, I'm still writing code today for the 95% of people that are running Windows and Office. The irony is that the code interfaces to PGP/GPG...

It's leverage.

(In the US, corruption is hidden by punishing whistleblowers.)

Lot of people get shocked and die too. Ask any electrician or bench tech or radio tech how many times they have been "bit". I'm professionally trained to work on nasty stuff and I ended up in the hospital due to an untrained persons actions on a job site. And I've lost a few colleagues due to antenna raisings/maintenance gone wrong.

In Microsoft defense, consequences could include threatening government contracts...

"Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain."

Looks like the Devices and Studios Engineering Group is doomed...

I did the same thing when I passed the Morse code exams for ham radio license years ago. 20 minutes of CW practice in the morning and evening, every day for several months. When I sat for the exams, the test was ridiculously easy.

If I could transport myself and goods without driving, I would. But in my present life/location, it's not possible. I could give a fuck about automobiles except for their utility.

Black boxes and mandatory cameras. Driving in the States is a "tragedy of the commons" issue without stricter enforcement.

As much as I like libraries and the services they provide, (books, internet, study and meeting spaces), I don't think this is a good match.

As a member and former member of various robot and ham radio groups, shared spaces are a pain to run. They work much better as a paid coop where everyone has skin/money in the game.

Yes, I noticed that too...

Sometimes the truth is unpopular and seen to be uncivil when bluntly stated. Should we all rub blue mud into our belly-buttons and sing praise of everyone's opinions?

If it's an big issue, don't move there! And stop bitching about it. You made the choice. There's thousands of jobs/careers/ventures/opportunities elsewhere. Plus you can work remotely or in a office share/incubator in hundreds of cities.

If you don't understand key management and public/private keys, signing, etc., you either have to depend on someone that does, or cargo-cult your way through using it. And it's not difficult given a little "want to". Alton Brown could teach the concepts in a single show.