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… there’s a difference between bleeding edge and leading edge. http://blog.lusis.org/blog/2014/11/21/a-few-things/…
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If you want to run a big portion of the Internet then you need to act like an infrastructure provider and not a desktop applications vendor. http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2014/11/19/update-on-azure…
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Our computer languages are all geared towards the same thing. They view the computer as a single, hyperfast, hyperaccurate, clerk. Computer languages are simply the languages we use to direct the oper…
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Writing on programming, effort vs reward, via sealedabstract Meta-Note: I suppose this Tumblr post is …. what? 50? :)…
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The dispute here is philosophical. You want a distribution that follows The Unix Way. Where init does its little job and dbus does its little job and so on. Small, simple tools. But there is another…
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Why are some programs seemingly timeless? Why haven’t they yet been replaced by newer software? What keeps drawing users to use them and developers to develop them further? My hypothesis: Every progr…
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Why? Because the RMS fire has extinguished, and now the developers code for funmust http://igurublog.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/gnome-et-al-rotting-in-threes/…
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It shows that there is a strong focus on the users that /aren’t/ the developers, that aren’t the traditional audience of Linux http://igurublog.wordpress.com/2014/01/25/gtk-fesses-up-this-aint-for-yo…
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the U.S. Army is “the” single largest install base for Red Hat Linux http://archive09.linux.com/feed/61302…
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I’m so totally impressed at this Way New Development Paradigm. Let’s call it the “Cascade of Attention-Deficit Teenagers” model, or “CADT” for short. It hardly seems worth even having a bug system if…
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Theodore Ts'o doesn’t understand how this **** works either. I do find it very difficult sometimes to figure out why a particular systemd service gets started, and when I tried putting together a…
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At a finer grain, microkernel processes behave with semantics that are compatible with actors in object oriented programming. Therefore, microkernels may provide a better substrate for parallel progra…