Markets

Our choices are all chaos – either chaos harnessed by a transparent, self-correcting social process, or chaos hidden and denied and eating at the roots of our software.

Eric Raymond

(previously noted)

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Foolery

The more you have CPUs the higher you scale, to the point that software execution should complete before you start writing that software (assuming you have around -1024 CPUs).

(lkml)

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Plasma 5

KDE started using the word “convergence” way back when Canonical was still running user tests to determine the optimal shade of brown for GNOME 2 menus.

Scott Gilbertson

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ken

Seibel: I know Google has a policy where every new employee has to get checked out on languages before they’re allowed to check code in. Which means you had to get checked out on C. Thompson: Yeah, I haven’t been. Seibel: You haven’t been! You’re not allowed to check in code? Thompson: I’m not allowed to check in code, no… I just haven’t done it. I’ve so far found no need to. [Read More]
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