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The Spinner 7 years ago

I think the greater reactions are due to the targetting of individuals rather than the entity acting.

[dead] 7 years ago

The #MeToo movement covers a lot of people. Any mass movement will include some more extreme than others. I don't believe your characterisaton of the movemnt is a fair description of the average person who is part of it.

Understanding that we all have different mental models, and that affects how we learn. Understanding my own vs my students' helped me to get them to understand what I was trying to communicate.

I would be very surprised to see them take that reimplementation path as their backwards compatibility has been so important for decades (yes I know not everything runs still; but a large amount does). They have provided an evolutionary path and that would be revolution. The benefit to them seems likely to be outweighed by the disruption. And they know points of disruption are where they are more likely to lose customers.

It is a good thing for the driver writer as they have less difference between their targets.

It is a bad thing for the targets as they implement both the driver functionality and the abstractions required to make the same code work cross platform. The response linked describes the cost of those abstractions to the target (Linux kernel in this case).

Stop Using LinkedIn 11 years ago

I would argue that it is a professional index dressed up for non-recruiters as a social network.

fork() can fail 12 years ago

The inherent reason is that -1 is the most common error return code in C based APIs. The problem is not naively handling an error case, it's not handling an error case. Using a different value might avoid calling killall -1, but the program would still be incorrect.

This is the same sort of argument as strlcat vs strncat, and people can't agree on that one.

> What I mind is people closing bugs and not admitting mistakes.

So Torvalds is saying he doesn't like dictatorial project maintainers who reply in an abrupt and abrasive manner to contributors?

You have quoted what he did say and made up a position that he did not.