Really? Which distro was created entirely by Linus without any help with the kernel or GNU libraries?

We are discussing history which has nothing to do with "the rules". But you misunderstand - I've never had any interest in contributing to Linux.Thus there is no "door" for me.

The term "asshole" was around a long time before even Millennials' parents were born. Perhaps you are too young to remember

"legitimate godhead". Seriously?. No. Linus is very knowledgeable and talented but he's not a "God" with respect to Linux or anything else. Don't confuse designated leadership with god-like abilities. Your mocking is ironic given that, in fact, Linus didn't build Linux on his own. Is often the case in technology a single individual is given all the credit for a team effort.

No, it's too late. All the Asians and White Men have already been hired. Well, the ones under 40 anyway.

Also Pro Tip: Making the interview process easier for interviewers is not a valid goal of the process. Perhaps those who find the process too hard, should defer to those who willing to put in the work.

Yes, there are people who make their living on stage, doing math in their head to the amazement of their audience. Unfortunately not a particularly useful skill for a developer.

Hiring can be as easy or as hard as you want it to be. Complicated interviewing schemes are about company and employees' egos as much as anything else. Agile (as in non-methodology) companies interview the first crop of applicants who have the qualifications and hire the ones who seem competent rather than trying to find the mythical "perfect candidate". The reality is that the quality of a worker is really only known after a few months on the job, so it's pointless to spend a lot of time to try to know the unknowable. Not to mention most developers will be gone in 2 to 3 years so the commitment isn't really long term. Which is also the reason that job qualifications should reflect a company's current or near future needs, not what is planed +5 years or more in the future when the employee has probably move on.

"Russian Collusion" is primarily a phrase coined in the White House. Since it has no legal basis one cannot be found guilty or innocent of it.
Actually, the media never said the President is about to be impeached, but if all the networks said it, it should be easy to cite a source to prove me wrong..

I'm not sure how useful this would be today, but clearly the 68000 was far superior to an 8088 (or even an 8086). My guess is that Intel's segmented address approach sucked-up about 20% of developer productivity on the PC. All those crazy memory models would have never existed had IBM chosen the 68000. Not to mention Extended Memory and Expanded Memory.

Did a lot of people really say that Linux would never compete against "real" operating systems in 1991-1992? But what's the connection anyway?

First person: "You can't travel faster than the speed of light"
Second person: "They said the exact same thing about traveling to the moon".

I think the name was inspired by Extreme Sports. Which is kind of funny because the guys who created XP weren't exactly young or athletic.

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The GP was talking about downloads from one site, not all sites. I don't get what your point is anyway. People don't download Flash as if they are endorsing its quality, they just want to view the content. Likewise the majority of those who in the future download a new browser that supports HTML5 won't be doing it because they think that HTML5 is god's gift either.

Flash is a de facto proprietary standard and HTML5 is a partially completed standard that will probably be approved some day. At present it looks like Flash has a slight edge in the standard category.

"They set the standards and implementation for it; not any standards body or the web at large."

Flash may suck, but there's little evidence that standards bodies do any better. Perhaps HTML 5 can wait until the DOM is cleaned up.