There may be a lot of mobile apps, and most of them may be bad, but unlike web apps, the goods one aren't clunky, fragile shit.

Who is paying this shill?

Breathing asbestos might be good for you.
Licking lead-painted walls might be good for you.
Going to church might be good for you.

What's the lesson here? When people say something is good for you, they're usually wrong and have ulterior motives.

The fact that someone hasn't already taken all the throwaway PCs, installed Linux on them and equipped every school in the state with a 50-desktop computer lab (at zero cost) is

Half a million individually assembled desktop computers, all wiped and re-imaged (using traditional installers, since they won't even come close to the same hardware configuration), and then maintained.

You've really taken the "Linux is only free if your time has no value" quip to an amusingly absurd conclusion.

I think you should make /r/slashdotrebooted and take your whining there.

It's hilarious that these people think Slashdot is being destroyed by more javascript, as if the last redesign didn't fuck it all up and they just kept on reading it. It was actually destroyed years ago by shitty editors and the eternal september of its readership. Slashdot hasn't had influence or an interesting community in a long time.

I think you mean "How their own actions have impacted defense contractors". If they didn't have dirty secrets, there would have been no motive for Snowden's policing, and nothing for him to publish.

It is the drivers and their lack of driving ability... I am thinking in the south a speed limit sign means that is as slow as you can go, and you should try to drive at 100mph 5 inches from the guy in front of you.

Um... that does not denote a lack of driving ability. Why don't you stay in the right lane, grandpa, and leave the driving to the continent.

Also, your tires would not have allowed you to traverse any significant hill in metro Atlanta. Maybe snow chains could, but otherwise you're completely full of shit.

You're gold, you have 10+ years of C. It doesn't get any better than that.

Where does this mentality come from? It's C. It's one language. It's one of the simplest languages, and it exists more as the foundation for everything interesting than being interesting itself. If you're not a moron, two years of C is the same as five years of C is the same as ten years of C.

It's like telling an aspiring chef, well, you know how to grill meat, it doesn't get any better than that.

If you want to learn to program for Android/iOS, that's great, but do it as a hobby. Employers nowadays want 10 years experience on a tech that's only been available for 5 years

This is the advice of a code monkey peon who doesn't know what the fuck he is talking about.

I am afraid of some nice man visiting me with dosier on my life and explaining dozen different ways they can easily ruin various parts of it if I will not cooperate or if I will resist.

Bro, you're really too uptight about your pony porn. Nobody cares.

Doing anything ESR tells you to do also has social and signaling effects damaging to your prospects.

So, Emacs should just keep on truckin' on.

It's funny how Northerners are the most racist people in the South these days.

And you could buy a Mac when Microsoft got sued.

It's funny to see the fanboys come full circle and become the same as their enemy. They're like the pigs in Animal Farm.

Which is of course why they're now so fixated on the 'brogrammer'. Much like the manager class doesn't want to believe programmers are their equals, and thus do not deserve the kind salary the free market requires, the social justice types refuse to accept that those uncouth programmers deserve the salaries they do have, and must be knuckle dragging agents of the patriarchy to thwart the asocial introvert stereotype.