Rivers of London series, by any chance?

Modern day gladiators. I.e. the "circuses."

VBA != VB.Net

If that were the case, PHP would have occupied all 5 slots.

Is this guy new here or what? Ostensibly useful ("friendly", since TFS apparently wants to anthropomorphize software) programs that carry a nasty payload that doesn't trigger immediately? How's that any different from 20 years ago, when they were called "trojans?"

This is literally the *only* reason we use Debian or derivatives for work. We're just too small to have that kind of time, which is depressing. Especially with this SystemD crap... One of these days soon, when my Copious Free Time makes another appearance, I need to re-evaluate FreeBSD. Hopefully, the upgrade process has improved since "make buildworld." :) Otherwise, I dunno what we're going to do...

If you were administering servers, even as a PFY, you'd have enough Clue to recognize why what you said is just so much dribbling bullshit.

Some parts, perhaps.

Other parts, like the idiocy that is the "working as intended" logging abomination, would be irredeemably bad, no matter how good the documentation. Plus, that adds a nice, seething element of ominous fear: if LP and co. are so out of touch that they don't understand *why* their way is "The Wrong Way," the gods only know what else they've buggered up beyond repair that hasn't been found yet.

I am?

Or did you mean the parent to my post?

I'm sure that no one tried to take out a hit on him either.

Welcome to the internet, where stupid people say stupid shit, and, protip: not all of it is actually true.

If by "some pushback" you mean "was utterly unusable for at least 4 years", then that part is at least true. Of course systemd has more pushback: it's the same sort of badly written, badly designed garbage that's injecting itself into the bootup process rather than being just a user-facing mess that was trivial to remove.

Some of us have lives that include being paid to take care of Linux servers, which this crap makes significantly more difficult.

If, after said re-evaluation, you've come to that conclusion, then that's fine. You can be content with the fact that your position is sound and the people who disagree have no rational grounds for it, and are just assholes.

When you skip that re-evaluation step, stick your fingers in your ears, yell "la la la" really hard, and then cry because people are "being mean to you" while refusing to acknowledge that it's because they don't want your ill-considered, over-engineered crap making their lives difficult for the next decade, then that makes you an asshole.

Nowhere did GP say anything about whether or not LP deserved the abuse. He offered counterexamples to GGP's assertion that LP writes "great software," which has had plenty of objective explanations as to its flaws. He said nothing about the person himself.

Then who does it assume is receiving the envelope?

While there's something to be said for angry make-up sex, maybe you ought to calm down a bit before taking care of business. You could hurt yourself, lad.