He wrote the list based on things he'd seen in Chromium, so it's Google's problems. Here is the full list. Not surprising, since they used to jam all their code into a single repository.

(It's hard to fault them for a 100+MB source code download though, unless there's a lot of redundancy in the code).

Apparently not at the NSA.

Specifically, he criticized Poettering for not taking care of features he'd created.

I might be flamed for saying this, but if you can't be a software developer without "community support" like asking questions on StackOverflow, then you're not really a software developer. (Likewise, if a tool can't be used without asking questions on stackoverflow, it's the wrong tool to be using for anything serious).

I'm going to call you a moron right here because you only think of success in terms of monetary value and popularity. Success is not measured by money alone.

A successful project is one that produces great code, one that makes its creator happy.

No, but if one more person checks Google a little more often, it will make our conversations on Slashdot that much better.

The problem is you don't spend 15 seconds on Google before spouting off. A quick search would have found you this page: Goal 1: Develop New and Improved Vaccines. The national vaccine plan says, "Research to improve existing vaccines also provides opportunities to improve on a range of vaccine characteristics such as efficacy, safety, and vaccine delivery."

As a bonus to you, the page lists these recent advances in vaccine technology:

* Advances in scientific understanding of diseases and vaccine responses, especially for pertussis, pneumococcal disease, dengue and hepatitis C.
* New vaccine production techniques and technologies.

Research a little and your posts will be more coherent; your brain will be clearer.

In brief, compilers didn't do a good job automatically optimizing for the vector units, and it was not worth it for most people to do it manually. A few scientific groups experimented with it, but I think most of them have gone to GPUs or just plain old supercomputers.

Let's be honest......the day the value of open source software is determined by its "business use," is the day the open source community is dead.