I had a hard time parsing your post, but are you suggesting that eating pork increases suicidal behavior? If so, and if you expect people to take you seriously... you'll need a great deal of convincing evidence. Because otherwise, you just sound like a looney.

27 Petaflops at Oak Ridge
20 Petaflops at Lawrence Livermore

http://top500.org/lists/2012/11/

As other have pointed out: Yes.

But if you're spending time trying to remember coding style semantics, and others are spending time correcting you... then you're doing it wrong. Spend half an hour setting up your editor to automate spacing, formatting, etc. If your editor can not do this, then find a better editor.

Additionally, require code to pass some sort of automated style check (like cstyle) before check-in. It might require a little initial setup, but it will save a ton of time in the long run.

I would not assume that it was "the most important thing" in her life simply because she mentioned it in a post as a qualifier for being in the sweet spot for procreating.

And granted, I should not have called you an ass - that's just how "will you be able to talk to your 'good careers'?" comes off. But an ad hominem would imply that your argument is wrong *because* "you sound like an ass". I did no such thing.

1. It's a fallacy to assume that if another person chooses not to have kids, then their career must be the most important thing in their life.
And since you know nothing about the GP, it makes you sound like an ass.

2. You seem to imply that having children guarantees a functional family unit. Or that your adult children will want to spend time with you.
Or that you will even want to see them. There are no guarantees in life.

3. You're ignoring the differences in personality types. Some of us genuinely prefer solitude.
That's rather difficult to achieve when you're catering to a child's needs.

I'm very glad that you appreciate your children. Far too many grow up without that appreciation. But raising children is not for everyone... and those who recognize that before procreating should not feel pressured to choose otherwise. Raising children is not the only way to be happy in life - though most parents seem to feel otherwise.

Stop doing this.

Almost every "why aren't you having kids?" inquery I've answered ended with the other party stating "oh, you'll change your mind." or "well, accidents happen." It's annoying as hell.

Some people don't want kids. Let it go. It's not a comment on your choices.

My wife and I seriously considered this as a reason to have kids for some time, before realizing that it's an obnoxious elitist attitude and it still doesn't make up for our personal reasons for not procreating.

Mostly, I'm just irritated that the original post got a flood of "No, you SHOULD have kids!" in response to her reasons. This is why it's impossible to explain to parents why one wouldn't want kids. No reason is ever good enough.

People who HAVE children are the ones being selfish.

I think it's funny how quickly this thread turned into both sides of the fence calling the other side selfish. Yes, DAMN YOU for basing your personal decisions on your own desires, rather than mine!

You titled your post "Why I'm not having kids" and the only reason I can tell from your post is that you don't want them.

Which is a perfectly valid reason.

Yes, it is. And a perfectly valid reason to say "Thank you for removing your genes from the gene pool"

Which quality, exactly, are you thankful that she removed from the gene pool?

...because not wanting to have kids is not a genetic trait.

I did not see this as "dressed up as logic" or "non-negotiable requirements". I don't see where you're drawing these conclusions. We're talking about a couple's choice about having children, so of course it's personal preference.

To me, her post could be condensed down to "I like kids, but I don't want kids, and this is why." which is different from my opinion of "I don't like kids, I don't want kids, the end." or someone else's opinion of "I love kids, and I have kids."

An expression of personal preference is not an attack on your choices.

BTRFS has not fully stabalized yet, making it a poor choice for a production system. And ZFS is only a viable option if you're running Solaris (Sure, you can use the 2009 OpenSolaris version of ZFS in BSD or FUSE... but again, not good production choices).

Ext3/4 and XFS are good choices depending on your needs and distribution. But for a small standalone sever, you will probably never notice the difference - use the default.