Guys, i'm deeply interested in why folks are still up-in-arms about systemd.

Pros:
* Easy manifest to control processes and how they startup/run
* Manages logs for you (no more logrotate and kill -USR1 hackyness unless your app has complex logs like nginx,etc)
* Unified ecosystem, no more writing init scripts that may or may not work on Debian vs RedHat vs Ubuntu vs Arch

Cons:
* Gotta learn systemctl nginx restart vs service nginx restart (unless you're on Fedora/CentOS/Redhat which offers compatibility wrappers)
* Gotta learn to journalctl -u nginx vs grep /var/log/nginx/server.log for stderr/stdout from nginx. Otherwise logs are still at /var/log/nginx


The cons are pretty small and silly vs all the huge Pros. Is there *really* still a group of "get off my lawn" BOFH's which are driving this insanity?

Ruby has been "dying" since 2009: * https://www.sitepoint.com/is-r... These articles are so clickbaity. People use what works for them.

We knew this was coming. https://frontalot.com/lyrics/M...

Err.. You do realize the difference between a website and an operating system... right? You're free to use whatever search engine you want.. and google can say whatever they want. Most users don't have an operating system choice.

There have already been (won) anti-trust lawsuits against Microsoft for this exact behavior.

https://www.justice.gov/atr/ca...

Except those apps didn't have complex dependencies like today's apps. Linux (and other ported) apps expect a large number of dependencies to be filled.

"Very dangerous when companies like Twitter regulate their own content"
I agree, and enabling the FCC to allow ISP's regulate their own content is ok?

"ITS NEVER ENOUGH, MOAR!" -- Walt Disney (company)
Having to insert some non-caps since slashdot likes to filter too many caps because you're yelling. Walt Disney is definitely yelling... just saying.

I actually do... Everything I do is Open Source MIT license :-)

I actually agree wholeheartedly. However, most revolutionary works these days get sucked up by corporations and owned "indefinitely". Walt Disney died in 1966 and the Disney company is still sucking on his teet 52 years later... how is that "compensating the creator?"

You do realize that copyright law originally didn't exist indefinitely.. right? Blame the Disney's of the world for drawing it out indefinitely. The original copyright terms covered the author long enough to gain a decent living for his lifetime (and the lifetime of his family) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... So many derivative works stand on the shoulders of the works that came before. Now as a culture, we are essentially locked into an endless cycle of large corporations sucking up ideas and "owning" them indefinitely.

*IN 2018 dollars even.* This is essentially what Nintendo expects.

Except copying is not theft. The car analogy is stupid and worn out.... Especially for vintage works. You're saying if I buy a junk car and make it look like a Studebaker I now owe Studebaker the cost a new Studebaker?

I'm frustrated that an entire generation of programmers seem to turn to Python for *EVERY* task. It drives me nuts. Python is a scripting language... stop trying to write applications in it that do *really* complex or large scale things. I'm starting to step over so much poorly written python code in my career in places it doesn't belong. We have so many great compiled languages now for big data or complex tasks such as golang and Rust... use the right tool for the job dammit. Get off my lawn.

It's written in C: https://fuchsia.googlesource.c... Google hired a bunch of former BeOS developers to work on it. (It's something new though, not related to BeOS)

The only good ICO's are the ones that give a fixed group of people coins as an initial air-drop to bootstrap the ecosystem. Hold onto those "free" coins until they have value and the coin is tested for reliability. Once you feel comfortable with it a year or two later, then you can begin investing. Did this for Decred... no regrets.