Now that's a totally practical suggestion! I'll get right on it!

Perhaps they should just drop the 'd' in the name and write their own kernel to go along with their... thing. Voila, no more problems with ill-tempered Linux kernel developers! And they could all integrate it in one huge, funky ball o' bits!

The same way a child or an mentally ill would.

Pro tip: get out of the basement and discover that women are not the enemy!

Bug bomb activated. Bug bomb searching, Thodin!

I'd be interested to hear what kind of company you'd work for that doesn't use any of these tools. I'm sure that would make for an interesting story, especially where not even version control is used.

Joining the EU doesn't automatically mean joining the Euro zone. Of course that is another interesting and unsolved problem: currency.

Let's hope this doesn't derail itself the same way the Yocto Project did. Yocto is massively company-sponsored and IMHO it's a sad joke. It's a huge, bloated cancer of a build system that is neither usable nor understandable.

Not like anyone else will...

Sorry, couldn't resist ;) Classic line from Dilbert

Why? Are you so bored you have to come whine here if you have a better place? I don't get it.

It's still completely blind, as far as possible effects are concerned. It's just orders of magnitude faster. Not sure that's a good thing.

Maybe the problem is the definition of 'code'. Is is just cobbling together bytes that seem as if they want to fit together, trying to fit the round piece in the square hole until you realize that may be the wrong way to do things? Or is it the same as programming, which should involve a plan and design and a deeper understanding of the problem and possible solutions? 'Code' certainly sounds a lot more like "I hacked together something and it even works!" than 'programming'....

Just my $0.02:

I've met all kinds: self-taught (for the most part what I am), university educated with varying levels of degree and anything in between. I've seen lots of people with high level degrees who were totally useless as soon as actual code was involved, but I've also met the other kind, highly intelligent people with degrees that at the same time were able and especially willing to use what they had to craft superb code.

If you want to learn to program and do actual work instead of just meditating about computing theory or fiddling with database concepts, you will. In the end, you must want to learn it, you must be interested, and you have to be a practical girl or boy, interested in getting into the thick of it and getting your hands 'dirty'.

IMHO, whether you get a degree or not has nothing to do with that.

Uber must be okay with what they're doing because hey, someone somewhere might have done something illegal. Maybe. Because hey, there's anecdotal evidence, probably.

Nice strawman you got there.