Picture, instead of Clippy, we could have Microsoft Creeper.

How apt....

Really? I run it on an AMD A8-3850 on Ubuntu 14.04 and I didn't have the impression it's strained at all. Granted, I don't run the server part on that machine. My CPU is severely outclassed by most i7s.

Sure, it's not the most efficient codebase, but on a modern machine with power to spare, it's rather fine. Now, I have run it on a rather high end Core2Duo. That's less fun.

Welcome to my personal hell since like forever. Internationalization is a major fuckup in all OSes because of assumptions that are untrue. Adding geolocation makes it worse.

If my FCPA training is worth anything, both you and your company can be on the hook for fines and jail time. But I don't know what the specifics are with this case.

Most people I know who run Linux are either professionals or family supported by said professionals.

Most teenagers I know wouldn't touch old computers.

These days you can easily find Core2Duo and AMD64 class machines in dumpters, and from what I see, nobody wants them. I used to refurbish them for those who wanted and I ended up with a huge pile of decent machines looking for a good home. No takers. I trashed them all.

I guess they have old PC-s.

I have a few machines, all of them run exclusively Linux, all of them can (and have) run Minecraft. Let's see, my desktop replacement is a i7-2630QM with 16GB RAM, my Ultrabook is i5-3357U with 4GB RAM and my desktop is a A8-3850 with 16GB RAM. (I'm excluding my servers here, as they have different use-cases.) Are these machines "old" now? Sure, they aren't brand-new, but I'd say they're all adequate. Surely not enough to run Crysis, but they're no slouches.

hunh? it's the same language, but now there's tagged types (aka polymorphic, inheritable objects). String manipulation is still as much a nightmare as it's always been.

Ye Gods! No!

OpenBSD truly adheres to "KISS", especially regarding simple configuration files. Exactly of what systemd isn't. It may have (and I'm still not convinced) nice features, but for my uses what is presently being used suffices, both on Linux and especially on OpenBSD.

catches every newb screwing around with hashes!

specifically with regards to accidentally freezing types. You've got to declare stuff with similar signatures to get your instances all nice and defined. But if you put something on the wrong line or do things in a different order... YOU'VE BROKEN IT!

That was my first reaction too...

oh wait, are you HONEST? got it, then!

as a long time Farker*, what will constitute sexism will be the sniff test.

It's basically "if you aren't in the clique and know the moderators, your post will be scrutinized for context. If you're in the clique, you'll get a pass unless you are actively harassing someone in a thread."

So the enforcement will be like all enforcement; subjective and prone to favoritism, But, to be fair, this is their club so they can make the rules.

*-I'm getting a kick out of all these replies!

Are you the same guy that labels porn "amature". It's "amateur". "Amature" doesn't even exist, except if you interpret the "a-" prefix as "not", which then the word would mean "not mature".