Except I don't think anyone said that Eich couldn't support whatever stupid backward laws he liked. Just that he should do it elsewhere.

Sorry, no. Free speech doesn't mean freedom from having to face the consequences of that speech.

Sure, visually you can see it's a soft shoulder, but audibly, your brain hasn't bothered to think about dirt or gravel noises. The first sound most audiences associate with a fast departure like that is a squealing tire. That's what they expect

No, actually that only what audio engineers expect. The rest of us in the audience are sitting there thinking, "Why the hell are the tires squealing on gravel? The audio engineer must be a moron."

Terrible, unintuitive syntax. Horrible documentation that was apparently written for people who already understand it. Obscure error messages. Too much knowledge required up front to start using it effectively. Hard to pick up the pieces when something inevitably goes wrong.

I've seen posts elsewhere where people say "Oh, once you understand that behind the scenes it's working on blobs and trees and commits then it makes more sense. Also, graph theory." OK, but should I need to know any of that? I don't need to know how an internal combustion engine works to drive my car.

It probably makes perfect sense to Linus and people who shares his brainwaves. To us mere mortals, not so much.

But this is all moot because I just realized the article is a joke.

'this [migration] will finally let us get rid of the current broken design... ... and replace it with a completely new broken design. (I hate git.)

Don't know what your problem is, but I have a rearview camera and the only time it doesn't work is if it's completely covered by snow.

Hey, they just blew $16B on a chat program.

you can always upgrade to a newer kernel, and you're not going to break anything in the process.

Hehe. That's a good one.

Are you saying you've never heard of Fluke? C'mon, son.

Tell me more about this horse lady.

Mercury is getting smaller and Pluto's getting lllaarrrrger.

When the sexy girls fuck the geeks instead of the football studs, you're getting somewhere.

No. Maybe when the male geeks stop objectifying women, or thinking that the sexy girls can't be geeks too, then you're getting somewhere.

It's been about 14 years since the dotcom bubble burst, and memories are short.

It is dead.

I've been reading that on Slashdot for over 15 years now.

Why should one private company have the right to unilaterally declare this kind of planned obsolescence?

Because they made it?