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Them young whippersnappers are quite capable of their own innovations.
As long as they never have to leave the protective cocoon of a VM with GC.
And lots of base classes written by somebody with a clue.
"it marks the end of a world where broad knowledge of computers and being willing to create solutions instead of reuse them was valuable"
No, it pretty much just marks the end of Dr. Dobb's. Them young whippersnappers are quite capable of their own innovations.
There is no denying that the true hacker is well on the way to becoming an endangered species, as we are making far fewer new ones than would be required to replace those who retire, much less keep up with the exponential pace of software systems growth. Great news in terms of income security for this increasingly elite niche, not such a great omen for the quality of future software.
Google's support for critical open source infrastructure like Libreoffice has in general been pathetic. Much of the blame for that would appear to lie with that same Chris Dibona.
...It will sustain losses year after year to deny revenue to the competition. Once the competition folds it has the market for itself. Look how long it was able to sustain losses to gain dominance with XBox franchise.
It didn't work and Microsoft has little hope of ever recovering its losses.
Mod up. The one clueful post to the article.
None of the details you mentioned prevent you from writing a realtime application. To avoid indeterminate swap-in time, you mlock your application (which mlocks any linked libraries as well, so keep your library usage tight). Any IO the application needs should be offloaded to non-realtime threads. You can do it, it just requires competence. Just as programming in a "proper" realtime operating system does.
BTW, Microsoft minions are pretty much the only ones who bandy about the term "Linux zealot". Minion.
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