I think the content of articles should not be helped or harmed overall, presuming editors are following policies. And while one could make an argument over which articles exist, I'm not sure there is a compelling argument beyond simple intuition. I mean, I haven't seen a man in HR in a decade, but I wouldn't dream of suggesting HR policies are tilted in any way. Just because the entire department is female doesn't mean they can't be equally concerned with male issues right? I'm not being sarcastic, I've met exactly one woman in HR that I thought had an ax to grind. Can't men be capable of the same impartiality?

I think my opinion on this is 'who cares? good policies and professionalism matter, but gender is irrelevant.'

Hmm. Not seeing where you can claim I 'made shit up' without highlighting your own claim of intellectual superiority. Oh wait, were you referring to the obvious sarcastic hyperbole?

Actually, I -am- intellectually superior to you, our differing opinions on the same situation is ample evidence of this fact. Don't go feeling attacked, check the tone in your original post and understand.

There is absolutely a particular reason they shouldn't, and it's visible to any intelligent person.

When gender balance becomes a politically correct requirement for every occupation or hobby outside of ditch digging, the intelligent person asks "What the Fuck?", while folks like you just jump on the bandwagon and perpetuate ignorance and bias.

Fool.

bleh. submit vs preview. My opinion is nowhere near that strong, but I do want to present a counter-perspective to the vomit I hear kids regurgitating daily.

"As far as developers go, In the Ruby, Python, and Node ecosystems, anything that's not the latest doesn't exist. They don't use the system package management, they use gem, pip, and npm. They really don't care about the underlying OS, until it gets in the way, and getting in the way is exactly what a decade-old OS does."

^^These developers are idiots and don't deserve support.^^

Yeah, I'm aware of everything wrong with that statement, but it's a perspective that's valid for a lot of people. This culture evolved from a flood of Windows refugees that didn't even *try* to work with distributions, or, even worse built a business model that depended on and promoted circumventing it. ( *.io ).

Fuck them, because most of the time they *don't* actually have a compelling technical reason to be on the bleeding edge of project X, they just *start* there to begin with, and spend 0 seconds looking at distro tools. Yeah , I'm looking at you RoR.

WRONG.

The talent pool is clearly not "global". If it was global there would be no need to "import" labor. The talent pool is NATIONAL in this scenario.

When they start outsourcing and moving entire projects overseas, then you can say global. In this context, you may not.

It is confusing isn't it? Again and again someone demonstrates gravity with a sheet and a ball, and again and again there is someone looking for or talking about the 'graviton'.

Another one: The presenter starts off with an illustration of space and time being -the same thing: "space-time". But then goes on to explain space only, or time only, or both but each in their own silo.

My approach to understanding this has been to watch every documentary I can, distill the common, repeated 'truths' and extrapolate a mental image from that. I think space and time are -literally- the same thing (the perpetual expansion of space -is- the passage of time), gravity is -not- a force, there was no big bang, nor was there inflation.

Ok, the last bit is somewhat radical so I'll explain a bit. The universe (space) is always expanding, slower when there is nearby matter with mass, faster when there is not. When galaxies are so far away from each other space expands so rapidly there is a "breach", covering a huge astronomical area, in which energy/matter rushes in uniformly, slowing down the expansion.

I have no math skills and might be completely wrong, but it feels right and I'll probably hold on to this mental model until/unless there is some clear irrefutable proof otherwise. Really, I don't see that happening because (lol) no one is every going to investigate the scenario I just described.

A good study would provide a description of what the internet would look like without ads. My intuition is that I'd be just fine with the only content available being content that did not seek a revenue stream. I thought the internet was better back then anyway.

It's also a pointless study because it's never going to happen. I'd guess the only reason it was done is to support the idea that ad blockers and no script are "bad". Oh wait it was conducted by an ad platform.

Yup.

Intolerant of fools and slackards maybe, always for very rational and defensible reasons.

I think an important perspective (that you're missing) is that for most of the decision making contributors commercial success is a minor goal, and for many it's not a goal at all. The don't give two shits about "the business model", they want open, verifiable code or no code at all.
The driver model you are complaining about is never ever ever ever ever ever going to change. So, please, use Windows or OSX and get on with your life.

In Linux, there is no ABI. Drivers have to be accepted and included in the kernel source tree. Yes really. It's that well thought out.

This means that you have to have code review from the Linux kernel team. And you have to divulge any amateur or buggy code embodied in the source. Which may compromise the imaginary advantage your marketdroids think they have on other platforms.

FTFY

Docker has an engine? I haven't actually used Docker yet because I've already been using LXC for some years and just haven't had a "free day" to play with it. But I've always been under the impression that Docker was just a abstraction around LXC making containers easier to create. Is the Docker "engine" actually LXC?

Serious question because the main reason I haven't invested in Docker is my perception that it won't really save (me) time if you already well understand LXC. Is there some other benefit besides "it's easier"?

On Amazon Prime the 'Documentary' category is all brainless reality shows, much worse than Netflix for finding a good one.

Difficult tasks are potential bug generators and finding a task difficult is the programming equivalent of going to sleep at the wheel....
( hmm. Easy tasks are potential bug generators and finding a task easy is the programming equivalent of going to sleep at the wheel... huh. that works too.)
^^
Like all the other sane people I stopped reading at that point.
The real reason for doing this is that someone has invested a lot of time and effort in the technology used for this (and has a lab) , and this idea was the best one he came up with.