Interesting, I figured it was a reference to Mythical Man Month, which uses Cathedrals to describe a method of software development (that is the opposite of the bazaar).

ok, well, I disagree with you, I enjoy programming.

Swift isn't going to make it so "anybody can write apps." That is something that's been tried for decades, with things like drag-and-drop programming. SQL was originally intended for non-programmers. It doesn't work, because the difficulty of programming isn't the syntax. The difficulty of programming is logic. You have to learn to think like a programmer, describe a sequence of steps, ask "what will happen in the user does.....X." You have to reasonably understand the if several things in a row are true, but the next one is false, then all of them are false (if anded together, but not if or'd together).

The logic of programming is why it's good for everyone to learn programming. If it helps people learn to think a little more formally, then it's worth it.

Obama actually favors the surveillance programs. That's why he doesn't like Snowden.....he already liked what the NSA was doing, and has defended them every step along the way.

Please note, I didn't say that the website has no utility......the utility comes from compensating for weak developers and weak projects. If the developers are not weak and the projects have high discoverability, then there's no need to ask questions about it on stackoverflow.

(Of course, it can still fill a role, but all the basic questions would be gone).

He wrote the list based on things he'd seen in Chromium, so it's Google's problems. Here is the full list. Not surprising, since they used to jam all their code into a single repository.

(It's hard to fault them for a 100+MB source code download though, unless there's a lot of redundancy in the code).

NYT, WSJ do a lot of good work (no one ever did all good work). A lot of smaller regional newspapers do good journalism, but they are smaller and less useful.

Apparently not at the NSA.

Specifically, he criticized Poettering for not taking care of features he'd created.

I might be flamed for saying this, but if you can't be a software developer without "community support" like asking questions on StackOverflow, then you're not really a software developer. (Likewise, if a tool can't be used without asking questions on stackoverflow, it's the wrong tool to be using for anything serious).

I'm going to call you a moron right here because you only think of success in terms of monetary value and popularity. Success is not measured by money alone.

A successful project is one that produces great code, one that makes its creator happy.

No, but if one more person checks Google a little more often, it will make our conversations on Slashdot that much better.

Nah. I'm thinking that 'useful' has more than one definition, and "real business use" is not necessarily the most important, unless you are the most rabid capitalist.

The problem is you don't spend 15 seconds on Google before spouting off. A quick search would have found you this page: Goal 1: Develop New and Improved Vaccines. The national vaccine plan says, "Research to improve existing vaccines also provides opportunities to improve on a range of vaccine characteristics such as efficacy, safety, and vaccine delivery."

As a bonus to you, the page lists these recent advances in vaccine technology:

* Advances in scientific understanding of diseases and vaccine responses, especially for pertussis, pneumococcal disease, dengue and hepatitis C.
* New vaccine production techniques and technologies.

Research a little and your posts will be more coherent; your brain will be clearer.

Now you''ll have to switch to OpenBSD (like everyone else who wants a working unix system /flame).