Logically there are a few things that need to come out of the industry before a singularity should even be attempted. Until then please put my money on this joining the graphical ides from google archives.

Still arguing whetger 8 or 16 is better eh? Mine is 32:20

Put the data on the best type of filesystem required for it whether it be ext3, ext4, some NAS box with tons of memory, Ramdisks. If you have a complex web site, have multiple filesystem types. If you decide that you want a one size fits all then you obviously aren't that serious about the question.

Most likely they're looking for someone with map experience now, instead of someone who can say no to other departments when asking for commitment dates. That person knows very well that if you have a commitment date then bugs are implied, and not following this way is contrary to current training in degrees for programming and management.

While a balance can be found as a product matures, the birth of a product is very different. Look at how we treat humans in the different stages of their life for citations.

don't you mean watts he talking about?

Sounds like you just don't like the language you're using to program. Understandable, I'm sure you're not the only one.

Although many enjoy the challenge and have gotten past language issues long ago. That, I think, is also one of the perks of experience.

If you have empathy for something then doesn't it mean that you've made a decision about it? If you've made a decision about it doesn't it mean that you no longer need to analyze it? So wouldn't this all mean that just the fact that you have decided to have empathy for something, you no longer need to analyze it so you can have "something else" for it?

I would say that this summary is a little (not exacly but just a little) the same as saying "when a person walks into the kitchen, they are no longer in the living room.. and vice versa".

While using complex algbraic expressions this is somewhat like raid or even the udpsender tool. Nice.

I've worked managing, coding for and supporting all the Windows and several Unixes over the last 20 years and while I prefer Unix generally that means nothing when I have to decide which tool to use for a job, I never diss the idea that every job needs the right tool and that Windows has its place.

I've had lots of experience with ALL the points you've made and agree with them,

One of my favorite comments is that the Linux kernel should be a star on an episode hoarders. (or as I like to refer to Linux's address: here,spaghetti land)

Hi, in your experience, for someone who has (or thinks they have) great new ideas for existing hardware or software products that are already on the market (for example an OS) but wouldn't want to just propose it to the company for fear of having the idea just stolen. Say the money for patenting is just not an option but wanting this to be something that could feed and house the family, are there avenues that you can suggest to be able to move forward?

not everyone needs an app for it.

Usually I start out with visual ides' to get a feeling of how I want the look. I spend a good amount of time with that moving things around, getting just the right colours and make sure the overall presentation is right. We all know that looks are more important that any technical person wants to admit.

Then I scrap it and code it manually once I know how I want it to be, I can change my mindset and work on fuunctionality.

I find it's very difficult to be productive when switching mindset again and again so I make sure I do it as little as possible.

You may be right about the others (MacOS maybe less) but there are also the androids out there where the OS trusts processes to be quiet when minimized. I'll tell you now that with thousands of apps out there, I think trust should be off by default. It's one example of how OS's haven't evolved. But you make a good point about Linux, who would want to write a virus for spaghetti userland!!

AV software is picking up the slack for badly designed operating systems. Kernels, drivers, the shell, the UI of software, management control and process control have all spiralled out of sync in their evolution in all OSes bar none which is a perfect breeding ground for this.

Come on OS's, raise that bar so that AV companies can do the same.