I have the mythical man month right here. It's a book with essays about project management, ie., it deals with groups of people, not individual coders. As far as I am aware it never mentions differences in individual coding productivity.

Plenty of studies have shown that it's true. If you can't see it, maybe you're one of the less productive ones?

I can imagine someone being more productive because he has experience with the business, ie. because he knows a lot he doesn't have to have everything specified or call for meetings. But when it comes down to just coding, I can't imagine someone being 10x more productive than the next guy (unless, as someone else mentioned, the next guy just sucked). Coding isn't that hard. It's a trick you can teach virtually anyone. After years of programming people will develop their own style and some styles better match a certain project than another. But 10 times difference? I'd like to see those studies.

Also "If you can't see it, maybe you're one of the less productive ones" is uncalled for.

There was one episode that stood out: the one where we got to meet Starbuck again, stranded on some kind of planet with nothing more than a cylon that also had crashed. Loosely based upon 'Enemy mine', or maybe the other way around. Maybe one of the better episodes of the entire series (excluding the post 2000 battlestar galactica which is simply awesome)

No, because they want 80K from their users, in exchange for somebody else not naming it's product gnome. It's up to everybody individually to do with his money as he pleases, but this scores high on the don't-even-consider list for me.

> [My english is better than most other people's german, so please point out mistakes politely. Thank you.]

Nothing wrong with your english, and definitely better than this guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

you mean the "Butterfly something" that promised to ship something plus the chip, but time chipped away and something had to give?

I'll settle for "just look good" then.

I'll put our emperor on it!

Max, is this you?

Imagine a beowulf cluster with systemd!

Don't forget the Netherlands, home of the wiretapped and land of the supervising committees.

That's odd. The stuff I wrote in 2001 doesn't even compile nowadays.

My ESR wants me to go to a cathedral. Or a bazaar. But I have to choose.

Linus OS is the choice of scuba divers.

lawn? In my days we didn't have lawns. We had a bunch of rocks that we had to carry outside our cave every day