Wow, auto-correct had a blast with that code. "Monuments" indeed!

Tech debt is like credit card debt: the interest is a bitch. I worded for a while at one company that nearly folded because the time required for emergency bug fixes grew to, then past 100% of development time for the team. Horrible code doesn't just require more bug fixes in the first place, each change grows progressively more expensive and unsafe.

10k lines of shipped, production code is only of value if it's working bug free and without complaint. 10k lines of buggy code, that you have to add a week to any project that modifies in any way, that has negative value.

That being said, if the code is "cleaned up" by the same team that wrote it in the first place, you likely don't come out ahead. The only reason that company "nearly" folded was monuments willingness to hire about 10 senior guys like me to rescue what we could - 6 of them quite within a few weeks, but the 4 of us who stayed managed a few core fixes that kept it limping along for enough time to find a buyer for the company before it went under.

Bad historians have done this forever, carefully culling information to fit the predetermined narrative that they're trying to present. Don't get me wrong, sometimes this can be done in a way that makes history more entertaining & easier to understand as long as it's highlighted as what it is, but the tenor of modern (particularly American, particularly ) teaching of history is very much a linear, determinate thing: this happened, so then THIS happened, which logically led to that.

HIstory - even recent history - *must* be understood in-context. Frankly, that's what makes GOOD study of history a really hard thing. Monday-morning quarterbacking happens whether the event was last night or 1000 years ago. The people of, for example, Dark Ages Europe are practically aliens from another planet, in terms of how they saw the world; to interpret their choices (or worse, to render moral judgement on their actions) solely through the postmodern view of 2015 would be ludicrous, yet it happens constantly.

"History is written by the winners" has always been true; the internet has simply made it a sport everyone can enjoy. It's no longer academic historians fighting closeted battles over esoteric issues within their field, it's the subject of daily conversation.

Further, with the astonishingly short memory/attention span of the modern American electorate, tendentious people are able to get away with the constant revisionist presentation of events within recent memory.

Hell, half the political conversations I have, the first effort is simply to establish SOME common basis of accepted facts upon which we can even constructively argue.

Idiocracy is truly approaching.

Never heard that term before....?

This is yet another reason not to be on FaceBook.

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Don't post a ton of shit about your life online, and there will therefore be less material available for YOUR future loser edit.

I did not read your links because of lazyness, but can you tell me if the walking speed of the Grim Reaper is faster ir slower than that of Zombies?

Wow, not only is the story a dupe, so is the lame attenpt to hijack it and.make it about/ whine about systemd.

Now all we need is for aa bunch of dupes pointing this out and we can just take off for a mini vacation before we all fork the kernel and role our own and try to hijack every other linux story.

I do not know what to think about systemd other than it seens to work but i do know i'm about sick with the people trying to inject it inti any linux related story. Perhaps someone should just move to BSD or something.

Without being able to distinguish who holds what position means there is no debate, just shouting. But more importantly, it resolves or exposes possible issues like circular reasoning and so on.

Its not impossible to converse with ACs. Sometimes it adds depths of insight to a discussion. It just get annoying at times.

Also, you are no less identified when you create an account verses posting AC. Its trivial to get a junn or apam email address and create an acciunt qith as much or little information as you want to give. You can make it completely fictitious or out yourself completely. Your IP is logged with the comment either way and can be used by LEOs or the NSA just the same. What it does do though is make it more dificult to troll or shill some position though. But on the pluss side, it is also simple to chAnge browsing leveks for comments so you can easily see the downmodded comments. There are a lot of downmodded comments that are otherwise insightful, funny, informative, or just provide context that get downmodded vecause it threatens soneone's worldview or agenda. You would think that alone would be worth it to log in. You can still post anon when needed.

Oh, and sorry about thw downhill quality of my posts. Just has carpal tunnel done and usinf my other hand more is already causing it to goto sleep and shoot pains. Guesss it needs dons too

You say that, but someone already thought of that.

Lol.. thanks for proving my point. You did not even bother reading what was posted and said stupid shit about just doing what was already said to be annoying.

What part about a conversation or thread is so dificult for you to understand? Slashdot has a discusion system not a tweet post where you just yell something and ignore the responses or whatever.

The problem with ACs is that you do not know if you are responding to the same people and a lot of them more or less just troll. But it is annoying to hell and back when some AC is too lazy to read the start of the thread and wants to rehash everythibf already discussed or you assume it is the same AC who has already taken a position in which the new AC has not.

The constitution gjves congres the ability to establish and regulate copyright. But yoy question was basically answered by its own wording. Any right granted can be removed also. That is why the founding documents talk about inalienable rights endowed by a creator- rights that exist purely becaause you exist and inherent within the conciousness of the majority of people.

This is why the GP is wrong too. One of the roles thd federal government was constituted to do was copyrights and pattents. Collective barganing is a bit different though. It is using the interstate commerce clause to impose requirements on employers to recognize unions and collective bargaining which is also exempt from monopoly laws too.

Please enlighten us on why they are more ans not les corrupt than congres. I have read their recent decisions and think the GP is correct. SCOTUS is less corrupt than congres in appearance if not practice.

But here is a hibt, wherher you like or dislike a decision or fail to grasp the reasoning does not mean corruption.

That's probably true unless you are the subject of the comments, someone who loves and cares for the subject, or a victom of rape who feared similar comments elsewhere and nobody did a damn thing because it was made by immature and weak people until after they or someone else tried to proce they weren't .

To them, its a threat to their life, their safety, their reputation or the same to someone who cares for them. It can be reliving the nightmares they experienced too.

And talking about it, talking about making it public and what happened to the weak and immature people gives pause to other weak and immature people who might think nothing can happen when they think its funny to act the same.

But more interestingly is a lesson to ALL that you may think you are anonymous but you likely already left a trail to your real identity or will eventually. Even if you do not try to piss someone off, you might still be identifyable by people wanting to do you harm.