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Comment: Not the bug... (Score 5, Informative) 1051

by Tau Neutrino (#42416357) Attached to: Linus Chews Up Kernel Maintainer For Introducing Userspace Bug
It wasn't really the bug that set Linus off. At least not in my reading of the post. It was Mauro's cavalier attitude toward the bug. He tried to shrug it off as a problem with pulseaudio, when it clearly was a bug that he had introduced.

I'm not a big fan of this style of management, but I can't fault any of the content of Linus' rant.

Comment: Doesn't matter (Score 3, Insightful) 350

by Tau Neutrino (#40961837) Attached to: With one-time-only use of a cloning machine, I would:
Whoever you clone, it'll still be twenty years before the clone is an adult. And by then, you'll be old. Or at least older. And different. And likely somebody who would have chosen differently, twenty years earlier.

The question is: who would you duplicate? As in, a fresh copy, indistinguishable from the original. Right now, ready to go, no waiting required.

The mind boggles.

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. -- G.B. Shaw

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