Troll? I guess FBI is modding these days... :/

White house?

"Where is the most wanted terrorist hiding out again?" FTFY

Most wanted? Pakistan. Biggest? USA.

Thank you, thank you. I will be here all week :)

GP is part of the problem. For people like him/her, it is not about good code or bad code, it is about 'my way or the highway'.

Calling someone "factory factory factory guy" without any basis is how you get mod points on Slashdot without being correct. For all one knows the submitter might be exact opposite.

Just a nit pick. Algebra was largely invented in India and then transferred to Arabia via trade routes, where it was preserved while India dissented into political turmoil.

... Go read a book.

You mean how they are now able to resist 'stealing' whereas they were militarily weak before and open for 'new/better/the only mode of government' and 'upbringing'

I know... A big thanks to the meta moderators!

Hi Linus,

I have grown idolizing you and what you have done, probably as a side effect, in making accessible my passion to me. I am deeply interested in system level programming but I am confused about its current status. Linux is stable. Unix is unix. And windows might become less popular due to UI changes. Most people haven't even heard of Plan 9.

Do you see any exciting new problems facing the academic area of computer systems? Any itch that Linux kernel is not good enough to scratch (due to pristine design decisions, for example)?

I am not hinting towards Hurd, in case you thought so.

How about Hindi? How about Marathi?

Frankly a single day spent learning characters is one day spent not solving the problem and one day delay between the problem and its solution.

Once in a while I come across something that I know a little about, and then I wonder if everything I ever read and took as a wisdom was written but ignorant people on Slashdot.

Yeah I know... am I new here?

Have you ever been to China? Have you ever seen the code they run? Ever seen FORTRAN in Chinese characters? You think they should have learnt English first?

And you a foreigner! Really... I bet an Indian/European who already knew the Latin characters before he/she heard about JavaScript. There are billions of people who don't know Latin script and you are asking them to memorize it.

Just like that.

How many Chinese characters have _you_ memorized? How many Arabic? I am an Indian and have yet to memorize Urdu/Persian script, my grandfather's mother tongue.

Quick question: What is more important?
1. Writing code
2. Being able to read code AFTER it has been written?

Sheesh... Most people in this world already face the problem you are talking about when they see everything written in English. And they are trying to fix it!

PS: Hopefully Slashdot fixes its commenting system. Months have passed since I posted anything and it is complaining that I have reused this form already!

Why this news should get coverage in USA anyway? Because Muslims are involved? Or because women were murdered? Or because it is Canada?

Look, I am all for fair reporting news. But there literally thousands of heinous murders happening in Mexico everyday. Get some perspective.

I want to do just one thing with this rant: have the Firefox dev team read it.

Especially about the usability part, where Firefox has constantly removed functionalities it shipped with when it wasn't even version 1.0.

What do you suggest then? Assembly?

Hehehe... you could have just viewed the source:

<a>multi-celled creatures living a mile and more below the planetâ(TM)s surface</a>

That thing won't open even in lynx.