Erm, no. What the user base wanted was control over their desktop and Gnome kept removing more and more of the options for controlling it. Tying itself to systemd and general disrespect to the users was the unrecoverable final termination of any relationship between users and programmers of the Gnome project.

I find it odd that you saw all the yelling and screaming as wanting a rehashed Windows 95 desktop. Are you a Gnome dev or are you deaf too?

It seems to me that the assumption is that an overwhelming majority of coal miners are not suitable for coding... not that absolutely no coal miner can code.

It is clear that you are the one who is afraid. You are afraid of other people possessing guns. It would appear that you think that getting rid of guns will reduce gun violence (which is what you are terrified of). It is possible that gun violence may be reduced by telling criminals that they can no longer own guns and that all law abiding citizens will now be unarmed... but that is not the way I would bet.

I am not who you replied to but I think I can give a reasonable answer to this question: If I were to take over every project that I had a strong opinion about and that I thought I could do better, I would not have enough time in my entire life to even touch all of them, much less actually work on them. In such a situation, I would limit myself to discussion to what could have been done differently.

Incompetent design and poor coding practices are what makes C or Assembly insecure. C++ is potentially a minefield though. Little boys should not be playing with power tools or nuclear weapons.

Hm. You seem mighty worked up. Why should anyone get special consideration?

I can think of one reason and one reason only: Because they are interested in the topic.

Nothing else matters, not even gender. All other considerations merely serve to distort the issue.

Is it worthwhile to investigate why certain classes, types, or groups of people are not represented in the programming world? Of course. Is it wise to intentionally distort the situation to appear more like what someone thinks it should appear? Erm, no. Down that pathway lies madness.

I raised a daughter in Colorado and I saw no such social pressures put on her. My daughter was allowed and encouraged to do whatever she wanted. She had no interest in computers other than MySpace and then Facebook... but then, my son has shown no interest either. *shrug* Neither one has any interest in learning how the world works or anything technical at all. I definitely gave both a chance to express such desires numerous times, but nope. Nada. Zilch. Zero. Not a drop of interest from either one. *sigh*

Very rare... *sigh* but yet another +7 insightful post.

This is not necessarily true. I have not done extensive testing but I have found that I have to watch where my palm is in relation to the trackpad on my macbook pro if I do not want random pointer movement. Perhaps newer macbook pros have solved this, I would not know. Mine is 5.1 running snow leopard (roughly a 2010 macbook pro).

Fuck class. This is not an aristocratic society full of political correctness and snobbery. This is people doing real work and getting things done. "Class" only reduces the effectiveness.

In short, if you are afraid of knives, get out of the kitchen.

LoL, I was terrified the first time I saw Guru Meditation Mode. I thought I had broken my computer forever... that being said, there is no #42 (maybe a funny Douglas Adams reference?).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...

Thank you. You are awesome! I like the compile time and parameter passing configuration options to both be available. You are smart and doing it right. Keep on keeping on. :)

It is easily possible to do what you want. Trivially so... so why isn't it done? There is an answer to that question my friend and the answer is this:

A kernel will panic when it detects that the environment it is running in is not the same environment it thinks it is running in. What this means is that the kernel can no longer be certain of anything, up to and including whether or not it can write coherently to a file system. Rather than potentially trashing your file system, the kernel just prints to the screen as nothing can be damaged by that... but even that is dangerous. What the kernel thinks is the screen may not actually be the screen anymore.

In other words, once there is corruption in the kernel's environment, all bets are off and nothing is guaranteed, not even writing an error message to the screen. Writing coherently to a file system is actually a fairly complex event and is extremely dangerous in this situation.

Very valid questions. I am not sure that I can answer them but perhaps I can provide some perspective:

It is in society's interest to promote the creation of new members of society. The majority of children are created through a male and a female having sexual intercourse.

Society has an interest in the child being reared in a secure environment, hopefully one that is positive and nurturing so that the child becomes a healthy and socially well-adjusted adult.

One of the methods accepted by society at large for encouraging the creation of children and providing for their well-being while becoming adults is to formalize what a "family" means in its most basic sense. Marriage is a tool for "encouraging" the maintenance of this familial construct.

It is not surprising that people are resistant to swapping out portions of this construct for others, such as artificial insemination, gay marriage, adoption, etc. Some swaps have some very persuasive arguments for why they negate the entire concept of marriage as a tool for family creation and social stability (gay marriage), others do not, (artificial insemination, adoption).

For myself, I am generally for what is known as traditional marriage. I do not really care what gay or childless couples do (not that they are equivalent) or what benefits they can accrue by "aping" traditional marriage. All of these people who are yelling and screaming about it all just seem absurd to me. Keep your eyes on your own business and stop being jealous or envious that someone else might have it "as good as you".

LOL. You sound like one of the Christians who complain about persecution. I mean really? I bet if you let the gay people alone, they would leave you alone. You do not see Prop 8 as actually doing something TO gay people?

Look, I am not gay or in California (but I repeat myself) so in this particular instance, I have no horse in the race. I am just calling out silliness when I see it. When you claim that when gays defend themselves against an attack, Prop 8 in this case, they are forcing their morals on you, I just have to laugh at the absurdity of the claim. It is ludicrous.