You missed kurisuto's original question : are you better off because of that ? No, it's an unnecessary hassle.

As someone who moved to OS X after 13+ years on Linux, I can tell you that not having to deal with this "choice" is quite refreshing. A single, coherent and well documented API is much more useful than two half-finished, poorly documented ones.

(damn, forgot to log in)

I haven't commented on slashdot in a long while, but this post should never have made it frontpage.

Having read both Greene's op-ed piece on the NY Times, and John Horgan's article, I find the latter much more questionable. Horgan criticizes multiverse theories on purely subjective grounds, and basically thinks that science nowadays should care about real issues first, something no serious scientific researcher would ever support.

Greene's op-ed article is a very good vulgarisation of theoritical physics, I have to wonder what is wrong with it. Seems like the poster has a big chip on his shoulder against Greene for some reason.

Thinking like this is a sure way to add more and more constraining checks and complicated processes, which very quickly become huge hindrances. All this because you ignore the fact that programmers are humans, and humans make mistakes.

I'd rather acknowledge that bugs are bound to happen, and make their detection as quick as possible, and their fixing as easy as possible.

because all this applies to humans as well :-)