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Comment Re:Communism (Score 1) 293

Communism also requires that its principles be enforced by force, because it ignores basic human psychology, namely the instinct to provide for oneself and one's family preferentially to contributing to The Cause Of All and the expectation to see connection between one's efforts and one's gains. And once someone starts acting selfishly, the system is not resistant by itself and needs to be protected by force. That's why all state-level attempts at communism were by necessity authoritarian, and when that option was not available (think kibbutzes), these attempts did not last.

Comment Re:What a joke (Score 1, Informative) 57

Hmm, one can shoot a satellite from *above* it, thus directing most of the fragments downwards, where they would reenter and burn up - this is what the USAF did in their fighter-launched ASAT missile tests, I believe. One can also try frying the satellite with EM energy without actually fragmenting it, think lasers, masers and other forms of directed energy emitters. I am sure people tasked with actually planning such warfare have come up with other approaches as well, so I would not call the idea a farce.

Comment Gmail still does not support OAuth (Score 1) 43

What I find extremely curious is that Gmail, one of the biggest webmail providers and direct competitor to MS Office Online, still does not support OAuth for retrieving mail from third parties, despite literally years of being asked by many users. This means soon one won't be able to use Gmail as single point of contact for multiple accounts that include an Office one. Which absolutely sucks...

Comment Re:Quite Cynical (Score 0) 231

Look, we are sorry for your sad experiences, but projecting them onto the whole industry might... not be warranted. I work for a huge IT multinational and the raise and promotion cycle here is based on exactly what @NicknameUnavailable describes. Before that I worked for a smaller IT multinational and they did exactly the same. So, not every company in the world operates like a soulless meat grinder, even today.

Comment Re:Well (Score 1) 93

Only that Russian-speaking folks in the Donbas region are not necessarily Russians. Many Ukrainians speak Russian as their primary language and this does not make them Russian â" just like speaking English does not make the Scots Englishmen.

Also, Russia is defending neither itself nor the the Donbas region. They have actually invaded a country, from another side altogether, trying to take the capital and multiple civilian centers by force. You have overdosed on Russian propaganda, I am afraid.

Comment Re:Improvement? (Score 1) 105

That is not necessarily why companies upstream code that addresses mostly or exclusively their own products. Sure they could maintain their own out-of-tree repositories... but then they would have to update the code for any architectural and API changes that get introduced into the kernel. Once they manage to get their code to the mainline tree, any future changes will have to account for that code so that it does not stop to build or work.

Comment Re:Not likely (Score 1) 219

Anybody saying "code should document itself" must have been solving simple problems only. How does one "self document" in code why it chooses a non-obvious algorithm, non-optimal in general case... but actually superior for the kind of input data that the program processes? Or why it issues an apparently useless call to hardware, when the hw doc does not explain that the previous call returns before everything has actually been completed and we need to force internal state sync? You know, the stuff that is not explicitly described in manuals and takes a month to identify the problem and design a fix...

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