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I would feel strong negative emotions for sure. That would be fine. I want to feel emotions and be challenged.

I would be extremely motivated to prove Linus wrong. If I would realize I was wrong, I would lick my wounds and be hurt. The hurt felt would be related to the amount of work and effort I would have invested. I would not claim that Linus is responsible for my emotional state. I was challenged and I lost.

Identifying with your ideas is fine in moderation but taking lasting personal offense is when your ideas forcefully rejected is madness.
It is being drawn page by page. The archive is here:

http://itunestandc.tumblr.com/archive
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Or perhaps everyone can learn to communicate in a clear and concise manner? Just an idea.
I agree that you have to be very critical of Wikipedia articles. Often they are of poor quality and contain mistakes. But that is true for most sources.

My point is that I don't see how Wikipedia is worse than some random website or book.
> What the... where on earth did this come from?

It comes from the same place all flamebait comes from: they're picking a fight.
Yeah, if people want to post the price every 5 minutes there is a subreddit for that.

I dont mind reading about bitcoin, either technical or investment related but price notices add nothing and there is already a decent discussion ongoing on the front page.
> If you don't like how Linus behaves, then don't deal with him. Noone forces you.

Linus' status in the Open Source community makes him a role model for some people (whether he likes it or not; I suspect he doesn't), and so people imitate him. It's much less palatable coming from someone with less credibility and experience.
I thought Mr. Sowa's reply to be a very professional in defending his decisions to write it as he did, and still remain open and gracious in Linus' criticism.

http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1510.3/02919.html

A worthwhile read in how to handle these situations.
Brendan Eich stepping down as Mozilla's CEO was not due to speech:

>His appointment sparked controversy over a $1,000 political donation Eich had made in 2008 to the successful campaign for California Proposition 8, which sought to establish that, "Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California."
i read this response by linus and it doesn't seem to be abusive to anyone, he's being critical of the code.

who is this linus guy anyway? he sounds like a typical new yorker.
Has Microsoft been looking at user files to find the 75TB OneDrive hoarders?
We have been trying to get the basics into the third world for a long time now. It's not cheap because its not easy.

I am not even talking about the extreme cases like Somalia and Afghanistan. Even in countries like India and China try getting a good lawyer/policeman/doctor/teacher to stay in areas where they are most needed. They have no hope of any semblance of the lifestyle their urban counterparts enjoy.

And I pulled in the couple more planet earths from sustainability calculations Craig Simmons did for the Guardian a while back. http://www.theguardian.com/greenliving/story/0,,441590,00.ht...
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> You really DO NOT WANT to step on his toes again (and everyone else reading it, too), so in the end Linus' wins.

And yet it keeps happening, frequent enough that it's something everyone knows about. If anything, he's not optimizing his own responses based on actual performance. He's doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. And he's not even being efficient with it.

And, well, pretty sure he ruins his own performance by getting all enraged like that.
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Or maybe since he can't communicate without expletives or being overly coarse he can appoint someone else to the task of explaining the problems with code contributions?
"Nonetheless, I’ve seen multiple people defending and even celebrating it. (One outlet called it an “epic rant”.) "

I don't think calling it an "epic rant" was celebrating it.

http://www.itworld.com/article/3000564/linux/linus-goes-on-e...

"Linus loses it in an epic rant about kernel code." isn't exactly a complimentary line, IMO.
Before we blame Murdoch, I think it's worth remembering that NatGeo was in a bad position when it was sold off to Murdoch...that's why it was sold off in the first place:

> The magazine’s domestic circulation peaked at about 12 million copies in the late 1980s; today, the publication reaches about 3.5 million subscribers in the United States and an additional 3 million subscribers abroad through non-English-language editions. Advertising has been in steady decline.

Just because the layoffs are happening as NatGeo becomes part of Murdoch's empire doesn't mean that this was a greedy, self-serving move, and not one that was a long-time due and for which Murdoch gets the recognition/blame for, likely in exchange for a purchase price he was willing to accept. Would these layoffs not happened if NatGeo hadn't managed to be sold off as it was in decline?
Don't tell me boxes of yellow magazines since year 1985 and now i'm thinking in cancel my subscription.
"Difficult to imagine" isn't evidence; it's just failure of imagination.
> I consider this kind of abuse indefensible. Nonetheless, I’ve seen multiple people defending and even celebrating it.

And so what? You have never seen bullies in School ? Are you going to go in the streets and fight for moral righteousness in every corner ? Or are you just picking on Linus because it's an easy target with no controversy ?

It's not like people who work with Linus don't know how he acts and interacts with others. I'd rather have someone who is blunt and direct than someone who smiles to your face and says shit in your back. At least you know where you stand.
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The company was purchased by Rupert Murdoch (or one of his subsidiaries) and the first layoffs were to the fact-checking department.

Of course they were. I think that kind of sets the tone for what NatGeo will become going forward. For an idea of what will happen just look at the History Channel.
That's shit.
While the printing press helped spread the bible, it also helped spread around revolutionary ideas like Copernicus' On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres which greatly influenced thinkers like Giordano Bruno, who in turn printed and published works on the matter, ultimately leading to his execution at the stake by the Inquisition.
Well, yes. There is currently a problem that economy is choking because the system has caused a massive loss of incentives to giving and taking employment. 10 % unemployment is not very good.

And debt is not yet high but the debt growth is really really bad.
That's something that might work in theory and has at times but it has a very mixed track record. If the new equilibrium the government enforces turns out to be worse it can be even harder to leave it and it can be hard for politicians to admit they were wrong.
It's shoehorned because it's inserting a completely unrelated assertion despite nothing in the slightest pointing to it at all on the rest of the article.

It would have made just about as much sense if they'd written "This would be entirely different had it been written by a black person". But they just had to make it political and race just isn't a hot enough topic in the tech world so they didn't go for that.

It's a pathetic attention grab that sullies an otherwise valid critique.
The people discounting Kepler and Einstein had actually read their work. They discounted it based on the lack of physical evidence(experimental results). People in Einstein's time were still confused and trying to understand the outcome of the Michaelson-Morley experiment. As for Kepler, he didn't provide any new evidence either. The only advantage to changing the center of the system was to eliminate the need to calculate epicycles when creating an ephemeris.

I could certainly see how both theories would have attracted some disbelief in their time. In Einstein's case, people started to accept SR when new experimental results came that only made sense if the speed of light were constant and the laws of physics were invariant in all inertial reference frames.

Why do we have to accept that something novel is happening in this case? Can you find any way to explain this effect with existing theory? More importantly, what would have to be changed to accommodate this phenomenon? Is it possible that the engineers are just measuring noise?

These are important questions that have to be answered.
Some random book is stable.
Another big part of the barrier here is the nature of compiled binaries. When you define a public generic function in Rust, the compiler ensures that it keeps enough information in the resulting binary so that the generic can be instantiated. Unless you wanted to massively balloon your headers and compile times, achieving the same with C++ is simply impossible across executables and libraries, and very hard even across object files.
>Eh, I don't agree. It's well-observed in social sciences that men are given more leeway to be abusive than women are; one example is how often words like "abrasive" or "bossy" come up in performance reports: http://fortune.com/2014/08/26/performance-review-gender-bias....

Have they ensured that they are using identical behaviors in this comparison?
Glass has density of ~2,5 kg/liter. It's made of silica, that has density of ~2,6. This has about 50% of Alumina in it with typical density of ~4.

So it's likely it would be around 3,3. More than aluminum, less than titanium.

But it's supposedly about ~20 times more rigid than regular glass. For rigidity limited structure, you could make it so much thinner that you get significant weight savings. This could be important for glass fiber structures. Fiber vs. fiber, glass has been able to compete in strength with carbon fiber, but lack of rigidity is the downside.
Increase of stiffness might allow for usage of stiffer "matrix" (glue that holds the fibers together). That should increase overall strength. This limitation exists because if matrix is stiffer than the fibers, the structure will rip itself apart under load.

For strength or hardness limited designs, impossible to say. The article says nothing about it. Alumina is one of the hardest substances around, but I would not make any assumptions based on that. Typically it's more about structure than the molecules involved.

For creep and fatigue resistant designs, bulk glasses are pretty useless because of their amorphous structure. Fibers can be used in fatigue situation though. Again the increase in stiffness and the possible increase of matrix stiffness could improve the situation. But the real thing here is how well the matrix can bind to the fibers. That again is impossible to tell.

Windshields? It's big trade off really. Soft amorphic materials scratch easily. (By definition "hardness" is resistance to identation. Just add movement and you have scratching.) Typically "hard" amorphic materials suffer from cracking. This is because hardness usually comes with decreased ductility. But fracture toughness is function of stiffness and ductility. So this material could(?!?) improve hardness while being about as easy cracking as old windshiels. This would be good idea as windshield is mostly mode of fracture limited design. (It matters more how your windshield breaks, than how much energy it takes to break it.)
You are committing a logical fallacy. I'm not "the voice of HN", nor am I a representative sample of "what HN thinks".

This is just my opinion.

Using a builtin operation ("addition and comparison of integers") is always safer than using a function that may or may not work the same everywhere. I.e. a nonstandard function.

Also, the proposed code has more levels of indirection, therefore places a higher cognitive load on the reader. These things tend to result in bugs down the road.

And it is also true that "an overflow could still happen", which is mentioned in Linus' critique.

All of these are objective ways to measure how "safe" the code is.
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The more I consider this the less it seems like there even IS a rate of propagation, because if it was _only_ sec/sec delays then things would change instantly, not fade in and out.
> "Get rid of it. And I don't ever want to see that shit again."

Would you really want to work with someone who speaks to you this way? It's like a caricature of a typical "evil boss". I'm amazed that Linus can take himself seriously writing like this. It's just so unnecessary and overly dramatic, like a child throwing a tantrum.
It's just an heuristic, something to look for when evaluating a model of the world, not an strict, objective and precise rule.

However, in that example, I'd say that modern medicine certainly has a "too much vitamin C" threshold, and thus might be a sensible model of human vitamin C needs.

I had never seen this idea in writing, but I certainly remember thinking along those lines about retiring age and similar policies.
would the fact-checking department have been the first casualties if the buyer wasn't Murdoch?
As a kid I was surrounded by my dad's massive National Geographic collection, so I've always been nostalgic about it. Some of those photo essays are permanently seared in my brain (ultralights!).

A few years ago I picked up a copy at the doctor's office and had time to read an article or two. The photos were nice as ever, but the writing was depressingly shallow and facile.

Maybe they figured out long ago that most of their subscribers, like my dad, never actually read the thing.
Now that is a headline that would have raised a few eyebrows 15 years ago.
The BBC is not funded by tax payers. It's funded by the TV License which is not compulsory. If you choose not to watch live broadcast television then you don't pay for a TV license.
> Or maybe ... he can appoint someone else to the task of explaining the problems with code contributions?

Of course he can, but that doesn't mean he will.
abuse? offensive? haha, what a first world problem, having my code called “shit” is abuse now.. i wonder what you would say about real world abuse.

just grow a skin, Linus can say and do whatever he wants about his project (linux). don’t like it? don’t help it then.

seriously kids these days get offended by everything..
It's not just Nordics. Non-native speakers tend to see swearwords as funny (aren't they the first thing one learns, after all? Even as a kid!), I'm guilty of that myself.

For English in particular, this is reinforced by abundant film material: the cooler the movie, the highest the chance to have it packed with swearwords, because it makes it sexier for native-speakers. This results in non-natives (who will likely consume this sort of exceptional material but not necessarily the more average stuff) assuming "harsh" language is more acceptable than it might actually be in practice. Some productions' appeal is almost entirely based on swearwords, e.g. In The Loop.
"Please watch your inbox for important information about your employment status tomorrow. [...] Looking ahead, I am confident National Geographic’s mission will be fulfilled in powerful, new and impactful ways, as we continue to change the world through science, exploration, education and storytelling."

Why do CEO-types feel the need to write these bad-news emails like they were some kind of press-release?
This is the very best technique of explaining the Monty Hall problem I've ever read.
It became a greedy, self-serving move the moment they decided it would be a good idea to associate the good name of National Geographic with Murdoch et al.
Do the pictures have anything to do with the text? I'm not sure I'm getting what the point of it is (eg. http://itunestandc.tumblr.com/post/131617412041/page-35-afte...)
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Humans have a very strong cultural and genetic drive to ensure that their family survives and thrives. This drive is strong enough that sacrificing oneself for ones family is not surprising behaviour.

This drive has been exploited for good and evil by tribes, nations, religions, social movements, football teams, et cetera.

Extending this sense of "us" to include all humans seems to be the logical conclusion.

However, many people extend this sense of "us" to include all cuddly animals, all animals, all multi-cellular organisms, any life, ... I think that's silly, but perhaps 100 years from now people will think my attitude is just as morally repugnant as my view of those who think black people are sub-human.
Hold on - there's no 'it' (it can rarely be said to speak with one voice) and where do you get 'terrified' from? 'Attack' is also pejorative. It is entirely appropriate that a public broadcasting organization paid for license holders to the tune of £3.7 billion or so, is subject to extensive positive and negative critical comment.
> He was not attacking the person who wrote the code.

"No sane PERSON"

"YOU damn well didn't do the right thing to begin with"

"[YOU are] just incompetent and out to lunch"

"[YOU] are so far out to lunch that it's not even funny"

The lines above would suggest otherwise. (Capital emphasis mine.)
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I see at least two comments that are critical of the author. And even if they were posted after you wrote this, how do you know he has deleted anything at all?
While that's all certainly true, NASA physicists are not all crackpots, and at least some of them are careful experimenters.

Newtonian mechanics was also extremely well-tested. Unexplained error is always interesting and sometimes exciting.
What practical steps can we take if this becomes law? If police and local councils are given access to browsing records, abuse is inevitable.

There are already well-documented examples of councils using terrorism legislation to spy on people 1)suspected of using the wrong type of rubbish bin [1] 2)sending their children to school outside of their catchment area. [2]

This type of abuse and overreach will happen frequently. Not to mention crooked police/council officials selling data, and others pursuing personal vendettas & checking up on current and former romantic partners.

The UK will become a horrible, paranoid place.

What can I do to protect myself? Use a VPN for all internet access? Use Tor (which seems too slow for most practical purposes)? What else can we do?

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3333366/Half-of-counc...

[2] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/7922427...

EDIT: added links to sources
> You have never seen bullies in School ?

Of course there are bullies in school.

That doesn't make it a good thing. Ideally, there wouldn't be bullies in school. And Linus isn't a child.

> I'd rather have someone who is blunt and direct than someone who smiles to your face and says shit in your back.

False dichotomy. There are plenty of people who smile to your face without having to say shit about you behind your back.
This is hilarious. This has to be satirical. When did mail list rants become a social issue?
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In 2006 we had a similar headline.

Microsoft partnered with Novell (SuSE Linux), and there was no happy end for one of them (Novell is no more; SuSE Linux once a major distribution next to RedHat is a shadow of its former self). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novell#Agreement_with_Microsof...
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No one's saying "you are not allowed to talk"; they're saying "you're a jerk if you decide to be pointedly abusive".
Poor information security isn't a crime.

Actually, it can be, for example if it results in data protection violations[1]. However, UK law is slightly unusual in this respect, in that while there are technically criminal offences involved, at present the main ones can't lead to arrest or jail time, only monetary fines. A couple of years ago there was talk of consulting on changing this, though I'm not sure what the situation is following the recent general election.

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Load balancing and failover are generally a requirement in clustered environments, but are really different jobs.
LB's "schedule" connection requests, cluster schedulers schedule the things that those connections are going to (and probably the LB), makes sure they are up and running, etc.
That is their affair. You can take a horse to water but you can't make him drink.
Many more articles on what aliens were up to a long time ago?
Your definition would mean VAT isn't a tax. Just avoid the luxuries[1] and you avoid the VAT.

You have to pay the licence fee even if you never watch any BBC broadcast material. A person who only ever watches ITV would have to pay the licence fee.

And non-payment of the licence fee was a criminal offence with fines, and non-payment of the fine sent many people to prison.

It feels like a tax.

[1] also tampons and sanitary towels, which probably don't feel like a luxury purchase.
how does a nonprofit 'sell itself' to a for-profit entity? my understanding of how nonprofit charters work is that when a charitable organization decides its operations are no longer sustainable, it must be 'taken over' by another nonprofit or else simply dissolved altogether.
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Pension plans are a terrible idea. Read 'Why I left Goldman Sachs' to see how so-called professionals manage pension money. Just give me the cash money now and I'll invest it myself, thank you very much.
I didn't find this rant abusive. Once worked for a law firm in a high stress industry - some of those lawyers were abusive, woah nelly. Also, have a brother who was in army, you can't even imagine the language of he and his friends.

This is child's play and someone who ultimately cares about delivering a quality end product who was offended by someone taking away from that mission. And his point was right, the code was bad and shoehorned into a magical one size fits all solution.

I'm most curious on the age / background of those in this thread who do find it hurtful and offensive.
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>who is this linus guy anyway?

lol. just the guy who wrote linux and git. He's a fin btw.