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mircea_popescu: pcmag, seriously ? im surprised the website is even up anymore.
mircea_popescu: back when people still publsihed in magazines and ~nobody had a cellphone and so on.
mircea_popescu: anyone interested in getting computing, 1990s to 2005 or so is more than welcome to read it, follow the competently provided references, and there it is.
mircea_popescu: in other news, this strip is actually a perfect primer for things nobody cares about these days, but were still "the issues" before osama pulled america's pants and fucked it into its present us shape.
mircea_popescu: even among subhuman horde there's some taste for the refined.
mircea_popescu: there's always a sprout of veblen goods in every lemon markety
mircea_popescu: if someone became an astrologer today who did look through them, they'd have plenty of customers.
mircea_popescu: that tendency doesn't have to last, though, and it certainly needn't be nurtured.
mircea_popescu: yes, the fact that competent engineers tend to be poorly socialised is the major weakness of engineering competence.
mircea_popescu: certainly if your drill consists of google, as per ... today's amusements.
mircea_popescu: you mean "they have been excluded from the open source communities they were contributing to" don't you ?
mircea_popescu: yeah, who's gonna write comics, the president of nbc ?
mircea_popescu: "the best argument against open source is a five minute interaction with the average internet dog."
mircea_popescu: but then again i'm sure there's ~no creative people out there, so.
mircea_popescu: most animals, including amoeba, have enough sense to not try and ingest larger items.
mircea_popescu: or in proper terms, especially when the original is actually bigger than her.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the ~only reason john smith behaviour survives is that mommy never wants to pick the original, because think of the power imbalance.
mircea_popescu: (note how "everyone" ~YOU HEAR ABOUT~ is trying to make "the next airbnb" ; not the next apple. there's a reason mother's lullaby goes the way it goes, and that reason mostly has to do with mommy's fear of rape)
mircea_popescu: nevermind why mommy didn't love you ; she wouldn't have fucked you anyway, and she'd have sucked at it if she had fucked you. forget all that, nobody cares, go find better behaved womenz an' make your own harem.
mircea_popescu: in the history of computing it so happened that it picked to coopt linux. what the people involved did or didn't do has exactly nothing of interest to do with this ; and "studying history" in the sense of trying to divine what the favoured son did or didn't do so you too could share in the bounty is insanity exactly of the ilk the statement suggests.
mircea_popescu: endless powers) will perceive "those crazy kids" by degrees dangerous. as a practical imperative it will apply some of its resources towards coopting some ; and towards combatting some others.
mircea_popescu: anyways, to round off the whole linux/bsd, esr/rms/etc angle : at any point the Moterhood (be it implemented in practice as "the USG" or "the public opinion" or "the church of England" or whatever the fuck - there will exist a conclave of the lazy, stupid and covetous, and it will be somewhat politically influential and appear VERY politically influential much like to the small children the mother appears truly awesome in her
mircea_popescu: should be fun to see how the dc 200k turn ariund the whole "tax resistors are nutty" argument once it's a case of "president resistors are heros".
mircea_popescu: us president shouldn't be recognized by anyone as a matter of course anyway.
mircea_popescu: he literally imagines that the difference isn't for the obvious reason (usg decided to push x rather than y) but for some sort of self-aggrandizing "it's something we did which unwittingly made the cave walls move this way".
mircea_popescu: and in lulzy ancient stuff :
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/06/30/esr_interview.html interviewer (random nobody) contrasts sony using netbsd for the psp and people finding out because they put an unlinked text file on their website (as per license obligation) which was then found whereas they advertised the shit out of running linux for the ps3 in the terms of "WE THE PEOPLE made this be".
mircea_popescu stopped paying attention re gpl sometime around "afero"
mircea_popescu: but the notion of having versions on a license... good god.
mircea_popescu: i can only imagine what the next generation imbeciles, eich and andreessen and so forth will be like when they're 60.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i guess it's the best he can do, with what he has. which is sad but then again what can you expect. the goat - grazes.
mircea_popescu: see kiddies, this is why "rewriting in your own words and pretending you never read it here" doesn't work.
mircea_popescu: "Second: show me your code. I want to see URLs to public repositories with your commits in them. (OpenHub statistics will do for a first cut.) Your credibility goes up with commit volume and number of different projects. and especially with the number of other people you have collaborated with."
mircea_popescu: aaanyway. it's kind-of funny to read tmsr rewrites by john smiths.
mircea_popescu: and lords are now "elders" in his ad-hoc "i've not read #trilema i just rewrite what comes to me from the spheres"
mircea_popescu: o hey, esr redefines nigger as "political carpetbagger". dork, to redefine word must use shorter variant. no longer alternative ever prevails in practice.
mircea_popescu: tbh i kinda miss those devices. i'd much rather have 9 pin printer than the current malfunctioning atrocities.
mircea_popescu: who the fuck eats the us workman's buffet crap and also is a professional in any field ?
mircea_popescu: oh that's what it is, "conferences" specifically. dude... i have nfi why anyone with any sort of qualification would actually appear at one of these. for one thing, they don't pay. for another thing, they are about on 1980s soviet level of amenties, fucking hell ima brownbag food because i don't eat burger king ?
mircea_popescu: if it is true, then it can't be much of a criterion retrospectively.
mircea_popescu: as shocking as that statement may be, it would appear true. everyone else was simply too dumb to understand you want to mandate shitting in toilet.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in honesty, i don't think anyone who came before had the intelligence / intellectual wherewithal to realise what the standards should be.
mircea_popescu: it was ; but in a very naive sort of way, ie, "if you think that's how yo udefend you already lost long ago"
mircea_popescu: i suppose your argument that linus' toleration of "linux foundation", redhat & debian etc is tantamount to exactly same.
mircea_popescu: so nvidia will "eject linus from the open source project he was working on" and not release their driver, and linus will tell them to get fucked.
mircea_popescu: for all you know he's been ejected from ~5000 prlinuxen also.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform entirely indistinguishable from what's going on right now, neh ?
mircea_popescu: maybe we've all been "ejected from the open source community we participated in" aka prb ?
mircea_popescu: it's not like the "open source communities" have much of a notion of identity anyway
mircea_popescu: how do you get "ejected" from an open source community anyway ? they're not going to merge your fixes anymore ? they're going to merge them but pretend they got them from obama / whatever-fashionable-nigger instead ? they're going to not merge anythingf seeing how you don't do anything anyway but ... no longer hurr durr with you ?
mircea_popescu: skepticism as in "it's fucking insane to not fuck children if you're going to pump them full of sex-drugs" ?
mircea_popescu: funny how ready nobodies are to misrepresent themselves as teh owners of world.
mircea_popescu: oh, i get it, the "vox populi" as per the 200k wash dc niggers ?
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski listen ye historian of language : your footnotes are somehow broken so that xxiv is still displayed as xiv.
mircea_popescu: and supposedly this is done without (bad) manual intervention, somehow.
mircea_popescu: everything BUT the article. including every article that mentions it by name (such as through the latest articles list). but not IT!
mircea_popescu: and i mean this literally, their web-accessible coreutils/lib/ is empty ; gotta fish it out off the ftp zips
mircea_popescu: sorry about the paste, i'd like to reference like a civilised person, but gnu isn't quite there yet. perhaps in another century or two.