From a non-american’s perspective this question is just baffling.

Is high-school that bad of an experience for you guys? Where I come from that’s one of the best times in your life, when you get to hang out with friends and have little responsibility, etc.

About homelessness, that’s another crazy one. People need to have a home and need friends and human interaction. Sleeping in your car without ever interacting with anyone is not a way of life.

Others have also mentioned that prison without people is solitary confinement and that is known to literally drive people mad.

It’s always been this way. Except that it was kernel developers arguing with kernel developers over C code. Now it’s relative newcomers arguing with kernel developers over Rust code that the kernel devs don’t necessarily care about. Of course it’s going to be a mess.

A fork is of course possible, but operating systems are huge and very complex, you really don’t want to alienate these folks that have been doing exclusively this for 30 years. It would be hard to keep the OS commercially viable with a smaller group and having to do both the day to day maintenance, plus the rewrite. It’s already difficult as it is currently.

Rust will be a huge success in time, long after the current names have lost their impetus. This is not a “grind for 4 years and it’s done” project.

Please don’t get this guy in trouble just because he put some shit on his roof.

Hey, so I finally reached the ashlands. Yeah, still think the trailer is misleading. Like everything about it, except the staff of protection.

Unfortunately, the ashlands is the most boring place in the whole game (haven’t reached the castle thing with a beacon though). Fast skeleton, slow skeleton, archer skeleton. Troll spider, big dog, fire blob. Inventory full within 30s because there’s 15 different types of material to collect. Maybe I should be pulling a cart around like in the trailer.

Words of wisdom right here.

Personally, what bothers me about the security field is how quickly it becomes a counterproductive thing. Either by forcing people to keep working on time consuming processes like certifications or mitigation work (e.g. see the state of CVEs in the linux kernel) or simply by pumping out more and more engineers that have never put together a working solution in their lives. Building anything of value is already hard as it is nowadays.

What are the little flaps on the sides?

No, not misleading at all, that’s fine.

They didn’t have tape back then.

People who use spaces are not taping space space space space space space space space. Their tapping the tab key all the same.

Wow, super newsworthy. Even included some bs about “colorful language”. Can’t let a thing like that go by without trying to entice some internet drama.

Typical for a group of people that probably dedicated their whole careers to Windows. Could have just put it plainly that they don’t want to pay engineers that have the skills to do this on Linux.

Indeed there are.

This is good stuff right here.

Good, I already don’t answer the phone anyway.

Yeah and scaring the shit out of grandpa doesn’t alter the timeline, as you know.

Mate, just make sure you’re not getting into trouble with all that positive thinking, ok? Take care.

No one cares. Adoption of operating systems in the real world is not done based on popularity charts. Those only serve for memes and flamewars.

I’m sorry, but all of this was caused by your defensive and mildly aggressive response when he implied your patches were broken.

That whole PR was already confusing with all the rework and mentions of other people’s code and the inclusion of good code along with bad code.

When it was suggested that the foruns would be a good place I read it more like a “stop spamming us with experimental code”. Your suggestion to remove the experimental tag led them to think you were trying to shut them down and push stuff anyway.

This has all been a major misunderstanding. The fact that you took that so poorly (IMO, since you’re even posting about it here), means that maybe you should try to take a step back when this sort of thing happens, try to look at things from their perspective, and generally don’t assume ill intent.

Open source is hard because it is a communication heavy discipline and not everyone is used to that.