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How about spending the same amount of money to build cheap usable glasses for blind people. No we are too ego washed to try anything that benefits humanity.

As long as the geeks shout innovation on cheap money we'll bank on the idiocracy of the masses.


Why in the hell would it be Snapchat's responsibility to build vision tools for blind people?


that's like saying why is it U.S responsibility to export Democracy by funding terrorism


It's not really at all. You're comparing a private company to one of (if not the) most powerful nation in the world?


A review of common sense. Stop using things built on top of junk. 30 years and still working on building an OS, great we'll be doing this for the next 100 years as well.


I hate to break it to you but computers are pretty much junk all the way down to the silicon level at this point. Ho hum.


If I understand correctly, you just said that any operating system that's still under development thirty years after its inception is garbage.

Please clarify, because I can't believe that that's what you actually mean.


How long can you hammer on the nail and expect that it's going somewhere. There needs to be wholesome approach to software development.

Kernel is the not the only cure to OS problems. We need to take into consideration the stability of what we build on top of the kernel not just the kernel itself.

API stability across kernel + drivers + user land must not show signs of UFO.


What OS are you using and what projects are you working on?


FreeBSD


So I assume then that FreeBSD has the perfect architecture, uses the perfect language and it's bug tracker is still empty waiting for the first bug to be opened?


More importantly the assumptions can be made about the tech. design and implementation and it's stability/availability across x. amount of time.

On the perfect part, I am not intellectually competent to answer that ...


FreeBSD builds on the common sense. Using the latest ideas true to it's motto serving the community.

While try Linux, where is the peg of idealism in it. GPL 2/3/Affero. What substantial progress has that given us, except fancy technical names.

Apparently I can't reply for the honest checkmark in the HN system tells me “You're posting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks.”

-1 => Freedom of expression +1 => Freedom of speech


"Stop using things built on top of junk"

Indeed; that's why I stopped using Windows :)


did u mean Linux :)


What? Doesn't that condemn all OS offerings? And progress?


How about learning not to code. Rather then being obtrusive, we should fix the education system which brain washes people worse than religion.


Let's not teach children to read or do basic math either. We should try and make sure they don't learn the skills that will give them the greatest opportunities in life.


How much is math do you actually use in programming or everyday life think substantially %age wise?

The greatest opportunities has hardly anything todo with what you learn at school in the practical sense.


Almost all people use at least basic arithmetic daily. They need it to count their change. There was a time, and not too long ago, where people could not do the basic calculations needed to conduct trade, and would require a smart man to tell them how much their chickens are worth.

Before the printing press (and at least a century after), most people could not read. This excluded them from scientific discovery too, since it was the means that people could exchange information over distance.

If you aren't able to do basic programming in a generation or two, you will probably be excluded from science too.

We're not suggesting every child needs to become a CS doc, but computers will be such a fundamental part of nearly every aspect of life, that the ones who can't hack programming will be treated like the children who can't read or count change in today's world - effectively useless. (Even more so since their "manual labour" is no longer necessary)


Adopting a consistent/stable writing system is more important standardizing on Latin.

Main goal is to be phonetically consistent with reading. I highly doubt the beauty of expression in Arabic/Hebrew can be represented outside their respective scripts.

Bastardizing on Latin does not give Kazaks anything more than Turkey getting the EU membership.


>Bastardizing on Latin

It's ugly, and emotionally loaded language which doesn't bring us towards any bright idea. In majority of languages where Latin is the base for their writing systems, there are diacritics, or other graphical changes. I wonder if you want also to tell French, and German guys that they 'bastardized' Latin, or is it only Kazakh who are not allowed to use the script with additions? Besides, Cyrillic had to be heavily modified for Kazakh also, and I guess any script, which realistically exists in modern world.


It's how it is. Chinese/Japanese regardless of it's character hasn't stopped them from carving our respect or economic might the world. So liberalization on an idea for the sake of liberalization is deem to go nowhere.


Sorry, I don't understand what you are trying to communicate. What liberalization? This comment is neither answer to the mine, nor continuation of your own above.


liberalization: How liberals seems to interpret adoption of western systems as cure to all problems. In this very case latinization.


Now I see the meaning of your commentary, thanks! Still, I don't see how it could be related to what I wrote here, or even to what you wrote opening the thread.

Also, let me tell you: trying to explain every phenomena in terms of liberal conspiracy is rather unproductive. The world is way more complex than that. Actually, in post-Soviet countries conservatives (in politological meaning) are often pro-Western, and lefties are anti-. And you probably the first man on Earth who called Nursultan Nazarbaev's regime "liberal".


Liberalism is not right or left it's the proliferation of thoughts in manner which creates confusion.

Conspiracy is a abusive word for anything society deems expulsive from the status-co.

World is not complex it's the expression of meaning related to facts are over-loaded.

Example,

If you call injustice injustice you solve the problem complexity problem in 1 step.

If you describe societal injustice as systematic with various traits, laws and blah blah, you end up doing the govt's job. Regardless of democracy or choosing any fancy term to fill the blank.

Except in the 1st case people have a clear goal knowing their is a better future possible by overcoming the injustice to find a new path. While in the 2nd case a few generations are wasted trying to only comprehend what's the complexity all about.


great concept, definitely one of the best product to come out of StartupLab.no


Think the best you can be, in your eyes NOT the world. Life becomes simpler that way.

- Rent a place in a new neighbourhood - Go to gym - Take longer naps - Laugh without reason


Cool thing is the speed and non-intrusive nature how it's accomplished. You have to do very little. Let us know if you would like to deploy it, we are here for you :)


Thanks for the compliment, sounds like you have a use case.

It would be cool if we can connect on our git repo (https://github.com/varnish/zipnish/issues) we would definitely like to see how we can integrate with kubernetes.

Adeel


For bugs in web services, how much time do you think is feasible (that you can fix bugs in) before customers get disappointed and starts to leave your product if you are unable to fix the bugs.


I don't know. I almost always fix the bugs immediately (same or next day). If I can't do that in that short time frame, I'll explain it to the customer and ask them to give me a couple of days to fix it.


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