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"without users, your program is pointless, and all the development work you've done over decades is pointless. .. and (then) security is pointless too, in the
by carlsborg 9y ago
"without users, your program is pointless, and all the
development work you've done over decades is pointless.
.. and (then) security is pointless too, in the end."
He tends to get really mad when kernels dev inconvenience user space devs. Perhaps one of the reasons Linux succeeded was because of this fanatical customer focus - if linux is the platform, user space developers are the customers.
- babarock 9y agoThis. Not breaking user space is fundamental to the success of most operating systems today. I read this article I cannot seem to find about Microsoft employees spending months replicating "wrong" behavior in <oldwindows.. win95?> so that applications still ran on <newerwindows... win98? win2000?>. Users don't want to see their applications crashing. I wish I could find this article again, it's very relevant to your comment.
- aurelianito 9y agoIt reminds me of the hack Microsoft did to make simcity work in Windows 95. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2281932 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2281932
- digi_owl 9y agoAnd then userspace goes on to piss on that by breaking their own stuff left right and center...