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Why?
by sz 16y ago
Why?
- nreece 16y agoThat's what people wondered when Twitter and Facebook (and many other "projects") were first launched. Pun aside, what I mean to convey is that experimentation is a vital aspect for innovation and hackership.
- lamby 16y ago> That's what people wondered when Twitter and Facebook were first launched. And some people still do. ("Get off my lawn" is cool, right?)
- shrikant 16y agoWhere's the pun in that?
- megablast 16y agoYes, remind me of an old quote. They laughed at Newton, they laughed at Einstein... but they also laughed at Bobo the clown. Just because someone asks why is not positive thing.
- sswam 16y agowhy? because an Eee PC was the only desktop box I had available at the time, and I wanted to test the portability of a program to various different systems.
- sz 16y agoCool. I didn't mean to criticize, just wondered what the use was.
- sswam 16y agoI guess the main thing that came out of it was finding out how to run NetBSD and OpenBSD in recent qemu, which is not totally obvious, they didn't work out of the box. It took a bit of searching around and asking questions!