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Or, from Richard Gabriel, the less-HN-hostile source: - https://www.dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html https://www.dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html

by grzm 5y ago

Or, from Richard Gabriel, the less-HN-hostile source: - https://www.dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html https://www.dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html - https://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html https://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html

jart 5y ago
Those better engineers picked the wrong hill to die on with EINTR since it was never worse. It harmoniously reflects the way hardware works and hasn't threatened UNIX's long-term survival. His ideas could be more appropriately applied today to Node and Rust which made a devil's bargain adopting a quadratic packaging model.