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Linus Torvalds: The King of Geeks (And Dad of 3)
- waterlesscloud 15y agoOff topic a bit, and maybe this is just me, but is Wired one of the slowest loading sites on the internet for anyone else?
- Jakegissing 15y agoSeems fine for me, took 4 seconds to fully load.
- waterlesscloud 15y agoI ask because wired.com pages consistently take 20-30 seconds for me. Ping is on the order of 60 ms just now. Just curious about what makes it so slow for me.
- hollerith 15y agoThat's odd. I haven't noticed any slowness (and I've loaded the OP several times today).
- epaik 15y agoTaking a brief look at the article's source, it looks like wired uses a huge number of javascript includes. These vary from word press plugins, to tracking analytics, to even a konami code robot. This, along with the image heavy layout and the fully expanded comments section can probably account for your load times.
- slug 15y agoIt took less than a second, running latest firefox on linux and noscript/adblock/flashblock/etc. But on the same vein of off topic, I just want to know if the microwave and coffee maker on that picture run linux.
- zaphar 15y agoWhile I could very easily be wrong Linus always struck me as the kind of guy who would want a microwave and coffee maker that just works and wouldn't really care if they run linux or not.
- veb 15y agoHe strikes me as the kind of guy who just wants the best tool for the job. If it doesn't exist, he makes it.
- javert 15y agoAs opposed to Richard Stallman, who probably does not drink coffee unless it comes from a coffee maker running free softare.
- sciurus 15y agoJust to be pedantic... Stallman: I'm less concerned with what happens with embedded systems than I am with real computers. The real reason for this is the moral issues about software freedom are much more significant for computers that users see as a computer. And so I'm not really concerned with what's running inside my microwave oven. Again, I'm happy if people find GNU/Linux useful for that. If some companies finds it useful in a microwave oven I'll say, "That's nice." But I don't think that's where the social and political issues arise. Those arise where the computers are visible to the user as computers. We can load software into them. We have thus the possibility of sharing and changing software. And then it becomes a significant question whether we are allowed to do so or whether we are blocked from doing so.
- javert 15y agoInteresting. I don't agree with Stallman on making this distinction. (I don't agree with him in general, either, though.)
- getsat 15y agoTry installing Ghostery. It blocked 11 external JS files from loading on that page for me. http://www.ghostery.com/ http://www.ghostery.com/
- bicknergseng 15y ago"...he rubbed elbows with the likes of Robert Downey Jr., who didn’t know who he was, and Mad Men star Jon Hamm, who did." I'm mildly disappointed in RD Jr... he had so much geek cred after playing an awesome Iron Man, but I guess that's why it's called acting.
- untog 15y agoI'm far, far more impressed than Jon Hamm does. I've been a techie all my life, and I would walk straight past Linus if I saw him on the street. I only have a very vague idea of what he looks like. And why should it otherwise? He's famous for what he's done, not who he is.
- frou_dh 15y agoThat reminds me of this tweet I saw. I was surprised to recognise 11 of 12 (I think. Not positive on the lower left; don't know the one in the wig). Evidently commissioned by a lover of Clojure: http://twitter.com/#!/ghoseb/status/167501457896120321/photo/1 http://twitter.com/#!/ghoseb/status/167501457896120321/photo...
- bicknergseng 15y agoHah I thought that was Paul McCartney. The one in the middle with the wig is Bach. I can only get half or so. Where is that?
- philwelch 15y agoFor the record: Steve Jobs Alan Turing Donald Knuth John McCarthy J. S. Bach Linus Torvalds Isaac Newton Rich Hickey Richard Stallman Edsger Dijkstra Nikola Tesla Dieter Rams
- sho_hn 15y agoNote that the article doesn't say that Hamm recognized him by his face. They were probably introduced to each other by someone, I'd imagine.
- pessimist 15y agoRedHat's $1m stock is his only big payout, apparently. Rather sad, considering the number of mid-level facebook engineers who will become many times as rich in a few months.
- MatthewPhillips 15y agoWhich of those will be remembered in 200 years. Wanna be the richest guy in the graveyard?
- 16s 15y agoI'd be happy to be that guy ;)
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- icandoitbetter 15y agoBeing the famous guy in the graveyard isn't particularly appealing either.
- zerostar07 15y agoMillions of tourists who pay tributes to graves and memorials would disagree
- kamaal 15y agoNone of that would matter for the 'dead guy' in the graveyard. What matters is your experiences when your alive. What matters more? The rich guy gets a more comfortable coffin too!
- ttt_ 15y ago>> None of that would matter for the 'dead guy' in the graveyard. That's up for the 'dead guy' and his beliefs to consider.
- aiscott 15y agoAmusing anecdote: A few months back I was at the local Petsmart; getting out of my car I noticed a guy walking toward the store. I thought he looked familiar, so I looked back over my shoulder at him again... I didn't really recognize him but I thought he might have been somebody famous for some reason. Anyway, when I got back to my car I saw that yellow mercedes, and when read the plate holder saying "Mr. Linux. King of Geeks." I figured out who it was, kind of neat. At the time I don't think I realized he lived in Portland.
- dudeguy999 15y agoI had no idea he moved to America. Anyone know the reason? Redhat?
- levesque 15y agoWhat's the point of this article? Feels like (tech) celebrity gossip.
- js2 15y agoLinus' blog entry on the pre-Oscar party mentioned in the article - http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/2011/02/pearls-before-swine.html http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/2011/02/pearls-before-sw...
- zerostar07 15y agoI cringed with the S.Jobs comparisons. Journalists should really stop doing this. And this one was completely unwarranted
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- colbyolson 15y agoHad the pleasure of meeting Linus last weekend while up in Portland, at a Go Kart facility no less. Super nice guy, but I was a little too star struck to form coherent words. His race nickname was Penguin, :).
- rachelbythebay 15y agoHow is that license plate holder legal? You can't even see the state name, and you have to guess based on the lower loop on the "g". Don't drive that car into Texas (http://www.senate.state.tx.us/75r/senate/members/dist25/pr03/p092603a.htm http://www.senate.state.tx.us/75r/senate/members/dist25/pr03...) or any other state with similar laws...
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- obtino 15y agoProves that if you do what you love, you're bound to be successful.
- ez77 15y agoInteresting... if anything, I see hints (no proof!) of the reverse implication: success => genuine interest.
- michaelhoffman 15y agoIt proves no such thing. There are many people who do what they love and are failures.
- matt_yoho 15y agoNot really disagreeing with your contention, but there are probably different applicable definitions of "failure" here. It could be argued doing what one loves is inherently successful, etc. (I'm sure you're familiar with the sentiment.)
- reirob 15y agoI am really interested what Linus will do about the metallic taste in the espresso? I hope he will hack the Jura Espresso-Machine and we'll all end up with Linux-Coffee.
- rmk 15y agoI am really getting sick of everybody and his uncle being compared to Steve Jobs. I mean, a comparison to Woz might not be out of place (both men were technical architects of things that revolutionised the industry), but Steve Jobs was a businessperson with an uncanny eye for industrial design, not the architecture of software.