qwe123_troll

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by qwe123_troll 15y ago
Heaven knows that having to act all politically-correct and tender-footed in the face of technical incompetence on the Internet , of all places, would drive me insance. I get enough of that icky stuff at work.
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by qwe123_troll 15y ago
It has everything to do with the kernel. You've taken a piece of code that belongs in kernel-space and put it into a user-space process. There might be valid reasons to do so, but since I haven't seen any good explanation I'd just assum
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by qwe123_troll 15y ago
Lemme see if I understood this right: you rewrote a large part of the kernel because you think your code will be better than code that's been tested by (literally!) billions of people over the course of 15 years? Not that there is anything
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by qwe123_troll 15y ago
Implementing a paywall would be rather pointless, since that's a very bad way to monetize traffic. However, StackOverflow can make big money by cleverly partnering with corporations: instead of a site that answers "how do I do XYZ with ABC
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by qwe123_troll 15y ago
There's no value in SO's database of questions and answers, they might as well give it away under whatever liberal license they want. The real business value of SO is the engaged ("community") web traffic it receives. ("Community" == "highe
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by qwe123_troll 15y ago
Because to survive as a business SO needs to sell your sense of 'comunity' to a third-party resource. Not that there's anything wrong with that, just be aware that when you're participating on SO you're only a 'human resource', to be market
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by qwe123_troll 15y ago
Stackoverflow is not a community, it's a business, and their business is reselling that sense of community to third parties. I've no quarrel with Stackoverflow, it's a very nice site and a useful project. I do have a quarrel with people w
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by qwe123_troll 15y ago
Barnum, that great scholar of suckers, said it better.
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by qwe123_troll 15y ago
"...to the post-Microsoft era", you mean. And end of an epoch; goodbye, it was nice knowing you, though I can't say I particularly enjoyed it.