The article said it pretty well:
if your answer to any perceived failing in a person is “just try harder”, you are either woefully inexperienced or a just a dick
That applies to writing impossibly comprehensive unit tests too.
Though really for a filesystem they should really do silicon-style verification (which we're calling Deterministic System Testing now).
Yeah... This doesn't sound promising. Refusing to acknowledge the obvious fact that AI and hostile mods have driven away 99% (not an exaggeration!) of their audience. A visual makeover before the change anything. Trying to sell the Q/A database for AI despite the fact that you can download it for free. They even talk up their job advertising product that they inexplicably cancelled a few years ago (btw I found levels.fyi has a pretty good job database if anyone is looking).
If it were me I would:
Apart from the AI that's all stuff they should have done 10 years ago.
It's probably too late anyway.
Those two things are related.
Difficult to argue with someone who is obviously right when they've actually proven they were right.
Funny ethernet was the most common issue with Linux at a previous workplace. For some reason it would only get like 10 Mbps. Buggy driver presumably. I'm not sure they ever solved it (I had a Mac.)
We're talking about normal people here so they don't really have the option of debugging it either. They can only Google for other people's solutions or try resetting/rebooting everything. So although on Linux it's technically possible to fix any issue (e.g. on Windows leaving a playstation controller plugged in prevents sleep and there's nothing I can do to fix it), in practice on Linux there's nothing normal people can do to fix that sort of stuff either.
Yeah there's a huge difference between "works 98% of the time" and "works 99.8%" of the time, even though they are both "works most of the time".
I know. Then they process those user agent strings to decide what OS it is. The question is why are they treating OSX and macOS as different OSes when they are the same? It was literally just a rebrand.
You shouldn’t be pulling an external project as a submodule, that’s just coupling yourself way way too tightly to external code.
You're no more tightly coupled than if you zip that repo up, and put it on an internal server. It's the exact same code you've just changed the distribution method.
And my whole point is that wouldn't be necessary if Git had a version of submodules that worked properly!
You guys seriously lack imagination.
Also note the drop in Chrome OS mirrors the rise in Linux so I wouldn't rule out this just being user agent changes.
Why do they even have two lines for OS X and macOS? It's the same thing.
Misguided investment IMO. Smart glasses hardware is still at least a decade from being something that normal people would want.
Interesting problem. Solution was pretty obvious, I'm surprised it was that hard to find. Great presentation anyway!