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Quotes of the week
In the nineties, I used to download every new version of the Linux kernel to compile it — it took hours! — to try out the latest features. Configurabilty, hackability, and the ability to write my own features was — after a point — more important than the features the software came with. Today, I’m much more aware of the fact that for all the freedom that my software gives me, I simply do not have the time, energy, or inclination to take advantage of that freedom to hack very often.
— Benjamin Mako Hill
I'm sure it'll just be easier to tell CERN et al to build their own
damn json-glib and put it in and be done with it. With any luck,
they'll tell us to build our own damned Higgs-Boson detector....
— Peter Lawler (thanks to Ka-Hing Cheung)
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Quotes of the week Posted Jan 17, 2013 14:49 UTC (Thu) by naptastic (subscriber, #60139) [Link]
These quotes both speak to the enormous growth in complexity that our software has seen in the last 20 years.
It's not that you don't have time; it's that there is SO much more to it, that you can't be expected to have time to hack on it. My kernel builds in about 10 minutes, and I still don't have time to play with all the features.
In the same vein, "If you don't like it, fork it" has gone from being a reasonable response to being an insult slightly less inelegant than "#wontfix-because-go-fsck-yourself-that's-why".
Quotes of the week Posted Jan 17, 2013 15:22 UTC (Thu) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784) [Link] It's still a legitimate response regardless of whether it's reasonable and/or insulting. (To deny its legitimacy would be to implicitly elevate ourselves above the people who write the software we use.)
Quotes of the week Posted Jan 17, 2013 18:36 UTC (Thu) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
It's not just that there is more software.
I actually spend fewer hours downloading/modifying/compiling software now than I did 20 years ago.
I spend far more hours using that software, configuring it to provide services to others, etc.
I strongly suspect that this is true of just about everyone (Including Linus)
Quotes of the week Posted Jan 18, 2013 1:50 UTC (Fri) by simosx (subscriber, #24338) [Link]
I vaguely remember those .99 versions of the kernel that would build in about 20 minutes on a 386DX. I would just apply those daily patches that Linus sent.
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