Quotes of the week [LWN.net]

When a large fraction of the world economy is run by the creations of lousy programmers, and when embedded systems are increasingly capable of killing people, do we raise the bar and demand that programmers pay attention to pointless details such as leap seconds, or do we remove leap seconds?

-- Poul-Henning Kamp

What are the fundamental differences between Gnome and KDE development? There's lots of little differences (2006: Gnome parties on a beach. Akademy has melted ice cream in the rain) but they're both basically communities made up of people who are interested in developing a functional and interesting desktop experience. So why do the end results have so little in common?

-- Matthew Garrett

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Posted Apr 28, 2011 13:41 UTC (Thu) by jriddell (subscriber, #3916) [Link] (1 responses)

"2006: Gnome parties on a beach. Akademy has melted ice cream in the rain"

I fear Matthew's memory is wrong, Akademy in 2006 was in Dublin, we had no ice cream but did have a week of sun and pizza. (Although since Matthew wasn't there he's probably just trolling.)

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Posted Apr 28, 2011 14:59 UTC (Thu) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]

? I absolutely was there, even down to staying in the hostel conveniently located right next to an incredibly noisy rail curve.