ScalaNovice's comments

Just as an example. A comment down there says heat increases entropy which in turn leads to higher diseases.

That has absolutely nothing to do with diseases. But it sounds so fancy that it's highly upvoted. Just like most other HN comments.

I'm with you. Educated comments are rare. The only good articles are HN are business advice. Rest, including technology is fanboyism, conjectures and one-upmanship.

I'm guessing you're referring to google over the Hugo Barra incident? Not a big fan of google for using open source as purely a PR stunt and not releasing gmail as open source but I don't think Google forces anyone to pay a protection fee though.

I don't think Google is so bad. They're just doing what's good for their investors.

I make sure that I never read on side. If I read something international on NYTimes, I go to RT.com to read the opposing account. When I read something national on WaPo or NYTimes, I go read the account on Brietbart. If it's CNN, I go read the Fox account.

All these times I pray that these accounts are opposite. The rare times when they match, it's a signal that someone very powerful wants something done. E.g. Iraq war. NYT and WaPo and everybody had proofs that they had WMDs

Oh samstave the omniscient,

Can you please tell us which other people are billionaires?

OR

Are you trusting the same publications that George W Bush and republicans turned into paid propaganda to say that Iraq as Le weaponzzz of mass destruction? Remember NYT, WaPo, CNN were the major trusted news orgs that GOP bought.

A better title would be:

Alcatel-Lucent makes the source code of 8th, 9th and 10th Editions of Unix public

Since the general usage of the word open source has implications about the a "free" license to use too.

How much of this book is "functional" aspect and how much is everything else? Going through the TOC, it looks like the book tries to start from 0.

Would you recommend any particular sections for someone who's looking to only understand the functional parts?