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Margaret Hamilton (checks wikipedia) studied mathematics at the University of Michigan in 1955.

Back in 1955, "computer science" wasn't a thing yet. Computers were the domain of electrical engineering and math, the latter of which was what Margaret studied..

Sylvan Clebsch and Sophia Drossopoulou (credited on Project Verona in a slide) work on the Pony, which has been described as a cross between Rust and Erlang.

I had to google for what "^H" meant.

Found an interesting answer and backstory: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/386870.html

Isn't this bundling what caused the subprime crisis ? How is this time "guaranteed to work well" ?

Maybe it's social media that is broken.

It seems that the downloadable pdf doesn't have a couple of tweaks that have landed in master (https://github.com/crypto101/book). Any plans to generate a slightly updated version ?

PS: Thanks for your work ! Watched your talk and it was a nice quick primer. Glad you turned it into a book with more detail.

The entire series of 20 lectures (uploaded by MIT) is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Op3QLzMgSY&list=PLE18841CAB...

Rust + Rpi interests me and I might wanna follow along. Are they using an available kit from an online retailer ? Getting/shipping individual parts is a pain where I'm from.

> Here is another thought. One has to realize that nobody wants an operating system. People only use them because it is the only way to run the applications the users actually wants to use.

That reduces things to almost an absurd level, and literally tries to ignore reality.

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I want X!

Ok, we need this and that to get there...

I don't want this and that, I want X!

But you need this and that to get to X...

I don't want this and that, I want X!

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While it's true in essence, and people should always keep the end user and lofty end goals in mind, we should never lose sight of the ground, because that's where we exist.

Besides, different users want their operating system to do different things.

> At best an operating system is absolutely invisible ... but a new non-OS would probably be a better idea than a new OS.

This train of thought can be applied to just about anything. The best product for X would just get out of the way, and assist you seamlessly to do X.

Because they actually live there ? As opposed to transient visitors ?

It's like going to your friend's house and rearranging the furniture there because "we were all born on planet Earth".

I was a little disappointed to see there wasn't any internet connection on Windows 2000.

All I wanted to do was to open Firefox, goto https://bellard.org/jslinux/ , and fire up the Linux emulator ...

Its not as simple as that. Humans are social, and want to feel that they are "useful", that their presence / skills are needed. Not having a job takes that away from them, which can snowball into psychological issues, and possibly turn them "bad".

When a chunk of society becomes jobless, we've got problems ...

Competing laptop manufacturers have options for more ram.

There's a comment [1] in the other reddit thread that somewhat rules this out.

> That doesn't even make sense when you're flying within the Solar System. Stuff moves, so you have to fly towards where it's going to be, not where it is.

> The star is far enough away to be treated as a point source, with its light forming an apparent cone with the Earth's diameter. It doesn't intuitively make sense, at least to me, that the ship would stay within that cone as it corrects for the motion of our Solar System (and its own) within our galaxy. Remember that this dimming effect has been observable for several decades.

Then again, aliens don't have any obligation to make sense to us.

[1] : https://www.reddit.com/r/Astronomy/comments/4waozn/new_paper...

> Some Vine stars charge as much as six figures for a branded Vine, a pricey bet for buyers.

6 figures, for 6 seconds of video. Sounds about right.

It's probably fair to say the DVCS accelerated the growth of the entire software industry.

Was BitKeeper the first version control system to "think distributed" ?

The waiter provides a service in exchange for money. Hedge fund managers literally move money around. Their value add is debatable.

Granted they are skilled at what they do, but I think the point is that they don't create much, if anything of actual value.

> This is so quintessentially Linus. He's criticizing this idealized tech startup CEO character with a big passionate vision, (...)

I don't think he's criticizing anyone in particular. He probably doesn't care enough about most startups to even begin criticizing them.

Well, unless said tech startup CEO submits a dumb patch to the Linux kernel ...

If you have serious money problems, you can't spend the "extra" $600 you have on an iPhone, even if it supposedly pays for itself after 24 months.

You spend $600 on food and necessities. Because you need to survive.