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21 points by marketer on Sept 29, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments


What's the "DejaNews simplicity replaced by a Web 2.0 PITA which drives readers away and disperses fragments of technical knowledge across the Internet" date?

Not that I'm bitter.

-sigh-

I miss Usenet.


I still type Deja.com when I want to use it, but I can't find a lot of posts. It has become the proverbial piece.of.s__t. If only people took upon it themselves to maintain a proper public archive independent of Deja, some old backup data tapes, and G__gle.


I still maintain the point that designing a monolithic kernel in 1991 is a fundamental error. Be thankful you are not my student. You would not get a high grade for such a design :-) -- Andy Tanenbaum to Linus Torvalds

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.minix/browse_frm/thre...


From the same thread: If you write programs for linux today, you shouldn't have too many surprises when you just recompile them for Hurd in the 21st century. --Linus, in 1992


Be sure to check out the "Microsoft needs wizards" post.




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