Linux is only free if your time has no value.
Your “use case” should be, there’s a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid?
Any time someone says “that’s it, I’m leaving” I ask them whether they’d prefer to live under US domestic policy, or US foreign policy. As bad as things get inside an empire, they’re usually worse in the protectorates.
You can divide our industry into two kinds of people: those who want to go work for a company to make it successful, and those who want to go work for a successful company.
The real bug here is that the design of the system even permits this class of bug. It is unconscionable that someone designing a critical piece of security infrastructure would design the system in such a way that it does not fail safe.
I think Linux is a great thing, in the big picture. It’s a great hacker’s tool, and it has a lot of potential to become something more.
Software Engineering might be science; but that’s not what I do. I’m a hacker, not an engineer.
One of the best programmers I ever hired had only a High School degree; he’s produced a lot of great software, has his own news group, and made enough in stock options to buy his own nightclub.
To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb. Or something like that.
If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he’ll do is take it apart to figure out how it works.
If you want to do something that’s going to change the world, build software that people want to use instead of software that managers want to buy.
I eat and drink at my desk, but I’m a tidy eater.
Mostly I use the O2 as an X terminal, however, running my apps on Linux and displaying remotely.