Writing my own init with Go

Re:Writing my own init with Go by SixSigma on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @10:53AM (#11066062)

> Linux is mostly perfect as it is

Your critical thinking has not been engaged. Linux is a useful bit of code but "perfect" is not what it is known as everywhere.

My side of the room like this little ditty

Linux, by amateurs, for amateurs -- Dave Presotto [1]

i’ve wondered whether Linux sysfs should be called syphilis -- Charles Forsyth [2]

Or if you like your detractors with a bit more fame

Unix has retarded OS research by 10 years and linux has retarded it by 20. -- Dennis Ritchie as quoted by by Boyd Roberts in 9fans.

I won't go on

[1] http://research.google.com/pubs/author4927.html

[2] http://www.terzarima.net/

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Re:Writing my own init with Go by PopsiclePete on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @11:07AM (#11066171)

So what does an OS purist like yourself run? BeOS? Plan9? All OS's suck. They're just horrible. But so is everything else. It's all flawed in one way or another. Windows is flawed, OS X is flawed, our tools are flawed, our languages, our editors - everything. If you want perfect, you have to throw away your computer and somehow live inside Knuth's books.

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Re:Writing my own init with Go by tronje on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @11:42AM (#11066557)

> If you want perfect, you have to throw away your computer and somehow live inside Knuth's books.

Either that or wait for GNU/Hurd.

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Re:Writing my own init with Go by SixSigma on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @11:46AM (#11066593)

Try reading what I said.

I said "Linux isn't perfect, like you think it is"

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Re:Writing my own init with Go by khedoros on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @02:40PM (#11068138)

Perfection is a nice strawman to argue against. "Mostly perfect" is harder to argue against. In addition, there's an implied "for my purposes" attached to the end of the statement.

Nothing is "perfect", and no one has claimed that "Linux is perfect".

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Re:Writing my own init with Go by betenoire on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @12:17PM (#11066883)

You are being a dick, offering no reasons other than the opinions of people you presumable agree with.

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Re:Writing my own init with Go by SixSigma on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @02:29PM (#11068016)

If you could just tell my why it's perfect then, give me something to work with.

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Re:Writing my own init with Go by betenoire on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @04:05PM (#11068766)

I can try... you scorned the commenter for not reading your comment literally, and inferring things instead. When I read your comment literally, I see you quoting people and saying it's not perfect.

Truly an empty comment, as it adds nothing except makes you look smarter than someone else. You don't offer anything insightful, you are trying to be insightful by proximity. So anyway, you reinforced your complex when you said "Try reading what I wrote". So I called you a dick.

Now take your own advice and "try to read what _I_ wrote". I only called you a dick. Why are you trying to make me defend a position I never took about perfection?

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Re:Writing my own init with Go by SixSigma on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @01:20AM (#11071057)

> I only called you a dick.

oh we're going down that route. Well if it's literalism we're wasting time with then try reading your own comment

> You are being a dick, offering no reasons other than the opinions of people you presumable agree with.

That isn't just "calling me a dick".

but lets stop here

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