Re:Torvalds: Standards need to be questioned
by gerdesj on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @08:20PM
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I suspect a big part of why user space is broken so rarely in Linux is exactly because Linus has made such a big deal about it in the past.
Its almost as though he identified a weak point and ameliorated it! That's what an Engineer does.
which are often ignored because every developer doesn't keep 100% of the best practices in mind at all times.
There is no such thing as best practice - that is a nonsensical phrase that I think someone involved with MS created many moons ago and caught on in IT and I absolutely despise. There is good and bad practice but you had better be very, very good at something to tell me that you know best about that something.
Its almost as though he identified a weak point and ameliorated it! That's what an Engineer does.
which are often ignored because every developer doesn't keep 100% of the best practices in mind at all times.
There is no such thing as best practice - that is a nonsensical phrase that I think someone involved with MS created many moons ago and caught on in IT and I absolutely despise. There is good and bad practice but you had better be very, very good at something to tell me that you know best about that something.