US shutdown: Flight delays caused by staff shortages

Re:US shutdown: Flight delays caused by staff shortages by scarmig on Friday January 25, 2019 @02:48PM (#19001761)

Sure, but why do we hold the Founders in a particularly high regard? Instead of, say, countless 20th and 21st century politicians, scholars, and technocrats who have a lot more influence on the government as it exists today, most of whom who don't have views nearly as revolting as the Founders.

Who's likely to be able to bring a software system from 16.7.1 to 16.7.2? The team who built 16.7.1, or the team who wrote the pre-alpha version twenty years ago?

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Re:US shutdown: Flight delays caused by staff shortages by xtian on Friday January 25, 2019 @03:41PM (#19002296)

In many cases (including, I would argue, the current American political system), the people who wrote 16.7.1 are merely technicians without any coherent vision for long term purposes or principles. Why do we still talk about the Unix philosophy?

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