massive-tea

Why not both? The best solution is probably somewhere in the middle.

I thought it went without saying that we're talking about main verbs because verbs in other positions don't change forms anyway.

Eh? "To be" is not the main verb in that sentence so of course it's in infinitive form. "Add feature X" is imperative. "To add feature X" is infinitive.

The infinitive form of verbs in English always starts with "to", as in "to add", "to fix" etc. That would be a very strange commit message. Imperative is normal: "Add x feature" etc

I don't think I "put down" anything. I can say "we" because if it hasn't been done yet then clearly nobody wants it enough.

I use Gentoo and it really does Just Work for me. My definition of working is clearly a world apart from others', though.

What does using the word angiosperme have to do with intelligence? I used to work in finance and those guys used all the same words I used: algorithm, runtime, microservice, you name it, but none of them had the foggiest idea what any of it meant.

There's no correlation at all between vocabulary used and intelligence. More intelligent people will actually use a smaller vocabulary if anything.

It's nothing to do with not invented here. It's just not my itch, so why should I scratch it? If you want someone else to scratch your itch you have to pay them.

My point is only to highlight that these are very different worlds. Apple decides what you want then charges for it. We say, here, this is what I want, but feel free to make it what you want. There are always going to be pros and cons.

Why should things change just because you want them to? We're a community of hackers who built our own operating system. You're very welcome to join us but unless you're willing to pay us what you're willing to pay Apple you're going to have to implement what you want yourself. But you're free to implement it yourself. That freedom is what we value.

Oh, yeah, my mistake.

I wouldn't be surprised if there is. I spend much of my life in emacs and it has a very similar thing called the kill-ring.

X has the manual clipboard as well, though. It's always worked for me. Do you have any specific examples of where it fails?

> is a totally solved problem on Mac OS X.

It's solved there because it's a walled garden. It's essentially a different problem that they've solved. The problem here is making that work while still being the free software operating system we love.

I think you mean the growth of that set as d goes to half circumference. The absolute size increases up to the area of the sphere.

Linux (really X Windows) has the best clipboard: select text to "copy", middle click to "paste".