publlus_enigma
If you look at Haiku, they have a handful of regular contributors. I think from memory they have one or two people working on it.
I would love to be able to sit down and port drivers by hand and contribute them. And maybe when I am retired in 20 years time, I can do that -- at which point, Haiku will be a 40 year old project.
Perfect is the enemy of good.
Haiku still doesn't boot on many modern systems.
Haiku can use all the help it can get.
I really need to dedicate some time to understand why. I'd love to contribute with apps and drivers.
Maybe the bots will appreciate it more, after all, it seems to be written for them.
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Although I fired up Solaris 9 on an old Sun Blade a few months ago, and the GUI latency on that was imperceptible.
Some aspects have definitely gotten worse. For example, the latency between pressing a key and a glyph appearing on the screen.
Ironically, every large company I have worked for has chosen Microsoft partially because of their size and a perception that they have an enormous amount of top talent developing best-in-class products.
My reaction to that has been that, if a company is so large, then they can't all be in the top percentiles of talent. And when you look at how many products they have, relative to the number of software engineers they have, their can't be that many software engineers dedicated to any given product.
So I'm curious: how many people would work on a typical Microsoft product, and what sort of calibre are they?
Very frustrating when one is scanning documents and photos, and verifying them through Finder shows phantom cropping.
I personally like the scroll bars to always be visible as they serve as both an indicator and a control.
The problem wasn't Metro itself -- it was the ham-fisted, halfhearted integration with the rest of Windows that proved irksome. Windows 8 was the version that introduced Settings alongside Control Panel -- 15 years later, the merge is almost complete.
It was more the author's assumption that the reader wouldn't be familiar with what a CRT is!
As we saw from eMudhra this week, people do stupid things.
Even prior to this recent cavalcade, the way we have handled security been seemed fragile. We tend to build with the assumption something is secure, and then patch as required.
A huge amount of the machinery relating to computing today pertains to security. Much of the need for that same machinery would significantly lessen if we didn't connect every damned device to the internet. We need to go back to designing for offline first, and secondly, significantly reduce the Kevel if trust of any code that originates externally. Attestation, notarization and signing has improved the situation, but still leaves massive gaps. Normalising the execution of third-party remote code to view a website in the form of JavaScript may not have been a crash-hot idea either.
We also seem to have forgotten that the "A" in the security triad stands for "availability" - yet we have further normalised losing access to our devices and systems multiple times a month for security updates and patches, delivered online to prevent against online threats. We've normalised devices becoming obsolete because they no longer receive security updates for vulnerabilities that never should have existed.
Almost every web application being built today, framework or no framework, is a variation of a theme. We have no issue recreating those ad nauseum, but we draw the line at recreating a framework?
Samsung would only proceed with organising a repair if I updated the firmware to the latest version. Something I deliberately held back on to avoid the introduction of ads.
Now I have new firmware. And new ads.
Oy for Samsung to tell me that spares are no longer available for my four year old TV, and would I like to buy a new one (with more ads).
Now everywhere I look I see Samsung displays being used in residential and commercial settings, and I'd estimate 30% of them have noticeably inconsistent backlights, with bright or dark spots.
Never again.
Fifteen years later, I am still waiting for them to undo the damage that was done.