Always surpassed when people focus on Mr. Torvalds' public responses and characterise him as an a**hole. They ignore the stupidity and obvious condescension of the comments he is rebutting as if it were OK to be an a**hole if you haven't created software as significant as Linux or Git. I suspect this is why Mr Torvalds is OK with being an a**hole himself. 'The best mr. Kakurin could've done was just ignore such rudeness.' I would suggest it would be more appropriate to say 'the best thing Mr. Torvalds could do is ignore such rudeness'. But sadly in this case, as with most others, the 'bitch slap' was well and truly earned.

Yes, quite. So you would have serious issue[s] with the people who wrote: jpeglib libsoap lua runtime mongoose gifencod etc. (just the examples I have at hand). Never had much of a problem maintaining/debugging a flow control that uses a label. Switch statements have probably caused more problems. But then I'm just being objective.

This actually makes a lot of sense. The <ul><li> elements are completely unreliable when it comes to CSS styling across different platforms, also <ul><li> (nearly) always indents within the enclosing element producing alignment issues, again inconsistent across different platforms. At the very least you have to set the indent to a negative value and that does not work consistently. Bottom line, its a formatting nightmare. Having done a lot of html email programming in the past I have to say the use of table cells and inline styling is by far the most portable and reliable code. Anyway, its a redundancy, you're not saving anything using <ul><li> to create a list once you've styled it up, unless you're going for the doc-prof look.

Hi Mendor81, Could nor agree more, and not... Yes, there is a lot of crap in galleries that is not art and is there simply because of the 'artist's' connections. Unfortunately art has become a commodity and therefore there is a need for a constant supply of new product. This leads to people, who should really know better, giving merit to content that clearly has none. By my definition no picture on instagram could automatically be considered art, I have yet to see a work of art on instagram. Photographs are not inherently art. In order for an object to be considered art it would have to meet a set of absolute criteria. This is what I mean by not being subjective, it is not art just because you like it, or think it is pretty or whatever. It is art because it succeeds in a predefined set of objectives which we use to define what is art and what is not art. These objectives can vary from one discipline to another, some are universal, but whatever they are they must be met for a work to be considered art and not simply decoration or information or something other. Talent is no prerequisite either, though it can help, intelligence, knowledge and skill are far more important. If you simply draw the line between art and not art yourself by some arbitrary measure then the terms become meaningless. You would just be expressing an abstract opinion relating to your personal likes and dislikes, so why even call it art. Taste is subjective, art is not.

Art is not a subjective thing, it is absolute and universal. In fact universality is part of what defines art. That art is in the eye of the beholder is a common and tiresome misconception, aesthetics or more generally beauty is in the eye of the beholder, art is not. When you see a sufficiently complex mathematical algorithm, one that escapes your comprehension, you don't say that it is not mathematics, you just accept that you don't have a thorough enough understanding to appreciate its function. Strange how people can't accept their lack of understanding when it comes to painting ,sculpture, music etc. While its true that some art is vastly overrated due to cultural and other influences, any piece of art's merit can be determined in an almost finite manner. There is also the issue of taste, art does exist that I do not 'like' but I still recognise its artistic merit. Anyway, computer games can definitely be considered art but that definition goes way beyond simple (and often hackneyed) aesthetics. Tetris is definitely a work of art, quake also, just as examples. But derivatives that add nothing to the form are as 'none art' when it comes to games as they are in any other discipline.

I have two iPads a Nexus 7 and Kindle Fire HD, plus a whole lot more, they are all nice devices but I would call them toys. The Kindle is the best Android device from a UI design perspective, nice simple home screen, no junk, makes sense. The best tablet I have, by far, is the Surface RT. Does everything a tablet can do, and has the best OS, (there, I said it, iOS fanboys need to take down the 70's fantasy art and get with the 21st century), anyone arguing this point is just not being objective, and Win 8 RT can do much more. If you want to just check email, read a few blog posts etc. then Metro is great. The other day the wife wanted me to proof read a word doc on her PC, I just browsed the network and opened the file, did some minor edits and saved it, done, didn't have to leave the sofa. Needed to transfer some screen shots to another machine, again browse network, create folder on target machine and select, copy 30 files, took about 20 seconds total. This is the power of having a full Windows 8 desktop when you need it. I could go on but you get the point, and yes the desktop is perfectly usable despite my big fingers and poor eyesight. The touch cover is great, I have covers on the iPads but you can't type on them... People have complained about screen resolution, forget it, it's just as easy to read and browse as an iPad with retina display (which is doing a whole load of nothing most of the time - 'density independent pixels'! also, 4:3 aspect, really..!). As for the apps, they will surely come, you'll probably never use more than about ten on any one device, as long as you have Netflix, Twitter, Skype etc. you'll be good to go. And all the major apps are either there on on their way. Two million iPad apps... really, that's a good thing? Just means 1.9 million pieces of crap to avoid. People make way too much of this issue, particularly for a device that's been out for a month. Can't wait for the Surface Pro, its a must have in my book. With a compatible dev environment between Windows Phone 8, Surface and Win 8 desktop it should be a developers wet dream.

Yeah, Yeah, bla, bla, I'm a command line god. etc. etc. more bullshit... ad infinitum. I write sophisticated performance critical code for highly parallel environments and I KNOW how the target system works. When I have a problem with my system I say "Hey, IT guy, fix this machine you lazy f***!" cos he thinks dicking around with this crap is a skill, so he deserves my contempt. An when he's done I don't thank him, I just say "Now f*** off back to your cave you f***ing troll". That's how you speak to cavemen (read sysadmins, particularly NIX types). TLDR; I've got more important things to do than RTFM.

Its always dangerous to assume that all performance issues can be assessed using big O notation as an evaluation method, particularly when not comparing apples with apples in terms of implementation specifics. Hashing resolves down to numeric comparison as opposed to String evaluation but involves a hashing function overhead, these are important factors, there are also allocation issues particular to any implementation. Trivialising performance evaluation in this way where growth rate is a factor is always a dangerous proposition.

This makes me very sad, all this hating on Microsoft and IE, why? Is IE9 standards compliant? Yes, probably more so that any other popular browser (no I'm not hitting the pipe, just talking about real standards compliance, HTML 1.1 being the last finalized standard). As Pete O'Hanlon pointed out, HTML5 is NOT a standard. The idea that browser developers should keep 'pushing things forward' regardless of actual standards is just stupid. When would you advocate that type of development process anywhere but in the browser space. As for the general Microsoft haters, well, what's your beef? The NT kernel is the most modern of the monolithic OS's. Mac OS had to die, it was pure crap, unless you enjoyed listening to the restart chime all day and had an aversion to real productivity, (funny how they sell iStuff on the promise of the app store, all those thousands of apps, didn't seem to bother Apple fanboys that there was no software for Mac OS). So what did Apple do, take a nearly 40 year old OS kernel and stick a 25 year old GUI on top, there's real progress and innovation for you. Irix did that 15+ years ago to much better effect for the time (and on far superior hardware). And don't even go there with Linux, 15+ years I've been installing Linux in the hope that they've finally got something... still a badly designed OS that runs hobby apps. But hey, its free, that makes up for everything, right. OK, so they own the server space, not actually much of a plus as Apache Server is just sad, talk about the triumph of stupid. Swiss Army Knife, does everything but nothing well. Microsoft has its faults, of course, but right now Windows 7 is arguably the best OS available (simply depends on your requirements) and IE9 is a great browser. Do some real-world profiling, fastest loading and rendering in almost all cases (interesting bug, can be even faster when it loses focus..). Chrome is still nice with a fast JS engine but FireFox has lost the plot completely, some nice debugging tools, all else, fail. And hey, lets not forget that Microsoft even invented XMLHttpRequest, the foundation of the modern interactive web, JS is interchangeable and pretty lame, thanks Netscape, could have been worse I suppose, maybe. So IE doesn't support your latest CSS3 tricks, get a life and stop hating Microsoft just because its trendy, you are lazy, and you think gradients and rouded corners equate to good web design ...sad. Just as an aside. I'm going to laugh my ass off when someone finally does a real head to head between flash a

Yes, looks way better in IE, the dude can't design for shit.

If you (or Henry) were the admin you wouldn't have the authority to fire anyone. And if you quit you would NOT have grounds for action under constructive dismissal. Calm down and curb the aggression.