... and fuck this thing in particular.

[hirez]

Because I've been mostly doing internet things for the past oh god what really that long years, I have had the deep misfortune to come across alleged software written by annoying children seemingly in the grip of a three-week caffeine bender. Systemd, for example. The idea is not actually a bad one; have a thing that sits there and minds all the

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[jarkman]

Computers have been and always will be shit. It's homeostatic. Forces of progress, first-mover advantage, free beta!. Did I spell that right ? It's gone red, but I haven't been awake long enough for my eyes to focus properly.

Anyway, I console myself with the thought that everything else is worse. Except coffee. Coffee is the best.

[liam_on_linux]

I cannot adequately express my admiration and, to the extremely limited degree that I have to work with this stuff -- writing about it, mainly, which offers a sort of sanity-protecting firewall -- agreement.

[lproven]

Hmm. I appear to have made this go ever-so-slightly viral. Oops.

[hirez]

So it would seem.

Little do they know how much contempt I have for the notion of 'BOfH'

[anonymous]

So, perhaps I could bring you in to the thrice monthly ValleyKidzx.0 / 'really there will be positive valuation at the end of this IPA triple shot lumberjack equipment rental scheduling software we've written' preso?! And we can throw things from the front of the room until they don't come back.

Usually it takes, 'how do we secure it?' 'How do we manage 1000 of them' and 'how do you prove any of that, and you have to explain it without the howler monkey back home'

Tragically it be at one of those offices with a view of Fishermans Wharf and lumbersexuals wafting past.