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Plenty of people claim that they're scared to contribute because Linus might yell at them. That's unfounded for a lot of reasons. TL;DR: Test your code before you submit it. Don't …

> It's not a regression unless something was broken first, then fixed, then the SAME ISSUE comes back in a later code change. No, it's when a change results in unintentional behavi…

It might not be about commercializing so much as including it in some of the *BSDs which don't allow for GPL code in the core. Otherwise, they'll probably have to write a new imple…

> The OpenVPN Windows kernel TUN/TAP driver is really super scary. I believe you. Everything about OpenVPN code scares me. Not sure if it helps, but I checked out an article by Dmi…

First of all, love the project. Thanks for tackling it and sticking to it. I know that talking about a windows client is really early at this point, but is your team considering im…

> fork the project and remove the offending code Yeah, it's possible. And it will probably happen at some point or another, now that it's open source. But that won't stop the momen…

> There's also a warning the first time you use it If you'd actually read the issue before commenting, you'd realize that this behavior was added after people complained about the …

If crimes were easily trackable and prosecutable , we probably wouldn't have such a hard time keeping criminals in jail. We still have crimes committed in jail that don't get prope…

> academics provide such an incredible amount to the world we live in. This is true, but it's not terribly efficient about doing so. Much of it provides little to no useful return,…

There's also Google's terrible reputation of poor and unreachable support, as well as the unappealable terminations of service. And they're not limited to consumers - some companie…

There's kind of a lot of issues. Especially with psychology and sociology and the areas they intersect. 1. Replicability of social psychology results are estimated at 25%. (Cited i…

I've got something that listens to other devices (ACPI buttons, etc), but nothing that touches the touchpad. It's also a driver that's specific to the model (the main driver won't …

> UDF supported by all three OSes natively and openly Wasn't there a major problem in that all the operating systems supported different versions of the UDF standard? And most of t…

Synaptics drivers are horrendous. In addition to the terrible performance, mine has given me 10+ bluescreens on Win10. I'd love to remove them, but they're needed for some of the b…

I don't think he's advocating that he should be setting the rules or self-evaluating. He just wants the rules to be sensible and sensibly enforced. He has justification to complain…

Yes. Updates to those files didn't seem to be reflected in bash until I'd closed and reopened the terminal.

> If your app is a database server, probably yes. They explicitly don't support that. From the article: > Linux distro's [sic] running atop WSL are for interactive user scenarios, …

IBM has a huge problem with misrepresentation. It goes all the way to the top, with a CEO that promises major growth without a clear plan forward. The employees themselves seem to …

> This feeds directly into the popular narrative that the working poor somehow lack moral fortitude. Not really. Not every bad job is held by an oppressed proletariat. Many times t…

Well, Paypal's been getting away with pretending to not be a bank for over a decade now...

The VPN changes your network route. This can get you around geographic locks (services that only work in certain areas). It can also get you around traffic issues, if your ISP has …

> but I don't see Musk referred to as "Elon" much on HN. Nearly every time the people I interface with introduce him into a discussion, he's referred to by full name. His first nam…

> but dudes never get called "first name", only "last name". Mayer is a really common name. The only way to distinguish her from the 15 Mayers I know is by full name. But in a conv…

Chrome has had them for a while. Supposedly they just hid them behind a flag because they weren't satisfied with some perceived deficiencies in the spec. (Check out https://v8proje…

Protests usually follow some egregious government policy or action. Yes, there are protests that aren't very well organized, or lack a core concept to them. But those quickly fall …