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Also perhaps worth mentioning Baserock ( http://wiki.baserock.org ) which can reproducibly build an OS from sources in git and deploy the resulting artifact to various popular targ…

I personally felt that the "What killed the Linux Desktop" article was completely irrelevant. It seems there's always going to be some people who complain that GNU/Linux isn't 'goo…

For what it's worth, GNU/Linux never really was about some desktop conquest, so this whole discussion "What killed the Linux desktop" is quite absurd. That aside, what we have here…

Going into my final year at Edinburgh uni, studying Comp Sci. I've always felt that I'm not nearly as talented as the folks around me, however I've loved computers since I was 10, …

Yeah, because ice cream the sky and the sea are things I experience once in a blue moon... pretty sure I see the sky everyday, eat ice cream most hot days and I live by the coast, …

Sorry, what? Life is awesome, the sky, the sea, ice cream - all of it. I'm only sorry that I don't get to stay here longer. Sure we suffer sometimes, and some people suffer more th…

On the other hand when I criticized Chris Granger's "LightTable" I was told that I was a "hater" followed by several statements suggesting that Chris should ignore folks like mysel…

Been dabbling with OS stuff for a while now, looking at xv6 sources and using Tanenbaum's Minix book. Have got to say I'm very excited about this site, it looks incredibly useful.

I'm not familiar enough with Clojure to comment.

I'm not sure about others, but I wouldn't give my money to any software project that didn't describe in detail how it might overcome such glaring design challenges.

Also even if the code were indeed based on just basic numerical or string primitives, how would the 'instant feedback' work if the code were in a long, tight loop or did heavy cpu …

Sure, I just get the feeling that you're lucky to find such jobs (jobs where you can do what you love and still love doing it).

This article is a wake up call, thank you.

As a student taking a CS degree for fun, I think the 'Happy Hacking' article is fairly insightful. Not of the best quality, perhaps, but insightful none the less.

The title seems pretty misleading: it seems they only built an AND and an OR gate, I wouldn't really call a couple of logic gates a Computer . Still, building logic gates using cra…

Techno's nice, but I prefer this kind of thing for when I'm making something. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDTovW5Pb2w

I think most people probably don't care so much about karma, since it doesn't really mean an awful lot. However, getting negative karma hurts, for some reason. Often if I'm down vo…