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The tech is still incredibly impressive, I just wish they'd rename it.
The tech is still incredibly impressive, I just wish they'd rename it.
The tech is still incredibly impressive, I just wish they'd rename it.
Why? That’s just a name. If people are that reluctant to use a technology just because a murderer used to develop some parts of it, what would they think of current developers who renamed the project just to conceal that historical fact? Wouldn’t they initiate a grand purge once they learn that somethingelsefs is actually a project that uses code and ideas of reiserfs?
is it really that difficult to attempt empathy?
imagine being one of his kids, growing up to become a developer, and then having to work on code that intersects with reiserfs.
The tech is still incredibly impressive, I just wish they'd rename it.
That said, we also need to be able to separate the good and bad people do. Reiser in his capacity as a programmer is really a different entity to him in his capacity as a murderer. Celebrating one is not celebrating the other.
It is the stereotypical example, but it is such a good one that it deserves to become a cliche. Fritz Haber was sufficiently evil that apparently his wife committed suicide because of him. The Haber–Bosch process is probably one of the greatest technical contributions to humanity, ever, full stop. Maybe the steam engine can compete or a handful of other things. We can't allow technical excellence to be shunned because the technician had horrible problems - the shunning lessens us all. We can afford for bad people to be remembered if the price they pay is to create something of great use.
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Why? That’s just a name. If people are that reluctant to use a technology just because a murderer used to develop some parts of it, what would they think of current developers who renamed the project just to conceal that historical fact? Wouldn’t they initiate a grand purge once they learn that somethingelsefs is actually a project that uses code and ideas of reiserfs?
>Why? That’s just a name. is it really that difficult to attempt empathy? imagine being one of his kids, growing up to become a developer, and then having to work on code that intersects with reiserfs.
The tech is still incredibly impressive, I just wish they'd rename it.
Branding isn't a very logical science; so sure they probably should. Them and the GNU Image Manipulation Program, which has 100% lost users because of the stupid name. That said, we also need to be able to separate the good and bad people do. Reiser in his capacity as a programmer is really a different entity to him in his capacity as a murderer. Celebrating one is not celebrating the other. It is the stereotypical e…
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I agree. I used to use reiserfs on everything I touched back in the day: Mandrake, SuSE etc. When Hans R became toxic and ext4 happened to suddenly fit the bill, I followed the rest of the herd and reiserfs3 rapidly fell off the top n filesystem charts. I remember reiser doing some things much, much faster than say ext2, eg directory listing with lots of files. It also seemed to know when to repair itself on boot and…
"much faster than say ext2" Mordsschnell!
Aside: "Quick" can mean "alive" - I think that was its original meaning. We should also note that schnell is often translated as "quick" but I think "faster" is better in general. Using a simple dictionary approach to translate mordsschnell into English might come unstuck pretty quickly. With these clues we could arrive at living dead or zombie! I don't know but given how fast the above comment got downvoted that word has some history.
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Why? That’s just a name. If people are that reluctant to use a technology just because a murderer used to develop some parts of it, what would they think of current developers who renamed the project just to conceal that historical fact? Wouldn’t they initiate a grand purge once they learn that somethingelsefs is actually a project that uses code and ideas of reiserfs?
>Why? That’s just a name. is it really that difficult to attempt empathy? imagine being one of his kids, growing up to become a developer, and then having to work on code that intersects with reiserfs.
The tech is still incredibly impressive, I just wish they'd rename it.
”Hans Thomas Reiser (born December 19, 1963) is an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, and convicted murderer.” Not a great namesake, is it?
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>Why? That’s just a name. is it really that difficult to attempt empathy? imagine being one of his kids, growing up to become a developer, and then having to work on code that intersects with reiserfs.
His kids probably bear that same name though, don't they?
since kids are in Russia i highly doubt that.