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We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds.
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Linus Torvalds
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 28
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I have an ego the size of a small planet.
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Bill Gates really seems to be much more of a business man than a technologist, while I prefer to think of Linux in technical terms rather than as a means to money. As such, I'm not very likely to make the same kind of money that Bill made.
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I've actually found the image of Silicon Valley as a hotbed of money-grubbing tech people to be pretty false, but maybe that's because the people I hang out with are all really engineers.
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The economics of the security world are all horribly, horribly nasty and are largely based on fear, intimidation and blackmail.
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Whoever came up with hold the shift key for eight seconds to turn on 'your keyboard is buggered' mode should be shot.
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I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended.
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Don't hurry your code. Make sure it works well and is well designed. Don't worry about timing.
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Only wimps use tape backup. Real men just upload their important stuff on ftp and let the rest of the world mirror it.
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Software is like sex. It's only good when it's for free.
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I love making friends.... it's people I can't stand.
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Once you realize that documentation should be laughed at, peed upon, put on fire, and just ridiculed in general, then, and only then, have you reached the level where you can safely read it and try to use it to actually implement a driver.
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Portability is for people who cannot write new programs.
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I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm also not going to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords.
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Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.
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I think that freely available software can not only keep up with the evolution of commercial software, but often exceed what you can do commercially.
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Generally, the best way to learn git is probably to first only do very basic things and not even look at some of the things you can do until you are familiar and confident about the basics.
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The way to do good basic design isn't actually to be really smart about it, but to try to have a few basic concepts.
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Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.
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I see myself as a technical person who chose a great project and a great way of doing that project.
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I've tried it a couple of times over the years, mainly because the thing Ubuntu did so well was make Debian usable. I always felt that Debian was a pointless exercise because to me, the point of a distribution is to make everything easy. Easy to install, to be pretty and to be friendly and Ubuntu did that to Debian.
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