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This shit makes me wish Gobolinux could have a chance against a behemoth like Ubuntu.


Shit? What do you think is bad about the /run?


That it is an incremental fix for a terrible ad-hoc file-system design that has invaded almost all Linux distributions.

You still can't easily install 2 versions of a program in Debian. It's 2011.


    ./configure --prefix=/some/unique/place


His point is that dpkg is unable to support installation of multiple versions of a package. update-alternatives and having custom packaging (like with python2.6 and python2.7) solves some of this issue, but Gobolinux deals with it a lot better


My point is that it's very easy to do this, but that no real users of Debian want it enough to begin doing it.


"Real" users? What does that even mean?


Just had a look at gobolinux now - that filesystem change seems like a sledgehammer to counter the 'lack of ease' in tapping in the picture-hook problem of installing two programs.


Yeah, I think Windows Mango phones are going to be an order of magnitude better (in terms of what a customer can expect buying one) because of the spec requirements.

Although Google merely created Android just to force the smartphone market to be more competitive, I just wish that Google stuck it's foot in the mud more. Hopefully they start a "G+ Certified" to tell customers about continued Google maintenance support or something.


Just out of curiosity, to what degree was Clojure chosen because of the ability to use Java libraries vs the language design + community?


Clojure is an amazing language, and part of that is the access to a huge breadth of Java libraries. Storm makes use of Java libraries/projects like JZMQ, Zookeeper, and Thrift.


It's a metaphor.


The first sentence is:

It’s fairly common these days to think of JavaScript as a sort of “assembly language for the web”.

That's definitely a simile, not a metaphor.


A simile is like a metaphor.


Certainly moreso than Javascript is like assembly language.

Upon seeing that article I was like "Oh yeah, I get the two confused all the time WTF?!"


Um, what do you mean by "decline"? That the rate of growth has plateaued ( http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/38279676/ns/today-today_tech/ )? Or something else?

I'm not trying to be a pissant, I just haven't heard such an opinion before.


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