Re: [DNG] greybeards

2015-11-15 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Didier Kryn writes: [...] > The force which makes software development possible is, of course, > enthusiasm, but it needs some heading. A problem someone recently posted to comp.lang.perl.misc was "assuming $R is a string specifiying a sequence of 1-based indices and @A an array whose lengt

Re: [DNG] greybeards

2015-11-14 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Didier Kryn writes: [...] > The force which makes software development possible is, of course, > enthusiasm, but it needs some heading. > > I am sure Poetering is very enthusiastic regarding systemd and > highjacking the whole OS. He is concious to be developping a new > OS. But, what's

Re: [DNG] greybeards

2015-11-14 Thread Didier Kryn
Greybeards. I think this could mean wise people. At least the common sense is to expect the old people to have accumulated some wisdom. The force which makes software development possible is, of course, enthusiasm, but it needs some heading. I am sure Poetering is very enthusiasti

Re: [DNG] greybeards

2015-11-13 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Nuno Magalhães writes: > On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 4:32 PM, Rainer Weikusat > wrote: >> (hence, having to recurr to someone who >> accidentally made it through the hiring process despite he was >> competent). > > Maybe you meant "incompetent"? Either way, have fun. Considering that this was about

Re: [DNG] greybeards

2015-11-13 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 4:32 PM, Rainer Weikusat wrote: > (hence, having to recurr to someone who > accidentally made it through the hiring process despite he was > competent). Maybe you meant "incompetent"? Either way, have fun. Bye, Nuno ___ Dng mail

Re: [DNG] greybeards

2015-11-13 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Nuno Magalhães writes: > On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 7:56 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 01:54:37PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: >>> On Thu, 12 Nov 2015 16:57:19 +0300 >>> Mitt Green wrote: >>> > ‎I wonder how many people that use Debian for quite long time (since >>> > 90s or the be

Re: [DNG] greybeards

2015-11-13 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 7:56 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 01:54:37PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: >> On Thu, 12 Nov 2015 16:57:19 +0300 >> Mitt Green wrote: >> >> > ‎I wonder how many people that use Debian for quite long time (since >> > 90s or the beginning of this millenn

[DNG] greybeards

2015-11-12 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 01:54:37PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > On Thu, 12 Nov 2015 16:57:19 +0300 > Mitt Green wrote: > > > ‎I wonder how many people that use Debian for quite long time (since > > 90s or the beginning of this millennium) really like systemd, GNOME3 > > and all these controversial