It's definitely not "just kid stuff" if it gives that impression. There's some seriously talented writers out there that can really grab your imagination.
I recall one "tale" that about a time when SCP failed to secure everything all at once, and a normal guy is detailing the world basically falling apart as long as he can.
In the right hands a lot of these stories could make magnificent movies, but that's a long shot.
I know I love a good opportunity to waste a little time with novel software. It's hard to describe, but it brings me a feeling of joy
This is really neat, I was actually surprised that it "just worked". Usually, as others have pointed out, you have to sacrifice a few goats and utter the forbidden ancient incantations before novelty pieces like this will work at all.
is there anything significant that we can pull from this data? 10 years sounds like a super small amount of time for a star. Does anything really "change" in this interval? or are we going to have to wait another 100, 500, 10,000 years to see anything happen?
I nuked my account probably 2 years ago. I wasn't in a great place personally, or professionally, and FB only contributed to my mindless procrastination. Probably one of the best things I did at the time, and that's not even to mention all of the hectic political and family drama that goes with scrolling your wall.
I'll be interested to see their response to all of this. Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if a good majority of these people were blatantly breaking the rules in some way, and they got caught up in a big sweep to remove those accounts, or someone fscked up and entered the wrong database table name in the "Delete accounts" service behind the scenes.
A few years ago I installed FreeBSD on my main machine, and actually used it for some time (6ish months?).
It was really nice that I could actually google things, and usually come to a mailing list or the FreeBSD manual for my version of the OS, and then actually be able to find what I was looking for and have it work (most of the time).
It's the opposite with Linux. Yeah, this is just another "hey lets copy osx and pretend we're actually doing something real" project, and more than likely, everything will work fine just like in the standard ubuntu, but it's still just another fragment in the already overcrowded and starting-to-stink-from-all-the-dead-projects ecosystem.
I get the freedom to do everything you want, fork this, change that, I get that 100%, but man it would be nice to have Linux be unified.
I read the blog post and couldn't really guess what they did, so I headed over to the actual shop and saw some books. Okay, I thought, another bookstore.
But then I scrolled further down and started seeing red dot sights for rifles and giftcards.
It's things like [1] that really irk me.
Yes, they're working 'hard', yes they deserve compensation, no, there isn't any license conflicts (that I'm aware of) that would make selling eOS illegal, it's the fact that they wrote this justification to make you feel like a thief.
Really, it's just an ubuntu clone with a pretty osx-like gui. This isn't really anything amazing or new, and it makes it seem like they're trying to tap into the elitist osx market. If that is indeed what they want, they should really check out [2]
So it's not really the software that's bad, really it's all what you can get on any other distro with a little work, it's their attitude about it.
I can plainly see the backlash they got from that arrogant blog post about 'making you not pay for the download of our ubuntu clone we slapped a pretty ui on' didn't do much at all.
Although I've since moved on from C to Go, and have all but given up on really learning about the kernel, I really appreciate this in-depth look at how the kernel works.
I'm sure sometime in the future I'll get that itch to dive back in, and this will be a great resource.
Newbies to the kernel should also check out the Eudyptula Challenge (http://eudyptula-challenge.org/), it provides a structured approach to the kernel and makes you actually write the code. A downside is it's very popular and they've had trouble processing so many emails and solutions.
I think these resources, paired with what we have here could allow even non-kernel hackers to get some code into the kernel.
Nethack is a very complex game, and takes a very long time to understand enough to ascend (beat the game). Think of it like dungeons and dragons on crack, with endless possibilities and variables.
The fact that someone wrote a bot to think on its feet enough to do this, is astonishing.
You should try it out in your free time, check out alt.org, there's a server where you can play and the irc channel #nethack on freenode (I believe) is very helpful and there's a few wikis available.
But beware, it becomes very addictive. The 'one more turn' rule applies heavily here.
I recall one "tale" that about a time when SCP failed to secure everything all at once, and a normal guy is detailing the world basically falling apart as long as he can.
In the right hands a lot of these stories could make magnificent movies, but that's a long shot.