I had to upgrade my phone because it ran out of internal memory and I had to keep removing apps I valued, as they all grew in size.
So bloat cost me real money.
Just because you don't care doesn't mean others don't. This is one of my pet peeves. Developers building things on high spec machines with fantastic network connections. Your website is impossible for others to use as it is so slow and cumbersome but the devs never notice.
> confirmed it's going to happen and she has set up an entirely new ministry to ensure it does.
There is a counter argument that says the new ministry is set up exactly to ensure that brexit fails to happen whilst the government "tried it's best and gave full resources". It is also a convenient way to completely destroy Boris for good.
Broadcom has a noted history with its support for Wi-Fi devices regarding GNU/Linux. For a good portion of its initial history, Broadcom devices were either entirely unsupported or required the user to tinker with the firmware. The limited set of wireless devices that were supported were done so by a reverse-engineered driver. The reverse-engineered b43 driver was introduced in the 2.6.24 kernel.
In August 2008, Broadcom released the 802.11 Linux STA driver officially supporting Broadcom wireless devices on GNU/Linux. This is a restrictively licensed driver and it does not work with hidden ESSIDs, but Broadcom promised to work towards a more open approach in the future.
In September 2010, Broadcom released a fully open source driver. The brcm80211 driver was introduced in the 2.6.37 kernel and in the 2.6.39 kernel it was sub-divided into the brcmsmac and brcmfmac drivers.
People in the UK are very aware of VAT. However we do like to know the total cost in advance of paying.
As an aside, many restaurants here have included service charges (but these are usually optional, so although they are shown on the menu you can choose to not pay)
I think also in Europe many do not see tax as pure evil.
Linus's view on C++ (at least in the kernel) are generally well known. Also he was not the first to start on BS remarks in this particular email thread.
I think this is the sort of view that he has problems with. It shows that you haven't understood any of his actual issues. It is a mindset thing as much as just C++ being `unhelpful`.
Not that it is in the posted email but one of his issues is that on-one actually understands C++, but everyone thinks they do.
> In colloquial terms, think we'd find few who'd argue humans flying around in helicopters shooting elephants with high power rifles are not more evolved than said elephants.
You should try to understand what evolved actually means. What that shows is that we have gained a higher level of tool use than the elephants. Intelligence is not a sign of being more evolved, it is purely a sign of intelligence.
This is like a bird saying that they are more evolved than a human because they can fly without artificial aids.
To be sure classes have a place and can be really useful, but so many people just create classes when they add no benefits.
Clear code always wins imho