As an outsider I find Torvalds' raves funny. He's just about the only computer guy who's not afraid of upsetting people when they don't live up to his standards.

I'm glad he takes his code and work very personally and seriously so we can all benefit from it

Wow this took a lot of courage to come out with!

Most of the time it's our attitude or pride (or the lack of it) that's preventing us from living a normal nice life. Others think we're normal decent humans but because we don't live up to our own expectations we feel ashamed of ourselves in any social interaction. In my country it's looked down upon to live with your parents, but at the same time 30% of the population lives on housing fully paid for by government unemployment welfare. That's no different the way I see it.

Some tips (Google these for detailed info):
- cold showers
- nofap/nopmo
- 3 raw egg yolks daily
- push half ready stuff online and see how it goes. Someone might find it interesting and meet you halfway, much like what happened with Linux development initially

Both are pain

It does make you senior though. Just not a senior developer

@Jilano yes I know that much. So the decentralized nature of webrtc is a weakness here?

What's the problem with webrtc though?
And why use socket.io / node for this? It's a terrible poorly performing error prone library hardly enough for proof-of-concept

These kinds of niche social apps may indeed have their place in this world.

I'd say go for it

"talk is cheap. Show me the code."
-Linus Torvalds

React is simple yet decent. Or you could try Elm

Cassandra? Riak?

Jodel is super popular where I'm form. How is this different from it?

The idea is not half bad, niche online businesses like these can sometimes do very well.

This would be illegal in my country though

Coding sort algorithms... Java... On your free time? Are you trying to die young?

Maybe that's hoe Stripe came up with their name

@freakko well I suppose I got a lot. I was a platoon leader so I had a lot of responsibility.

Hard to say what it was all worth, although even thinking that is sort of pointless - conscription is mandatory for all adult males in my country.

@billgates well, I can say that that's nonsense.

Sure you achieve sufficient scale only in the domestic market in China. But that's where it all ends. No one wants Chinese "innovations" elsewhere, cos there are better and more genuine alternatives available.

Thinking the Chinese will be producing all our tech is some fantasy that even the Chinese themselves don't believe in. The Chinese lack behind in virtually everything related to tech (web, software, space exploration, military technology etc.), except physical production in scale.

USA will continue to be the leader in these fields due to numerous reasons. Their position is currently unchallenged. It's currently simply a trend to hate USA and glorify and pointlessly hype China, at least where I come from.

@billgates Spotify is 10 years old. The Chinese have very little major innovations in software/web tech. Those that we western people use; zero.

If you haven't lived in china you may not know this, but their internet connections are fucking terrible. Worst that I've experienced by far. Even the most remote village in my country has a better connection. Maybe the spying network to monitor everyone's all internet traffic is too taxing for their infrastructure?

@billgates the only reason they have tech companies that have grown as large as alibaba and Tencent have is that they simply won't allow any foreign company of scale to conduct business in China. They simply make it illegal for foreigners to own and operate companies in China.

Their firewall even blocks internet access to whatsapp, Facebook, YouTube, Gmail, Google etc. because they're much better than what the Chinese have. And it isolates the Chinese to their own world as they want it.

None of the western people use those shit apps and services. For the most part they're bloated poor imitations of western services. We got far higher standards and so do the Americans.

@billgates I think I've pretty much used them all. As I said, I used to live in china.

As they don't have democracy they can make political decisions quickly and get new tech applied to the society swiftly.

However, their software tech is still shit. Alibaba, Tencent, those companies are at the scale of Google. But their engineering is so far below Google and other western companies. Where's the Chinese operating system everyone uses? Where's the Chinese search engine everyone has as their homepage? Which chinese app all of the world is using as their #1 messenger app? Chinese email providers? Video streaming services? Cloud infrastructure providers?

I'm sure they're working hard on these problems but so far I don't see any real threat from that direction.

BTW my country has had mobile payments for a long time, our digital ID can authenticate to any government service etc.

@billgates so far Chinese software engineering doesn't convince me at all. Frankly, it's shit. Their best and most used apps are so low quality that western people would never use them. I know this cos I use wechat daily and I've lived in china.

But yes sure most of the physical product production has been outsourced to them and they've become good at it.

The ones now investing in war are the Chinese

I fail to see anything unexpected here

Java is pain

In all honesty you gotta understand here that he's promoting his own security app here, trying to get people to migrate to it from Facebook

Scalable how?

JVM is spreading like cancer

The only type system I've found pleasant to work with is Elm, which is sort of like haskell's, but less versatile.

Java feels like a pain in the ass in every possible way

Yerba mate master race

Because even seemingly free services can hold massive financial potential. Like whatsapp, Instagram etc.

Do you think whatsapp founders would be better off having released their source code publicly?

@uyouthe or haskell, seems to do well in computations and algos

The ten virtues of software engineering.

Amen!

BTW I like the recursion at 6) 🤗