alt Hacker NewsSo that's at least two linux filesystem creators who have gone off the rails; should we consider it a potential diagnostic symptom?
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yomismoaqui • today at 6:00 PM
The question is if developing filesystems attracts a certain kind of people or the act of debugging filesystem issues & being flamed on the kernel mailing list makes people that way.
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QuercusMax • today at 6:00 PM
You gotta be a little bit of a megalomaniac to think it's a good idea to write your own filesystem.
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dmead • today at 6:13 PM
Idk. I don't think either he nor reiser were ruby devs.
thomasjudge • today at 5:57 PM
lol I was having the exact same thought
I think the important question here is whether Linux filesystems are more or less hazardous than statistical mechanics.
(For anyone not familiar with the text, Goodstein's treatment of the subject opens with "Ludwig Boltzman, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.")