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But Linux is a registered trademark, too.

I don’t think it’s the passport thing. The differences between European passports are minor, so in that matter you surely could accept all EU nationalities. If you really want the best ones, then Sweden, Finland, France, Italy, Austria and Switzerland are among the ones that bring you the farthest in the world, and those are not in the list, while Greece and Norway are less powerful passports, and the USA, Canada and Australia even less, and all of them are in the list.

https://www.passportindex.org/byRank.php

Of course it could be one or multiple specific countries they want you to travel, but chances for that are low. Clearance sounds much more likely.

I’ve been programming with lots of dumb people, and I’m particularly dumb myself, but if you really literally spend hours looking for missed semicolons, then you should give up programming no matter if this means more time for date nights or more time to look at the wall.

There’s this 2013 blog post about it, reacting to a reader wondering how the “!!1” even survived the 404 page redesign a couple of years earlier: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/05/error-404-not-found1.html

As someone who professionally works in a project with many, many thousands of files (I don’t know the exact number right now, but we’re coming close to 10 million lines of code) and many of them having thousands of lines (see my other comment): No, longer files is not better than more files.

Best I can offer is a combined UI and logic class with 12,500 lines currently. It started out with less than 3,000 lines in the year 2000 (using the brand new Java 1.3), grew to 14,000 over time and survived our recent project-wide one-year cleanup project with only minor losses of code lines.

I m sure I won’t miss this post in one month or even one day.

Well, maybe you won’t, but others might. That was the great thing about Reddit. Found a sub that might be interesting? Browse its top content of the last ten years and you’ll see. Have a specific programming question? Google it with site:reddit.com and you’ll likely find a good discussion on it. Reading on old interview somewhere and wonder if someone ever fact-checked that one statement there? The guys at Reddit likely have.

Even before the blackout it already happened way too often that you stumbled upon an interesting Reddit thread just to see that one of the central comments has been deliberately deleted by its author and so the whole thing gets less helpful. Would be a shame if the system itself would further delete even more content.

50% response rate doesn’t sound too bad. a) People don’t owe you a reply, as you already said. b) Accounts go dead. Sure, when offering mod positions you probably didn’t contact many accounts that posted once a month ago, but still, many may have tried out multiple accounts on different instances, Lemmy vs. Kbin etc. and at one point decided for a different one, or they went back to Reddit, etc. c) DMs may look like spam or phishing or continuation of long abandoned discussions, and so some DMs will go unread even though the receipients saw the notification. d) people forget to answer, or they may want to think about the reply longer than you would expect. e) people are lazy.

GNU Hurd development was started in 1990 as a follow-up project of another, failed GNU kernel from years before. Linus Torvalds didn’t start Linux development before April 1991.

Why is this called The GNU Testament, making it sound like it would be a core document of the GNU project, which put a lot of work and thought (including a couple of actually fundamental documents) into the development of a free and open operating system, and has plenty little to do with cracking games?

WordPress, Joomla, Typo3, Drupal, … PHP is pretty much omnipresent in CMS systems. It’s not a huge number of different PHP CMS, but it results in a huge number of websites being PHP-based. The vast majority of those websites don’t care for the programming language - they pick an existing CMS so they don’t have to do their own programming.