The fact that ACPI was designed by a group of monkeys high on LSD, and is some of the worst designs in the industry obviously makes running it at any point pretty damn ugly.

Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important they get paid to do it. There are other professions like that, but not that many.

Turtles are very stable and have been around forever. But they have problems adapting. When humans came along, turtles came under serious threat. Biodiversity is good, and I think it is good in technology as well.

That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle.

I'm a technical manager, but I don't have to take care of people. I only have to worry about technology itself.

I actually don't believe that everybody should necessarily try to learn to code. I think it's reasonably specialized, and nobody really expects most people to have to do it. It's not like knowing how to read and write and do basic math.

With software, you really can replicate and do a lot of very real and active development in parallel, and actually try it out and see what works.