The “Break it Down” Blog

This is Why Linux Will Never Compete on the Desktop

About a year ago I started writing an article titled “Linux on the Desktop: 10 Years of Wasted Time”. I was trying to summarize why Linux does not compete on the desktop for the mainstream computer user. As a Linux user since RedHat 5.0, then a Gentoo user for years then a Mandrake user for [...]

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eBay’s Developers: 40k Developers, Every 2 Weeks 100k Lines of Code

Did anyone have ANY idea that eBay was this big and complex? 40k developers and every 2 weeks they make a release that represents essentially 100k lines of code and I can’t stand their goddamn site… where is all this code going? I did a rant a while back telling why I couldn’t stand the site… [...]

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