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Presuming the USA is the only country with nuclear weapons?

Does everyone promise to do this and have them nowhere else?

First, understand that he did not make a movie. Someone else did.

Second, if someone makes a movie about you, that does not expand your knowledge into wide areas or into depths of world knowledge.

Third, no one individual can become an expert on all things based on knowing other like-minded individuals.

My point was, it seems too many of his worshipers now come to his altar asking for his opinion on all things ... and forgiveness.

I guess all he needs is to grow his hair long and a beard and HNers would genuflect at his picture in their hallway. Funny how this guy, at age 29 three years ago, is an expert in all worldly things nowadays.

Came here to say this and surprised HN isn't outraged over this obvious oversight.

For that matter, I did this sort of work for decades and, while I knew I was good at what I did, to me it was relatively routine and I would expect most EEs could do the same thing. No, it would not have been years but, without delving into the article (I just woke up), it might have been a few months. Maybe weeks if I was still on my game.

Apparently it is different in other countries but I agree with you. This is something done by an EE, not a CS person in the US.

In the 1700s, some Europeans clubbed one of my relatives to death. Where's my money?

I totally agree with him.

When I first heard of Medium, it seemed to have some well written articles. Then it turned into exactly what he's complaining about. Anyone can throw anything up there and wind up linked to on reddit, as if it was handed down from a mountain top.

I don't trust most articles there anymore.

Microsoft was also fined $2 billion dollars by the EU in 2004 for anti-trust violations so it's not just the 1990s.

In addition, Microsoft was under US Federal oversight until 2011, but then had it extended another two years for failure to comply with the original court order. So let's not forget that.

Linux servers are here to stay for a while? Linux, and Unix and BSD, run 75 to 85% of the internet so that kind of thinking is just so wrong.

Netflix delivers all video streaming content via FreeBSD which makes up 37% of all internet traffic. https://openconnect.itp.netflix.com/software/ They also contribute to FreeBSD core. It is not just an "appliance" as some people seem to want to point to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sZZN8Szh14

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP_bKvXkoC4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL5U4wr86L4

In addition, a guy I met, who worked at Yahoo, told me about 25% of Yahoo still runs FreeBSD as of two years ago.

I run FreeBSD on my workstation since 2004 and am at 10.3-RELEASE right now. I'm a web developer and run several VMs, different browsers, all development work including graphics, as does the staff of ten at my office.

FreeBSD has no issues with any of the high end hardware we run and the oldest to newest hardware we have is one to three years old.

FreeBSD has supported Linux compatibility for many years and, purportedly, can run some Linux applications faster than Linux itself so FreeBSD has always been miles ahead.

Those "other things" mean the cost of food, paper, cleaning supplies, etc. that make a restaurant run. Those same materials are made by low wage earners who, if given $15/hour, will drive up the cost of the supplies I use, thus increasing my operating costs.

I own several franchised fast food restaurants.

This article ignores several key points. Robots are expensive and would need to be custom made for each restaurant to replace humans. Also, there would be missing the human touch, making a restaurant visit cold and automated. No more "service" and personal touches. You get what you get.

The immediate issue is, who pays for the increased labor cost? You do. And, no, it won't just add a dime to your bill. My labor cost has gone up 150% since I started in this 30 years ago as an investment. All my material costs are also up at least that same amount. The unit cost to you of one of our products was $4 back then. Today it is $8.

I now feel I hire better people but I hire fewer of those people and, currently, won't hire teenagers cause they're unreliable but the quality of person I need to run with this light crew is hard to find, more due to the stigma of working fast food than the actual pay (though that's part of it).

The customer is price sensitive. The customer likes the human touch. If restaurants go robotic, the most popular restaurants will be those without one, and while the idea of raising pay to $15/hour is great, someone has to pay for that, and that someone is you.

You presume that he needs to change but give no reason to do so other than you think your way is better. He says his is better and a lot of people, including myself and a well-publicized recent article, feel the same way.

We think your path is the wrong way and will cause you problems as time goes on.

Nothing you said matters cause it has nothing to do with what I was replying to. I was replying to the statement that he "lacks experience" and that is far from the truth.

The author has been a well known, though low key, source since I began in 2004 and I've been following him since. His about page says he's been developing for the web since it began so, no, he does not lack experience.