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[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago
[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

He was 22 years old. Pretty incredible.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Just look at those nested parentheses. A true sign of (pedantic) greatness, when a person needs to clarify something in their earlier clarification.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Funny how he made it basically for his desktop computer.

33 years later, and Linux is dominating in every part of the OS world except ... the desktop.

(I'm paraphrasing his quote -- he said something like this years ago, can't find it, though.)

(Edit: to be more fair with quotes, it might be the case that I "hallucinated" the quote. he might not have said that, or he might have just said part of it and other part would be someone else's comment. This cio.com article is probably a better source on his position )

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

There’s no guessing what will catch the world by storm. At a party once, Bram Cohen tried to get me interested in his ideas for a a peer-to-peer protocol, and I thought nothing of it.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

My cousin's buddies asked him to build the website for their new ride hailing app but he didn't feel like doing some rinky dink thing, apparently Travis and them took it in stride though.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

that's all I have :-(

aww

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

...probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks,as that's all I have. :-(.

Cuteness.

As in hilarity.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

“Just a hobby, won’t be big” - he really didn’t think it will be one of the most sought after projects.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

That post changed my life, gave me a great hobby, which became a career, and still puts food on the table for me and my family to this day. Thank you, Linus.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago
[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

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