From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from snark.thyrsus.com (snark.tuxedo.org [207.106.50.26]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B39B4482A for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 15:36:07 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 17:35:14 -0400 From: "Eric S. Raymond" To: David Woodhouse Cc: Nicolas Pitre , Tom Rini , Alan Cox , "Albert D. Cahalan" , Matthew Wilcox , james rich , lkml , parisc-linux@parisc-linux.org Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Re: OK, let's try cleaning up another nit. Is anyone paying attention? Message-ID: <20010420173514.A21392@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com References: <20010420172435.A21252@thyrsus.com> <6817.987801548@redhat.com> <20010420172435.A21252@thyrsus.com> <7043.987802140@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <7043.987802140@redhat.com>; from dwmw2@infradead.org on Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 10:29:00PM +0100 List-ID: David Woodhouse : > I'd be very surprised if the number of false positives isn't fairly stable, > with new ones being introduced at a similar rate to the rate at which old > ones finally become correct. Even supposing that's so, a 36% rate of broken symbols is way too high. It argues that we need to do a thorough housecleaning at least once in order to get back to an acceptably low stable rate. -- Eric S. Raymond The same applies for other kinds of long-lasting low-level pain. [...] The body's response to being jabbed, pierced, and cut is to produce endorphins. [...] So here's my programme for breaking that cycle of dependency on Windows: get left arm tattooed with dragon motif, buy a crate of Jamaican Hot! Pepper Sauce, get nipples pierced. With any luck that will produce enough endorphins to make Windows completely redundant, and I can then upgrade to Linux and get on with things. -- Pieter Hintjens