Linus Torvalds Questions The Not So Glorious Driver For That Funky Looking RGB Mouse

[skeevy420]

Linus's strongest word when he saw something he didn't like was "hmm?".

"Hmm? Nvidia."

[abott]

I love people here touting "Just conform to spec and deny anything that doesn't!"

If they did that, nearly 50% of your USB stuff hooked to your computer right now would not work.

It's just not reality. Some isn't even breaking spec, it's about ambiguity in the spec its self.

[angrypie]

An interesting example also in my news feed today — Twitter discovering that on Firefox, private data was unexpectedly being cached. And this wasn't the fault of Firefox for caching data — it was the fault of Twitter not actually passing "no-cache" headers, and relying on browser-dependent heuristics that happened to work for them on Chrome.

Twitter? You mean the social network that allows only MP4 video because that's what the iPhone supports?

[starshipeleven]

Linus's strongest word when he saw something he didn't like was "hmm?".

he was pretty snarky but more classy. You don't necessarily need swearing to convey sick burns.

[starshipeleven]

Arguably, device makers should follow the specs. But life isn't perfect, mistakes are made.

Is the concept of responsibility being thrown out of the window?

You make mistakes, you fix them. Why is everyone else supposed to fix them for you.

[onlyLinuxLuvUBack]

"Hmm? Nvidia."

Wasn't it spelled more like "m^m Nvidia" ?