Do you pine for the days when men were men and wrote their own device drivers?
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Torvalds questions nostalgia for older, more hands-on technical eras.
- In plain terms
- Do you miss the old days of writing low-level code yourself?
- What can you take from it?
- Consider if nostalgia for technical control is actually useful.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What do you miss about older tech?
- Is progress always better?
Another view
Older methods had benefits like deeper system understanding.
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