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If I were asked to do the same thing for Linux, it likely would take five years, and two dozen people.
Linux is pretty balkanize, has a lot of kingdom building, and you have to pee on everything to make it smell like Linux.
I could do the same in FreeBSD in about a year and a half, with a dozen co-conspirators to run the changes through.
What Goes Into Making an OS to Be Unix Compliant Certified?
Quora
The “single” in “single-page app” refers to the fact that the user’s browser almost never has to fully reload the page as the user clicks around our site. Instead, when the browser makes its first HTTP request to our servers, we send it back a basic, skeleton HTML page and a big pile of JavaScript code. This JavaScript code executes inside the browser, and updates the view of the page in response to the user’s actions. When the JavaScript wants to send or retrieve data from Steveslist, it sends an Asynchronous JavaScript XML Request (almost always called AJAX for short) in the background to a URL. When our server responds, the JavaScript uses the response to update the browser view accordingly.
Systems Design for Advanced Beginners | Robert Heaton
robertheaton.com
When I visited him in 1997, during his first year on the job, the “t” had fallen off the large English sign at the company’s entrance. It didn’t seem promising that my former monitor was earning thirty-three dollars a month at a firm that identified itself as “Fuling Ho Pickled Mustard Tuber.”
China’s Reform Generation Adapts to Life in the Middle Class
newyorker.com
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