Is there any known/public system that use ReactOS? Is there a goal for this OS? a use-case? Any dev-story I can read?
I'm not criticizing their work or passion, au contraire, it's a spectacular effort the developers are doing, developing an OS with the same API than Windows 2000 from scratch. For me they are giants.
ReactOS writeups on Habr are always an entertaining read, similar in nature to console emulator change blogs. Over the years, you just remember the often mentioned cash register anecdote.
Not a SWE, but I imagine ReactOS constitutes executable (and therefore rigorous) documentation for how Windows and its API works. This could be helpful if you are programming directly against the Windows API and the official docs are not complete.
A long time ago, the ReactOS devs gave an example of someone consulting the ReactOS code to understand how some component of the Windows API worked.
Legally they can't copy source code from windows, so they have to do something called block box reverse engineering.
That just means they can't look at the code, but they can try to copy exactly how the code works. This is for legal/copyright reasons.
It's really impressive so far. Windows is a complicated beast that has been built up since the early 90's without much old functionality being thrown out.
I agree and I believe that is part of the problem. Nobody has been willing to make a paper on this yet. Apparently there is a lot of discussion in the scientific community but its just that, discussion. I suspect nobody wants to risk their career until they have something more credible to post than speculation and anecdotal observations, albeit very interesting observations.
There is no consensus I can think of. Reducing emissions seems obvious, but most industries and transport vehicles depend on burning fossil fuels. Governments should push for reduction of emission limits in industries and taxing at the border to foreign companies or countries that do not comply with some "enviromental care level", "waste per capita threshold" or "polution prevent level" or something like that [1][2].
What I'd also advice all "normal" citizens is to take their part in slowing the global warming by doing simple actions like:
- Recycling cardboard/crystal/plastics/metal.
- Buying local produce.
- Buying second hand stuff: books, clothes, etc.
- Buying hybrid cars, and when there was enough electric-stations, electric cars.
Through my career only twice side projects have been brought up during the interview:
- When starting in a startup after I lost many years working for a small no-name company.
- When interviewing for an American company in Madrid (I was not offered a position).
Side question: how do you all come up with ideas for side projects? I don't know if my life is dull (or I'm dull), but I have no creative power in my mind to give birth to great ideas, only small libraries, that well, interest few people.
They failed and the next two years were a sequence of minor scale violent events that ended in a war in 1936. Of course, the coup by the military forces is not justified, but the caotic situation made them choose what they thought was the "lesser of two evils".
The Second Spanish Republic was a failed try to make a modern country whithoug having some kind of agreement between different political parties. All political parties were extremely polarized, the first coup failed (1934), and the second one (1936) succeeded.
The civil war started 40 years of iron-fist totalitarian right-leaning regime (allied to USA). Fortunately it's been 50 years since that ended, although some politicians (soem in PSOE and almost all in Podemos) like to bring the topic up again, and again, and again... Only for divisive reasons and electoral motives.
Edit: However, fighting because of what faction was worse in a conflict that ended more than 80 years ago is nonsense. This comment was made only to remind all that both factions made war crimes.
Franco supporters' oppression aginst the losers side ("Republicans" and Communists) was worse after the war, from what I know.
One of the factions can be worse without the other being perfect.
All my grandparents were pro-Franco (some more openly than others). I have done my own research and I have concluded that no, they were the baddies. Of course the other side were not all angels. They never are.
> ended more than 80 years ago
The problem is that that conflict from 80 years ago had ramifications that continue to exist today, even present in our Constitution.
I don't know, but for anarchists and for POUM [1], Franco could be part of "the baddies" (things are never so simple like good and bad), but "Republican" (with support for the URSS) members were the ones that killed them.
I'm not criticizing their work or passion, au contraire, it's a spectacular effort the developers are doing, developing an OS with the same API than Windows 2000 from scratch. For me they are giants.