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In that context they saw a market opportunity and took a chance. Makes it even stranger to dedicate a takedown post to it.

I don't understand why a hobby project for a few people warrants what is essentially a takedown post.There is a ton of open source projects that are not needed. People do them for all sorts of reasons. Live and let live.

TL;DR; when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail

Although I like your version also. Haven't heard the full story before like that

This is such a tired argument. It's been 20 years. You don't think other OS's have had the opportunity?

The fact is, Windows is still king today because of backwards-compatibility and nothing else. No other OS has taken this as seriously. Certainly not Apple. And not Linux either.

You can still run DOS programs on Windows today. And companies do. I personally know of software originally written in the 80's and with many legacy components from that time still running on modern versions of Windows Server.

Companies don't take backwards-compatibility seriously. And if you're constantly breaking things, people are not going to trust your product for serious use to be relied on. It's really not that complicated.

Not to mention the developer tools are second to none. You may not like .Net, or you may have some problem with how Microsoft did business 20 years ago (get over it). But Visual Studio is hands down, without question, the best IDE on the market. And Visual Studio Code is the best text editor. And now, with their open source efforts, it just keeps getting better.

(Yes, I know that's not Apple's intended market, you don't have to tell me. The point still stands. Windows is popular today because of a herculean effort by Microsoft over the years to ensure backwards-compatibility. And yes, I know it's not perfect. You don't have to tell me that either. It's always the same tired arguments. And at the end of the day, the point still stands and no other OS has risen up to take Windows crown. And no, this year is not finally going to be the year of the Linux desktop. Next year either. Or the year after that. It's not going to happen. Get over it.)

I don't think that's true. I've never heard that about any other industry. Certainly not about janitorial work. Doctors curing a patient, lawyers winning a big case, secretaries keeping the schedule up to date, teachers with kids who pass their tests, truck drivers who deliver on time. all of that is plainly visible. IT is a field in which few people see the results or understand the effort required.

This is more prolific in software than just Y2K. At a company I work with, if everything is going smoothly and things are working, devs get a ton of crap for not getting more done, no matter the pace and productivity. Of course they get crap when things aren't working also.

When people don't understand something, they can't tell the difference between a lot of effort to make something work smoothly and "it's clearly not that big of a deal"

The Democrats could pack universal single payer healthcare into this bill and it would still pass. It would be political suicide for Republicans and Trump to block it. They would of course scream about the Democrats playing politics, but they do that about everything already, so what's new. The Democrats would be able to say they tried to help the country in a time of crisis and were blocked. It would be a win-win for Democrats.

Disclaimer: I am an independent and don't think Medicare for all is a good idea. Still though.

Terrible analogy. You don't die if your OS crashes. If a bridge or a building collapses, it's very likely to kill people.

Not to disregard your own experience, but I too am old enough to remember the start of mobile phones, and no one I ever knew thought they were dorky. Douchy maybe, but that was mostly bc the early adopters were wealthy businessmen and finance jerks (no offense to anyone if you are one). But not dorky.

I'm not. I'm just judging him for doing so. Which is wrong. I shouldn't have phrased it like that. I guess that stigma in society around people who are perfectly happy being happy and don't feel the need to "be great" is sensitive to me because my wife constantly receives a lot of crap for it.

So you be you, previous poster. Just don't look down on others who don't want to change the world.

The question posed was why do they Have to? Not why Should they.

Of course we need people driven to move society forward. But there is a stigma in modern society it seems around people who are perfectly happy being who they are and not "striving to be great". And that's ridiculous.

The previous poster asks all his potential dates, with what seems to be a fairly heavy helping of disdain for the "wrong answer", what their plan to change the world is.

Why does it matter? You go change the world. Let your spouse or your friends or your colleagues be content with not changing the world and just be happy living in it.

Why do they have to? I have that drive, but my wife is perfectly happy with a calm, comfortable, stress-free life. And in fact it helps to bring me back down to Earth sometimes also.

There's nothing wrong with wanting a life that free. In fact it's oftentimes admirable. Especially at times when I'm wound so tight I feel like I could pop.

If you're choosing a partner based solely on whether they want to be the next Elon Musk or not, you're doing yourself a serious disservice.

And if you really ask those questions to every potential date, you should stop, because dude, wtf?

In my opinion RuboCop is too strict. Every code standard analyzer takes some tweaking to get it set up for a particular project and team standards, but RuboCop needs changing of a ton of rules to make it even usable in a reasonable fashion.

I love it because it brings some order to a meta-everything world, but it'd be nice if it came with a reasonable set of rules by default

I'm sure it's not ok to the people that need those new medicines

It's not privilege. It's a right the country has fought and died for for over 200 years. It's a principle the country was founded on.

"Privilege" has lost all meaning in today's world. It's just a word to throw around to slow how "woke" you are.

Calling our rights "privilege" is throwing out the struggle and sacrifice of everyone that fought for those rights.

You may have been Lucky to have been born in the US, but not Privileged

I'm in the US too.

Inventions is usually defined in the contract itself and does not necessarily apply to patentable things.

This is just my personal experience, so take it for what it's worth, though I do have a fair amount of experience with contracts and non-competes.

Form an LLC, use a registered agent, put everything in the companies name, don't tell your employer, profit. Nothing they can do about it. The odds of them finding out are nearly non-existent unless you go around putting your name on everything

"inventions" is not used in the same context as you would use it when talking about an inventor, like Tesla or Edison.

It's legalize. It depends on the language in the contract, but it usually includes everything under the sun, including creative works like books.

Sometimes there is a clarification for anything that can be related to your work, my current employer does that, but I've seen others without that. Which basically says they own you and everything you do or even think while employed by them.

Are they? Or are the Iranian people too afraid of the Revolutionary Guard to say different? If you want to go that route, North Korea has the most popular government and leader on Earth. I don't think you can make claims about popularity of a government that can and does make people disappear who say otherwise.

It's a hackernoon opinion blog post, not the New York Times. And you don't need a citation for something that is clearly meant to be hyperbole.

[Citation needed] has gone from a notation about checking facts to a trendy response whenever someone doesn't like something they read in a blog post or comment.

As a generalist developer nearing 40, I worry about this all the time. I have extensive and valuable experience in certain areas, including management, but I have started investigating other directions I can take my career and more focused specialities I can pursue to extend my shelf life, because it's seems pretty clear that it's not really viable to continue my current path.

Using Google Docs to report problems with Google, including Google Docs. Irony at it's finest.

This must be why GitLab is giving me shit. They recently made the switch. Wonder if there is any second guessing going on over there right now.

Then you've never been an athlete at a high level. I don't mean that negatively, but I can assure you that even people who love every second of what they do, like many professional and even college athletes, can suffer burnout. Exhaustion and stress can cause burnout in anybody.

80%+ of the plastic in the ocean comes from China. It's not fair to lump the US in with China.

"They recognize it and want to do something" doesn't mean shit when you're by far the worst part of the problem. Especially when "wanting to do something about it" and "doing something about it" are ridiculously different things.

I certainly won't disagree with hostile modern software trends. I just think if FOSS maintainers are accepting the responsibility of maintaining the project, they should accept the responsibility of taking bug reports seriously. Everyone knows they are no fun. And everyone knows they aren't flashy. And the maintainers are more than welcome to ignore them. But in doing so, they can't complain about people not accepting consumer facing FOSS. It's a package deal.

My claim is common bc it's the truth.

Source: I am a maintainer of several projects. Some that are used extensively. And I take bug reports seriously, even if I can't always get to them right away.

"it's free, go away" is a real problem. Denying it won't make anything any better or help FOSS get adopted for anything other than servers.

I have experienced it many times before, and almost every time I've gone back to propriety software and breathed a sigh of relief.

TL;DR;

FOSS Zeolots: everyone should use FOSS! Micro$oft is evil!

Also FOSS Zeolots: Oh you have a bug? Screw you. You're getting it for free. Stop complaining. I'm busy making a new icon.

OSS is great. But until this attitude is killed, it will continue to hover just above "who gives a shit" for anything other than developers

Roslyn is open source.

Justice Department answers to Trump. Doesn't mean he can tell them to just go arrest someone. No matter how many times he tries.