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He was an academic.
Did he anticipate user demand, market forces or that a corporation (Google, Microsoft, Hashcorp) could drive a permissive licensed open source project in the open?
It turns out the Firefox and Chromium, both liberally licensed projects, usurped Internet Explorer's monopoly on browsers. Both ultimately are backed financially by corporations with huge troths of patents and proprietary code.
In who's eyes?
Consumers want the best product.
Investors want a payout.
How does GPL satisfy either of these?
GPL doesn't have the nimbleness to be viable with the market. It doesn't respect creativity and time of developers or investors - leaving consumers left to pick a proprietary / permissive alternative.
You don't need to be GPL to be open: You can MIT/BSD/Apache and still volunteer to not give out binary blobs [1]
[1] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=491435
Lack of citation and data noted. I'm assuming good faith and going to approach this as I would a fellow colleague :)
I'm also going to assume you perhaps haven't been introduced to the vibrant ecosystem of permissive licensed software.
The article also doesn't mention how GPL is a show-stopper at some companies where we are building proprietary solutions.
Oracle, IBM, Sony, Apple, Microsoft, Boeing all are monetized empires that profit not just from binary blobs, but from providing a superior product. Also, being the patent holder is lucrative.
How do you intend on running a business and feeding your employees, let alone making investors happy following the virtues of GPL? Consulting and support only goes so far.
> Most of them are stepping stones towards further software development.
Ever hear of DragonEgg? (GCC was used to bootstrap LLVM/clang in it's early days.)
Devs use GPL software to write permissive software. Sometimes they do so because they have no choice but to reinvent the wheel because of GPL's rules.
There is a whole network of people who with jobs using Microsoft tools. It's perfectly justifiable.
Does the LLVM+Clang combo make GCC obsolete?
But it's more complicated than it looks. Pao and stuff are giving 0 cares about political correctness being a cancer far more evil than fat hate.
We don't need owners at reddit to act like priest or therapist spreading their "morality". It doesn't work.
Why are jerks like Trump surging? People have had it with the hypocriscy and suppression of truth.
You can't speak simple truths without staking your career on it. Armies on twitter claim to be harassment victims while themselves being criminally harassers [1][2]
[1] http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2015/07/02/the-fact-a... [2] http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/christie-blatchfor...
1. Why does need a fund? It won't make much difference, he has already confessed.
2. There are plenty of other people with their lives on the line who don't get the kind of sympathy he did.
He built nothing. He didn't rise ranks. He's a childish, selfish heartbreaker who hasn't shown an inkling of remorse for the damage he has caused.
> I, [name], do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.
Also, while I don't have an example of it, his security clearance also required a pledge. (Found it: The SF-312 http://www.sandia.gov/resources/employees/corporate_forms/_a...)
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=42926
These often state how leaking of such information can cause great damage. Snowden did the same pledge.
Sure, but money doesn't change the facts.
After a confession - the reality of the outcome changes.
> Well, maybe if you posted the stories of the tragedies that happened to them due to the leak there would be some sympathy. Where are they?
There full names were leaked. Security for them has been compromised. Maybe they don't go to the news about it, they're private individuals.
Bradley Manning seems to have a lot of free defense already. Not a lot of people defending the facts. He's confessed.
He is a traitor who has endangered lives.
If you want to talk about people's rights - what about the rights of the identities he leaked? Where was there trial? I don't see much sympathy for them.
I do find them a bit toxic because of the negativity. It's a phase many guys go through when they break the social conditioning of the feminine imperative.
Rollo Tomassi is far more gentle, for those who haven't heard of him (www.therationalmale.com)
Do you mean you were fired / you quit? Or was that the conversation?
See the subject of my thread for context.
> What is the point?
Lopsided proportions on dating websites.
How is dating websites being lopsided in favor of women misogyny?
The systemic use of the blanket term of misogyny in these cases seems more like misandry, to be fair.
Why not stay on the point? You can't control of tone of Heartiste. He has the right to express his opinions, don't you think?
Until a group of outsiders on social networks with no stake in Mozilla came in with shame tactics. Even people with little connection to them would use them as a vehicle for their own benefit.
Bring back Eich.
The article discusses lopsidedness of online dating and how it disproportionately favors women.
"Myspace, Match, eHarmony, CL… they all suck for the elegantly simple reason that online there are too many indiscriminate horny men and too few cute girls. The dynamics are totally in the woman’s favor, ridiculously so in that it encourages massive self-assessment inflation that will carry over into real life social interactions, guaranteeing disappointment."
http://heartiste.wordpress.com/2007/09/12/online-dating-is-f... is an interesting article on online dating.
A great youtube video on why online dating doesn't work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe5_JK_LcEI
You can do so pretty easily via GitHub. Sign up to a few mailing lists, not every important project is on GH.
Consider a daemon you use really often. Familiarize yourself with the code until you master it.
> There are a lot of talented coders on HackerNews who could built any app currently on the market in a weekend.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect right? That person clearly doesn't build much.
I'll never forget the day I went out exclusively to meet a girl. I was rejected by maybe a hundred girls I approached. The worst one's were the ones that just stared at their phone, like I wasn't even human.
I was tired. It was 8PM... around that. I go up and approach girl inside of a clothing store. Please God speak english. She opens up with perfect english, smiling. We went on a date right there. Huge confidence booster.
Frankly, people are a complicated bunch. You don't understand their learned behaviors, position and internal politics. There's no way you could understand the whether a girl is grumpy, just broke up, open to meeting someone new until you come up to her.
We need more posts like this. Not just for VC's, I'd like to see comeback stories for freelancers scoring gigs / job interviews.
Good job OP
Up until now, no one has pointed out the article eerily resembles the tones that began GamerGate.
The more you look at it, the more it appears to be a deliberate troll to highlight the irony of injecting identity politics into journalism.
He's a trojan horse. https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/3cur16/im_m...
Also, so called "anti-gamer gaters" don't simply go off and offer AMA's to "gamergaters".
Anti-GG's modus operandi is to cast aside any discussion as misogyny or harassment.
Both sides harass each other, unfortunately.
My question is, what took so long? What prevented it?
https://github.com/facebook/flux is this the flux it's for?
It seems opaque to me at this stage. It reminds me of when Google released Polymer. There was a lot of generic stuff - but no elevator pitch.
Explain to me in 30 seconds what's flux and where it sits?
Firefox is in the middle of plummeting, they caved-in social networks mobs and pretty much showed that hardline political correctness trumps your own spiritual foundations.
And this in turn feels like a twisted joke.
Thanks for jamming your political views to your board, and therefore your product, and your users.
It's hard to quantify the people you angered Mozilla. But you're spiritually lost.
Pao has so far shown herself to be deeply out of touch with core values of reddit, I could elaborate.
However, Pao or not - how can you make a community-based site like reddit profitable without betraying the fact your users are doing the heavy lifting? I could elaborate here too.
C powers the daemons and operating systems of the world.
When you're working in the field, C's transparency and absence of esoteric programming voodoo is a feature, not deficit.
Interest posting made today similar: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9827051
1. You can't expect changers on the internet to have sensitivity to family situations.
2. You can't control other people - it will just lead to heartache.
You need to make yourself self-sufficient and learn to separate yourself from irresponsible people. The truth is in this world we're all out for ourselves.
> What is something I can put in front of her to stimulate her?
Find something stimulating that's not the internet / smart phones.
A game? A karma system? Until she does something stupid? Until she tries to gain validation and finds out the internet laughs at her? And it hurts both of your feelings?