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Who would have thought? That in your late thirties, you have gained experience, knowledge, contacts, maybe even a degree of financial support, all of which lend towards the formation of breakthrough ideas. Now, where is my prize?

the problem is that in most locations companies seem to have the upper hand, and IT staff work in a cost centre, and the drive is on to reduce salaries to less than that of a french deodorant salesman.

Sounds far too simplistic. Some people are born arseholes, some blame the world for their bad lot in life, others still take pleasure in causing problems and generally trolling. Finally a small honest few may derive their chip from personal experience, the most honest experience. I agree we should review what happened in their respective situations, and work to avoid that in the future. But the rest? Not worth the attention they so desperately seek.

Some people have massive, powerful shoulders. And they need them. To carry that chip on their shoulder for so long.

Whether their personal chip is racism, sexism, or any other -ism, their chip is the real problem. So, how do we stop them foisting their chips onto the rest of civilised society?

C or ASM? You do realise on this site those languages dont exist, only Ruby, Haskell, Bracket-o-lisp variants, Go, Rust, and any other brogrammer ready shiny shiny. I didnt forget to add JS to the list - i dont really consider it a language, just a bad artifact of the web wars that sadly lived on.

isn't this the whole schtick for slackexchange? Answers for lazy programmers?

Paint by numbers, google by functions. Both result in a seemingly finished product, created without any understanding at all!

You are missing what he is really saying. He saw the tools available, liked some aspects of them, was even able to use some of them reasonably compentently.

But, he realised early on that our tools are limited, they have problems, they can be hard work, and he decided they were not for him.

Upstart although being first was never going to win against the marketing forces behind systemd. In the old days, tech was evaluated on technical merit, today the slickest marketing hucksters win. Yet another piece of lennart-ware to bring down the linux experience. Thank you BSDs for providing a sane alternative.

So you acknowledge today some people do already leech as you put it, under the GPL. It may be a violation, and the other party may laugh as they are in a different juridiction. So, what was your point again?

You think that people don't leech on the GPL? Great, then I have found just the customer for some snake oil!

There wouldn't be the whole GPL violations thingy if people were not already taking without giving under the GPL.

This is a big shame. They are already familiar with the BSD license, so why the GPL?

What is it's first recommendation? Add more DRM into the web standards? Subvert the open web further?

A member of our year took their life at college. None of us knew whatever was going on in their life or mind. And that is the hardest part - societal stigma prevented the person reaching out to peers and friends, and probably stopped us collectively being proactive in stepping in, in case we mistakenly labelled someone as appearing in need of help.

It transpired they had tried to reach help online, the place where most youth head these days, but instead of help they received encouragement to kill themaelves.

Cracking the very tough nut of getting people actually talking would save more lives and disrupt more attempts.

if you are using Ruby for any performance sensitive task, you are doing it wrong. Really. Even the die hard fans acknowledge they use it for the meta-magic-shiny-shiny rather than something that complete a given task in a reasonable timeframe.

Ruby is slow. Dynamic languages often are.

In the old days people thought about design, the wrote software, they supported their product.

Nowadays all the wannabees think installing a metric ton of shit from npm or the gem equivalents makes them a super productive brogrammer rock star developer. They have a single page website that requires gigabytes of javascript from fourty external locations to run a basic blog. They spend all day on github, but are borderline code unaware.

They argue lack of generics in go is good.

They are what the business and clients see, and that is why the people paying for software services end up labelling us all as muppets.