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Actually, I don't see this guy as really being mentally ill.

He's a mad scientist, dude wrote an OS. That's what happens. If any one of you pushed through on your startup past the point of hope (like a lot of the posts on here recommend by "successful" individuals who are very likely nearly as "delusional" but hide it better) you would be exactly the same.

He's just coming out with his "fuck this, I'm in the Matrix" ultra-superstitious moments which takes a lot of balls. He's got nothing to lose, so fuck it. I bet a LOT of old programmers on here see this guy and think "yeah, I've had some God moments."

If I had a billion dollars, I would give this guy a million bucks just for sticking to his guns for a decade. He's obviously not an idiot. He just hit that point in programming where you realize the universe is made of voxels made of energy and that we're stupid animals competing for dominance, everything we do is subconsciously motivated and the things we say are mostly lies we've convinced ourselves of.

Let's all hate celebrities and people more successful than we are! Let's tear down the pack leaders and earn tribal status so we have access to the women! Save the princess!

If you don't understand this, you either haven't reached the point of seeing the superficial as it is, haven't separated from the herd for long enough to ever think for yourself, haven't reached a high enough level of maturity, or you're made so uncomfortable by it you just repress it and agree with the status quo but on some level know it's right.

What exactly is the difference between this and a pac-man clone written in Excel? Do you realize this is how scary and insane writing a shell script looks to the average person? I'm guessing the difference is the Christian bent. I'm not religious, but most of the world is. Do you know why?

The obsession with religion is creepy and foreign, but it's unfortunately the best thing we've got to align to. You like classical geniuses? Bach, maybe? Dude hid secret messages in his songs and wrote them all as an offering to God, wrote crazy shit on the top of every page. It's a good thing we all see Bach for what he is and publicly criticize him as being a mentally ill pariah freak, and not hold him up as some kind of musical genius hero. Hundreds of examples like this.

Let's put YOU under the spotlight for a moment here:

"Open source is coming. Watch out for the revolution."

Open source? You mean those mentally ill homeless drugged up Berkeley hippy protesters with neckbeards camping outside Microsoft? Those guys are a cancer to this business.

Yeah, watch out for the revolution. Look, this obsessed nerd thinks SOURCE CODE is a revolution. Yeah, the world sure gives a huge fuck about software being open. We're gonna see everyone just pouring into the streets and rioting any day now because we've finally been set free from our oppressors.

(Tongue in cheek, devil's advocate, showing perspective.)

By the way, this guy wrote an open source OS. Why aren't you hacking on his project? Maybe it's great, have you looked at the technical side of it?

Watch me get attacked for defending the guy the hivemind has decided to hate.

Either way, here's what's gonna happen: Some cute little Christian bird that likes computers is gonna fall in love with this courageous man here, they're gonna get hitched and live happy as clams. That's probably everything you ever wanted, but you're too busy hacking away trying to achieve wealth and status because you're insecure, while this guy is shagging his wife to the beat of his insane randomly generated music. God (nature) wins, the end.

I mean a sly ex-cop/PI is going to pose as a delivery guy and wake the kid up at 8AM after he feels safe and gets sloppy, and get him on camera agreeing that he doesn't really own the place. Something like that is my guess. There are a million tricks that they will use, depending on how resourceful and stubborn they are.

She's most likely jealous (of something she already has but has to share and is still paying mortgage on) and grasping at straws. It's something humans do.

As a developer, I don't dislike this guy. He is investing his own experience-based career skills into the bargain, which is a whole lot better than guy-with-idea-wants-half.

Good for him, hope he holds onto it. He'd better start researching persuasion techniques, bet they hire some ex-cops to social engineer him into slipping up.

Pfft. Any game site worth their salt would have negotiated the embargo period on releasing the "news" before providing this free advertising in exchange for those addicted fanboy clicks.

Real journalism is the advertising industry now. "Real" journalism (old-fashioned "journalistic integrity") is a good way to get squeezed out and blacklisted from the industry.

Keep in mind this isn't "real" news or journalism, it is treated as entertainment and there is no integrity assumed, there are justifications in place for this stuff.

Also, there have always been press hacks and tabloids. Most popular internet "news" is far more tabloid than newspaper.

Most single moms I know make at LEAST 7 figures, come on. What do you think these poor people are, some kind of slave class?

Oracle JVM is based on OpenJDK now. The difference is in the IcedTea plugin, which is lacking a lot of features.

The sarcasm was more referring to the fact that Java (and to some extent Flash with Alchemy VM stuff) is already the best solution for cross-platform native sandboxing in the browser.

(If Oracle improves on the updates, that is, and I'm sure they will, they've got a lot on the roadmap for Java.)

This is a neat idea though!

Easy, write a mobile operating system that uses Java for all the apps- then license that to hardware OEMs until you've got a stranglehold on mobile OS, like the Microsoft model on desktop.

I am saddened that Google didn't buy Sun. Maybe they'll buy Oracle and the optical barrier over the valley will dissolve and reveal it is actually a portal into Hell.

I am doing some research, apparently this is only for the online JRE install, and it's been there since 2011.

Sun JRE install once peddled OpenOffice and Google Toolbar, but at least OO is better than Ask. Ugh.

They need to get rid of this, it's an embarrassment.

I won't cut them slack on their update process, they should have improved that by now.

I don't think being poor or not matters, Java is a gigantic codebase and throwing money at a team doesn't make them code more efficiently. They are doing moderately well at transitioning.

I believe Google ripped Java off hard, and I believe both the ripping off Java and the suing for it were bad moves. Google should have licensed or bought Java and Oracle should have sold it or open-sourced it.

This is why corporate-owned languages are bad, and why Dalvik isn't really any better in the long run.

The best thing, perhaps, would be if HotSpot and OpenJDK were completely community driven all the way down to the release/update/install process, the way IcedTea is.

Browser native functionality wouldn't be cross-platform or even standardized between browsers.

What we really need is some kind of native virtual machine that can run cross-platform bytecode in the browser.

Someone should make a plugin for this that works with all browsers, it would be genius!

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This I am genuinely annoyed with. I am going to start a petition to Oracle for these points, the Java community is extremely large and valuable and it's a disgrace to treat the platform this way.

That was actually a pretty fast response, considering the behemoth Java is and that the team is fractured since the acquisition. Things will get better, the websites are not even fully transitioned yet.

Wish people would cut Oracle a little slack here, although they really need to improve the Java update process. They could and should learn something from Flash (as depressing as that is to say!)

That's correct, I am not looking for communication. I am simply frustrating your ability to make a valid argument. Inevitably I can use this tactic to persuade you to do something for me.

I don't have to make a point, I just have to cut down your argument with some evidence you agree with.

This is how you con programmers into writing programs for you. I have watched it happen half a dozen times now.

I don't make a salary. I'm just blowing off some steam here, I am a game developer by trade and I've watched my non-technical peers succeed at getting their designs made half a dozen times simply through this political manipulation of programmers. It's insane that it works and incredibly frustrating to me to watch it happen over and over.

Fair enough, and I agree with the other examples in the thread of why "programming is fun" literature has a positive effect, but it also has a very strong effect on people unlike us who aren't motivated by it and aren't ever going to be inspired to learn it, but are going to use it as ammunition. From a lot of my experience, that's the principal that a lot of business management is built on.

If you enjoy reading those articles so much, would you mind scanning through this pile of old newspapers I've got in my garage? I'll let you do it for $20.

Yet industries like the game industry are dominated and run by non-technical business leaders who use this to their political advantage- to the point of driving programmers like slaves. "Programming games is fun, right? So you won't mind working over the weekend, right? If not, we'll get the new hires to take over your project." and so forth.

People might see that programming is tedious, but "everything you say can and will be used against you" as political leverage and they don't care what they see, only what they can use as proof to devalue the skill you have that they don't.

I'd like to see more blog posts entitled "programming is fucking hard" and "I bashed my brains out all weekend to show off this barely functioning hack and my kidneys ache from the caffeine overload."

False modesty for the sake of "making it look easy" might benefit you as an individual by looking cool or elite or levelheaded, but it devalues the skill commodity and community as a whole.

I also think that the majority of the population has absolutely no idea of the work involved in your typical program, which leads to, as one simple example: the stereotypical relative asking you to make his great App idea, with absolutely no concept that it would take 6 months of 12 hour days.

All: Don't click on links in your spam folder

The exploit is being packed in kits that will most likely find a flaw in something else first before trying Java.

Still good to close it up, but the backlash against Java is counterproductive, Oracle really needs to improve the Java update mechanisms and be on top of these things right away.

Can anyone explain why the #1 article in Japan is porno actresses?

Someday I'm going to invent a place where people can gather to learn technical skills from masters of the crafts, and socialize with like-minded enthusiasts.

I could even "gamify" it and the players could earn points for passing tests to prove their knowledge, ultimately earning an "achievement" for mastering the craft at various levels of proficiency.

We'll allow a diverse range of players to apply and even come live there, maybe right out of high school. I'm thinking "friendiversity" for the name, because you'll make friends and there is diversity there, what do you think?

I'm talking very specifically about a feeling. Sometimes you can tell when things are going to die, just a thought stream buried in the subconscious.

I didn't want to have a discussion. I just wanted to put it out there. It just feels like the novelty has worn off, and everyone is going to realize they are wearing tracking devices instead of believing we are in a magical techno-future now.

People are naturally manipulative, especially in relationships, and people naturally play mind-games without necessarily knowing they are.

A quarrel ending in a door-slam can have damaging effects on the psyche, as a common example that most of you have experienced. It can make it difficult to concentrate.

This just seems to me to be a typical negotiation tool during a relationship gone wrong, trying to prevent further emotional distress. Nothing to see here.

You have to have pictures uploaded to request a "blind date."

The "blind date" is virtual, in that once you've both approved it your profiles are then exchanged with face pictures. (This is intended to protect pictures from being publicly scraped and make people comfortable with uploading them.)

I'll mention this on the front page so as not to cause confusion, thanks!

I'd rather see Light Table features integrated into Eclipse, as creating something as fully featured as Eclipse is...

...going to end up being Eclipse.

So either a massive wheel is being reinvented, or Light Table will be absent of all standard IDE features and consist of the flashy neato Code Bubbles stuff and not much more.

That said, I say develop the hell out of the Light Table concept for all the "new age" (circa 196X) dynamic coder people since their IDEs tend to suck, and let's hope it becomes a standard and we can implement it all in everything else. :)

Man he sounds like EVERY typical early 20s nerdy guy on IRC. He's talking to one of his heroes and trying to fit in, about a little website thing he was working on and trying to be one of the big boys- there's no way he would know how big it was going to get.

Every one of you has said things that can be perceived as nasty, we all have bad moods, we all joke about serious issues that can be taken out of context. "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone."

It takes time and wisdom to grow ethical and moral reasoning. The proper handling of social responsibility is a major component of maturity.

Because you're intimidated/jealous of his public image you can't imagine that he's a normal person, like people being shocked that celebrities sometimes gasp have SEX.

By reacting to this smearing stuff you give nasty people power, just like the tabloids make people more famous, just like the FBI fabricates sex scandals.

It is a major human weakness to be spiteful and by overcoming and understanding this we will grow as a species. There will always be vultures out there feeding on this trash and regurgitating it for a buck, the truth is that they are the real unethical ones.

I am going to try this.