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People with an intel background doesn't make it an NSA op. The NSA grabs top talent all the time, and companies grab them when they leave.
Im curious how you spotted the spooks :)
Exciting stuff, web interfaces can suck.
Like everything in life, complex issues that have many facets are difficult to shoehorn into a right/left box. Sites like rational wiki excel at warping issues to make them simple binary choices. Life is hard, thinking is harder, you can’t outsource your judgments of the world and expect to have a clear picture of reality.
Weak sauce. That’s added nothing to the discussion of Scott Adam’s talents, hubris, ego, or cold logic skills.
“ When your language is so tiny and unpopular that a growth of couple of small projects in an industry your don't like can overshadow the whole existing community”
So you decide to open your argument with an insult to the community... Not a great showing.
“ If you create neutral open source tool like a programming language, you have to be OK with people using it to do stuff that you don't approve of.”
So I have to be okay with crime and scams? I can’t decide to call attention to it and recommend that people don’t let the bad influence guide the direction of the whole language?
“ I am wrong, and who am I to make decisions for other people anyway?”
Good thing this article didn’t try to do that.