aurelius

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by aurelius 13y ago
For a long time, "equal rights" for gay people was an unpopular opinion. Through action, gay rights have been forced upon others by the government. Why didn't gay people just restrain themselves to respectful disagreement? Yo
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by aurelius 13y ago
I don't disagree. My point was that choosing to be married and have children is a unique undertaking that is extremely challenging, but a lot of goodness can be gained by submitting to the hard work of being a good spouse and a good pa
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by aurelius 13y ago
I saw that too, and LOL'd.
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by aurelius 13y ago
As a father of three, with #4 on the way, I can get on board with that last sentence. But there's nothing like being married, having kids, and living the constant struggle to be a good husband and a good dad. Having a family will make
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by aurelius 13y ago
Do you not benefit from newer technology delivered at lower costs? Do you not benefit from more paying jobs to work on open source software? What RMS has a problem with is the fact that companies don't (and shouldn't) always tell
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by aurelius 13y ago
What makes you think you have the right to learn about a proprietary architecture? Just because you bought the product doesn't mean NVIDIA has to tell you how it works.
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by aurelius 13y ago
You seem to have forgotten that computers exist solely for the purposes of making man's life more convenient. Any ideas of software freedom that get in the way of this convenience are bad for mankind. Therefore Stallman's ideas ab
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by aurelius 13y ago
"The existence of LLVM is a terrible setback for our community precisely because it is not copylefted and can be used as the basis for nonfree compilers -- so that all contribution to LLVM directly helps proprietary software as much as
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by aurelius 13y ago
C++.
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by aurelius 13y ago
But why should I support "free software", especially when people like the FSF want to convince me to sign away my rights as a developer of such software? I don't support restrictive, people-hating ideologies. And neither shou
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by aurelius 13y ago
What about them? Should we all go stand outside a Lexus dealership for the 90% of the population that can't afford a luxury car? Since when did access to computer software become a basic human right? This kind of fanatical ideology aro
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by aurelius 13y ago
What's embarrassing is that you believe access to computers and software is some sort of basic human right. It is most certainly not. You and I have no more moral obligation to ensure free and fair access to software than we do to ensu
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by aurelius 13y ago
That's funny. One of the reasons I buy Apple products is because I want to get away from the FSF and GNU. Now that I have a job and earn good money, I'd rather pay for Apple Care and have Apple fix my broken computer while I do so
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by aurelius 13y ago
I have three kids of my own, and I can tell you that everyone is not "born a genius angel with unbounded potential". It's more like everyone is born with a unique set of character traits, mental abilities, and inclinations --
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by aurelius 13y ago
You sound like a Christian fundamentalist. Are you looking for a Biblical citation?
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by aurelius 13y ago
The grammatically correct generic pronoun in English is 'he': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they#Generic_he Anything else is just politically correct nonsense.
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by aurelius 13y ago
And I, for one, am glad.
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by aurelius 13y ago
TL;DR - Rob finally realized Go is a flop, and nobody wants to use it for serious programming work. So, he whines about it, and blames C++.
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by aurelius 16y ago
What you said about guys with huge recall ability getting wrapped up in some kind of minutia really rang true with me. When I first started at the place where I work now, I encountered a couple of guys who are excruciatingly smart, and seem