rickjames28

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by rickjames28 13y ago
You're actually surprised to see HN folks coming to the defense of parents/individual rights and against statist intervention into every aspect of a person's life? I think it's pretty clear that you leftists believe that
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by rickjames28 13y ago
In the sick mind of the German socialist, abuse is homeschooling, where children can't be indoctrinated by the state. Good to know that Hitler started that nice tradition.
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by rickjames28 13y ago
Nobody is disputing the facts here, so there is no grain of salt to take.
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by rickjames28 13y ago
What do you mean "they're the state's children"?
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by rickjames28 13y ago
Just another example of socialist statism run amok. You would think with German's recent past, the authorities would be wary of snatching kids from their parents and putting them who knows where.
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by rickjames28 13y ago
What's with this title? Does the OP have something against the company or is another attempt at the millionth prism discussion on HN?
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by rickjames28 13y ago
It looks like the response was written when Jobs was still around. I doubt Woz would sound so belligerent now. It sounded pretty matter of fact, and not belligerent at all.
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by rickjames28 13y ago
You're probably getting a little emo about things here. I'm not sure why that comment should "really worry" you. And you're extrapolation of the story into Stories like this represent a global shift of power, fina
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by rickjames28 13y ago
What happened to Microsoft? While the rest of the tech sector exploded and prospered, it stayed still. A MSFT share was worth about $35 dollars when Ballmer took over; it's worth about $35 now. The world moved on, and Microsoft didn&#
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by rickjames28 13y ago
We've gone from procedural to OO, functional programming is having a huge resurgence, static typed to dynamic typed, waterfall to extreme/agile/whatever, and so on. One of those you didn't get right? Guess which one?
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by rickjames28 13y ago
I'm becoming increasingly convinced that the way forward in software engineering isn't "better" languages like Haskell or Clojure, but with better tooling. I think Carmack's talk shed light on the fact that as human
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by rickjames28 13y ago
No, it's actually more than that. What it really is a rejection of maybe athletic and/or socially adept programmers. It's a way for certain stereotypical developers to feel better about themselves.
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by rickjames28 13y ago
And #7 are intolerant developers who call other developers brogrammers because they don't fit into a stereotype.
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by rickjames28 13y ago
The only thing you have a say in is code that you have copyright on.
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by rickjames28 13y ago
You have to license any code that links with GPL code under the GPL. This does not prevent you from dual-licensing your own portion of the code base, or shipping non-GPL, non-linked code as part of the same product (Although in the case of
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by rickjames28 13y ago
*Attacking them just makes them more defensive, and it slows up their journey towards us" Who specifically is attacking who specifically?
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by rickjames28 13y ago
Does LaClojure have a blog or some kind of "news" page where we can find out what the latest developments have been? All I've found is the github page.