I appreciate the effort. I'll give you my honest two cents. If you don't have thick skin, stop reading here. I'm going to be critical, and I'm going to be blunt. You can take it or leave it. The landing page sucks. In…
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Get over yourself. Linus himself said Linux is just a hobby. It just happened to be the best because of the lack of red tape dragging development down. It got as big as it did BECAUSE it was a volunteer project with the…
Some people also forget that end users are also developers themselves. GPL helps everyone in this way.
> In cases of emergencies government can and often does intervene (see housing crisis, airlines during covid etc). Why wouldn't government offset something like this in case of student loans during emergencies? Because…
>like when bud light was encouraged to spend a bit of its marketing budget differently But that was the whole point. They were marketing to children. They still haven't recovered from that backlash. Anheuser-Busch took…
Becoming a doctor, lawyer, scientist, or engineer is a personal choice, and a personal investment. You don’t get to socialize the costs and privatize the gains for your personal benefit in the name of “society”. If you…
Firstly, I don't think you're engaging in good faith. I won't humor shotgun questions like yours. They're not even on topic. If you want to talk about these topics, then we do them separately and one at a time. Those…
>why didn't they rule in favor of executive authority when President Biden he tried to forgive student loan debt and a Federal Judge in Texas deemed it "unlawful"? Because it is unlawful. Student loan forgiveness is not…
>If X works for your use case you’re a vaccine denier Wow, you sure are convincing! /sarcasm If you depend on shame and straw-man to get your argument across, it shows me you lack merit. I’d continue to use X to spite…
obligatory: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11797075
ADHD is caused by a defective gene involving the DAT1 transporter causing it to be overactive. This causes a deficit of dopamine that predominantly impacts the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (there are other parts…
This is pretty cool work! Glad to see it under the AGPL. That definitely helps me trust it a bit more.
Nothing prevents one from selling GPL'd software. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.en.html
They won't. They deliberately made it permissive. How else are manufacturers like John Deere going to withhold the source from the farmers? Can't have them undoing those software locks, now!
You’ve got a severe case of TDS. I voted for Trump. I did it in 2016 and 2020 and 2024. And you don’t know anything about me. You like to cry “fascism! Fascism!” while you turn a blind eye to ‘Students for Fair…
If you look a bit deeper, this project actually cares deeply about its license, and is going out of its way to choose the license it is using, ignore complaints, and avoid ending up GPL.…
>The uutils project has the right goals Their goals are to _replace GPL's code_. It's a subtle attack on Free Software by providing corporations a workaround so they don't have to abide by the terms of the license.…
>Ok in fairness the LGPL license of KHTML was a huge reason the WebKit source was available (for ages it was just reluctant tarball dumps) but I don't think that's the case for LLVM. It was originally supposed to.…
I'm more concerned about the members of congress and senate that became multimillionares on a $174k/year salary.
> It's supposed to be slow an inefficient. For creating new legislature. Because the relationship between the government and individuals is fundamentally that of force. > It provides a lot of jobs to people who are…
> The interviewers tried to tell him to approach it like an industrial-grade solution, not a weird academic exercise. Wrong. They put in silly rules like "Max of 30 lines" and "Mutating array operations are forbidden".…
> I wish all the best to him, but reading between the lines is a useful skill regardless of this specific situation. I disagree. This is not a fair ask, especially for a programming position. Programming and maths in…
Either you can't distinguish bullet hell games from porn or you're projecting.
Touhou is just a bullet hell game, relax. Being this upset over it is more a reflection where your mind is at rather than everyone else's.
I appreciate the effort. I'll give you my honest two cents. If you don't have thick skin, stop reading here. I'm going to be critical, and I'm going to be blunt. You can take it or leave it. The landing page sucks. In…
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Get over yourself. Linus himself said Linux is just a hobby. It just happened to be the best because of the lack of red tape dragging development down. It got as big as it did BECAUSE it was a volunteer project with the…
Some people also forget that end users are also developers themselves. GPL helps everyone in this way.
> In cases of emergencies government can and often does intervene (see housing crisis, airlines during covid etc). Why wouldn't government offset something like this in case of student loans during emergencies? Because…
>like when bud light was encouraged to spend a bit of its marketing budget differently But that was the whole point. They were marketing to children. They still haven't recovered from that backlash. Anheuser-Busch took…
Becoming a doctor, lawyer, scientist, or engineer is a personal choice, and a personal investment. You don’t get to socialize the costs and privatize the gains for your personal benefit in the name of “society”. If you…
Firstly, I don't think you're engaging in good faith. I won't humor shotgun questions like yours. They're not even on topic. If you want to talk about these topics, then we do them separately and one at a time. Those…
>why didn't they rule in favor of executive authority when President Biden he tried to forgive student loan debt and a Federal Judge in Texas deemed it "unlawful"? Because it is unlawful. Student loan forgiveness is not…
>If X works for your use case you’re a vaccine denier Wow, you sure are convincing! /sarcasm If you depend on shame and straw-man to get your argument across, it shows me you lack merit. I’d continue to use X to spite…
obligatory: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11797075
ADHD is caused by a defective gene involving the DAT1 transporter causing it to be overactive. This causes a deficit of dopamine that predominantly impacts the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (there are other parts…
This is pretty cool work! Glad to see it under the AGPL. That definitely helps me trust it a bit more.
Nothing prevents one from selling GPL'd software. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.en.html
They won't. They deliberately made it permissive. How else are manufacturers like John Deere going to withhold the source from the farmers? Can't have them undoing those software locks, now!
You’ve got a severe case of TDS. I voted for Trump. I did it in 2016 and 2020 and 2024. And you don’t know anything about me. You like to cry “fascism! Fascism!” while you turn a blind eye to ‘Students for Fair…
If you look a bit deeper, this project actually cares deeply about its license, and is going out of its way to choose the license it is using, ignore complaints, and avoid ending up GPL.…
>The uutils project has the right goals Their goals are to _replace GPL's code_. It's a subtle attack on Free Software by providing corporations a workaround so they don't have to abide by the terms of the license.…
>Ok in fairness the LGPL license of KHTML was a huge reason the WebKit source was available (for ages it was just reluctant tarball dumps) but I don't think that's the case for LLVM. It was originally supposed to.…
I'm more concerned about the members of congress and senate that became multimillionares on a $174k/year salary.
> It's supposed to be slow an inefficient. For creating new legislature. Because the relationship between the government and individuals is fundamentally that of force. > It provides a lot of jobs to people who are…
> The interviewers tried to tell him to approach it like an industrial-grade solution, not a weird academic exercise. Wrong. They put in silly rules like "Max of 30 lines" and "Mutating array operations are forbidden".…
> I wish all the best to him, but reading between the lines is a useful skill regardless of this specific situation. I disagree. This is not a fair ask, especially for a programming position. Programming and maths in…
Either you can't distinguish bullet hell games from porn or you're projecting.
Touhou is just a bullet hell game, relax. Being this upset over it is more a reflection where your mind is at rather than everyone else's.