The mixture of motivations includes a desire to contribute something to humanity, a desire to make a mark or achieve recognition, or a desire to gain experience that might enhance your ability to get hired. It can be a…
If a maintainer complains about slop bug reports, instead of assuming the worst of the maintainer, it'll often be more productive to put yourself in their shoes and consider the context. An individual case may simply be…
The text and context of the complaint can be used to steelman it, adopting the principle of charity. From that perspective, the most likely problem is not that bugs are being reported, nor even that patches are not…
Nobody is proposing ignoring what people will buy. What I said is that literally thinking "this banana is delicious" does not achieve anything toward the actual delivery of any bananas for consumption. It is the end of…
Capitalism is what it is in reality, not just in our fondest hopes. The problem with the phrase is the assumption that any day now, something else will inevitably come along to replace it and make everything better.…
You didn't have an unlimited sick policy. You had an undocumented limit. Documenting it lets people know where they stand and protects them in the event they need to take sick time but the boss wants to punish them for…
There's no value in thinking all day about how bananas are delicious. Before you can eat the banana, it has to be produced and shipped. That process does not even involve thinking that bananas are delicious, so that…
People customizing their own machines to suit their needs is in fact a good UX as long as they enjoy it
What seems sinister or manipulative to you about Skinner boxes? Do you feel the same aversion to training dogs using treats or praise?
In this metaphor, are the printing presses private property?
On one hand, there are people who say "flood the zone with shit" and regularly signal boost memes from Stormfront. On the other hand, there are people who think that the New York Times is a newspaper of record and want…
Did you mean "it's not only about GPL"? I said "licenses like GPL"
What is the overall end goal of the entire game?
The Sims has only very weak goals and scoring and functions perfectly as a sandbox.
Doing some calculations at compile time is useful. What sucks is when the language for expressing this is difficult to think about and interacts poorly with normal code.
Carmack joined Oculus before the Facebook acquisition, so it's misleading to say he attached his brand to Facebook's.
That's misleading. Oculus wasn't originally Facebook, and it wasn't Facebook when Carmack joined. Carmack was working on the Oculus hardware around the time Oculus was founded in 2012. He joined Oculus in 2013. Facebook…
1. What is your alternative? 2. What is your definition of the problem?
Is it slower?
Related question: are there any alternatives which respect licenses like GPL? If I simply copy-paste code from a GPL project myself, I'm normally expected to preserve the license. It should be possible to indicate what…
An investigation is not an attack. Are Senators above the law?
To illustrate how far this discussion is from PKD's frame of reference, PKD didn't need encryption when VALIS used a pink laser beam from space to trigger anamnesis so he remembered that he was a secret Christian in…
Not everyone is working at whichever shop offers the highest salary. There are many smart people who are willing to take a pay cut to work on interesting problems. There are some smart people who are already financially…
If everyone using Linux should use one distribution, which one should it be? Who gets to run it?
The mixture of motivations includes a desire to contribute something to humanity, a desire to make a mark or achieve recognition, or a desire to gain experience that might enhance your ability to get hired. It can be a…
If a maintainer complains about slop bug reports, instead of assuming the worst of the maintainer, it'll often be more productive to put yourself in their shoes and consider the context. An individual case may simply be…
The text and context of the complaint can be used to steelman it, adopting the principle of charity. From that perspective, the most likely problem is not that bugs are being reported, nor even that patches are not…
Nobody is proposing ignoring what people will buy. What I said is that literally thinking "this banana is delicious" does not achieve anything toward the actual delivery of any bananas for consumption. It is the end of…
Capitalism is what it is in reality, not just in our fondest hopes. The problem with the phrase is the assumption that any day now, something else will inevitably come along to replace it and make everything better.…
You didn't have an unlimited sick policy. You had an undocumented limit. Documenting it lets people know where they stand and protects them in the event they need to take sick time but the boss wants to punish them for…
There's no value in thinking all day about how bananas are delicious. Before you can eat the banana, it has to be produced and shipped. That process does not even involve thinking that bananas are delicious, so that…
People customizing their own machines to suit their needs is in fact a good UX as long as they enjoy it
What seems sinister or manipulative to you about Skinner boxes? Do you feel the same aversion to training dogs using treats or praise?
In this metaphor, are the printing presses private property?
On one hand, there are people who say "flood the zone with shit" and regularly signal boost memes from Stormfront. On the other hand, there are people who think that the New York Times is a newspaper of record and want…
Did you mean "it's not only about GPL"? I said "licenses like GPL"
What is the overall end goal of the entire game?
The Sims has only very weak goals and scoring and functions perfectly as a sandbox.
Doing some calculations at compile time is useful. What sucks is when the language for expressing this is difficult to think about and interacts poorly with normal code.
Carmack joined Oculus before the Facebook acquisition, so it's misleading to say he attached his brand to Facebook's.
That's misleading. Oculus wasn't originally Facebook, and it wasn't Facebook when Carmack joined. Carmack was working on the Oculus hardware around the time Oculus was founded in 2012. He joined Oculus in 2013. Facebook…
1. What is your alternative? 2. What is your definition of the problem?
Is it slower?
Related question: are there any alternatives which respect licenses like GPL? If I simply copy-paste code from a GPL project myself, I'm normally expected to preserve the license. It should be possible to indicate what…
An investigation is not an attack. Are Senators above the law?
To illustrate how far this discussion is from PKD's frame of reference, PKD didn't need encryption when VALIS used a pink laser beam from space to trigger anamnesis so he remembered that he was a secret Christian in…
Not everyone is working at whichever shop offers the highest salary. There are many smart people who are willing to take a pay cut to work on interesting problems. There are some smart people who are already financially…
If everyone using Linux should use one distribution, which one should it be? Who gets to run it?