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why are we still stuck with this 2000yrs old tribal behavior instead of moving on with a more modern approach? There was a time when our ancestors became monogamous, and before tha…

Open source means the project can be redistributed by any user. So any user, including yourself, can re-host the project on Gitlab.

Just removing the word Java from the OpenJDK sources and documentation would be a huge endeavor. Is any project working to do this, ala Debian's IceWeasel?

I ought to site my source - W. H. Auden via http://www.paulgraham.com/quo.html

> I think a more specific word for this is empathy. No - empathy just means feeling the same emotion as people around you, which is not always helpful. What you want is compassion …

This looks like a lot of work for what amounts to very little end-user benefit. The sons of Hermes love to play And only do their best when they Are told they oughtn't; Apollo's ch…

a rigorous "theory of change" (of the kind used by charities and the third sector) to decide on potential impacts and side effects I see. Sounds like "very rigorous maritime engine…

we tend to find people choose us because of the way we share and distribute the surpluses we make. In my experience engaging consultants, I've never asked how they spend their prof…

What's the pitch based on value to your customers, rather than some imagined "social value" from political causes which your customer may well perceive negatively?

Pardon if I don't give someone credit for asserting they support "social change" without specifying what they're changing. It could mean anything from "ban mosques in London" to "f…

An educational co-op is a completely different concept from what is described here. Work/school co-op means a student does paid full-time work while still enrolled in a degree prog…

> we reinvest our own profit into new projects that we believe are going to bring about real social change. So what? Why is there an implicit assumption that if someone is trying t…

The first sentence asserts that Brendan Eich is the author of Java, which is false.

> Just saying that Chinese had "moveable type" omits the technological and practical considerations that made European printing press success. OK but just saying the Europeans had …

> The answer is technology. Printing press revolution had exploded. No. China had movable type printing presses by 1040 AD, yet there's no evidence that it led to a mass uprising a…

2D is a special case of 3D. If you only want to do 2D then a 2D API is going to be simpler than a 3D API. There's a whole mess of parameters and transformations that just go away.

At the risk of prolonging a pointless line of discussion: what does github have to do with anything in this context?

Can you clarify what you are driving at with these questions? First off, a lot of people prefer hosted source repositories other than github (e.g. hub.darcs.net, gitlab.com, My Own…

> With the old upload-and-forget model of software distribution, you could put a tarball on a free FTP site for a few pennies You can still create a Digital Ocean droplet, Docker c…

> embedded (aka firmware for buzzword compliance) Firmware is a buzzword for embedded? I don't think this is right. In my experience "firmware" is a subset of embedded programming,…

syn·ec·do·che səˈnekdəkē/ (noun) a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa, as in Cleveland won by six runs (meaning “Cleveland's baseball tea…

> We taught Koko the gorilla how to talk I think you're overstating your case. "although the gorilla learned a large number of signs she never understood grammar or symbolic speech…

> Possibly embrace the fact that semicolons are noise, and treat JS like you would Ruby or other line oriented languages??? I'd be happy to treat JS as "statements end with a newli…

> JavaScript itself, it had some issues in the past, all the big issues were resolved What about automatic semicolon insertion (ASI)? This makes it impossible to internalize how th…

That's pretty cool if the only closed source part is a USB-UART IC. Not much secret sauce there; I bet if you wanted to be pure you could implement that function on a second FE310 …