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In that context they saw a market opportunity and took a chance. Makes it even stranger to dedicate a takedown post to it.

I don't understand why a hobby project for a few people warrants what is essentially a takedown post.There is a ton of open source projects that are not needed. People do them for …

TL;DR; when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail Although I like your version also. Haven't heard the full story before like that

This is such a tired argument. It's been 20 years. You don't think other OS's have had the opportunity? The fact is, Windows is still king today because of backwards-compatibility …

I don't think that's true. I've never heard that about any other industry. Certainly not about janitorial work. Doctors curing a patient, lawyers winning a big case, secretaries ke…

This is more prolific in software than just Y2K. At a company I work with, if everything is going smoothly and things are working, devs get a ton of crap for not getting more done,…

The Democrats could pack universal single payer healthcare into this bill and it would still pass. It would be political suicide for Republicans and Trump to block it. They would o…

Terrible analogy. You don't die if your OS crashes. If a bridge or a building collapses, it's very likely to kill people.

Not to disregard your own experience, but I too am old enough to remember the start of mobile phones, and no one I ever knew thought they were dorky. Douchy maybe, but that was mos…

I'm not. I'm just judging him for doing so. Which is wrong. I shouldn't have phrased it like that. I guess that stigma in society around people who are perfectly happy being happy …

The question posed was why do they Have to? Not why Should they. Of course we need people driven to move society forward. But there is a stigma in modern society it seems around pe…

Why do they have to? I have that drive, but my wife is perfectly happy with a calm, comfortable, stress-free life. And in fact it helps to bring me back down to Earth sometimes als…

In my opinion RuboCop is too strict. Every code standard analyzer takes some tweaking to get it set up for a particular project and team standards, but RuboCop needs changing of a …

I'm sure it's not ok to the people that need those new medicines

It's not privilege. It's a right the country has fought and died for for over 200 years. It's a principle the country was founded on. "Privilege" has lost all meaning in today's wo…

I'm in the US too. Inventions is usually defined in the contract itself and does not necessarily apply to patentable things. This is just my personal experience, so take it for wha…

Form an LLC, use a registered agent, put everything in the companies name, don't tell your employer, profit. Nothing they can do about it. The odds of them finding out are nearly n…

"inventions" is not used in the same context as you would use it when talking about an inventor, like Tesla or Edison. It's legalize. It depends on the language in the contract, bu…

Are they? Or are the Iranian people too afraid of the Revolutionary Guard to say different? If you want to go that route, North Korea has the most popular government and leader on …

It's a hackernoon opinion blog post, not the New York Times. And you don't need a citation for something that is clearly meant to be hyperbole. [Citation needed] has gone from a no…

As a generalist developer nearing 40, I worry about this all the time. I have extensive and valuable experience in certain areas, including management, but I have started investiga…

Using Google Docs to report problems with Google, including Google Docs. Irony at it's finest.

This must be why GitLab is giving me shit. They recently made the switch. Wonder if there is any second guessing going on over there right now.

Then you've never been an athlete at a high level. I don't mean that negatively, but I can assure you that even people who love every second of what they do, like many professional…

80%+ of the plastic in the ocean comes from China. It's not fair to lump the US in with China. "They recognize it and want to do something" doesn't mean shit when you're by far the…