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And if you do start doubting our mission, keep your mouth shut, because we'll ruin your life no matter who you are (that's why they're going after a retired four star general right…

Been enjoying ST3 during the private beta. Glad others will be able to, too!

Anyone ever hear the rumor that the reason why Google pulled out of China was because Chinese hackers had tapped into a feed of all email metadata? I heard it included subject. Thi…

He has always communicated his own point of view, which I think is fine, even as a reporter. But in the past I feel he has spun yarns and made connections that don't exist for sake…

Agree. GitHub is ultimately doomed because not enough people will pay up.

This is a great example of how some people will jettison good taste in favor of some pointless metric or supposed problem.

That's a problem generally, but not the fundamental problem here.

I don't like Lisp either.

Why not Go? Mandatory GC.

Greenplum's mean-spiritedness makes this more a review of himself than the book, which is too bad because he manages a few golden nuggets here and there among all the brown ones.

Absurdly lazy reporting.

Companies pay their taxes until they become big enough to figure out how to avoid them. Problem?

If that's the only argument then I hope it passes. Why should some minuscule number of small businesses hold everything up?

You go out of business because your margin was razor thin. Obviously.

Not sure if serious.

His software ended up being too good, actually. It made other people feel embarrassed.

So does Highcharts. Pay attention.

Science based? Is that like evidence based? In which case, it's more of a marketing term...

Looks like the asm.js Jedi mind trick didn't work on someone :)

So they've pledged to do what they've already been doing?

Maybe they got some real nice licensing terms from SRI.

Something can be a "rip off" and not infringe.

I guess that explains why my comment that mentioned C. A. R. Hoare on a programming blog that uses Disqus never showed up...

Being meanies to Heroku, basically.