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Simply put POPULATION, there are two many people for this to work and countries like the US, Canada, China, Russia are way too large. Direct democracy only works in city states wit…

Simply put, I've lost almost all passion for software development or anything related to computers for that matter, when I was a kid I used to become Euphoric when I would sit alon…

I've lived in Spain, it's joke since we all here how great the civilized modern organized North where people work hard unlike the barbaric chaotic south filled with lazy who just w…

P.S. Most Europeans don't own a home because homes here cost at least half a million Euros out of reach for average Joe. Owning your own home is common sense in the US, even if it'…

I'm a European living in Europe, could you please stop spreading propaganda. Europe is a POOR place, it's not this egalitarian paradise the media makes it out to be. People here ar…

It's not as black and white as you put. Linus may be great at writing operating systems kernels, he may be better than you or I are at it but he wouldn't be as good at designing ma…

Software developer is more than good enough in my opinion. However I've encountered two types of programmers, there are those who contribute new ideas, new algorithms, solve new pr…

Linus Torvalds isn't really something that great. He copied an existing kernel design which had a full open API specification, it's not like he reverse engineered MS-DOS whose API …

What makes you think money and advertising is the only business. Think for a second why is so much on the Internet seemingly free, free Google search, free email providers, free so…

Agreed. The Internet isn't a good thing either. People make it out as the Internet is the great place for people to connect with each other and this great repository of information…

"The word was offensive." Offensive, oh please Linus has used and continues to use that word and worse (way worse) to bash his competition: Sun, Microsoft, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Mac OS…

"The sense of entitlement in this thread is baffling." It is baffling indeed. I am also baffled by open source fanatics who want to force everyone to release the source code to the…

Yeah good luck with that, about as much as luck as building desktop applications with HTML 5 and JS wrapped in a web view component. It can be done but the result is sh*t.

What's the big deal about Flash, I've been hearin kill flash for years The kill flash rhetoric is getting old now.

Free speech is overrated.

Oh sorry silly little me for not filly my post with euphemism's, polite wording and not adhering to the political correctness cough censorship cough code. I'm sorry for calling a s…

Lots of languages claim they are Scheme or Lisp dialects (JavaScript, Python, Ruby, Lua and others) in order to boost their popularity even though they have none of Lisp's unique f…

That's a bit sad a great language like Haskell (I haven't personally used it but heard great things about it) is used for a hippie thing such as Facebook. Facebook doesn't even hav…

That's the lack of higher order functions and the lack of first class functions. Anyway I think higher order functions and method references have been added to Java 8 as well as La…

Java has functions one word "static".

More like its FKF (Fear of the Known and Familiar). Most (if not all) programmers have experience with static typing and most of those experiences were not pleasant hence why a lot…

Why is Java one the of really awful ones? I know Java is not the best language, it's not my favorite language, but I wouldn't say its really awful.

Doesn't Clojure already have optional static type annotations like Common Lisp? I thought it did when I looked through the tutorials. In Common Lisp you can define pretty much any …