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Oh won't someone think of the poor women...

> I won't be here forever

Hard to read, but we definitely need to make sure the GNU project stays in the right hands.

Oh for crying out loud. I do not care, or want to know, what kind of sex you like to have. Why is that so hard for some people to understand? By the way, In case you are under any …

Yeah, we've celebrated that for the past 50 years or so. It's time to move on. The bicycle is a far greater invention. Cars are not sustainable.

Cars don't kill anywhere near as many people in Europe, though. The US is an outlier when it comes to first-world countries. Still, I would like it if the power was taken back from…

I was recently walking on Kinder Scout in the Peak District (UK) and was surprised and quite alarmed to find people up there following Google maps. Many of the "paths" are really j…

Why? Google is a low-quality road map for cars. They don't put much effort into walking. In the OSM community Google is considering a very low bar. We aim to meet or exceed the qua…

Yeah, that's all great. But I don't want to be a part of a relationship where I'm disposed of as soon as I stop being useful.

I'm not religious so going to church would feel wrong. Internet dating is awful. My standards are too high. The truth is finding a suitable mother is very far down my list of prior…

I firmly believe that the key to happiness is to do what you're good at. For me that means working and not raising children. I will never be a stay at home dad.

I didn't say it was bad. But women who work tend to do all of this and want to maintain that lifestyle which is clearly ridiculous to do on a single income with children.

I cannot find a woman who will be a full time mother after giving birth. I will not put my children into day care for 12 hours a day. I could afford to support a family in my own, …

It's not an assault. I am sharing my philosophy. It's what keeps me happy and why I don't need to go to support groups. But I guess that's just not welcome here.

There is a short talk by Eben Moglen [0] which is only 10 minutes long but jam packed with wisdom. One part which changed the way I think about using computers is how he describes …

That's their fault, not mine. Read the drivel from celebrities on your carefully filtered twitter feed if you don't ever want to be offended.

Predictably downvoted. Apparently I'm not allowed to express how I feel.

Indeed. For me, being stoic is the only way. Crying about problems does nothing so why do anything at all? We all have the power to choose to be the best person we can be given our…

England actually had at least one more competing gauge: Brunel gauge. Brunel thought it was silly to keep using the same arbitrary gauge and that a broader gauge would be more comf…

Google can, and does, use open data in their products.

Amazing that someone would choose to work for a huge American corporation for no fee instead of providing the data to anyone who wants it.

Talk of metaprogramming intrigues me. I'd like to hear what a Lisp user makes of it because I find non-Lisp users are usually amazed by any metaprogramming at all and can't be as c…

I have a colleague who regularly interrupts me to say the complete opposite of what I want to say. I'm, of course, in the church of strong civility, so I always continue after the …

Yeah but I am sceptical about being able to enter truly deep thought while walking. I wonder how much work Torvalds actually does on it. He doesn't actually write much kernel code …

Don't just learn SQL. An ORM like SQLAlchemy will allow you to save time and write cleaner, more comprehensible code. But do learn SQL. Do not use an ORM before you have learnt SQL…