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Old, unresolved, open bugs are an important characteristic of a healthy project. It means that there is far more interest in the project than people contributing to it with code ca…

and they've banned bug submitters over etiquette issues without actually addressing the bug in question [2]. But that bug has been addressed, and however valid your bug might be, y…

I meant "stories" in the journalistic sense.

I'm merely citing the fluff that has occupied Hacker News recently such as http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3100278 . What sane, non-obsessed person gives a flying fuck what uni…

Yeah, that wasn't true when I made that comment earlier. I'm happy that the community seems to have come to its senses.

Don't litter the frontpage posts on our heroes Speak for yourself. Steve Jobs was not my hero. I respected him but did not like him one bit.

let's not compare both. Ah yes, the cognitive dissonance of an Apple fanboy developer who knows that C is far more important than anything SJ ever did yet can't reconcile that with…

But Dennis didn't wear black turtlenecks everyday so obviously he's less important.

However, that actually requires ordering socks, which as we all know is O(not gonna happen).

Yeah, those aren't types, they're merely annotations.

2) A programmer who disposes of the idea of using memory efficiently has probably discarded the idea of algorithmic efficiently in any way whatsoever. Space and time have to very o…

Well, multiple versions of code being loaded means that there are fewer common pages to share across processes. However I think it is the right tradeoff to make.

I disagree, and I'm presenting as much evidence for it as you are (i.e. none). In which conference was Apple's finding published? Where can I download a PDF of the paper?

Evidence? Citation? Or are you saying that on blind faith simply because it's Apple?

AKA door-in-the-face. Standard psychological trick studied since at least the 1970s.

It's not just what he's saying, it's obvious objective fact. A device that I can't play around with and run my code on without paying my dues is merely a toy. I'm not universally o…

They're Apple fanboys, what do you expect. Next they'll start quoting Ayn Rand. Thankfully Steve himself had far superior cognitive capacity.

But does the peg's circle circumscribe or inscribe the hole's square? Sorry, I couldn't resist.

The service wouldn't give the browser elevated privileges. If you're worried about an update being compromised, then don't, since they're delivered over SSL and (I believe) are als…

I'm not reducing anything to anything. I'm saying that the default, natural, rational position is for ideas to be free, and that any deviation from that position should be sufficie…

I don't see how my posts contradict each other. I do not think "buy an optical drive, pay through the nose and wait a month for an imported CD to arrive" is a reasonable condition …

Of course I don't believe that morality is whatever suits you. Morality includes property rights, but I do not think the moral rights of the creator of some intellectual property, …

Yep. The cost of waiting (up to a month for imports) and buying an optical drive especially for this is prohibitively high. I will not pay that high a price. I also take moral issu…

Firstly, what are the current equivalents of a mobile App Store for (pirated) music? What.cd.

Since you're speaking in terms of entitlements, let's make this clear: the natural state of any idea (including large numbers such as the sequence of bits that make up an mp3) is t…