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For you 1st point: because in most jurisdiction CP is absolutely forbidden and typically you are not protected if you don't proactively act to eradicate CP on your service with rea…

Change their government.

The problem is the combination of this evil clause and Apple's general attitude and evilness. First on the EULA: even if you used a program to do a formatting, said formatting is s…

> There's an essay somewhere I remember reading where an ITS hacker looks at Unix for how it handles the interrupted system call problem and comes away horrified at the discovery t…

Have you ever tried to write portable code for multiple unixes?

So the next hot article will be "OMG a GNU/Linux distribution has a messy code base"? Once you are talking about a multiple GB system, of course it's messy. Except it is actually a…

> This dream lasted a few days until we discovered that TeX, the typesetting engine underlying LaTeX, isn’t written in C. TeX is written in WEB, Donald Knuth’s “literate” programmi…

are you high?

> In your average company, a programmer is considered a glorified mechanic or janitor, a code-monkey if you will, well below the guys that "bring in the money" like sales and marke…