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Lmao what a ridiculous response. Yes, some mathematicians and artists are in it to feel smart. But the vast majority also just enjoy the process. Having a computer do all the work …

You shouldn't be getting downvoted for something that a majority of pure math and art enthusiasts believe to be true. The truth is many of these entrepreneurs and VCs are obsessed …

I’m vehemently anti-genAI in creative fields but even I think this metric is stupid and unfair to younger generations and generations to come, even if genAI writing gets better. If…

>like the AGPL? As I explained in an earlier thread, MongoDB tried using AGPL. AGPL is not a barrier for Amazon, they still will resell your product without contributing. MongoDB e…

Are you disagreeing with me or just giving more detail? Because I think that's what I was saying. My opinion is that this is not fair to a company like MongoDB.

Then why did Mongo relicense? I assumed that AGPL was not enough to maintain their business which is why they are now using a more extreme form of AGPL that is no longer considered…

I enjoyed the post and this is off-topic but when I was younger I was very pro-GPL and I still like copyleft, but to me the logic behind it makes less and less sense as time goes o…

I saw Tom be the awards emcee at Yale's hackathon and I don't really get why he acts the way he does. It's some persona that makes people hate startup founders even more than they …

>MRI executes Ruby via an interpreted stack-machine bytecode language known as YARV On Wikipedia: >Since YARV has become the official Ruby interpreter for Ruby 1.9, it is also name…

>I don't think there's an app for Syncthing https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nutomic.sy... Yeah, I knew about the middle device thing, but it seemed like a hassle …

A problem is that if you want to sync regular text files to apps on your phone we have formed somewhat of a Dropbox monoculture where DB is generally the main or sometimes the only…

Syncthing is great, but the devs say they can't develop a mechanism for sync between operating systems on the same computer, which is something I really need.

Is there a word to describe the structure of the notation of mathematics versus programming syntax versus the English language?

Oh, I guess I read too quickly. Comments on those sites really are terrible.

The comments on that site are sickening. Yes, I do not agree with Eich's views. Mozilla owned up to it. Someone should tell them to disable JS everywhere because of Eich. Plus, Fir…

Is Rubinius X still a thing?

I've never lived in SF but this is a reason why people sometimes mention how they prefer to live elsewhere. I've lived in Los Angeles and New York and I feel a nice sense of divers…

Unbelievable that the author claims that Gruber is wrong about accessibility without offering any evidence.

That's not just what it says. If it just said that, that would be fine. It says making "any claim" against a Facebook patent will terminate your right to use the software. Facebook…

Your innovation into this (the cross domain feature) sounds interesting, but Omegle has the basic design already down with popularity.

While as an Ivy League student I relish in the potential that Stanford could be left out of this, heheh, these things are pretty inherently elitist and omegle has a similar functio…

I used to be someone who defended comments in general. I think they are only good for a certain subset of usecases, such as college campus blogs, where different voices can and sho…

I get that they have a lot of JS devs and there's a big community but if they went with Ruby I would have been so much more inclined to stick with it. Performance-wise perhaps it w…

Because they run the same package manager and roughly do the same thing for the same purpose? It's not a JRuby vs Rubinius debate, imo; it's more like YARV vs MRI, you just don't n…