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> "...But I love the market economy and capitalism more than I love my company," McNealy said in the memo. Does this help explain the fall of Java? Of Sun?
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> Does this help explain the fall of Java? I don't know in which alternative universe Java did fell. Java is huger than huge. It may not be the language of the Web (and this site heavily slants towards people coding in JavaScript) but in the enterprise world Java is really gigantic and won't be sunset before a very long time. The JVM is an incredible piece of machinery that is not going away either. FWIW I find it qu…
I'm surprised this is just occuring to me now, but is Java the next COBOL?
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You are free to show that the statement was wrong.
Lest we forget, " You have zero privacy. Get over it. " came from him ( https://www.wired.com/1999/01/sun-on-privacy-get-over-it/ ) Sun Microsystems under McNealy were also no friends of Linux or open source. Though less visible than Microsoft, plenty of FUD came from Sun about how Linux would never equal proper operating systems like Solaris. (In a sense, he wasn't wrong; IMO Linux didn't really catch up until Sun M…
@dang I'm honestly not sure what the correct cause of action is when one person is effectively taking over a thread with their comments. They appear to have a deep-seated hatred of Scott McNealy, so perhaps should not be commenting for their own mental and emotional health. But their comments have lots of information that will probably spark a lot of conversation. My gut feeling is that we shouldn't "encourage" such…
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And then you complain about being downvoted and flagged for being racist and sexist and transphobic, then attack the moderator:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37131564
If I or anyone else downvoted, flagged, or insulted your new or banned accounts for saying something racist or sexist or transphobic, then I'm not sorry, because you asked for it and deserved what you got, but the system is working just fine.
Have you considered simply not repeatedly posting racist sexist transphobic bullshit, or just going away after being banned instead of creating a new account, even if you pathetically believe all that bigotry you post?
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And you regularly make racist and sexist and transphobic comments on Hacker News (presumably including many more on your old banned account): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37235282 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37131503f https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36918575 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36877613 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36874766 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36777515 h…