No one contributes to the community for the money, yet most of you guys are constantly talking about getting rich -- or at least profitable. Paradox?
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#32I should send this to people at work, probably call me gay. :)
Colin Powell: Well, the correct answer is, he is not a Muslim, he's a Christian. He's always been a Christian. But the really right answer is, what if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer's no, that's not America. Same with being gay.
Fact is, "You're gay" is still a common, juvenile slam.
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#33No one contributes to the community for the money, yet most of you guys are constantly talking about getting rich -- or at least profitable. Paradox?
Nope. You need to be profitable to continue doing what you love. There's no paradox if your motivation to make money is to continue being able to contribute for free.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
See also the Ship of Theseus paradox http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
... It takes a philosopher to create paradoxes out of well understood physical processes.
Philosopher's assume words have meaning this is the root of all their failings.
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#35I should send this to people at work, probably call me gay. :)
Colin Powell: Well, the correct answer is, he is not a Muslim, he's a Christian. He's always been a Christian. But the really right answer is, what if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer's no, that's not America. Same with being gay.
Enough! Grow a fucking spine already!
Islam is religious absolutism. Under an Islamic regime, you're a Muslim or you're a dhimmi or you're a slave. If you self-identify as a Muslim then you are incompatible with every significant ideal of America.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Colin Powell: Well, the correct answer is, he is not a Muslim, he's a Christian. He's always been a Christian. But the really right answer is, what if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer's no, that's not America. Same with being gay.
Enough! Grow a fucking spine already! Islam is religious absolutism. Under an Islamic regime, you're a Muslim or you're a dhimmi or you're a slave. If you self-identify as a Muslim then you are incompatible with every significant ideal of America.
Please stop.
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#37I love you guys
Kyle, you're not getting my Bud Light.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
+1. By title alone I would have never cared. Only because it's here in HN did I click through to these comments and based on yours I decided to actually watch the video. It's a 9 min talk by Clay Shirky basically praising the hacker spirit.
The sense of community and collaboration has been on the ris for years now. I think it's evident in the open source spirit and the increasing usability and documentation of open source tools. The django and python Q&A communities I'm part of also have this "collaboration" tilt. Still, when I think "hacker" I think solitary, ego-driven programmer, doing immature things to prove himself. I think of the anger and non-co…
Yes, we're asuming different meanings for "hacker", and I was hoping for the one I take is the more accepted one for this site (Hacker News), those who are "trying to write interesting software, and for whom computers are just a medium of expression" (http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html)
In any case, point taken as I probably got a bit carried away on my comment above, the talk referenced is more about the collaborative benefits new technologies bring to us.
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#39I was really inspired after the video and decided to go help out in some IRC channels and mailing lists.
And then I was reminded why I stopped doing that a long time ago: there is so much snarkiness. None of these lists or IRC channels ever seem to take a stance against this behaviour and it seems to me as if there are often self-selecting groups of snarky "locals" who drive a list or IRC channel.
On the contrary, I do think that HN is fairly close to what he was describing and is the main reason why I've stopped frequenting other similar sites, but remained here.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Colin Powell: Well, the correct answer is, he is not a Muslim, he's a Christian. He's always been a Christian. But the really right answer is, what if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer's no, that's not America. Same with being gay.
Enough! Grow a fucking spine already! Islam is religious absolutism. Under an Islamic regime, you're a Muslim or you're a dhimmi or you're a slave. If you self-identify as a Muslim then you are incompatible with every significant ideal of America.
You seem to have very absolutist views about Islam.