He's not necessarily giving of his best in a Slashdot post of course - but yes, this was my first thought too.
Rightly or wrongly a lot of people use basic literacy skills as a first pass filter for the quality of their contacts. I can't help wondering if that VC passed on his product because of some deficiencies in the presentation.
There are lots of holes in the case. Here's one: - Was the mosquito flying around & sucking blood from pedestrians BEFORE it entered the car?
According to the article he's already admitted to being in the car. So in what way is that a hole in the case?
No, you shouldn't presume a party to be guilty unless they're proven guilty in a court of law. That has nothing whatsoever to the strength of the particular case as reported and everything to do with justice.
Quite. Those who tagged this article with "moron" are the sort of invertebrates who give developers a bad name.
Ah yes, that must explain why Apache is doing so terribly in terms of market penetration...
Most non-technical people have never heard of "patching" and the technical ones all know about Apache.
The GIMP certainly has a stupid name, but I sincerely doubt that it affects its take up anything like as much as the shere existing mindshare of PhotoShop. In fact I'll bet that the GimpShop hack improves its prominence more than a "pure" name change, and I'll bet that most of that is down to the obvious connection with PhotoShop not the sanitization of the user interface.
Not in North America
Just for your information then, "herb" has an H in it. Also I look forward to hearing your pronunciation of "meringue".
Memory fault - where am I?