Comment Re:Fear (?) (Score 1) 42
If it's open source they could just rip off most of it from LLVM/GCC if they wanted to. Or one of the other million open source compiler and compiler libraries...
Comment Re:Fear (?) (Score 1) 42
IT IS SOFTWARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And who the heck takes 10 years to write a compiler???
Comment Fear (?) (Score 1) 42
This whole thing reeks of a weird PR stunt to me...
Comment "Modern Technologies" (Score 2) 81
What kinds of "technologies" are programmers using now? What even is a "technology" for programmers??? Back when I was taught, all we had were libraries and compilers.
It seems like there has been a large migration away from statically typed languages (C++/Java/Go) for desktop applications into the weird wonderland of *primarily* scripting languages (javascript/python). I guess there are more libraries??? Or maybe it's so you don't have to rewrite the program between the desktop/cellphone and browser-based apps?
Censoring a Number 1046
Rudd-O writes "Months after successful discovery of the HD-DVD processing key, an unprecedented campaign of censorship, in the form of DMCA takedown notices by the MPAA, has hit the Net. For example Spooky Action at a Distance was killed. More disturbingly, my story got Dugg twice, with the second wave hitting 15,500 votes, and today I found out it had simply disappeared from Digg. How long until the long arm of the MPAA gets to my own site (run in Ecuador) and the rest of them holding the processing key? How long will we let rampant censorship go on, in the name of economic interest?" How long before the magic 16-hex-pairs number shows up in a comment here?
Comment Stick with what works (Score 1) 210
Personally i think people just dont want to change. If a system works well enough for the present its logical to assume that it will work for the future. I mean why use open source if a proprietary solution works well enough.
