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True | TexasJefferson | null | The only recent, significant ruling I'm aware of (admittedly, I could just be ignorant of other relevant stuffs) seems to disagree with that reasoning: [9th circuit on autocad case](http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/09/the-end-of-used-major-ruling-upholds-tough-software-licenses.ars). | null | 0 | 1319401934 | False | 0 | c2ttwx7 | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2ttwx7 | t1_c2ttlha | null | 1427772314 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | flyingfirefox | null | Sorry, I misunderstood that sentence as "Is there anyone driving around in a Maserati they paid for with money they made _building_ shit and giving it away for free?" | null | 0 | 1319401960 | False | 0 | c2ttx1n | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2ttx1n | t1_c2ttw7q | null | 1427772314 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | yellowstuff | null | Also OO was really trendy then. | null | 0 | 1319402103 | False | 0 | c2ttxqh | t3_lle7t | null | t1_c2ttxqh | t1_c2tpecu | null | 1427772327 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sporkmonger | null | Zed made one fatal mistake. And I say this as someone who genuinely admires his work, both on Mongrel and other projects. Zed wanted to be an *employee* in an entrepreneurial space. Entrepreneurs are ruthless sons-of-bitches. They think they have to be, and often they're right. And then he raised hell when a bunch of r... | null | 0 | 1319402168 | False | 0 | c2tty18 | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tty18 | t3_llw0s | null | 1427772331 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Yes, someone can keep an old fork. You could conceivably delete your GPL repos and do some massive code churn that would make the proprietary incompatible with the GPL. This would make the GPL very hard to support, particularly if the non-GPL had a compelling feature set that the GPL lacked. | null | 0 | 1319402211 | False | 0 | c2tty8v | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tty8v | t1_c2ttwa4 | null | 1427772336 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | natechan | null | fantastic introduction to assembly languages via IA-32. went from having only vague notions of what assembly was about to being able to write some code. | null | 0 | 1319402263 | False | 0 | c2ttyhr | t3_lkz7j | null | t1_c2ttyhr | t3_lkz7j | null | 1427772348 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sporkmonger | null | As GPL? Maybe. As AGPL? Fuck no. | null | 0 | 1319402409 | False | 0 | c2ttz6n | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2ttz6n | t1_c2tqv8b | null | 1428191356 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xiongchiamiov | null | > This may or may not be considered a "problem". First, it ensures the code is always used in Free Software, which might be the real motivation of the originating author; to remove the temptation to make it non-free software.
This is the essence of the distinction between free software and open-source.
Free softwa... | null | 0 | 1319402411 | False | 0 | c2ttz73 | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2ttz73 | t1_c2tsp5u | null | 1428191356 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | brownmatt | null | You can't understand why people who want to save themselves from writing repetitive SQL for each of their objects? | null | 0 | 1319402642 | False | 0 | c2tu09s | t3_lle7t | null | t1_c2tu09s | t1_c2tpw6e | null | 1427772370 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sporkmonger | null | See, that's kind of the trick. Zed's pretty awesome in person. I could work with him no problem. It's his internet personality that causes issues. | null | 0 | 1319402658 | False | 0 | c2tu0ch | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tu0ch | t1_c2ttoxw | null | 1427772371 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | Summary:
I know that I'm too fucking lazy to actually design my database using traditional techniques and yet I'm still surprised when my half-assed attempts fail. | null | 0 | 1319402772 | True | 0 | c2tu0tu | t3_lm9ys | null | t1_c2tu0tu | t3_lm9ys | null | 1427772383 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MatrixFrog | null | > My understanding is that the majority of Java programmers actually don't understand variance. They can use the collection classes and they work as expected, but I believe only a minority of Java programmers can actually define their own generic types and methods that correctly use variance.
This is definitely tru... | null | 0 | 1319402810 | False | 0 | c2tu0zn | t3_lkpil | null | t1_c2tu0zn | t1_c2toazf | null | 1427772381 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xiongchiamiov | null | > It is educational though - since it is easier to go from a more restrictive license to a less restrictive license.
I think the opposite is actually true. Permissively-licensed code is, in general, GPL-compatible - that is, you can include it in your GPL software. The opposite is not true (which is precisely why... | null | 0 | 1319402824 | False | 0 | c2tu11v | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tu11v | t1_c2trsgt | null | 1427772382 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xiongchiamiov | null | It's not at all standard for the majority of projects, however, particularly in this age of "I'll just send you a pull request on GitHub" contributions. | null | 0 | 1319402884 | False | 0 | c2tu1bs | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tu1bs | t1_c2tszm0 | null | 1427772385 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | skalnik | null | Ah thanks, that's good to know! I have a lot of respect for Zed and his work, but he doesn't come off as the friendliest individual on the internet :) | null | 0 | 1319402922 | False | 0 | c2tu1i6 | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tu1i6 | t1_c2tu0ch | null | 1427772386 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | soviyet | null | I hate to say this, but charging for software fixes all of these gripes. And worse, all of his complaints lead directly to charging for software.
I don't disagree with him at all. I do *very little to no work* on FOSS myself (anymore), and all of my reasons are his reasons -- or I should say, as I read that, I saw t... | null | 0 | 1319403018 | True | 0 | c2tu1yp | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tu1yp | t3_llw0s | null | 1427772390 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Mattho | null | [Slovak](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovak_language). It's no Suomi but all the [declension](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovak_declension) and [conjugation](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovak_language#Verbs) can be hard to learn for an adult. | null | 0 | 1319403061 | False | 0 | c2tu25v | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tu25v | t1_c2ttpes | null | 1427772393 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | CUViper | null | > if he wanted to be able to use their changes in the version he sells under a different license.
This is why -- without copyright assignment, he can't relicense contributions. | null | 0 | 1319403216 | False | 0 | c2tu2ut | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tu2ut | t1_c2ttsf0 | null | 1427772399 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fwaggle | null | Actually Apple has contributed a fair amount of code back to (Free)BSD, I believe they're one of the primary people ponying up cash for things like a few bits of TrustedBSD.
I forget which developer it was, but one of them basically set me straight on IRC when I mentioned this exact sentiment: that Apple took all kind... | null | 0 | 1319403274 | False | 0 | c2tu34x | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tu34x | t1_c2ttmkk | null | 1427772401 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | FredFnord | null | No, you have misread the article. He is specifically complaining that he has not been cold-called by companies wanting to give him money.
It is a very different thing to state that none of the people who have hired him in the last X years have known about his code. He is careful never to make this claim. He just seems... | null | 0 | 1319403335 | False | 0 | c2tu3ed | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tu3ed | t1_c2tsim1 | null | 1427772413 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MatrixFrog | null | People are downvoting this without answering the question. I don't know if there's a better way to solve this, but in Java, the correct solution would be:
void makeSalad(Basket<? extends Vegetable> ingredients)
because you want to be assured that everything you take out of the `ingredients` basket is a vege... | null | 0 | 1319403362 | False | 0 | c2tu3jj | t3_lkpil | null | t1_c2tu3jj | t1_c2tmtq8 | null | 1427772406 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | redalastor | null | That ruling even disagrees with the law of first sale. | null | 0 | 1319403394 | False | 0 | c2tu3ow | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tu3ow | t1_c2ttwx7 | null | 1427772408 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | That may not allow proprietary license distribution if too restrictive (which may be one of the points of the CLA), and may allow proprietary license distribution *to yourself* if too permissive. This clause would be pretty hard to get right I think. Particularly hard if you want to allow it to be relicensed to open so... | null | 0 | 1319403443 | False | 0 | c2tu3x6 | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tu3x6 | t1_c2tto0v | null | 1428191350 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xiongchiamiov | null | > The people who "can't use the GPL" are people who want to close the source back up and distribute derivative works of his software for money; essentially, taking his work and claiming it as theirs, hence his use of the word "plagiarism".
Those two sets of people are hardly the same.
For instance. My company has... | null | 0 | 1319403465 | False | 0 | c2tu40i | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tu40i | t1_c2tsq84 | null | 1427772424 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | FredFnord | null | So what you are saying is, of the dozens of people he has contracted with, not one had ever heard of his code and been impressed by it.
Bull. Shit.
He's whining, if you read carefully, that once he released his software, he didn't have companies cold-calling to offer him money and jobs spontaneously. | null | 0 | 1319403577 | False | 0 | c2tu4jz | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tu4jz | t1_c2tss8q | null | 1427772429 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | > you can then push/pull/rebase/merge eachother's changes again
And you could do it before, too, if someone gives you ssh access or runs `git daemon`. | null | 0 | 1319403775 | False | 0 | c2tu5ie | t3_lks6n | null | t1_c2tu5ie | t1_c2tqcfo | null | 1427772437 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | FredFnord | null | I agree that current copyright is insane, but 10-15 years would be a disaster for the written word. Many specialized works take longer than that to make any reasonable amount of money. | null | 0 | 1319403822 | False | 0 | c2tu5pq | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tu5pq | t1_c2tsp5u | null | 1427772439 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | The free software viewpoint has a practical component also. By not allowing proprietary forks, they ensure that the "best" code forks always are available to the project as a whole. With Open Source, the greatest advances may be never be visible. It also hurts the closed source competition and gives free software a co... | null | 0 | 1319403860 | False | 0 | c2tu5vv | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tu5vv | t1_c2ttz73 | null | 1427772441 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xiongchiamiov | null | This is not the author of the library complaining about people using his software to makes tons of money, but rather Some Random Guy saying that it'd be *nice* of the Angry Birds developers to give the Box2D's developer (again, **not** the guy writing this) a little Christmas present.
A friendly suggestion for karma i... | null | 0 | 1319403931 | False | 0 | c2tu67v | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tu67v | t1_c2trz55 | null | 1427772443 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ErstwhileRockstar | null | You have no idea. | null | 0 | 1319403942 | False | 0 | c2tu6ac | t3_llz5l | null | t1_c2tu6ac | t1_c2tsadv | null | 1427772444 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Here's what I would like to see, but it's a pipe dream at this point:
Copyright by default lasting 5 years. Copyright can be registered by the original author (a natural person) for a 10 year extension as many times as they like (must disclose if this is a derivative work).
This would protect works for as long as the... | null | 0 | 1319404197 | False | 0 | c2tu7gq | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tu7gq | t1_c2tu5pq | null | 1427772457 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MatrixFrog | null | > We've managed to build Gmail's front-end without strong guarantees.
I always assumed that Gmail was written using GWT (that is, Java) and then "compiled" to JavaScript. Which means you do have static guarantees during development. Am I totally wrong on this? | null | 0 | 1319404212 | False | 0 | c2tu7is | t3_lkpil | null | t1_c2tu7is | t1_c2tkfi9 | null | 1427772455 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xiongchiamiov | null | As another has pointed out below, this generally is not an issue due to not including licenses directly in the files, but rather having a `COPYING` file that specifies that your application uses parts of XXX by YYY.
But if you really want to avoid that sort of thing - find software under a *truly* permissive license, ... | null | 0 | 1319404257 | False | 0 | c2tu7ql | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tu7ql | t1_c2tqvm1 | null | 1427772458 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wetheslaves | null | Why no one should GPL (or BSD or Apache license, etc): Intellectual "property" violates natural rights. Until intellectual "property" is no longer recognized as a valid concept, [UNLICENSE](http://unlicense.org). | null | 0 | 1319404286 | False | 0 | c2tu7w5 | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tu7w5 | t3_llw0s | null | 1427772461 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xiongchiamiov | null | > If users are paying for the software/service, they're less likely to be whiny and entitled when receiving support for said software/service than if it was for free.
Really? When I'm hacking on some open-source library and it doesn't quite do what I want it to, I find it perfectly natural to spend several hours c... | null | 0 | 1319404407 | False | 0 | c2tu8gc | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tu8gc | t1_c2tr86l | null | 1427772465 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | igouy | null | > The top-scoring C/Java entries also use GNU MP
And the fastest Java program using GMP still takes twice as long (CPU secs) as the fastest C program using GMP. | null | 0 | 1319404663 | False | 0 | c2tu9ov | t3_lkpil | null | t1_c2tu9ov | t1_c2tsxqs | null | 1427772478 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | In Java, the compiler has enough type information to tell you that your code won't throw a runtime error except when you subvert it by using casts (which you end up doing a lot because the Java type system isn't very rich and can't express everything you want to express). It's worth while in Java to have this extra com... | null | 0 | 1319404707 | False | 0 | c2tu9vq | t3_lkpil | null | t1_c2tu9vq | t1_c2tu3jj | null | 1427772482 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kryptkpr | null | There's no need for them to copyright it as their own to make it non-free.
Embedding my code in a proprietary binary is close enough to making it non-free for practical purposes (ie: it was taken for free, wrapped up/compiled and given away under a more restrictive license). | null | 0 | 1319404757 | False | 0 | c2tua51 | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tua51 | t1_c2ts1bc | null | 1427772484 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | robinwholikesjava | null | >I can't imagine cranking out Java code for a non-work related project I do just for the fun of it.
Maybe not you, but a lot of people do. Just look at the sheer number of open source projects that use Java. | null | 0 | 1319404870 | False | 0 | c2tuand | t3_lle7t | null | t1_c2tuand | t1_c2tp4qd | null | 1427772490 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kryptkpr | null | That's interesting, I didn't know copyright is shoved down your throat in some countries.
All 'real' licenses include a no-warranty-you-cant-sue-us clause.. I've always wondered if the "Do WTF you want" license leaves you open to some kind of default liability... | null | 0 | 1319404966 | False | 0 | c2tub2f | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tub2f | t1_c2ttp8m | null | 1427772493 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bitchessuck | null | Among other things, there's one really good reason for not liking the GPL: it's a complex beast of a license. It's long, not always easy to understand and there are lots of rather ambigious terms and conditions. The legal insecurity that comes with the GPL is probably one reason why many companies frown upon using GPLe... | null | 0 | 1319404987 | False | 0 | c2tub5r | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tub5r | t3_llw0s | null | 1427772494 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kikibobo | null | Reason 6: [Optional](http://docs.guava-libraries.googlecode.com/git-history/v10.0/javadoc/com/google/common/base/Optional.html) | null | 0 | 1319405027 | False | 0 | c2tubco | t3_lkwvp | null | t1_c2tubco | t3_lkwvp | null | 1427772503 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Probably JNI overhead. In any case, if a factor of 2 for a pure CPU-limited benchmark isn't good enough, you probably want to drop into assembler with vector instructions anyway. | null | 0 | 1319405039 | False | 0 | c2tubej | t3_lkpil | null | t1_c2tubej | t1_c2tu9ov | null | 1427772503 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | moonrocks | null | Heh. Yeah. Oh well. | null | 0 | 1319405092 | False | 0 | c2tubnb | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tubnb | t1_c2tqxnx | null | 1427772507 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MothersRapeHorn | null | True. I see arrays in C# as code smell. | null | 0 | 1319405192 | False | 0 | c2tuc4a | t3_ll9io | null | t1_c2tuc4a | t1_c2tsyoy | null | 1427772507 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | LucianU | null | Romanian is also like that. | null | 0 | 1319405245 | False | 0 | c2tucbx | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tucbx | t1_c2trks3 | null | 1427772510 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | NYKevin | null | ~~ According to the server last-modified header, this is up-to-date as of Thursday.~~
EDIT: And of course, the server is wrong. | null | 0 | 1319405316 | True | 0 | c2tucnn | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tucnn | t1_c2tr0g6 | null | 1427772514 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | stacks85 | null | The CLR was designed to run Java? | null | 0 | 1319405469 | False | 0 | c2tudcp | t3_ll9io | null | t1_c2tudcp | t1_c2tswz1 | null | 1427772523 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kenfar | null | > Out of curiosity... if someone wanted to create GPL code but make it as easy as possible for Corporate users who want to pay money to licence it for closed source use what should they do?
Some things that will help get approved include a willingness and ability to evaluate and potentially agree to other contract ... | null | 0 | 1319405514 | False | 0 | c2tudkn | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tudkn | t1_c2tslzl | null | 1427772527 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | robinwholikesjava | null | It's a bit sad actually when a group of fanatics get together and actually do that. I don't think Delphi has made a big impact (I even hadn't heard about this pact before), but in 2008 they were rather late to this game.
I think Spring was an early adoptor of this approach when Rod Johnson discovered it was infinitely... | null | 0 | 1319405516 | False | 0 | c2tudl2 | t3_lle7t | null | t1_c2tudl2 | t1_c2tny2a | null | 1427772527 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | harlows_monkeys | null | That's the usual reaction of bloggers at wordpress.com when they found out about OnSwipe. I've yet to run into anyone who actually wanted it on their blog. | null | 0 | 1319405597 | False | 0 | c2tudyk | t3_llkkn | null | t1_c2tudyk | t1_c2tr51e | null | 1427772531 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | julesjacobs | null | **PART 1:**
> That makes it sound like we're dumbing the language down, which is not how I think about it. It's just that they don't want the language to say "you must be this tall to ride." Generics with proper variance are a high bar for many programmers and Dart doesn't want to exclude them.
You don't have to k... | null | 0 | 1319405709 | True | 0 | c2tuegz | t3_lkpil | null | t1_c2tuegz | t1_c2toazf | null | 1427772538 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | Restarting the app makes sense, especially if globals are allowed. It is restarting the whole server that makes no sense to me. Also, why the hell does the server need to be running just to deploy a new version? | null | 0 | 1319405731 | False | 0 | c2tuekw | t3_llz5l | null | t1_c2tuekw | t1_c2ttw5x | null | 1427772539 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319405734 | False | 0 | c2tuel9 | t3_lkpil | null | t1_c2tuel9 | t1_c2toazf | null | 1427772539 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | Perferably all the way. That is why I preach proper API design over slapping interfaces on everything in sight.
And honestly, how can anyone reason about an application when you have separate, incompatible objects floating around with the same class names?
ClassCastException: Error converting Foo to Foo. | null | 0 | 1319405737 | False | 0 | c2tuem0 | t3_llz5l | null | t1_c2tuem0 | t1_c2ttsx2 | null | 1427772539 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | harlows_monkeys | null | Not just more annoying. Because of its ridiculous overuse of memory, it often runs the browser out of memory, forcing the browser to exit. In the best case, it merely forces everything else out of cache, making it so all your other tabs have to reload when you go back. | null | 0 | 1319405763 | False | 0 | c2tueq2 | t3_llkkn | null | t1_c2tueq2 | t1_c2tr2h0 | null | 1427772541 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | beej71 | null | First of all, I encourage you to write as much crypto software as you can. It's fun and brainstretching. And I encourage you to trust none of it. :-) Even professional cryptographers who know what they're doing get crushed by other cryptographers eventually.
I'm not a cryptographer, but it seems to me that recreat... | null | 0 | 1319405801 | False | 0 | c2tuevo | t3_ll4j8 | null | t1_c2tuevo | t3_ll4j8 | null | 1427772542 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | robinwholikesjava | null | It's difficult to find good programmers for ANY language. In other words, it's just hard to find good programmers. | null | 0 | 1319405893 | False | 0 | c2tufap | t3_lle7t | null | t1_c2tufap | t1_c2tru78 | null | 1427772548 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [Semantic versioning](http://semver.org): major.minor.patch
A bump in major happens if and only if it backwards compatibility.
A bump in minor happens if only if the API changes but in a backwards compatible way.
A bump in patch happens for any other change. | null | 0 | 1319405908 | False | 0 | c2tufd5 | t3_llz5l | null | t1_c2tufd5 | t1_c2ttsx2 | null | 1427772550 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | catcradle5 | null | Yeah, this stuff is way above my grasp unfortunately. | null | 0 | 1319405936 | False | 0 | c2tufi6 | t3_llsqm | null | t1_c2tufi6 | t1_c2tpu2u | null | 1427772552 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Taladar | null | > Is not AJAX (pretty much) a synonym for javascript?
Well, as I see it AJAX means the site won't work at all without Javascript while non-AJAX sites generally allow you to use the same site (without any kind of detection that replaces the whole site with a completely different implementation) even if Javascript is... | null | 0 | 1319405938 | False | 0 | c2tufij | t3_lle7t | null | t1_c2tufij | t1_c2tssu0 | null | 1427772552 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mikehaggard | null | >The Java community is insane.
And with which community are you? Python perhaps? | null | 0 | 1319406022 | False | 0 | c2tufxi | t3_llz5l | null | t1_c2tufxi | t1_c2tsadv | null | 1427772556 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MatrixFrog | null | You can follow [the discussion on the Dart issue tracker](https://code.google.com/p/dart/issues/detail?id=22). You can also try learning a language like Haskell or Scala that has an `Option`/`Maybe` type. It's given a good amount of exposure in [this Haskell talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9FagOVqxmI) which was ... | null | 0 | 1319406039 | False | 0 | c2tug17 | t3_lkpil | null | t1_c2tug17 | t1_c2tl8o9 | null | 1427772558 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I'm with the Java community I'm afraid.
It's a greed thing. | null | 0 | 1319406144 | False | 0 | c2tughf | t3_llz5l | null | t1_c2tughf | t1_c2tufxi | null | 1427772564 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Jack9 | null | Because it has very few libraries by comparison. The abstractions java has developed (reflected in the classnames) would still have to be created for scala, albeit without the chaining necessitated by java's inflexible strong static type system.
Scala has method injection, which solves the majority of classname soup a... | null | 0 | 1319406195 | False | 0 | c2tugp3 | t3_lle7t | null | t1_c2tugp3 | t1_c2trbah | null | 1427772566 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | Oh yes, that was part of the plan from the very beginning. They were not messing around when they named it the "Common Language Runtime". Like COM before it, they wanted to let anyone use any language to develop applications that talked to all other languages.
Microsoft's implementation, J#, even had IDE support for t... | null | 0 | 1319406253 | False | 0 | c2tugzh | t3_ll9io | null | t1_c2tugzh | t1_c2tudcp | null | 1427772570 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mikehaggard | null | >Well that depends. What did it look like before?
From TFA: *a series of XML files scattered about the installation* ;)
I'm not so sure what's so bad about this example that nodevent needs to go mental about it. It's just a centralized config file for some simple ports that replaces a bunch of files all over the p... | null | 0 | 1319406255 | False | 0 | c2tugzs | t3_llz5l | null | t1_c2tugzs | t1_c2tsn4a | null | 1427772570 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MatrixFrog | null | If nothing else, they've avoided a lot of the bad parts of JavaScript, like having both `null` and `undefined`, and the lack of classes. Of course some people will tell you that prototype-based OOP is actually better than class-based OOP, but the number of people who truly understand prototypal inheritance is small eno... | null | 0 | 1319406318 | False | 0 | c2tuhb8 | t3_lkpil | null | t1_c2tuhb8 | t1_c2tn3ls | null | 1427772575 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xiongchiamiov | null | And Emacs, shit, that crap uses EIGHT MEGABYTES (and is constantly swapping). | null | 0 | 1319406411 | False | 0 | c2tuhqi | t3_lle7t | null | t1_c2tuhqi | t1_c2tteat | null | 1427772579 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | zlonax | null | You look like a happy developer with deployment where computing power exceeds demand! Yes, in this environment parallel requests make sense.
Thanks for EJB3 info ! | null | 0 | 1319406497 | False | 0 | c2tui4l | t3_lle7t | null | t1_c2tui4l | t1_c2ttlxn | null | 1427772585 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xiongchiamiov | null | > Yes, I know it's all optional, but the reality is that when starting on an existing program you don't have the choice. Doesn't seem like many people just use emacs and Ant only with Java.
You'll find that a lot of Java projects start off with "then click such-and-such button in Eclipse...".
To someone like me wh... | null | 0 | 1319406514 | False | 0 | c2tui71 | t3_lle7t | null | t1_c2tui71 | t1_c2tr668 | null | 1427772585 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MatrixFrog | null | But at the same time, Dart's type system provides some guarantees that Java's does not, because their generic collections are reified: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/lkpil/wrapping_my_head_around_optional_typing/c2tkkzu | null | 0 | 1319406529 | False | 0 | c2tui9c | t3_lkpil | null | t1_c2tui9c | t1_c2tlhqn | null | 1427772585 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | perrygeo | null | Am I missing something? The MIT/BSD licenses are pretty permissive but they don't allow for outright plagerism. In fact the only actual requirement of those licenses is that your copyright must be acknowledged in any distributions.
If someone is plagiarizing code, they are violating copyright. Since neither the GPL or... | null | 0 | 1319406531 | False | 0 | c2tui9o | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tui9o | t1_c2tsq84 | null | 1427772585 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xiongchiamiov | null | > Java has been the proving ground of OOP evangelists for a while.
I thought that was Smalltalk? | null | 0 | 1319406539 | False | 0 | c2tuiba | t3_lle7t | null | t1_c2tuiba | t1_c2tqcoj | null | 1427772586 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | eridius | null | If your goal in releasing open source is to make money, then you're doing something wrong. If you want to make money, go make closed-source software and sell it. If you're writing open source, it's because you want other people to use your stuff (or, alternatively, because you want to use your own stuff and hope other ... | null | 0 | 1319406620 | False | 0 | c2tuio0 | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tuio0 | t1_c2tt5e3 | null | 1427772592 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mikehaggard | null | The JBoss tools server adapter for Eclipse does incremental deployments. I save a Java file and it gets automatically compiled and only that class gets deployed.
MyEclipse does this for all server connectors. There's nothing really special about it. The JVM picks up the class definition as long as no structural change... | null | 0 | 1319406643 | False | 0 | c2tuiro | t3_llz5l | null | t1_c2tuiro | t1_c2tuekw | null | 1427772593 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mazing | null | Why wouldn't you want to use an IDE? | null | 0 | 1319406832 | False | 0 | c2tujnl | t3_lle7t | null | t1_c2tujnl | t1_c2tqu6e | null | 1427772604 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Here's a hint. It's related to what's wrong with this example:
Map<String, Integer> map = new HashMap<String, Integer>();
But you may have spent too long generating Java code via an IDE to see it. | null | 0 | 1319406964 | False | 0 | c2tukan | t3_llz5l | null | t1_c2tukan | t1_c2tugzs | null | 1427772614 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xiongchiamiov | null | Right - it has nothing to do with this:
> C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot
of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much
easier to generate total and utter crap with it. Quite frankly, even if
the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ pr... | null | 0 | 1319407292 | False | 0 | c2tulud | t3_lle7t | null | t1_c2tulud | t1_c2trr96 | null | 1427772634 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | trimbo | null | > If I have a C# job available, I'm not going to advertize for Java since that won't get people I need.
You might not do that, but many people do:
http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=C%23+java&l=San+Francisco%2C+CA
Lots of C# listings that mention Java and vice-versa.
My point is that a listing having a keyword doe... | null | 0 | 1319407382 | False | 0 | c2tumb3 | t3_lle7t | null | t1_c2tumb3 | t1_c2tpn2q | null | 1427772640 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xiongchiamiov | null | That is, of course, not at all true.
The very definition of AJAX is "Asynchronous Javascript And XML".
Secondly, a good design will work just fine without Javascript enabled; when your script files run, then they enhance or modify behavior.
You should really stop using your frustration at a few sites' bad coding pra... | null | 0 | 1319407604 | False | 0 | c2tuncf | t3_lle7t | null | t1_c2tuncf | t1_c2tufij | null | 1427772653 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mikehaggard | null | You didn't, but when push comes to shove, it's always the same on reddit. First there's on attack on Java, and then it becomes clear the attacker is a Python fan.
Maybe you're the exception ;) So tell me, if you hate Java what do you like? | null | 0 | 1319407781 | False | 0 | c2tuo7u | t3_lle7t | null | t1_c2tuo7u | t1_c2tss3s | null | 1428191345 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | radarsat1 | null | > I didn't make any money on Lamson and nobody contributed to it
FTA: "The other reason I love writing email software is nobody else does."
Maybe you didn't get contributors just cause nobody wants to work on email software. Why does that mean everyone was right and you were wrong? (About making money by selling... | null | 0 | 1319407783 | False | 0 | c2tuo84 | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tuo84 | t1_c2tt5e3 | null | 1427772666 | 33 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mikehaggard | null | >If you worked with both you would think differently.
In what way should I think differently then? Please explain! | null | 0 | 1319407832 | False | 0 | c2tuogo | t3_ljxdz | null | t1_c2tuogo | t1_c2tqg55 | null | 1427772668 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | toyboat | null | > ClassCastException: Error converting Foo to Foo.
A most annoying error indeed. In Java, this can happen even if the classes are byte-for-byte identical code (because they came from different class loaders, in case anyone isn't familiar with this one. The app server has a top-level class loader, and each depl... | null | 0 | 1319407871 | False | 0 | c2tuon4 | t3_llz5l | null | t1_c2tuon4 | t1_c2tuem0 | null | 1427772671 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xiongchiamiov | null | > Java itself as a language has no real future.
Java as a language is quite useful because it allows people to implement other (better) languages that run on the JVM. | null | 0 | 1319407898 | False | 0 | c2tuorl | t3_lle7t | null | t1_c2tuorl | t1_c2tqu6e | null | 1427772678 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | daftman | null | > If you explicitly give up your copyright, nobody else can simply take your work and copyright it as their own
That's the whole point. Nobody should copyright it when the author choose not to copyright it.
There is no difference between explicitly giving up copyright and having copyrights expire.
Shakespear's w... | null | 0 | 1319408001 | False | 0 | c2tup8x | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tup8x | t1_c2ts1bc | null | 1427772679 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | henk53 | null | Actually computing power never really exceeds demand ;) We're constantly trying to optimize and part of that is making sure the hardware that we have is optimally used.
>Thanks for EJB3 info !
You're welcome ;) | null | 0 | 1319408009 | False | 0 | c2tupao | t3_lle7t | null | t1_c2tupao | t1_c2tui4l | null | 1427772679 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dorfsmay | null | GPL has NOTHING to do with "Intellectual property". The GPL is about copyright.
RMS goes on and on about this all the time, to the point it's almost tiring.
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True | uobradbury | null | first section: well written
rest of article: rant | null | 0 | 1319408098 | False | 0 | c2tupqf | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tupqf | t3_llw0s | null | 1427772684 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xiongchiamiov | null | /r/cscareerquestions | null | 0 | 1319408114 | False | 0 | c2tupt7 | t3_lle7t | null | t1_c2tupt7 | t1_c2trldx | null | 1427772685 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wetheslaves | null | >GPL has NOTHING to do with "Intellectual property". The GPL is about copyright.
Copyright *is* intellectual "property". | null | 0 | 1319408143 | False | 0 | c2tupxw | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tupxw | t1_c2tupjp | null | 1427772687 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | daftman | null | I don't understand this legal mess. Could you explain this to me?
1. If the author explicitly putting things in public domain, i.e forfeit his copyright, how is his work legally different from Shakespears', Bachs'?
2. What country do not allow public domain?
3. Why is this a legal mess and for whom? The original aut... | null | 0 | 1319408182 | False | 0 | c2tuq3e | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tuq3e | t1_c2tsb69 | null | 1427772689 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | henk53 | null | If every Java developer supposedly felt that way, why don't we see tons of open source projects developed in your holy crap Python? Why isn't Python number one on Tiobe and other indexes?
Let me tell you something, every Python developer I know hates Python, and is itching to switch to something else, particularly Jav... | null | 0 | 1319408322 | False | 0 | c2tuqr5 | t3_lle7t | null | t1_c2tuqr5 | t1_c2tto0e | null | 1427772698 | -3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | redalastor | null | I don't think a court would agree that a WTFPL licensed piece of code carries any promise attached but it's always better to explicitly spell it out. | null | 0 | 1319408367 | False | 0 | c2tuqxq | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tuqxq | t1_c2tub2f | null | 1427772700 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | daftman | null | So technically, you took a bunch of code, put a nice skin and wire them together and charge customer for them as though it was your own.
Nice business model. Aren't you glad there were some BSD/MIT work for you to use.
If there wasn't you might have to ... *gasp* ... write some code. | null | 0 | 1319408499 | False | 0 | c2turjp | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2turjp | t1_c2ts0nj | null | 1427772709 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dlsspy | null | ...or we have codebases that are Apache or MIT licensed and would like to add a small component to our open source software, but can't because that component is GPL'd and we don't want to place those restrictions on *our* users.
I'm all for whatever licensing people want to use on their software, but people are pretty... | null | 0 | 1319408715 | False | 0 | c2tusit | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tusit | t1_c2tsq84 | null | 1427772722 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | daftman | null | > Well, he gets less contribution.
Why does the license determines contribution? People contributes because they want to, not because of the license make them feel warm and fussy to do so.
Take Linux and Apache for example. Both have different licenses, and both have high contribution.
In fact, permissive license... | null | 0 | 1319408792 | False | 0 | c2tusw2 | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tusw2 | t1_c2tsz19 | null | 1427772726 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mpeters | null | It would be nice if there was a date on the blog posting somewhere. If for no other reason that those of us who see it posted on reddit (or someplace) will know it's an old opinion :) | null | 0 | 1319409075 | False | 0 | c2tuuac | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tuuac | t1_c2tt5e3 | null | 1427772744 | 20 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | munificent | null | Nope, gmail [does not use GWT](http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit/browse_thread/thread/e26bcad1ac16102a). | null | 0 | 1319409220 | False | 0 | c2tuuz5 | t3_lkpil | null | t1_c2tuuz5 | t1_c2tu7is | null | 1427772753 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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