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Offset Bad Code, With Bad Code Offsets
An anonymous reader writes "Two weeks ago, The Daily WTF's Alex Papadimoulis announced Bad Code Offsets, a join venture between many big names in the software development community (including StackOverflow's Jeff Atwood and Jon Skeet and SourceGear's Eric Sink). The premise is that you can offset bad code by purchasing Bad Code Offsets (much in the same way a carbon-footprint is offset). The profits are donated to Free Software projects which work to eliminate bad code, such as the Apache Foundation and FreeBSD. The first cheques were sent out earlier today." Hopefully, they work better than carbon offsets, actually.
I'm so sick of this meme.
Papal indulgences were charging money for a paper that says "well, that's ok, never mind" from the Pope.
Carbon offsets are money to fund programs that actually help the environment (with luck, help enough to undo what harm you did in the first place, or even more).
One is about meaningless bullshit. The other is about actual, real-world, physical fixes to actual, real-world, physical problems. Like, involving chemicals and engineering and stuff.
There is a difference, Al-Gore-phobes, and making this false analogy only makes you look stupid.
"A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy." --Theodore Roosevelt
Holy crap, the "I disagree and I don't wanna listen" mods are out in force today with the troll mods.
Here's to hoping that particular mod never gets points again... mine expired just a couple hours ago, or I'd counter the troll mod on your post and on other responses pointing out the idiocy of nweaver's post.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
Why would someone feel guilty for selling a car with the hood welded shut?
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
Even if it cured cancer and AIDS next week, Windows ME would still be on the naughty list for decades to come.
However, in this analogy, you do use legal means to keep him from unwelding the hood or getting to the engine. Or maybe you're a wheel? I'm not good with car analogies.