I can attest that startup founders are living in a fantasy bubble. they have very little empathy and they will throw anyone under the bus except of course other founders.
I really detest such heartless jerks.
It's more a reaction to the numb-skulled variety of business journalism that really does tout Google as a company crammed to the gills with super geniuses.
I advise that everyone ignore business journalism completely.
This debacle is just more proof that these people at Google are by no means geniuses. it is a bunch of affluent boys who despite claiming to be super capable have in fact not worked a hard day in their lives.
that was always a problem of Linux being reliant on X Windows, and you don't know if the X windows is going to run properly until it's installed.
therefore the installer has to be text-based, or so they claim.
but it's all BS. the people who are doing the video drivers have a vested interest in discouraging direct use of those video drivers -- they are typically employed in jobs that have to do with either X Windows or something related. they want you to use X, even though X is terribly insecure and generally crappy software.
I think we have to deduce that he is not a great man, and that putting him on a pedestal in the first place was very foolish.
He is not a philosopher, he is not a psychologist, he is not superhuman. Computer geeks may think a lot of themselves, but it is 95% self-delusion, and we should not encourage that delusion by believing in ourselves.
ALL TYPOS FIXED:
People have complained about your occasional mean language. Surely you contemplated whether it's just you or perhaps there's a larger trend within this industry causing programmers to be jerks.
In my experience, I don't think it's just you. Working in Silicon Valley and interviewing in the Valley, I've found there is more than just rudeness. It seems everyone knows they don't know it all, but they're compelled to pretend they do for career purposes, and to be competitive jerks about it. It is worst with iOS programmers. They belong to a cult.
I ask you: Is it possible in your opinion that engineers suffer from feelings of incompetence and ignorance that they project onto other people to be rude & competitive? Is it possible also that there is a narcissistic component underpinning this, because society has stupidly told programmers they are super-geniuses and super-capable, even though typically they're neither?
I'm reminded of Socrates, who said: I am wise because I know I don't know. But I don't see a lot of that kind of wisdom in the industry these days. I observe that people like the ones who killed Socrates are dominating this industry.
I would really like to see table or spreadsheet somewhere, where on one side there are all the free and open APIs and on the other side there are all the closed or at risk APIs..
hold on, if Google loses this case, what would the effect be on the free software foundation ?
they are always copying APIs. that is their modus operandi. with the FSF have to embark on many new projects that are original instead of imitative?
Everybody everybody! I need help! I trust the bad CORPORATIONS with all my personal details, and some of them went broke and sold me details to the big bad governments.
Oh why why why did I trust crappy companies? Because all my peers were doing it? Is the Internet a gateway drug??
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I can attest that startup founders are living in a fantasy bubble. they have very little empathy and they will throw anyone under the bus except of course other founders.
I really detest such heartless jerks.
lots of startups are started by privileged Asians and some are even started by women.
Wrong, and this shows you don't know anything about biology... apes are a specific pair of families.
It's more a reaction to the numb-skulled variety of business journalism that really does tout Google as a company crammed to the gills with super geniuses. I advise that everyone ignore business journalism completely.
Richard Dawkins is a biologist. he would never say something so stupid. we are all hominids, and we are certainly not apes.
This debacle is just more proof that these people at Google are by no means geniuses. it is a bunch of affluent boys who despite claiming to be super capable have in fact not worked a hard day in their lives.
that was always a problem of Linux being reliant on X Windows, and you don't know if the X windows is going to run properly until it's installed. therefore the installer has to be text-based, or so they claim.
but it's all BS. the people who are doing the video drivers have a vested interest in discouraging direct use of those video drivers -- they are typically employed in jobs that have to do with either X Windows or something related. they want you to use X, even though X is terribly insecure and generally crappy software.
Typo... "believing in ourselves" should be "believing it ourselves"...!
I think we have to deduce that he is not a great man, and that putting him on a pedestal in the first place was very foolish.
He is not a philosopher, he is not a psychologist, he is not superhuman. Computer geeks may think a lot of themselves, but it is 95% self-delusion, and we should not encourage that delusion by believing in ourselves.
I can't believe all of the great questions that were posed were simply thrown out.
The situation was deeply mismanaged. That in itself tells you a lot about what the open source movement has become~!
27-year olds are 1/10 as effective as a 45-year old.
Indians... forget about it. They code horribly.
Programming means constantly learning, period. Get used to it!
Management means constantly failing, period.
Back when programmers were hippies like the Woz, they made great managers.
Today programmers (especially foreigners and to a lesser extent American) are micromanaging manboys, the brains clogged with hubris.
95% of programmers have no place in management.
ALL TYPOS FIXED: People have complained about your occasional mean language. Surely you contemplated whether it's just you or perhaps there's a larger trend within this industry causing programmers to be jerks. In my experience, I don't think it's just you. Working in Silicon Valley and interviewing in the Valley, I've found there is more than just rudeness. It seems everyone knows they don't know it all, but they're compelled to pretend they do for career purposes, and to be competitive jerks about it. It is worst with iOS programmers. They belong to a cult. I ask you: Is it possible in your opinion that engineers suffer from feelings of incompetence and ignorance that they project onto other people to be rude & competitive? Is it possible also that there is a narcissistic component underpinning this, because society has stupidly told programmers they are super-geniuses and super-capable, even though typically they're neither? I'm reminded of Socrates, who said: I am wise because I know I don't know. But I don't see a lot of that kind of wisdom in the industry these days. I observe that people like the ones who killed Socrates are dominating this industry.
Typo: "or practice there is" should be "or perhaps there is"
most likely the studios are posting those links, or perhaps phishing scammers...
got news for you: no programmer wants to code in C++ anymore. you guys should support Objective-C. you should've supported from the start!
they get a lot of business from the CIA perhaps?
I would really like to see table or spreadsheet somewhere, where on one side there are all the free and open APIs and on the other side there are all the closed or at risk APIs..
Google will never ditch java, because if they do none of the NSA's android exploits will work anymore! Google is just a lapdog to them...
and what if Oracle buys Novell?
so are you saying that oracle is taking them to court Purely to enforce the GPL?
but Linux is using APIs that are copies of someone else's APIs, are they not? SCO?
hold on, if Google loses this case, what would the effect be on the free software foundation ? they are always copying APIs. that is their modus operandi. with the FSF have to embark on many new projects that are original instead of imitative?
Oh why why why did I trust crappy companies? Because all my peers were doing it? Is the Internet a gateway drug??