Roybatty

27 karma · joined April 9, 2007

I believe you're wrong. The vast majority of "linux users" don't buy into RMS's particular ideology. RMS proactively describes the differences between the OpenSource and "Free Software" philosophies.

Roybattyon Black Hawk flies, lands and avoids threats - all without pilots

Where the plane does just about everything automatically, but there's a human inside that basically 'thinks' and the vehicle does.

"...must think russian"

Roybattyon U.S. now 'totally unified' in opposition to U.N. Internet governance

Canada and most of Western Europe doesn't have the protection of freedom of speech that is embedded in the U.S. constitution. In particular, things like "hate speech". I believe Canada has the same insidious problem that many western European countries have where if you "deny" something in public, you can go to jail.

The U.N. would just take this leftist P.C. nonsense an order of magnitude further.

Roybattyon IntelliJ IDEA 12 Released

Whatever floats your boat. I bet you would be happy using notepad to write Java too. Eclipse might be Yugo, but using Emacs to write Java is like using Fred Flinstone's car. Hope you got thick callouses ;)

Roybattyon IntelliJ IDEA 12 Released

And if every plugin was supported in the community edition, they would be out of business.

Roybattyon IntelliJ IDEA 12 Released

Eclipse has suffered from plugin hell from the beginning, and probably it's biggest failing.

Roybattyon Steve Ballmer's Nightmare is Coming True

"2. Employees gradually switch away from using Windows PCs for work."

That's not happening.

Roybattyon Why C++ Is Not "Back"

It seems that the Windows group at Microsoft has a lot of pull , doesn't like the managed stack, and that's why we're seeing a lot of "native is back" and C++ article on Microsoft-centered sites.

If that's the case, I wish Microsoft would bite the bullet and come up with a new native language. Microsoft programmers are for the most part happy C#/.NET and trying to pull them back to C++ is a losing proposition.

Roybattyon Farewell, USS Enterprise (the aircraft carrier)

That's a bizarre comment. No need for conventional weapons, because you can just nuke people?

Roybattyon Farewell, USS Enterprise (the aircraft carrier)

Or you can look at it as a weapon that protected free people.

Roybattyon Drone crashes mount at civilian airports

I should be surprised that a HN reader is falling for this guy's trick, but I guess I'm not.

"Oh and look at how the military is using these hacker kids with neck beards who part-time as assassins in between their Battlefield 3 matches"

I guess this guy (and apparently you too) would feel better if this guy was wearing a 3-piece suit before he launches a hellfire missile into a Taliban camp.

Roybattyon Man Arrested At Airport for Unusual Watch

"Comrade, your attire doesn't conform. Don't worry, we have a government authorized uniform in this back room for you. Please follow me"

Roybattyon Brian Harvey: Why SICP matters

am i wrong in thinking in the Common Lisp thinking that data and methods don't belong together? In production environments we at least have extensions methods in c#, but man i still love generic functions in CL style. Why am i wrong?

Roybattyon Brian Harvey: Why SICP matters

We need to start discussing about OO in general. We have a generation (or two,three in internet time) that think that OO is the epitomy of software engineering. We have Haskell, Ocaml, and others that can do better

Roybattyon 100,000 stars

I have my first child coming in a couple weeks and this is the type of stuff that I'm going to love showing she or he.

Awesome

Roybattyon Torvalds' quote about good programmers

He's dissing OO there.

Roybattyon DC Taxi Commission Proposes New Rules to Shut Down Uber

You're not a liberal, you're a leftist...a big difference. We've seen what your kind has done to humanity in the last century. Mao, Pol Pot, Stalin, Castro... You leftists are revolting to humanity.

Roybattyon DC Taxi Commission Proposes New Rules to Shut Down Uber

Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Castro, you and others. You're sick in the head and immoral. Anybody that believes in freedom hates you.

Roybattyon Father’s Age Is Linked to Risk of Autism and Schizophrenia

That's just your opinion that having children when older is harmful to society. But what I consider more harmful to society is this thinking that every single individual action has to be weighed against the "benefits of society". This thinking seems to be more and more prevalent and is dangerous for freedom.

Roybattyon Linus Torvalds: Linux succeed thanks to selfishness and trust

there's the cynicism that makes America work, and why socialism sucks

Roybattyon Valve Says "Yes" To Steam Linux This Year

As much as I hate it (I'm a PC gamer..hate not having a mouse), the consoles have taken a big chunk out of the PC gaming market. That's just fact, whether you or like it.

The "entire world" doesn't really matter. If some dude in Somalia has money to buy a PC game, he probably has money to buy a console.

Roybattyon A Boggling Return to C

<butthead>Uhh...hehe..uhh..hehe...he said boxen</butthead>

Roybattyon History of income inequality in the US

He might have not said that it's a zero sum game, but you effectively did - "He's just saying that a small amount of people helped themselves to a (too) large piece of the pie"....pie being the keyword here

Roybattyon Why I Don't Want to Learn Go

The title is wrong. It should be "Why I Don't Want to Learn Go and You Shouldn't Either"

Roybattyon Microsoft launches an HTML5 version of Cut the Rope

Those who downvoted you won't be happy until we've devolved into playing Zork-like text adventures and using Lynx. HTML5 will become like Flash/Silverlight ;)

Roybattyon Can open source save the planet?

Yes, and Steve Buscemi will proclaim, "this is GNU/RMS/Linux..I know this", right before they destroy the asteroid.

Roybattyon SOPA would never happen in Europe

Socialists think free speech is overrated.

Roybattyon China to cancel college majors that don't pay

Of course not. We know that Obama and Nancy Pelosi know how to spend our money better than we do.

Roybattyon China to cancel college majors that don't pay

And most people don't measure wealthy by what some dingbat socialist says.

Roybattyon China to cancel college majors that don't pay

And you leftists continue to lie and say it's free when everybody knows it's not.