sfk

Since you have such valuable insights, perhaps you should discuss them on openbsd-tech.

So, apart from GitHub, we now have another opportunity for coding slaves to prove themselves worthy.

Spartacus, open your mouth, I want to see your teeth.

The opposite of too regular is not necessarily "abuse of the C++ preprocessor" or unwarranted cleverness.

The same phenomenon exists in natural languages: The sentence structure in some passages of the bible is just too regular for me to be interesting, great authors on the other hand have an individual style while still writing with great clarity.

Go's style is simply too paratactic for me.

I'm still trying to force myself to like Go. The basic problem is that Go is too regular for me, which makes it painful to read other people's code.

I don't have this problem with functional languages or C written in a free flowing coding style like djb's.

Is it even possible in Go to have an individual style?

How are errors in deferred functions handled? How about division by zero?

A tulip?

No, I never thought that. I was extrapolating what might happen when an (almost) monopolist like GitHub would start to mine, analyze, and sell data like Facebook.

A further step towards the gamification of Open Source development.

On the other hand, maybe that's Github's future business model: Rank Open Source slaves and sell that information to recruiters.

Are you a sockpuppet trying to derail the discussion or is this serious?

Could you stop downvoting michaelochurch all the time? Several responses who agree with him are in the plus, this comment is <= -2. It's ridiculous.

That is what the Go developers claim. I don't see this abuse very often in C, either.

If a speed sensitive function in C is documented to work for integers in the range 0 < x < 256, then it makes sense to put in an assert() as a courtesy to the users of the function.

It does not make sense in every situation to do a range check and return an error, or worse, "panic" (the latter didn't work for the Ariane 5).

This is utterly ridiculous. West Germany was FAR better off economically when the D-Mark was strong.

Fine, I assume he'll apologize for the treatment of Ben Noordhuis then.

EDIT: And the ministry of truth voting is on the side of some rich silicon valley guys again.

The corporations see the benefits, but the population does not. Same as in China.

The downvoters should educate themselves:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html

In a naive world it's called community. These days open source is a vehicle for multinationals to get suckers to write and test their software for free.

Microsoft has caught on to that, hence the move.

This is a silly discussion that distracts from the real issue (humans being tortured), but here you go:

https://www.justice.gov.uk/downloads/offenders/psipso/psi-20...

"2.1 Showing films on DVD or video to groups of prisoners or staff, either in communal areas or via in cell television systems, is considered to be a public performance for which a licence is required."

This is the UK version, be my guest to search for the U.S. equivalent before making any further claims.

No professional opinion is needed: The copyright warnings at the beginning of DVDs often state that it is forbidden to perform the work in "restaurants, prisons, ..." (sometimes they even mention oil rigs).

whoishiring leads the "Artistic interests" section.

Interesting that the git hipsters are downvoting factually correct information. "Unruly hackers" (pg) seem to be perfect fodder for groupthink and monopolies.

Linux is on https://git.kernel.org/cgit/ .

I disagree. GitHub looks cluttered and the contrast is too low for speed reading. I prefer the hg interface, for example:

https://hg.python.org/cpython/

Another interface I prefer is:

http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/

The proper analogy is this:

There is a city where a road service provider (RSP) builds and maintains all roads. At strategic places, there are road checkpoints where the RSP can block traffic.

Recently, there has been a series of bank robberies. The city has strange laws: Bank robberies are illegal in he city, but hard to prosecute directly. The bank, knowing who participated in the robberies, asks the RSP to block the robbers' traffic.

The RSP refuses, bank sues the RSP.

The price of really valuable goods (housing, education, health care) is steadily rising. Cheap trinkets in the form of silly websites, iPhones etc. are just a distraction from the fact that the majority of the population is worse off than 20 years ago.

Overloading productive open source devs with spam and administrative bullshit is parasitic. (Allegedly) collecting money after a project has told them to stop is parasitic at best.

Their ISP appears to be LINODE-US. But the other commenters are right that DMCA probably does not apply to trademarks.

DMCA being relevant or not, my understanding is that the takedown notice goes to the website's ISP (LINODE-US in this case).

If open source parasites like tip4commit don't learn, the next logical step is to trademark projects and send DMCA notices without wasting any further time.

Also, with this kind of sleazy behavior, the advertising clause in the BSD license suddenly becomes very appealing again.

Synopsis: The plant is endangered, but we like it that way, since we control the IP.