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We'll have software ethics when we have business ethics and political ethics.

"It's not Marshall, TX's fault that IP law is ridiculous, and these juries very well may be the most knowledgeable jurours out there."

As a lifelong Texan I do believe you overestimate the knowledge base of people that willing live in East Texas. Most of the technical smart folks in Texas have migrated to Austin, DFW, San Antonio or Houston for real jobs. And most of them don't have a fucking clue about encryption.

East Texas is a dream situation for attorneys considering the average knowledge is lower than the rest of this state. Have this trial in Dallas and you might get a engineer from TI or a statistician from my company on the jury. East Texas is what we in the city refer to as the "Sticks". The per capita income is half that of even the older suburbs in Dallas.

A experienced developer know that any data/code concerning names, addresses and locations is more complex and error prone than an apprentice realizes.

So it's "A New Kind of Marketing" ?

The more interesting details aren't on this page. The license and the costs associated with the license.

"You could also program the -10 in a beautiful, roughly-C-level language from CMU, called Bliss. I see C and I remember Bliss, and I could weep."

I see C and I wonder if that's the best we can do for a systems programming language. Maybe C is just a local optimum that we have just invested too much manpower into to switch to anything else?

"I remember a few months back on here when we were going 'Why don't people use PGP more? Oh yeah, the interface sucks.' And did anyone change the interface? Nope, not to my knowledge at least."

Some people do use PGP, but they pay for it or it's an internal component in a larger system. GPG, the OSS version does have a sucky interface, but that's not the real issue people don't use it, there's three others:

1) Most people don't give a shit about encryption 2) Most people are too fucking lazy to understand/use encryption (Not being cynical, this is reality.) 3) Writing good encryption software is thankless and discouraging. There's a ton of commercial companies that use SSH and GPG that haven't donated squat to the developers.

"Did any of us make better encryption tools, despite there being available encryption libraries? Not to my knowledge."

You don't work where I do. I wrap GPG in another layer of software to make it more usable to the above average folks at my job. It's mainly limited to automated processes.

It's a Jar-Jar Binks association...

No competition is forcing them to... Plus consumers are consumers.

There's also a problem finding decent students/coworkers that listen. I don't know how many times I've made suggestions and recommendations, just to be ignored.

I co-lead a local programming user group and we commonly help people. Frequently we encounter people that want us to fix the bug in one line of code and don't want help in fixing the structure, the function, the readability or overall program.

No it's because the industry and schools do a bad job of training novice programmers.

Has any of Oberon's "spirit children" been used for a full fledged OS yet?

With all the recent revelations about the US government, I think it's very plausible.

I'd rather see Oberon ported to a modern machine. :)

Like kill a journalist investigating military officials.

Both parties in the US benefit from illegal immigration from Mexico. Democrats have a huge Hispanic base which has interests in immigration reform. Republicans play both sides, one hand is bashing immigrants, while many of their supporters hire them for jobs to reduce costs.

All restaurants are Taco Bell is what you want. :)

Only one tool of each category will "win" out? That's a mighty dystopian future.

Does that include mass media, software or weapons systems?

Peak cynicism? I like the phrase, but you aren't quite there yet.

The zenith of peak cynicism is when you wouldn't be surprised if the .01% (or powers that may be) decided one day to reduce the world population through NBC warfare just to maintain their power.

Why not grab some public domain data sets and build something on that? There's some really nice sources that can be discovered at data.gov and other places. Much of it could be used to inform and educate the public. You probably could build a small business or consultancy if you choose correctly.

Your IT department isn't everyone's IT department.

Besides my own, I interact with our client's IT departments as part of my role. They run the spectrum from dysfunctional to superior.

IPython notebooks are very much inspired by Mathematica. And will probably be used by more people in the future due to the cost of Mathematica.

I got a surplus stack of them that was scrapped at a bookstore to press flowers...

As for his post, it should have been titled: "A New Kind of Programming Language".

Maybe he's holding out for more money?

I don't know how to feel about this partnership. As someone whom likes C#, it makes sense. As someone that likes OSS, it brings to mind all the old accusations from the some of the OSS community about the purpose of Mono.

Just waiting for the other 20,000 Excel features to be added. :)

This may sound like an inane comment, but trying working along Excel power users for the past two decades. Most people have no idea of the crazy, huge, complicated environment that is Excel.

It's more like not covering your mouth while sneezing on someone.

I used not go to bars and events for years due to the smoking. Then it got better with more restrictions of smoking. Now with the vaping, I can't go again unless it's a place that restricts it.

Depending on the circumstances, enough for me to notice. I feel the effects before I usually notice the person vaping.

Some of us are sensitive to nicotine as well as smoke. Don't be blowing vapor around like it's doing no harm while inside. I'll have a reaction, (starts with tingling lips), then I'll have a polite reaction to tell you to take it outside.

If you need nicotine, use a patch or gum, not a device that may spew shit in the air. If you "vape" take that stuff outside.