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Roosevelt posted:i hosed up because i mentioned open source. here's the email
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you know whats sad about ESR, aside from being a libertarian and afraid of the blacks, it's the way he's arrested his own programming skills by refusing to work ~at all~ for decades in the setting where programming skills are developed, ie the corporate setting. thats how he ends up thinking that upgrading int flags to C99 bools in some random project makes him a thought leader. probably couldn't get a job now if he wanted one and wouldn't accept the kind of junior level positions for which he'd be suited
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Apr 14, 2018 20:58
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if i emailed rms i'd mention "open freedom" to throw him off
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Apr 14, 2018 21:02
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Sweevo posted:esr is a lying racist sack of poo poo who could barely program 30 years ago. his entire "career" has been nothing but hijacking dead projects nobody gave a poo poo about, making minor changes, then telling everyone how important he was
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Salt Fish posted:Wait who is ESR and why am I defending them? The Internet was built by people like me. We're still out there, patiently building things and fixing bugs and putting in our time to make sure your world keeps working. We're mostly volunteers, because there is no way to wrap a business model around the most essential services. We do what we do for love, and because software is our art - and because, in the Internet-dependent 21st century, we know civilization would be lost without us just as surely as if the roads and sewers and power grid stopped working. Though I'm a techie, I'm in a situation similar to a fine artist because the market has not figured out how to value and reward the work I feel called to do. Unlike most artists, it wouldn't be difficult for me to get a well-paid job - but then I'd have to work on what an employer wants, rather than what the world actually needs. Emphasis added to show how the hustle works
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Apr 14, 2018 21:51
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Hoo boy I was there in 2006 when the whole Seattle east side power grid got blown over and wasn’t restored for weeks, thank goodness for “people like esr” who selflessly volunteered to repair it from their man caves or the spiky hairs would have carried me into slavery
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Apr 14, 2018 21:58
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 How does a road “stop working”
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Apr 14, 2018 22:24
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rms embodies everything about my nerdy youth that i now despise and am glad to have grown out of
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Apr 24, 2018 16:45
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Sweevo posted:rms thinks it's 1973 and that a computer is something you have to interact with by submitting batch jobs to run overnight 
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Apr 24, 2018 17:52
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George posted:he is a giant in certain circles
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Apr 24, 2018 18:02
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excuse me but celebrating the birth of a baby isn't on topic here
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May 3, 2018 15:53
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Emacs shouldn’t normally cause injury if you use proper chording form, im guessing the parentheses did him in
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