Rants
An Incredibly Long History of this Utterly Stupid Oracle Versus Google Lawsuit
Sadly, and by no choice of my own, I am the 1 person on Earth who is most familiar with and has followed this Oracle/Google Java API thing since its absolute inception. And I mean, like, YEARS before the suit was filed. When I worked at the SD Times, I Read more…
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Why My Latest Dwarf Fortress Ended with a Cheese Maker Hitting Kids in the Mayor’s House
I started a Dwarf Fortress last week.Despite playing for 15 years now, I’ve never been able to survive the second invasion. I suck at prepping my military and especially training. But there were… reasons this time. Still, this is why I never keep their names. I don’t remember my fortresses Read more…
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Why Hacker News is Now a Steaming Pile of Shit Heads
In times past, Hacker News was a great place to discuss software, the software industry, and startup culture. You could get great links to great tools and libraries and frameworks. Developers would post their things there and people would look at them. CEOs of startups would ask for advice, famous Read more…
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The One Thing Most Religions Agree On
Let’s start about 36,000 years ago, with the Venus of Hohle Fels. There’s other stuff from earlier times, and even dimples in rocks claimed to be as old as 700,000 years in India. But I like to start in Germany, because Europe’s where this Venus is from, and she’s undisputed Read more…