_rpaf's comments

Do you mean to say that your analogy is relevant to the claims against RMS being partly or completely dismissed as a "necessary evil" comparable to shooting a person who's on a killing spree, when weighted against his contributions?

I'm just asking. I got that feeling reading your comment. I get that feeling reading a lot of comments here. I could be wrong.

As a reminder, he has been accused, by several independent parties, of, among other things:

-Asking female coworkers to lay down topless on a mattress in his office.

-Threatening a colleague to kill himself if he/she didn't go on a date with him.

-Posting up signs in his workplace along the lines of "Knight for Justice (Also: Hot Ladies)".

Not to be picky, because to be honest I completely believe that what you say is plausible, but that's a lot of outrageous claims with very little in the way of examples or evidence.

I second your statement about Google Docs. I find it amazing that they don't put a bigger focus on performance. We're talking about tools that are essentially about being productive!

Any Google Docs product feels incredibly sluggish, and I feel this trend lately even in Gmail or Google Keep. It just constantly feels like those old-school fat clients constantly hiccupping because of a slow server.

Please don't give tough-guy "smart" advice like this on the internet. You're going to end up getting someone as naive as you into trouble.

I can guarantee that most any officer will charge you with 'resisting' or 'non-compliance' or some other fuzzy, indefensible legal charge just because you pissed them off by 'challenging their authority'. And now you missed your flight and have legal problems for what, to prove a point?

Here's some advice on what pretty much any officer will think in these kinds of situations: 'Oh, you want to make my life harder? I'll make YOUR life harder'. I know, it's bullshit, unprofessional childish behavior, but it's real. And believe me, he/she will win.

Be practical. Changing this stuff comes from legislation, not some brave grandstanding power-move that literally not even the rest of your fellow travelers will give a damn about.

        "Our code is self-documenting. If you need documentation then the code isn't written well enough"

        -Assholes who don't know what it is like to work with mature code bases.

    - People who don't know how to write clean code

- People who think that not only they figured out what 'clean code' even means, but that everyone else will agree, thus single-handedly ending some 50+ years of heated industry-wide debate, numerous billion-dollar attempts by some of the most talented people in the world, and troves of 8-dimensional mental gymnastics about design patterns by way of a $21 ebook, a code review and some blog posts

I think they mention they located the mountains not from the ridge outline, but from a tip-off they received about where it all happened, and then they corroborated that tip against the ridge outline, building placement, roads, etc.

> After a tip off from a Cameroonian source, we found an exact match for that ridge line on Google Earth

Can anybody fill me in on why people these days are spending almost the same money for a last-gen, medium-high end, 12 core, 24 thread CPU and a motherboard? What features would an almost $400 motherboard have that could justify that price?

It's all the same debate, really. After all is said and done, rights function to entitle you to things or acts. The blurry line that I believe you might be talking about has a very specific name, but recent social and public discourse make a lot of people nowadays automatically cringe at it's sight (wrongly, IMO) without seriously hearing out or considering it's merits. I'm talking about the word "privilege".

I'm no expert, and I might be wrong, but generally I would argue against extracting conclusions (even layman conclusions) from two studies of a different species (!) with a sample size of 2 (!!!)

You also don't get ahead if you there's a perfectly valid reason outside of your control that prevents you from 'getting ahead', or makes it extremely unlikely. Most dictionaries would call those 'excuses'. And you especially don't get ahead if those valid reasons exist but are seldom discussed by the people with the most power to solve them, and are instead often reduced to 'excuses', 'lazyness', or any other straw man, like the one you're complaining about.

The photos are neither low-quality nor highly-compressed. I personally can't tell much of a difference 95% of the time and I'm a technical person. Here´s a comparison and a closeup, left image is the original, right one compressed with the Unlimited Storage setting:

full picture https://images.huffingtonpost.com/2016-01-01-1451631423-7665...

cropped detail https://images.huffingtonpost.com/2016-01-01-1451631515-2060...

Also, I believe Photos storage is unlimited even in Original quality if you own a Pixel phone, which may or not may be the case, but still.