luser's comments

Thank you for the enlightening reply :)

Ah, there is the thing most people don't realise.

The "core values" are for the drones, specifically to keep them in line and not cause any issues. The board members can keep doing what the $%%$ they want as the only values they have are economic, the generation of profit for the company.

Just remember that corporationa are not "ethical" so having "core values" is an oxymoron. The only thing a corporation exists for is profit, so "core values" is the clown face painted on a psychopath. A corporation will lie, rape and destroy to make a profit.

Human beings have values. Human beings can be ethical. But most corporate leaders leave their humanity at the door when running a corporation. It is just business.

"Core values" are a delusion for the masses, a stupid form of mind control to keep the losers in thrall [1].

[1] See the definition of loser here: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-o...

Happy for the guys who got acquired....BUT thinking as a consumer, this type of thing makes me very nervous about relying on teeny tiny SAAS businesses for anything long term.

Hilarious! Every comment critical of Steve Jobs has been downvoted. Groupthink methinks!

Alternative title: Hagiography of a Dead Psychopath CEO

I did some research on CPAN - comparing it to Ruby gems and Python's various packaging solutions...

CPAN is the defacto Perl standard, mirroring and testing built in. With perlbrew, localLib and cpanm, the tooling for Perl is world class. I think Ruby and Python are still catching up here. No doubt they will, but CPAN is an amazing feat of engineering.

And to continue....

Smalltalk - the most perfectly made jacket in the entire world but when you put it on, all your other clothes disappear.

Javascript - A jacket with legholes where the armhole should be, but you wear it because everyone else is wearing one.

Visual Basic - A jacket made out of bits of old carpet.

Haskell - A highly technically advanced jacket made out of nano particles that configure themselves to the wearer, but nobody wears them as the instruction manual is written in Sanskrit.

I disagree with your Perl jacket... a Modern Perl jacket would come with a magic incantation that when said over the jacket, it turns it into a bad-ass leather jacket that comes with a free Harley Davidson.

I love Perl. I also love Smalltalk. I have written professional code in both. Clean, lovely OO code that is easy on the eye.

Your opinion is a complete generalisation and makes you sound profoundly ignorant. Language choice != coding ability.

Sorry, I have to disagree. I have run a small software consulting business in Dublin for nearly ten years. The one thing we get right in this country is our pro business climate. It is easy to set up a company, there is a lot of support and advice available. I think we do this well...

Two caveats though:

- You DO need to get a good accountant to get advice on international VAT charges as they are complex (I suggest bypassing them by using a company like FastSpring that manages them on your behalf).

- Small business owners should have the same social welfare security net as everyone else (I think this might be changing).

I agree with you on the inbred gombeens and cute hoors, but thankfully there seems to be less of them in the tech sector :)

I wish Netflix would just give me a list of genres I could browse through and stop with the oh-my-so-clever recommendation engine. Maybe I want to stretch my viewing habits... how am I going to see what is on offer if it is always filtered through what I chosen before?

No problem - got a spare €100,000 to pay for my lawyers?

My first thought were that this guy is a whiney little %@#&&. Count yerself lucky and shaddap.

TLDR; Kanye West is irrelevant - completely, irrevocably, without any suggestion of irony, irrelevant.

You may now resume your non-smug, non-celebrity life.