The guy killed himself for something greater then you.
No. One thousand times, no. He killed himself because he wasn't emotionally equipped to handle the situation he was in. That's why anybody does it.
What he thought he was doing when he did what got him in trouble is a separate argument. Acting like his death at his own hand somehow validates his cause -- or relates to it at all -- is only going to lead more people to senselessly "man up" by making the single biggest mistake a person can ever make.
I've never bought the excuse about "needing to pay the bills". If you are wiling to compromise your convictions for money, how strong are those convictions in the first place.
It reminds me of a friend of mine whose wife works for the TSA at the airport. Honestly, I have zero respect for her, but hey, at least she can pay her mortgage right?
While Facebook isn't on the same level as working for the TSA, it is definitely a company that appears to be run by people of questionable moral character, and I would absolutely not want to be associated with them.
People can have different opinions about the ethical implications of their job. Even if you think organization X is doing some wrong things, do you try to change it from without, or from within? I think that's each person's individual decision to make. Rather than second-guess their choice, why not focus on what their company or organization is doing wrong or could do better?
1st ¶: surely you've never been in the situation where you didn't have a parent to pay your rent or daily needed meals. Prove than and then you'll have the right to question how others make their money,
2nd ¶: your friend loves her, and she helps him to lift the weight. Who are you to question that?
3rd ¶: thank god your parents are such great persons.
I currently deliver pizza for a living. There have been times in my past when I ate a dollar menu burger from McDonald's once every couple of days. I am well aware of what poverty is.
That's irrelevant though. Is morality relative to your current financial situation? Is it ok to do wrong in order to make money?
There are plenty of jobs available. People just want to be picky about what jobs they take. If a person justifies a salary because other jobs are "beneath them" or they don't provide the standard of living they desire, that person has compromised themselves.
I have done many things in my past of which I am not proud, but I try every day to keep that list from getting longer. The only way the world will improve is if we all become more conscious of our actions and their consequences. Any other course is selfishness.
Well for one, he was wanting to make sure that corporations weren't able to convince government for any self-interested group to control the internet and in general, the freedom of knowledge and fighting corruption. In regards to the JSTOR stuff, he was against their locking up of open source, public domain scientific information behind a paywall. He wanted information to be available and people to communicate freely. Which helps societies knowledge grow.
He commented in so high level that debunking his comment would miss the point. That beig said, programming languages sucks.
Maybe I'm too drunk instead of being just high (blame Italy for that [can't get properly high here]). But I really think programming languages tare way to messy to accomplish anything useful without getting in our own way. I mean, what if instead of proving a point our real goal was just to be really effective? I think that would shift the state of things a tiny bit.
Since you apparently wanted to know why you're being downvoted, here's a reason: I cannot derive a meaningful point from this comment. You seem to be encouraging us to eschew programming languages in favor of "be[ing] really effective." Platitudes will never replace actual tools.
Also, you're saying all this in a rather obnoxious manner, talking about how you're "drunk instead of high" and what-have-you. Nobody wants to hear about how drunk or high anybody else is -- and if you don't feel like you can compose a decent comment in your current state of mind, you can't be too surprised if you go ahead anyway and end up downvoted.
Yeah! How about if I kill myself would you pay attention to that? Someone important just did thAt so people like you would give a damn. What does that tells us about the world we live in?
If you need help, ask for it. People tend to respond pretty well to that.
But do it quickly, because I'm pretty sure you're going to get hell-banned for this. And for reasons that will be painfully obvious to you once you are sober.
Your statement is wrong is so many levels that's quite easy to tear it apart. Let's start by the meaning of the word progress. The second definition of the Ofxford Dictionary states: advance or development toward better, more complete, or more modern condition. According to that, in order to have progress made you've got to start somewhere. Another word for that would be engineering.
Anyway, I'd say researching a F1 engine is a great start point to progress towards the development of a newer rocket engine. Kudos to these guys!
How about investing all this time in trying to develop alternative propulsion system? This will not be categorize as a progress from the traditional rocket propulsion ?
You're acting as though NASA announced that it will exclusively focus on last century technology. NASA is spending a lot more time and money focused on future rockets and spacecraft than they are on the F1. Check the article again: this is just a small team of junior engineers. Also, given that most of the people who build the moon rockets are dead, studying what they did is extremely important. It's like school: most of what you learned is old news, invented by people long dead. Better not spend any time learning about it, right?
Affirming that is essentially the same as saying that both platforms achieved their respective market shares by accident. However, I understand your point. Linux is a great infrastructure OS, and investing resources in anything other than that is pure waste.
What you call unsolicited advice in fact is part of a process to make the world a better place. You see something wrong and right it. Tell the world about, and hope to make a dent I the universe. That's actually a very good way of inflicting change. Because even if you don't dent it, at least you're getting better in the process.
As far from as I see you're just saying a bunch of words instead of doing something meaningful like he did.
Man up or shut up.