abrahamsen

> I would say the defining property of OO, is polymorphism.

Make it dynamic polymorphism, and I agree.

> Also, why shouldn't services be responsible for users using their service to abuse others?

Because I like Hacker News. If Hacker News was responsible for the posts of its users, it would not exist. The value it provides for Y Combinator would not match the risk.

Also, email as we know it would not exist. The price of stamps would skyrocket as the postal service would need to hire people to read all letters in case they contained death threats. If any of the web services deserves common carrier protection, it would be twitter.

Whenever something bad happens (like here), there will always be demands for more surveillance. More central control. These demands are just, the victims are real. And the solution exist. We could have a world with only a few highly curated and monitored for pay communication channels, where death threads plus anything else our governments want to keep out would be kept out.

Anyone fighting that future are insensitive jerks unable to emphasize with the victims. Or can easily be portrayed that way.

Righteous indignation comes with a price.

Small investment, tiny chance of success, huge payoff iff successful. It is the lottery of applications.

They might, indirectly. OpenSSH would seem like a good candidate for funding from the Core Infrastructure Program.

I agree. The middle class of other parts of the world catching up to rising US[] is a good thing from any perspective except for the most cynical realpolitik subscribers. Even from a pure US centric point of view, it provides a larger market for US goods.

However, the poor doing worse than 30 is really bad. Even if you believe that a high gini coefficient is needed to encourage upward mobility, a falling living standard for the poor indicate that it is not working.

[] I'd really like to see the comparison in income after tax+education+health care. Health care and education is more or less mandatory for the middle class, and the details of how it is financed (tax, savings, insurance) shouldn't affect the comparison of living standard.

Both, as they provide the bulk of the code. It would be more illuminating to examine where the unpaid volunteers contribute. My guess would be device drivers, but I don't know.

Doesn't it pretend? The screenshoot shows very old movies. My initial impression from the web site was that this application provided a nice interface to some repository of freely redistributable movies.

I really wish for a -Weverything flags that would enable all warnings, even the stupid, useless ones. I'd then put -Wno-<stupid, useless warning> to disable those.

Yes, Danish seems to be in between German and English, except for the first example.

  die/der/das -> [see below] -> the
  drei -> tre -> three
  Donner -> torden -> thunder
  Ding -> ting -> thing
  daher -> derfor -> therefore
  du -> du -> thou

I have no idea what happened to the definite article in Danish though:

  ein Haus -> et hus -> a house
  das Haus -> huset -> the house

Aside: The Danish capitalization rules used to mirror the German rules until after WWII, where we switched to the Swedish rules.