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Comment · 10 years ago
If code is speech, does this mean anyone can write code to perform any kind of task (nefarious or otherwise) and be protected by the First Amendment? It seems difficult to parse that someone could write some code that for example, to break someone's pacemaker or life support machine and that person would be protected by free speech.

Maybe in that scenario, it would be the author who writes that code who would be protected but the person who executes the deadly code who is breaking the law?

Comment · 11 years ago
Except if you're working on Facebook iOS integration. Dammit Facebook! What are the odds.
Comment · 11 years ago
Let me tell you a story about Skynet...
Comment · 12 years ago
I seem to remember from physics class that mass cannot travel faster than the speed of light, so how is it possible for galaxies to be unreachable if you managed to travel at the speed of light?
Comment · 12 years ago
The UK still has a good selection of sharp, merciless interviewers. My favourite is Jeremy Paxman, he's quite a polarising personality but cuts through bs like paper.
Comment · 12 years ago
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Comment · 13 years ago
Maybe they want to disrupt developers working for a big bad company.

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