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There might be some selection bias, users who still like the contents of the current frontpage are more likely to still be around than users who as the frontpage shifted away from their taste visit it less often.

Afaik FLAC this days uses an ogg container, which is where the metadata goes, so support should be as good as for Ogg Vorbis.

In practical terms, I have a huge collection of FLAC, and never had trouble with metadata, sounds like a bug in whatever player you were using.

It is such a shame that ARM has taken over MIPS place in the embedded world, and that SGI crashed and killed it in the server space, MIPS is a much nicer architecture than ARM or PPC, (and nevermind SPARK or god forbid IA64).

I'm not a big fan of RMS, but this is a good point, in our current world the freedom to control the software that runs on devices you own is becoming more and more essential, not having that freedom undermines all other freedoms (from privacy to free speech).

Everyone should read this post, the origins of copyright are very enlightening when trying to understand the insane system we have now.

Intellectual property is system of monopolies inherently incompatible with a competitive, creative and innovative free market, how the IP-industry managed to turn this argument around in the minds of most people is truly scary.

Welcome to the Internet. As Paul Vixie pointed out ages ago: "The Internet is not for sissies."

Trolls are almost as old as the net, and they are not going to disappear without something short of a big-brother state that makes the Great Firewall Of China look like kids play.

So better get used to it.

Also remember:

"Liberty resides in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious." — John Stuart Mill

[Disclaimer: I have often been labeled a troll, and I'm not offended by this label.]

> Allow companies to patent innovations but legally force them to license it to others for a "fair price".

And who gets to define what is a "fair price"? The whole point of patents is that they are a monopoly, and they are inherently anti-competitive.

Java is the new COBOL.

Go is mind-stretching in its practicality and pragmatism.

Most (but not all) its ideas have been implemented before elsewhere (but then, that is almost bound to be true of any new language).

But the real 'innovation' is in the careful selection of those ideas and in how well they work together _in practice_.

This puts off people who are used to this or that feature in other languages, Go is not about checklists of features or abstract arguments about how languages should be, it is about what works really well when you sit down to write (or read) code.

Google is a very big and diverse organization, I'm sure there are some that do promote pretty much every language you ever heard of (and many you didn't).

Actually, I remember some years ago reading about some Googlers that used C#, no clue what for, and it was a while ago, but it is not unrealistic.

Nope. There is nothing that forces Googlers to either use or promote Go.