Common knowledge but not the sort that is actually true.

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But but but

Just use SDL! WxWindows! MFC if you must! No need for raw Win32!

Which means the real problem is probably around writing C/C++.

You kids get off my lawn etc.

+1 I am also old and miss reveal codes.

Maybe we should train lawyers in LaTeX...

Really? ADSL was available in pretty much any "town". Satellite or fixed wireless if you were rural. I remember tripping around the South Island in 2008 and 2009 without any issues getting internet in the campgrounds I stayed in.

The reality is, code is the collective memory of a programmer. Most software devs always keep copies of their work, usually not to resell or reuse (you can't and shouldn't, unless you're an idiot and want to end up like this guy), but more as a reference (How did I do that? I had an example somewhere).

Really?

I don't have a copy of the software I worked on at my last two employers and would consider taking a copy before I left a gross breach of trust.

I have a copy of work I've done while self-employed, as I can't expect non-technical customers to carefully look after their source code.

Yes, we're all bots. Dice took "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" as inspiration. I woke up in the shed one morning, crawled out of my pelican case, and began searching Slashdot for mentions of low UIDs.

Niggle: that ubiquiti gear won't be Wimax. It uses standard Wifi chips and proprietary drivers to do point to multipoint TDMA. This approach was pioneered by Mikrotik and there are now quite a few vendors with similar systems.

The gear is now fantastically cheap. You can get outdoor units with radio, antenna all in one for under 100USD. Posted by PoE. Runs in the same unlicensed spectrum as normal wifi.

This is Slashdot. Why has no one pointed out how close to a power of two the number of irradiated workers is?

I've had advice here (New Zealand) that the more egregious the non-compete clause, the better, as if it went to employment court the clause would be struck out entirely. After that I stopped complaining about stupid employment contracts.

That's all well and good, but by the standard of historical documents from the same time period, the New Testament is pretty darn good. The Gospels were all written within 60 years of Jesus' death. There were eyewitnesses around to say "that's not what I saw!"

Other historians of the time (e.g. Josephus) corroborate Jesus' existence.

If you're going to pick a fight with a 2000 year old religion, don't embarrass yourself with the "it was all made up" and "Jesus didn't exist" arguments.

Well, maybe actually having one of these "country" things costs money, and expecting its citizens to pay for this isn't a completely crazy idea. You can't start raising an army after the invaders have arrived. Well, you can, but it's not going to be too successful.

And then maybe poor people dying in the streets because they can't afford private healthcare turns out to be something that people with any kind of empathy at all would say was a bad thing.

And a few steps later, you're not too far off the status quo in most of the first world.

If you're willing to argue that the "poor people dying or being extremely sick because they can't afford to go to the doctor" is a good thing if it means you get to hoard your wealth, then... as I said earlier, *sigh*.

Collectivism! Socialism! Reds under the beds! Yes, folks, those problems and more besides can be solved by radical individualism and its close friend, laissez-faire capitalism!

Sure, some people will be free to starve, others will be free to die of preventable illnesses, but at least your freedom to amass wealth and keep it all to yourself will be safe.

*sigh*

What if a dingo took your baby?

Maybe slashdot just has a long memory? Microsoft's rapprochement with the open source world is a pretty recent phenomenon...

Mikrotik appears to have its own GPL issues. And good luck getting OpenWRT to run on any of their recent devices :-(