So I just read Bill Gates' 1976 Open Letter To Hobbyists, in which he whines about not making more money from his software. You know, instead of being proud of making software that people wanted to use. And then the bastard went on and made proprietary licences for software the industry standard, holding back innovation and freedom for decades. What a douche canoe.

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[–] bitcrafter@programming.dev 6 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

They're not assuming anything, they are doing calculus.

[–] shiftymccool@piefed.ca 7 points 3 weeks ago

For the record, i literally said "if the math works out" 😁

[–] monotremata@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I'm a little disappointed this wasn't a link to the film strip we saw in high school. The cop drawling "Now this here is Rolle's theorem..." is classic.

Edit: https://vimeo.com/101691769

[–] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 weeks ago

Aw, that makes me sad that I never got that. We just had the example in our textbook be a cop at a tollway.