Can we not shift this from the very important issue of how stupid this streaming situation is into the much less important, albeit still valid, "one rich athlete spends slightly less than his fair share in this one instance"—no one is defending this guy because he's rich, only because it's the irony of the situation
The more people who pirate, the better. It doesn't matter who as long as everyone is getting away with it equally
Who are they stealing my personal data from, corporation?? Are they stealing it from me or from you??
I mean, if the error says "variable foo is not defined" I don't think it's wise to go "I'm pretty sure it's defined, the compiler is just wrong" 😂
I learned early in my software engineering career these two beautiful rules of debugging:
Trolling is a art form
If you have seniority and they are a junior, some juniors do respond well to a senior having more knowledge about the codebase. With them, it can be beneficial to use a tone like "We have library X that seems like it could do a lot of the functionality here, unless you already took a look?" I know it's like 90% of the same but I know people who will just be shellshocked and just blindly say "yes" to any question you ask them, and I don't want a blind "yes" I wanna know the truth :) it also lets then explain why they didn't use it if they have a legit reason because hey, maybe I'm the one who needs to be caught up
People forget that compilers used to be commonly proprietary and commercially licensed. Heck, I'm born on the 90s and knew that 😂
So so glad free and open source software took over though
People don't understand: we already outlawed "theft" and "stealing"—we wouldn't need COPYright laws if they prevented theft or stealing 😂 they only prevent copying, aka not theft or stealing.
But people keep strawmanning "stealing is bad mmkay???"
I'm not sure how you can look at hundreds of years of IP laws getting btfo by pirates and say the ship is sinking 😂
I'm sorry, but until you can somehow answer the question of "how to make people avoiding laws impossible?" without causing a revolution, there will be laws avoided by people
No laws have ever stopped people from getting what they want. Games will be made by those who hate IP laws and be played by those who seek it. Will that scene be a trillion dollar industry backed by governments and international corporations like the AAA scene is today? Probably not. Will a punk indie scene exist? Of course.
Every popular entertainment medium that has a giant industry will see these same results as well. Movies, books, music, etc. As long as the medium is popular, it will persist outside of IP laws.
Thom has a point about Trump and not playing in America. Personally I'd rather see more people boycott America.
The one on the right should be labeled "full-stack dev" because that's like 80% of them and they write in C# and Angular 😂
These guys are literally the bottom of the totem poll (none of them are managers etc), there's a reason theres a players union
They're rich, but they ain't likely upper class