Also those big projects might not have made billions for those who invented it, but it did enable many others make billions standing on shoulder of those giants. They created trillion dollar computing and associated software market.
Yes, the Bell Labs transistors gave us cheap digital computing, and the Bell Labs work on solid state lasers to light optical fibers gave us cheap data communications of the Internet. I'm still not fully clear on what gave us the much higher disk recording densities, but IBM's giant magneto-resistive disk heads may be all or nearly all of it.
But, now, with cheap, powerful digital hardware, lots of powerful software, from BIOS booting to operating systems, relational database and much more, e.g., mobile, the cloud, maybe IOT, there should be some really good opportunities for solid, low risk, high value projects from small teams, even solo, sole founder-developers.
A better name would've been TakeNoBullshit award. Because that is what which rots the world and Aaron tried to fight it to save others from being subjected to the same bullshit.
Like 2muchcoffeeman commented:
>>The award is clearly for people who are being disobedient for the benefit of society.
Breaking rules for the sake of breaking rules is just anarchy or trolling. You're just inconveniencing people who set out to recognise real contributions to society.
Try manjaro kde. It has pretty good auto detection and configuration for hardware. Looks like ubuntu messed up release 16 and it rears its ugly head on many ububtu based os. It feels so brittle. Debian based netrunner kde is also nice but I like manjaro better for its excellent ux.
Chemical weapon or not doesn't matter. US has committed plenty of war crimes and have killed millions, most of them not even an immediate or future threat to US.
Yemen and Somalia is effed into stone age by all the drone attacks which is only creating more of so called "terrorists" in a country 11000kms away. Which is terrorism? Killing many innocents on a daily basis by a country or people there trying to defend their country against external aggression? All those innocents being killed is plain wrong.
Haskell has far fewer correctness gotchas than other languages. They stuck to consistent, predictable behavior - even when it made things tedious for years until new techniques were discovered.
It would have higher speeds and thus hard to intercept. This is going to lead to a new space weapons race, which is bad. US has no need for it as they have plenty of other good weapons anyway.
