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Am I being trolled?
It feels more to me like you're the one that's doing the trolling, but maybe I'm just mis-reading your post.

Disclaimer: I worked with the OP and she is a ferociously productive engineer.

Dismissing newer technologies as "shiny" instead of evaluating their merits*

Or, evaluating technologies based on how useful hey are rather than the amount of hype they are generating

Language hipsterism*

Huh? I don't even know what this means.

Being disturbed by modular code*

The OP was disturbed at the thought of building a program by gluing together "modules". In this sense she is using "module" to mean (essentially) black-boxes of unknown origin and quality. If you had ever seen her code you would have a hard time convincing anyone that it wasn't modular.

* Being turned off by callbacks and reinventing the wheel instead

The OP says she hates the design of cgic, not that she's against callbacks. She made a practical decision that cgic didn't do enough for her to warrant the pain of using it, and discovered that creating something that she actually liked using wasn't that much work.

To put it more generally, she is saying that - given the choice between using some existing code that isn't quite right (or outright sucks for some reason or another) and taking some time to roll her own, she has found that it is often worthwhile to spend a little time to create something that she knows works and that she enjoys using.

* The usual silliness about all tools being capable and therefore equal (they're all Turing complete, yes, but we still want to know which ones are more productive for some use case.)

The OP said no such thing. She said that she has found a language she is highly productive in (C++) and she hasn't yet seen a newer "shinier" language that would make enough of a difference to warrant switching to it.
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Rad! That graph is awesome!

Also cool that the source is public on Github. thanks for that. Always fun to peek in on source.
If I'm reading it correctly, the patent covers a very specific implementation, even mentioning use of EJB. Presumably an implementation on a different stack couldn't infringe.
Great. People have all the more reason to link the accounts now. I just did.
It would seem so. But I suspect, given the obnoxiousness of the bill, its proponents and its consequences, you're more likely the only HN participant who hasn't read much about SOPA and is willing to say so out loud.
You must have not even looked at the link, because these cannot possibly be mistaken for "public domain ROMS". And yes, he provides, links to, and encourages the use of.
Exactly.

It's just like marketing. You can have the best product in the world (in this case, yourself). But, if you can't market it well, other products will be used instead (IE: you won't get hired).

Learning how to market myself is the single best thing I've learned how to do and it's definitely helped me get jobs.
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Every patent application needs these three questions answered:

1. What's novel about this?
2. What's not obvious about this to an average professional in this field?
3. What is useful about this?

In this case, 3 is a given but I can't seem to figure out 1 and 2.
One benefit of keeping HN online is that it provides a place to have a discussion of the effects of other sites' blackouts.

In many ways blacking out HN is preaching to the choir. On the one hand it's a symbolic gesture which won't do much to raise awareness among HN visitors; on the other hand, such a move adds one more name to the list of protesting sites and has value in that respect.
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