You should exclude days of the year if possible, hitler seems to be directly related to most :/

Indeed, with enough magical legal verbiage and enough slightly unrelated drawing, you could. It probably would not be a valid patent, or maybe only valid on some not too interesting point, but validity does not really matters for patent holder playing cold war with their portfolio...

Given the price of the engineer sitting on that seat, that remains reasonable.

You seems to think most computers are complicated, with huge amount of memory needing dedicated and scalable components.

This is not the case. Most computers are tiny; the kind of "you've only got 1kB built-in and non-expandable memory" tiny (yet only if you're lucky). And most of those computers are indeed programmed correctly, despite using a number of classical trick like xor linked-lists (the program is small, so really checking it, even if it contains tricks, is doable).

The authors basically says that it does not always like when people changes his stuff, so he thinks it's fine to do a kind of read only open source with additional unwritten rights (basically i've got the impression that it's okay to send him he likes, but he won't tell you before the rules for him to like things or not...)

He does not take into account at all that you can just modify copies of his stuff. Not his own (unless he planned to do a kind of wikipedia like repository for his code, freely modifiable by anybody without even registration).

And also: copies are naturally free in the digital age.

Also, i'm not fond the whole "i'm a good programmer, you are only allowed to look because you could be a bad one and do a mess in your own copy -- and oh I forgot: I happen to like free software, but not when I write the program" thing.

They are a bunch of morons.

Give us their names, so we never deal with them ;)

Doing so, you expose yourself in propagating penetration from a compromised server to a previously secure one.

yeah, war is a mess, context exists on a battlefield, let's destroy more medevacs, YEAH

fire in the hole.

Branching

At the beginning you're are not even conscious that you can, but once you've discovered the power it gives you, you will branch twice a day just because you can (and more if you need).

The two stage commit approach of git is interesting but not fundamental IMHO. "stash" is really cool.

The kind of features git gives me makes me use it even when I code alone.

While the author says stuffs like "not to be used by bad persons", he also writes long shits about evading pursuit in the woods, killing dogs as needed, or getting out of cars while an helicopter is watching. Definitely weird, paranoid, but entertaining. You can indeed find stuffs in the same spirit in some Hollywood movies -- "Enemy of the State" comes to mind.