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Hardly stole it, literally acknowledged in blog post where we announced this: https://blog.cloudflare.com/lavarand-in-production-the-nitty-gritty-technical-deta
by jgrahamc 6y ago
Hardly stole it, literally acknowledged in blog post where we announced this: https://blog.cloudflare.com/lavarand-in-production-the-nitty-gritty-technical-details/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/lavarand-in-production-the-nitty...
We're not the first ones to do this. Our LavaRand system was inspired by a similar system first proposed[1] and built by Silicon Graphics and patented[2] in 1996 (the patent has since expired).
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavarand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavarand
[2] https://patents.google.com/patent/US5732138 https://patents.google.com/patent/US5732138
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- _jal 6y agoCalm down. I'm hardly accusing anyone of any wrong-doing. It is a turn-of-phrase that I'm sure most english-speakers have encountered.
- geoelectric 6y agoIt has a very different connotation when you say "I'm stealing..." than it does when you say "you're stealing..." It's only jargon in first-person. Compare saying "wow, I'm really stupid" when you make a mistake vs. saying "wow, you're really stupid" when they do. Self-deprecation applied to others is just deprecation.