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by Flenser 9y ago
Thanks for explaining your reasoning. I think where you and DannyBee differ is with: "permissions granted under LICENSE may not be unilaterally withdrawn except for reasons specified in that document itself" where DannyBee is not
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by Flenser 9y ago
They can only be owned by their copyright holders, which is separate from patents. If anyone had a patent on virtual dom / diffing, then they could sue anyone else that used an implementation that was implemented in the same way as the
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by Flenser 9y ago
"never been tested in court" doesn't mean you can't have an opinion on whether it would hold up in court: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15051717 (e.g. many parts of the GPL have never been tested
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by Flenser 9y ago
You can patent the idea or algorithm that the code implements, so long as the code isn't old enough to be considered "prior art".
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by Flenser 9y ago
"a revocable grant can't be worse than no grant at all" an implied license that can't be terminated is better than a explicit license that can: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15051717
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by Flenser 9y ago
Except that the implicit licence couldn't be terminated if you sued Facebook: https://i.imgur.com/geUPyXl.png
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by Flenser 9y ago
Only if they have a patent on [edit: something in] React, or on anything else that you use (regardless of it's from Facebook) [edit2] Also, patent lawsuits are costly. If you're going to start one against Facebook the cost of swit
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by Flenser 9y ago
Do you have a link? That would be interesting to read.
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by Flenser 9y ago
It's not "termination on any action against Facebook", the termination is only for: 1. filing a patent infringement against Facebook (for anything, related or unrelated to React) 2. filing a patent infringement counterclaim a
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by Flenser 9y ago
It'd be interesting to see them plotted by frequency on a color map. Which are the most colors? Which are less common?
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by Flenser 9y ago
"A very large software company that use Inferno in production already had their legal team look into Inferno. It didn't infringe on any patents." — Dominic Gannaway, creator of infernojs https://news.ycombinator.co
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by Flenser 9y ago
> sometimes it would be good if some developers would just reduce their code output, without providing anything else, because it would help keep all other developers in the loop Oh yes! I once worked with someone that was so prolific tha
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by Flenser 9y ago
Here's another theoretically possible outcome of wide adoption of something without any patent licence: Google is able to use other people's technology at will because nobody can afford to not use their stuff, and no startup that
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by Flenser 9y ago
> The idea was popularized by a journalist, Daniel Goleman, not a psychologist. Looking at Daniel Goleman's wikipedia page it's clear he was actually both a psychologist and a journalist: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by Flenser 9y ago
> It's certainly worth acknowledging that even if users aren't truly blocked, they may be turned away from legitimate apps that just haven't gone through the review process yet -- too many extra clicks, concerns about the
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by Flenser 9y ago
I think the downvoter should have to highlight the part(s) of the comment that caused them to downvote. This could provide useful signal to HNs moderators and moderation algorithms on the downvoted and the downvoters to help them calibrate
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by Flenser 9y ago
> Has anyone used a laptop number pad in the past 20 years? Accountants use them all the time, along with a lot of other people whose job requires entering a lot of numerical data.
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by Flenser 9y ago
WinSplit Revolution (Free, closed source, abandoned) Can be configured to have shortcuts to place your windows in any position you want. Out-the-box it has numpad shortcuts for a 2x2 or 3x3 grid and you can add as many as you want t
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by Flenser 9y ago
The image-diff library the article uses[0] depends on ImageMagick. If you want a library that does it entirely in JS there is js-imagediff[1] which is used by the excellent CSSCritic[1] to do visual regression testing entirely in the browse
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by Flenser 9y ago
a = Appointment 1 start A = Appointment 1 end b = Appointment 2 start B = Appointment 2 end The only predicates are: a < A, b < B The complete set of orderings are thus: aAbB - no overlap bBaA - no overlap abAB -
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by Flenser 9y ago
When they started off by saying it was going to be a "line by line response" I knew they weren't going to be applying the principle of charity[0] and addressing the most persuasive form of Sirer's argument and would be
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by Flenser 9y ago
Even if they could survive until they can switch to autonomous cars, that would remove the barrier to entry for competitors because they wouldn't have to convince drivers to use them. There's more on this comment from last year:
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by Flenser 9y ago
I'm going to default to believing people that report harassment unless I can find credible evidence it didn't happen. The UK police had to back off from a similar policy that the after high profile investigations that were drop
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by Flenser 9y ago
> Even if it's behind a paywall, there is benefit in crawling it. How would that work? Would Google create or be given a login for WSJ? That would benefit WSJ as an incumbent news provider at the expense of startups too new or small
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by Flenser 9y ago
> Google has the ability to crawl behind the wall content I thought they weren't. How does that work? Do they have a login for WSJ? That would benefit WSJ as an incumbent news provider at the expense of startups too new or small to
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by Flenser 9y ago
I've worked with people where every task was a user story. E.g.: Title: Reveiw code for feature X Description: As a OUR-APP product manager I want to understand how feature X is implemented. Acceptance Criteria: AC1: Feature X
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by Flenser 9y ago
An extension to what? Could you open source it?
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by Flenser 9y ago
Are you aware of KDiff3[1]? If you are why do you prefer Xcode's opendiff? [1] http://kdiff3.sourceforge.net/
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by Flenser 9y ago
non-survivor bias? We don't know how many spies remain undetected.
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by Flenser 9y ago
WinSplit Revolution can be configured to have shortcuts to place your windows in any position you want. Out-the-box it has numpad shortcuts for a 2x2 or 3x3 grid and you can add as many as you want it the keys will cycle through them. http

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