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by HotHotLava 6y ago
Walmart is the App Store, Apple is the town, and Epic is the fertilizer company wanting to open a farming supplies store of their own because all the farmers already know them from farming fairs and word of mouth so they don't really n
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by HotHotLava 6y ago
It sounds ridiculous because the analogy is really far-fetched. A slightly better one would be that the owner of Walmart is also the mayor of the town, and he won't approve the business permit for the fertilizer store unless they agree
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by HotHotLava 6y ago
Once a bug starts causing exceptions, it's no longer undetected. Then it becomes part of the post-deployment "fallout".
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by HotHotLava 6y ago
I mean, how would you possibly know about the type bugs that you didn't catch? I once ported a medium-size (ca. 5k LoC) python library to native C++, and we discovered a ton of latent type bugs that had stayed unnoticed in the code b
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by HotHotLava 6y ago
People like e.g. Bjarne Stroustroup or Linus Torvalds are also paid 6-figure speaking fees depending on the venue, and they're far less-known names than Yellen or Clinton. And not because tech conferences are trying to bribe or corrupt
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by HotHotLava 6y ago
There's no opt-out, that's the whole point of the change.
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by HotHotLava 6y ago
I'm baffled by the number of companies that should not have any need for third-party cookies and still go full-on dark pattern. In particular online shops: I'm already on their site, why would they loudly advertise "we'r
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by HotHotLava 6y ago
Depends heavily on the project: For more electronics and hardware-oriented projects an Arduino or microcontroller might even be easier to use. But imagine making e.g. an internet-controlled LED light strip. With an Arduino setting up the Wi
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by HotHotLava 6y ago
> They all claim to be simple, but end up too simple in practice and cause just as many issues as they solve. The number may be the same, but the set of issues is different, leaving developers the choice if they'd rather work around
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by HotHotLava 6y ago
Linus' original license did forbid making any money off the kernel: > - You may not distibute[sic] this for a fee, not even "handling" costs. Also I think the GPL was pretty important to the kernel, since many companies,
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by HotHotLava 6y ago
While the Sherpa were crucial to success of the expedition, it's also important not to jump to the other extreme and underestimate the contributions of the British party. This was not a "guided" expedition where the clients w
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by HotHotLava 6y ago
I'm confused: The Assange defense team literally argues that the Obama DoJ decided not to prosecute the case, and that the Trump administration resurrected it in 2017 for political reasons. (The judge rejects the premise and argues tha
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by HotHotLava 6y ago
Why would the intelligence community be involved with decision-making inside the department of justice? And Obama's DoJ apparently decided not to pursue the case, why would we expect Biden's DoJ to come to a different conclusion?
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by HotHotLava 6y ago
If this case is indeed politically motivated, one would expect the US to lose interest on January 21 and drop the case instead of appealing to the Supreme Court.
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by HotHotLava 6y ago
Well, it includes verbatim copies of the whole email chain, and those are looking pretty bad in itself without any of the surrounding text. Unless you're saying they've been tampered with, or that there was additional communicatio
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by HotHotLava 6y ago
Isn't that how most people would have understood the offer anyways? Why should Google store the photos from e.g. your new OnePlus for free just because you owned a Pixel in the past?
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by HotHotLava 6y ago
They wrote a commit message with Nat Friedman's email address using a design feature of git, but it was still a design feature of GitHub that took this non-gpg signed commit and linked it with Nat Frieman's account, making it appe
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by HotHotLava 6y ago
I'm wondering: Assuming Oracle wins on copyrightability, how will it affect BSD-licensed software? The license text just says > Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided
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by HotHotLava 6y ago
I believe he is saying, and I would tend to agree, that it does not matter if Google literally copy/pasted the Java header files or if they had merely copied the API (ie. the same structure, sequence and organization) in a different la