JackC

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by JackC 15y ago
> lets get the emotional word "steal" out of the picture. Instead lets call it what it is, and make a note of why these are different and why the rights granted and defended are perhaps outmoded and out-dated. I totally agree. That's th
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by JackC 15y ago
This particular trained lawyer wishes that we could never talk about whether copyright infringement is stealing, ever again. It's 100% legally irrelevant. There are laws against stealing physical property. Copyright infringement doesn't vio
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by JackC 15y ago
> is the browser really the right place for games like Mass Effect? It's not now, but it will be soon. The browser is the right place for games where the benefits (arguably: low friction, ease of installation, cross-platform development
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by JackC 15y ago
Before we talk too much about why lawyers are so expensive, it's worth checking out how much they actually get paid. It's the weirdest salary chart you'll ever see: http://www.nalp.org/salarydistrib Basically it's the sum of two separate
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by JackC 15y ago
Sure. Although if we want to get nerdy about it -- and I trust we do -- that saying was a lot more useful before scientific medicine. When doctors mostly had tools like bloodletting available to them, and didn't know to wash their tools bef
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by JackC 15y ago
She did the procedure. She got lucky and the patient wasn't hurt. Then she found a job in a hospital run by doctors instead of administrators. I feel bad even telling this story, because my friend is a super ethical person and this is far f
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by JackC 15y ago
A friend of mine is a doctor. One day she refused to perform a dangerous procedure for a patient. The procedure had already failed once, and she knew for a fact if it didn't work the first time it wouldn't work this time either. The patient
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by JackC 15y ago
Yeah, I think that's good. It's kind of like the term "Modernism," which makes no inherent sense but made sense when it was coined as a response to particular styles that came before it and were seen as, well, not modern enough. (Art people
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by JackC 15y ago
Dude, people don't hate IE6 because it's hip, we hate it because it has wasted hours and hours and hours of time for each and every one of us who design for the web, and the websites you use are worse as a result. Maybe IE6 was better than
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by JackC 15y ago
I don't know if that question is "interesting" so much as "impossible to answer" and "extremely contentious." :) But my personal answer is that I have, say, 50% more fun writing CS than JS, so there are likely to be personal projects I writ
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by JackC 15y ago
IAAL. Don't go too far thinking that existence of a trademark depends on whether you see a (TM) or (R). The touchstone of trademark law is whether your branding will make customers think you're related to someone who was in the space before
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by JackC 15y ago
> Then blacksmiths in the Middle Ages did not 'understand' the forging of swords. Only modern materials science allowed us to 'understand' why forging creates harder metal. The interesting way to construe the article's claim is not that