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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
> have access to the most updated version at the time of their subscription lapsing. Since JetBrains has been mentioned multiple times here, it's worth pointing out that they do not do this. If you do not renew, the fallback licens
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
Good advice is in short supply because most of the market reoriented in favor of SaaS and subscription pricing (buoyed by lofty market valuations and predictable revenue streams) Perpetual licensing + paid support and maintenance contract b
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
Alternative: let { 0: one, 2: three, 4: five } = nums;
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
Painful as it is to admit, even Firefox is not worth testing. In our B2B site, more people are using IE11 than FF. https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share at ~3% of overall share / 7% desktop-only share it&#x27
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
The VC fund doesn't "need" to "make up for it" in the risk sense, but the limited partners can and do put pressure on the VC when a portfolio company takes a big hit. Whether that trickles down to the other portfol
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
It does work for the right sorts of projects [0] > whether an OSS project lends itself to monetization is a really interesting and subtle question. rule of thumb, be at least two of these: big, boring (roughly correlates with "infra
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
The logical conclusion of everyone taking the model of "pay me to review patches or read your issues" is fragmentation. Instead of a vibrant ecosystem where people collaborate on patches and the project grows, the issues and solu
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
When talking about GitHub stars and money, it's important to understand the other side of the equation. A useful free and open source project garners GitHub stars and general recognition because it is useful, but also because it is fre
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
"years of R&D to recoup" does not affect the marginal cost of providing the service to another customer
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
There are many public examples of that same effect happening (for example https://twitter.com/mitsuhiko/status/1410886329924194309 ), and the legal team has been soliciting for more examples. Those examples are l
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
You didn't read the relevant part of the complaint. It starts on document page 14 (PDF page 17). There's a clear footnote: > Due to the nature of Codex, Copilot, and AI in general, Plaintiffs cannot be certain these examples
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
At the time the suit was launched, Google search would only display snippet views. The very nature presents the attribution to the user, enabling them to separately obtain a license for the content. This would be more or less analogous to
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
It's worth reading the passage in its entirety and how a court would interpret it: > We need the legal right to do things like host Your Content, publish it, and share it > This license does not grant GitHub the right to sell You
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
Attributions are fundamental to permissive licenses as well. It's worth reading the licenses in question. MIT: > The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
The interesting question to ask is whether these Rust rewrites are really taking advantage of cache optimization or if they are making simplifying assumptions that the canonical implementation cannot. In the latter case, Rust isn't th
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
In every single one of these cases, it begs the question whether "JS" is the problem or "backwards compatibility". There are a huge number of inefficiencies that can be fixed with a full rewrite. There was a recent conv
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
Music piracy didn't stop because of the Napster shutdown. It just manifested itself in different ways. Now all you need to do is use youtube-dl to download the youtube video or soundcloud track or bandcamp album with the -x flag to e
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
The issue is that map from "named colors" to "useful colors" is sufficiently protected that approximations could run afoul of whatever agreement Adobe and Pantone have in place.
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
A bit of context (why this matters) is useful: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#... > Since Gitea is a pure community organization without any company support, to keep the d
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
Starcraft Remastered was designed with the explicit goal of changing as little as possible. The target audience for the remaster is well-versed in the bugs of the original game and wanted them reproduced. Compare with Warcraft III Reforged
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
Specific to build tools, a number of projects are VC-funded. Rome raised millions of dollars in VC money ( https://rome.tools/blog/announcing-rome-tools-inc/ ). This offering is now funded by Vercel. The same prob
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
It disregards everyone who helped ImageSharp get to where it is today. Are the other code / issue contributors and evangelists getting paid for their efforts? The comment from Akka's relicense [1] applies just as well here: &quot
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
The entire situation is a bad outcome. From the article: > The .NET Foundation accepts projects that use permissive licenses within that set [of OSI-approved licenses]. > The board clarified that projects in the Foundation must use a
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
How hard / how long did it take to switch?
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
const n = 0/-1, p = 0/1; n === p; // true 1/n === 1/p; // false 1/n === -Infinity; // true 1/p === Infinity; // true Infinity === -Infinity; &#
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
It's more nuanced. Copilot exists publicly, which also means some copilot-lite thing trained on a smaller subset of repos probably exists privately in many different places. It may not be as good today, but these private instances wil
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
GitLab is a nuanced situation. There is a FOSS GitLab https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss The hosted gitlab.com instance uses EE features so parent is correct to say that the gitlab.com site is not open source.
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
Codeberg source https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/gitea Codeberg is a fork of Gitea https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea which curiously uses GitHub for hosting.
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
Not using Github doesn't stop others from posting your code on Github with incorrect licenses. It becomes a massive game of whack-a-repo
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by TAForObvReasons 4y ago
The title is an editorialization. The project is very careful to emphasize that it is for reading data: > Create full-fledged APIs for slowly moving datasets without writing a single line of code. Even the name of the project "ROAP

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