abiox

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by abiox 9y ago
some people were pushing the unfounded idea that one's usage of react would somehow be impacted by the patent grant. but as you perhaps allude to... people's use of graphql will be impacted by the patent grant. so back to squar
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by abiox 9y ago
the funny thing is, this means that the patent grant previously shipped with react had basically zero relevance to using react (even after a patent dispute).
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by abiox 9y ago
ah, right, my mistake. thanks!
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by abiox 9y ago
afaik no component of react is covered by a fb patent, so a fb patent revocation wouldn't impact one's use of react. if fb actually wanted to prevent someone from using react, they could just revoke the copyright grant.
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by abiox 9y ago
'neoliberal' is not directly related to 'liberal' (in the sense that, in the US, 'liberal' basically refers to democrats). many of both republicans and democrats can be considered neoliberal. neoliberalism is
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by abiox 9y ago
it's not like a c-level at a large corp is personally handling technical implementation details. outside of a small startup, an exec is not a 'security person' in the sense you say. it's one thing to say it happened on
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by abiox 9y ago
several people i've worked with graduated from respected CS programs yet could barely program their way out of wet paper bag. the best people (engineering-wise) i've worked with are people who had a passion for the subject, were g
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by abiox 9y ago
i wonder: if you don't have a contractual relationship preventing it, can't fb revoke your permission to use their patents at-will? if so, has removing the patent grant actually changed anything?
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by abiox 9y ago
Codd's paper itself says: "Closeness to Natural Language - Clearly, the majority of users should not have to learn either the relational calculus or algebra in order to interact with data bases. However, requesting data by its pro
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by abiox 9y ago
i reckon that state actors are (often) in their own universe when it comes to behavioral expectations.
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by abiox 9y ago
should every country block every other country?
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by abiox 9y ago
> start up a module system i thought jigsaw was about compilation artifacts. are you saying there are is a (nontrivial) runtime component? what does it do?
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by abiox 9y ago
the 'alt-right' isn't composed wholly of white identity politics; however such people are clearly there. their boldness has been stoked by anti-white identity politics. between this willing visibility and an ad-dependent 24
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by abiox 9y ago
i think irish being not-white (and a number of similar propositions) is either ahistorical or equivocating in some manner. where irish ever required to use 'colored' restrooms? did anti-miscegenation laws outlaw 'white and i
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by abiox 9y ago
> FB would be able to counter-sue for copyright infringement due to the suing company's use of FB's open source the whole point of mit/bsd/etc is copyright grant. fb can only realistically win a suit wrt infringement
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by abiox 9y ago
> If Mark detected developer sentiment shifting, he can move just as fast as he wants to stanch the bleeding. how is react's popularity at all material to facebook's interests? at best it means you get more outside contributio
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by abiox 9y ago
i hope you're willing to say what the problem is, rather than simply name-calling.
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by abiox 9y ago
it's neither the first nor the last chat app, i believe - so how would you say the world changed? (note that i don't use whatsapp and am not all that familiar with it. mostly i'm aware of it due to an interest in erlang.)
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by abiox 9y ago
> Ex Googler says founders need to stop using the word disruption i'm a bit unclear on the relevance of 'ex googler'. apparently the author of the wired article was once employed by google, but that doesn't seem germ
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by abiox 9y ago
> Where is the law that doesn't say "if you murder, you go to jail" but instead sets things up so you physically can not murder? is the only way to prevent murder a physical impediment? does talking an attacker out of thei
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by abiox 9y ago
> Only you can control how you react to any given idea. this is a bit simplistic. receiving information is a physiological process and not purely a cold and analytical affair. that's why a particularly vicious insult can drive som
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by abiox 9y ago
> Laws don't stop crime (..) is this statement based on some kind of study? > Deterrence doesn't work, there are still plenty of crimes (..) not terribly convincing... 'crimes happen' doesn't seem to sufficien
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by abiox 9y ago
i feel like this is just shuffling concerns rather than addressing them, but i'm open to being shown otherwise.
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by abiox 9y ago
> community-vetted i wonder if this sort of confidence makes you less-safe. something like this should've prevented heartbleed, in theory, right?
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by abiox 9y ago
i feel like the only thing i hear about with respect to eve is 'betrayals' and 'theft'. is there anything else to the game? is there anything else to do besides steal?
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by abiox 9y ago
can't tell if this is serious or not.
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by abiox 9y ago
do you have examples in mind that are orthogonal to familiarity?
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by abiox 9y ago
> It very much is a trade-off this seems like goalpost moving. first you said 'we as a society', yet there isn't much 'we' in this. it doesn't seem to me that people (the general public) are properly aware
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by abiox 9y ago
i can't downvote; but to me it seems like they didn't provide any evidence, data or rationale. it was mostly assertions.
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by abiox 9y ago
> Too many knobs and dials can be a big problem, and verifying you have everything set up optimally for production is tough with all that configuration present. this seems like a tautology. too many knobs is too many.

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