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by acatton 6y ago
> Supporting browser development instead of Mozilla Foundation. But is it going towards Browser development though? https://calpaterson.com/mozilla.html Or is it going towards executive salaries?
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by acatton 6y ago
"IP" is a much more private datapoint than "Credit card number" and "First name, Last Name". I'm not afraid of governments knowing who/what I do. I'm afraid of private companies holding private d
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by acatton 6y ago
I genuinely don't understand what is the incentive for using Mozilla VPN? I'm a Mozilla and Firefox fanboy, but this new product had me sceptical since the beginning. They literally bring nothing to the table except their brand na
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by acatton 6y ago
This is solution-ism almost reaching its peak. Computer chips will not solve societal problems.
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by acatton 6y ago
> The storage space, computing, even ML is being commoditised I don't see that happening anytime soon. There is still a market for hobbyist and boostrapped businesses who can't afford the insane prices offered AWS, Azure, GCP &
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by acatton 6y ago
Some ideas: * Since their license is Apache (most likely because they have an Open Core business model) instead of AGPL, they could offer extra services on Elastic's managed service. Amazon wouldn't able to offer since these parts
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by acatton 6y ago
As I said, foobar's author can sue me over trademarks in the situation you've described.
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by acatton 6y ago
> Elastic could have released ES as closed source, but they didn't, and the OSS ecosystem is better for it. A relevant question is "would they have been that successful if Elastic were 'just another closed source enterpris
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by acatton 6y ago
I'm confused by the "abuse" part. If I think the author of the GPLed project "foobar" is a jerk, and I fork it and maintain it without colaborating with foobar's original author, am I "abusing" the GP
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by acatton 6y ago
But even if you accept the paycut, it's not like the workplace culture is great: https://www.npr.org/2019/12/20/790101370/french-telecom-comp...
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by acatton 6y ago
What matters is getting the right distro. I've been using Fedora as my daily driver for almost 13 years. But in my current company (a big search engine company), I was forced use a debian-based internal distro for work, and I realized
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by acatton 6y ago
I also agree with you. I feel that if there were a real shortage of labour (as opposed to our current shortage of cheap labour), a lot of bullshit jobs[1] would become a huge waste of resources. [1] https://www.youtube.com/w
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by acatton 6y ago
archive.org sends the HTTP header Link: <https://example.com>; rel="original" This can be used by search engines to adjust their ranking algorithms.
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by acatton 6y ago
I don't think so, this seems to be managed by a wagtail based django project: https://git.blender.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi/blender-dev-fund.g... So this text copy is most likely in their CMS database.
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by acatton 6y ago
Exactly. According to the membership page[1], Microsoft will be paying between €30k/year and €120k/year[2] to the blender foundation, along Intel and Ubisoft. On the other hand, Nvidia, AMD and Epic games[1] are contributing €120k
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by acatton 6y ago
It's the website mentioned by conradfr. It is basically the French equivalent of Brazzers. We talk about the history of the stack during my job interview. From my understanding the two founders of the website started by just hiring fre
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by acatton 6y ago
I'm the top comment poster. And, yes, the company in question was the company behind this website.
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by acatton 6y ago
Oh.. Sorry, maybe my phrasing was wrong. I was just surprised that some adult websites would just not do that. If it sounded like I was implying that he was talking about the entire industry, that was not my intent.
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by acatton 6y ago
> We actually don’t use placeholders when we are developing the sites! In the end, what matters is the code and functionality, the interface is something we are very used to at this point. Interesting... 5 years ago I was contacted by a
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by acatton 6y ago
> Bug bounty programs typically have stringent rules, disqualify many valid reports, and take a long time to pay out. When they pay out. Some will even fix the bug, and just tell you "thanks, but it wasn't a security bug"
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by acatton 8y ago
I don't see how this is "not compliant". Expert knowledge just mean that he/she read the entire directive. The same way that most employer in europe have read their country's labor law. The reason why they say that
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by acatton 8y ago
The stock price usually reflect the "feeling" of the investors. But it does not make a company loose/win money. It's just what the investors think the company will make in the future, but investors (as often) can be wron
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by acatton 8y ago
Not at all. I'm working in Germany. The GDPR is basically the same as the Datenschutzgesetzt, which is the German law. The only difference is that we will have higher fine if we don't comply. And we have had an external Data Pro
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by acatton 8y ago
First of all "insignificant" is far fetched. Small? Yes. But not insignificant. Second... I don't see how valuation matters. Did they loose money? Went out of business? No. VW lost valuation during the whole diesel gate scand
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by acatton 8y ago
You're right. I didn't get the analogy. After your explanation, I now get it. But still, the analogy is flawed then. If I give the restaurant money, the way the use they money afterwards doesn't affect me. They cannot take mo
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by acatton 8y ago
When I read that, I don't know how to answer. As I said other comments, I'm not sure if people on HN have a problem with the GDPR, or just with the concept of regulation itself. Also, when I read about "complicated rules for
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by acatton 8y ago
> Giving people the option to delete their data is a bit like allowing someone to get their money back two years after eating a meal at a restaurant. I'm sorry the analogy is totally flawed. On one hand you have something consumabl
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by acatton 8y ago
As a French guy, these type of comments make me smile. The GDPR is basically just the implementation of the French law "Informatique et Liberté" into the European Level. (You can read on HN many Germans saying that it's act
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by acatton 8y ago
For those who don't know them, Sam & Max use to maintain a French blog about "Python, Django, Git and Sex" they gave tips and good practices about those tools, and once in a while they would post about their sexual experi
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by acatton 10y ago
figo GmbH | Senior Backend Python Developer | Hamburg, Germany | https://www.figo.io figo GmbH is a fintech startup that provides bank data. We provide a web API to partners and unify bank data across banks (transactions, transf

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