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by apantel 3y ago
96% of… all websites.
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I said “most of the time” because of Linux, which is an exception that proves the rule. Otherwise you’d list ten major open source successes at the same scale and impact of Linux that everyone knows. But there’s really just the one big bi
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RMS was politically and ideologically pushy, and an activist. The GPL is very opinionated and pushy. Its basic design was to use copyright / contract law to push an ideology on adjacent software. People who are drawn to RMS (who hav
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As someone building a service, and a user of services, totally agree.
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Whack-it-a-mole.
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Anyone who needs to know more than the narrow middle of knowledge will seek it out. The real issue as I see it is people who have that kind of knowledge need to share it and have it be seen by those who are interested in it. There’s a huge
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Man I am really starting to hate these big tech companies. Everything they do is designed to be as invasive as possible.
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That’s… most media, most products, most services.
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This is the Japanese Cloisonné of circuit boards. Beautiful, well-done.
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The vertical integration thing isn’t feasible for anyone besides a giant company that can afford to write its own OS with no outside input. Let’s say I code all my own dependencies in my particular domain (Java). I still have to run my cod
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The Jia Tan character was never rude. If you make rudeness the thing that throws a red flag, then ‘nice’ fake accounts will bubble up to do the pressuring.
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Yes it seems a lot like a case of a predator picking off a weak and sick individual.
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I think the level of complexity is the problem. A bad actor can be embedded in any of the above contexts: corp, non-profit, FOSS hobbyist. It doesn’t matter. The question is: when software is so complex that no one knows what 99.9% of th
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Much more valuable than any such extension would be a way to annotate types and byte lengths of keys and values so that parsers could work more efficiently. I’ve spent a lot of time making a fast JSON parser in Java and the thing that make
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This is the real point.
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Automatic doors of any kind are a big hazard. I saw a Tesla SUV’s gullwing door slowly closing with a little boy playing underneath. The tip of the door was about to come down right on the child’s mushy cranium when he looked up, saw the
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What are you people talking about? I wasn’t saying it’s not something I would do. I was just stating what is needed for a project to thrive after the person or people who started it leave: someone has to fill the void left by the departin
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> Your comment implies there is a wide pool of peoplecwho want to do that, along with mythical "someone". I don’t know where you got that? I didn’t say there are a lot of people who can or would step up. It’s the opposite: co
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Steve Jobs said that someone needs to be the keeper and maintainer of the vision. I think that’s the key to the making of anything great over the long run: there needs to be a Benevolent Dictator For Life who has the vision, competence, en
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> "Mauro, your response is completely unbecoming for a Linux kernel maintainer, and is not in line with the promise of not breaking userspace." This is just PC corporate speak. Linus is an actual human being who says what he r
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There are no stupid contributions, just stupid people.
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Very buggy on iPhone, which is not very nice.
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There’s an alternative to a blanket restriction on all types of social media: When I was growing up, there was basically just ICQ (predominantly chat, sparse text profile), then MSN (predominantly chat, sparse text profile with one or a few
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I don’t think you would want to live in the world we’d have if we rolled back all of the energy expenditure done in the name of profit over the past 200 years since the discovery of oil. You wouldn’t have anything. You wouldn’t be able to
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It’s a sport. It’s like drag racing. Nobody is going to drive a drag racer to work, but that’s not the point of the car.
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Well, if you’re the King then you probably had a very enriched upbringing, so, I’m not surprised to hear you’re doing good at your job!
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Then by the same argument, it should be ok for Microsoft to prevent users from installing any other browser on Windows besides Edge because it could make that person’s device less secure… No, a user should be allowed to take the security ri
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I don’t think you can 100% trust an organization. An organization is not like a person who has a true continuity of identity and personhood. An organization is just the sum of whoever its people are. As people come and go, an organizatio
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Their cookie pop-up says this: “We and our 853 partners process your personal data, e.g. your IP-number, using technology such as cookies to store and access information on your device in order to serve personalized ads and content, ad and
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Unrelated to the article: look at all of the reams of crap in the Economist’s cookie pop-up / disclaimer. Especially all of the 3rd parties they share your data with: Microsoft, Facebook, Adobe, etc… “Together with our 168 trusted par

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