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by apgwoz 1y ago
The problem is that we don’t have distributed systems of discovery. Patreon, Substack, etc, are all centralized. You have to migrate your audience, and you’ll lose some every time. So yes, another will rise up. But even better would be a di
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by apgwoz 1y ago
We’re going to see a bigger rise up of independent media, and that means that Substack, Patreon, and other platforms that exist to spread a message to paid subscribers are vulnerable to the same buy and squash tactics as traditional media.
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by apgwoz 1y ago
Haven’t messed with what? This is an implementation of the OpenGL API interface. It is not OpenGL. It does not support GPU acceleration. It does math with floating point on the CPU. It then draws points and lines on a 2D surface provided by
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by apgwoz 1y ago
This is an implementation of an interpreter from his dissertation. https://www.cs.unc.edu/xcms/wpfiles/dissertations/dybvig.pdf
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Just because it’s a breach of license doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen… Plenty of companies also don’t allow their employees to contribute to GPL tools with company resources.
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by apgwoz 1y ago
There are a few avenues. 1. You incorporate GPL software and hope that no one notices and/or no one challenges. This is the most popular approach, and it’s quite successful, actually. 2. You cease to be a proprietary software company.
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by apgwoz 1y ago
They _literally_ could.
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by apgwoz 1y ago
My comment wasn’t written with enough precision. Using GPL software: yes. Totally fine. The rise of Linux and all that jazz. Incorporating any part of GPL software _into_ other products? Pretty much doesn’t happen. Every company I’ve ever w
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by apgwoz 1y ago
…until businesses decided that the GPLv2 was legally risky and businesses started to avoid it.
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He left before IBM. Also, based on public filings, long before IBM was even a suitor.
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by apgwoz 1y ago
Yes! This is it, thank you!
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by apgwoz 1y ago
In the very early 2000s, a coworker of mine, who was frequently banned from the Something Awful forums, shared with me a language, which I think was called “Path”, that was 2D. IIRC, execution of code followed a textual path through the fil
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by apgwoz 1y ago
Surely you must be new to tedu posts…
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by apgwoz 1y ago
insert guy pointing at his head implying “smart thinking” meme Or in my case, you realize 20 years later that if you had chased profits and done some ETF investing the next 20 years could have been all passion, potentially without needing
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by apgwoz 1y ago
The problem with regexps is that “Sometimes a smart person, who has done the work, and knows how to leverage regular expressions correctly, decides they are appropriate for solving a problem where there is shared maintenance. Now, you have
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by apgwoz 1y ago
“Compilation”, I think, is exactly right. This feature is less about interpolation than it is about compilation of a single regexp to be used many times. It’s just shrouded in confusing documentation that should say: “/o tells ruby to
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by apgwoz 1y ago
> I wish I didn’t know who Andy Byron and Kristin Cabot are. As you no doubt know by now… You have a choice to not write the article, and thereby not spread it. In a Slack someone posted the statement from Astronomer, and I had no idea w
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by apgwoz 1y ago
It’s true you can’t build giant video editors or even photo editors. But, if you reestablish your expectations and think 8-bit retro, you’ll be reminded that very few things didn’t exist in some form in the 80s… just at a smaller scale. Spr
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by apgwoz 1y ago
Yeah, instead of relooking at this, we went off and built a new paradigm “serverless functions.” Obviously, serverless functions, like those via Lambda, have some other safety mechanisms in place (eg micro vms), but you could probably get p
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by apgwoz 1y ago
> I see that bootstrapping involves some bizarre wasm hack instead of the tried and true bootstrapping approach of writing a simple first pass compiler in c (or some other language) and I am reminded again why I would never choose this l
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by apgwoz 1y ago
> I don't understand this "startup lottery" stuff. What’s not to understand? There’s a whole class of people that start a startup hoping for it to be the next big thing and they get their golden ticket to billionairedom. T
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by apgwoz 1y ago
Mashup Context Protocol, of course! There was a post the other day comparing MCP tools to the mashups of web 2.0. It’s a much better acronym expansion.
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by apgwoz 1y ago
And you shipped it to production. Just like real agentic coding! Nice!
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by apgwoz 1y ago
I started working at startups in 2009… in my late 20s. If you’re not already financially stable at 60 and hoping to win the startup lottery to retire… well… So yeah, obviously age plays some role here. I didn’t go work at startups because I
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by apgwoz 1y ago
You haven’t asked a question before now… I’ve worked at a few “unsuccessful,” but long term startups. Bought, but kind of for parts. The 2 yo startup I closed down was the most enjoyable and most rewarding from a learning perspective. The l
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by apgwoz 1y ago
> I really don't think I need to cite a study that 5 years of time is a lot to give up on a company that goes nowhere. I think your problem is that you have one definition of success for a startup and that’s to become a unicorn. &gt
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by apgwoz 1y ago
The section of the population that needs to think about the Inconvenient Truth didn’t watch the movie, because they don’t watch documentaries unless it’s about a Poop Cruise, or a celebrity.
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by apgwoz 1y ago
Both of us are arguing based on feelings and intuition, so this is going no where. If you can cite a study then so be it. I think what we can both agree on is that it is pretty obvious that prior startup experience is key to the next startu
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by apgwoz 1y ago
LOL. Completely disagree. In that 5 years, I’ve identified a shit ton of stuff that works, doesn’t work, and made relationships along the way. I’d bet money on the founder of the 5 yr startup being successful over the 6 months founder.
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by apgwoz 1y ago
I got your point (after the Free Parking clarification). (To be clear, my comment wasn’t on Double specifically. No clue how strapped for cash they are while winding down. They seem to be doing right be people (paying fees and such), and th

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