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by bcg1 12y ago
Good question. I wonder if the patent clause in GPL comes into play at all... and what constitute a 'derivative work' from HDL code... http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html#section11
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by bcg1 12y ago
RMS thinks on much longer timeline than many of us.
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by bcg1 12y ago
Both of the possibilities that you suggest seem logical to me. I can imagine other dimensions to it as well, not the least of which could be planned obsolescence.
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by bcg1 12y ago
excellent, thank you both.
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by bcg1 12y ago
People love to complain no matter what you do... let them, they're killing themselves by doing that, not you. Just keep building the free world using the tools you have, and the rest of us will surely appreciate it.
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by bcg1 12y ago
Either you didn't read the article, or you are deliberately knocking down straw men for a seemingly bizarre reason. RMS laid out EXACTLY the points you've described; that hardware & circuits can be patented, but the circuit to
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by bcg1 12y ago
I'm new here. Can you summarize "Paul Graham's hacker startup thesis?" for me? (Or point me to an appropriate manifesto, whatever). Would like to read your last sentence in context... thanks
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by bcg1 12y ago
Woah! We're playing the Java 1.0 card??? Java is my language of choice most of the time so I'm not hating, but seriously, Java 1.0? I think you might be nitpicking... JavaScript is perfectly usable as is. They even ship a js inte
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by bcg1 12y ago
> And really, there are only four classes of solutions. There might be a fifth solution: learn JavaScript. Its not actually that hard to be productive - I realize mastery always takes time and effort, but its pretty quick to get starte
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by bcg1 12y ago
I sold a 14k gold engagement ring once and the jeweler didn't care about the diamonds at all, and only was interested in the melt value of the gold. I still have the diamonds because he was literally going to give $0 for them. Unless
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by bcg1 12y ago
Thanks for pointing that out. I've bought and sold enough gold and silver to know that what you're saying is true. Also most of the customers I've seen are quite savvy, and know exactly what they're doing. Occasionally a
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by bcg1 12y ago
I wonder if you might be oversimplifying? There are many reasons why one might not want to hold cash or traditional investments. Especially if you are subject to wage garnishments, judgments, etc. As someone who has been pretty much as poo
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by bcg1 12y ago
All good points. I'm not trying to say one improvement is more important than the rest. I support their initiative too, but we have evidence of their compatriots performing MITM attacks as well so this is a multifaceted problem. https
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by bcg1 12y ago
Hey gov, how about promoting a transparent decentralized system for certificate signing that doesn't require paying a vig every year to a corporation that can easily be leaned on by not-so-well-meaning authorities? Oh wait, nevermind..
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by bcg1 12y ago
True... and to be fair, I also don't watch television, use any of the popular social networks other than Github, I don't have a cell phone, and my default position on anything uttered by a politician is that it is a lie. My commen
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by bcg1 12y ago
Nice! First, but hopefully not last. Good hack!
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by bcg1 12y ago
the sun?
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by bcg1 12y ago
Good article, fair, factual. Proper use of the word 'hacker'. Balanced with comments from Tim O'Reilly and accurate distinction made between GPL and BSD/MIT. Good job Maria Bustillos. Can't believe I just wrote that
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by bcg1 12y ago
If you are in such a spot that you had to cancel 20% time already, and this person doesn't get it that it is time to buckle down and get to work, best to let him go before he can do any real damage to your goals. There's more to b
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by bcg1 12y ago
Margins are irrelevant without sales. Also http://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bookvalue.asp Can't really understand why I'm downvoted for this, since all I did was state a fact.
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by bcg1 12y ago
Just depends on the context... for oltp production environments, might not be so great in a lot of cases. However if you have users building up dynamic queries, etc it might be really nice to fail gracefully if they go overboard, or if ther
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by bcg1 12y ago
don't get them started :)
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by bcg1 12y ago
That's larger than the market cap of LG, Citrix, Mitsubishi, Isuzu, Nvidia, to name a few. And those are companies that produce real goods and have real assets. But is it overvalued? Only time will tell
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by bcg1 12y ago
I'm not being negative or sarcastic, but what is the purpose of this? If I was concerned about secrecy or privacy, why is this better than just using some regular encryption tools and some "cloud drive" or whateveryoumightcal
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by bcg1 12y ago
Price controls almost always lead to shortages, for the very reasons the author described. If rent control is used to keep prices down, it is self evident that the market clearing price must be higher for those units... otherwise you could
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by bcg1 12y ago
I'm not a lawyer, and even if I was, I wouldn't be your lawyer. However, my friend is a patent attorney and explained to me that a vast swath of software patents have been invalidated... before you downvote me, please understand t
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by bcg1 12y ago
https://github.com/zeromq/malamute
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by bcg1 12y ago
http://zeromq.org/
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by bcg1 12y ago
This looks like a good effort, congratulations. Personally I'm torn on the usefulness of generic brokers for all circumstances... there are obvious advantages, but at the same time every messaging problem scales and evolves differently
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by bcg1 12y ago
Couldn't agree more. These type of questions/interviews are a total waste of time, and probably poison to most development teams. I've been on more than one interview where I know that I've hit it out of the park, and I

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