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by doesnt_know 3y ago
> "We were just big enough to play but not big enough to win," Tinter said. I don't think you're supposed to say this bit out loud are you? Microsoft are just upset that they aren't the ones with the monopoly.
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by doesnt_know 3y ago
100% completely agree, the only reason I work in this field is because it's both easier and pays significantly more compared to every other job I've had and could potentially ever get.
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by doesnt_know 3y ago
The established term is "source available" specifically because it's not open source.
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by doesnt_know 3y ago
It's end to end encryption, as in, there are ends on each side where it is decrypted, usually for the humans to read. At the ends the records should have been maintained, the regulations aren't incompatible with E2E.
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by doesnt_know 3y ago
They might appose it, but if it ships in Chrome and starts being actively used they will also implement it, just like CDM. At the end of the day, users will just see that a website works in Chrome and not in Firefox. Firefox will decide tha
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by doesnt_know 3y ago
I've been giving Fleet a try every now and then and am looking forward to it becoming a full-featured stable product. At the moment there is no extension/module system so it's not really a replacement for the million little j
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by doesnt_know 3y ago
> we could demand and verify good testing and analysis for foundational bits of code, but we don't. Who would you take these demands to? Most foss software is written and managed by volunteer maintainers, if you start demanding thin
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by doesnt_know 3y ago
> It's amazing how the confident tone lends credibility to all of that made-up nonsense. Almost impossible for anybody without knowledge of the book to believe that those "facts" aren't authorititative and well resear
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by doesnt_know 3y ago
> Various supporters of the US Libertarian party (founded in 1971) argue that they own the meaning of the word "libertarian", that placing it next to "socialism" is a contradiction in terms, and hence that libertarian
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by doesnt_know 3y ago
There is nothing to think about. All rights reserved except those provided specifically to Y Combinator as outlined by the "User Content Transmitted Through the Site" section of https://www.ycombinator.com/legal&#x
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by doesnt_know 3y ago
> Writer/Artist/Dev: “I think publishing this work will improve the world in some way. I’ll put it out there on the public internet for all the world to see for free.” Surely you must know this is a bullshit argument right? Alm
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by doesnt_know 3y ago
Being on call is baked into your salary? I hope you are getting some serious "fuck you" money if you're effectively on call at all times.
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by doesnt_know 3y ago
Wonderful illustrations! Whenever I see someone that is interested in a very specific niche and obviously expends a lot of effort towards it, I'm always in awe. How did they become interested in the topic? Why choose this specific thin
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by doesnt_know 3y ago
Technically not completely powered by solar power, since they decided to include remote analytics[1] served by a cdn which is probably hosted in one of those data centers they mention. :) [1] https://cdn.splitbee.io/sb.js
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by doesnt_know 4y ago
I don't really think the first part of your comment is true, at least not in my experience. All other stakeholders would prefer someone that updates their tickets and communicates what they are doing effectively, even if they produce a
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by doesnt_know 4y ago
As someone who writes (not Unity) C# for a living, what is going on here? Does Unity maintain it's own, non-standard version of C# and it changed the behavior of null?
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by doesnt_know 4y ago
> Any other products or services that directly infringe or facilitate infringement upon the trademark, patent, copyright, trade secrets, proprietary or privacy rights of any third party Going after those seedbox providers. :) Can also u
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by doesnt_know 4y ago
If a "handful" of external bad actors can completely destroy your financial institute then maybe it's time to consider how these systems are built.
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by doesnt_know 4y ago
If you start using an extendible tool like Emacs for something and put in the effort to learn it's key bindings, how it works, it's language if it has one etc it becomes increasingly annoying and a chore to use other software. You
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by doesnt_know 4y ago
> This is an extinction level event for startups and will set startups and innovation back by 10 years or more. I didn't know there was a YC backed startup with an app that lets you directly inhale your own gas. I'm sure that
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by doesnt_know 4y ago
I've been a happy user since December, but I knew this change would eventually come. On the existing $10 USD a month plan I've been scraping under the "break even" usage point and I've only used it on my personal de
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by doesnt_know 4y ago
I was more curious about what happens to the previous owners handle when a domain switches hand. Is the old handle force reset to something else? What if they haven't logged in to change it but the new owner of the domain is setting up
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by doesnt_know 4y ago
Curious how it would handle domain ownership changes. Obviously the account would still have standard credentials but once the new domain owner proves ownership does the old handle get reverted to something else so the handle can be used by
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by doesnt_know 4y ago
What about the other side of this "relationship"? You'd have to really hate yourself to opt-in to become the drop-in replacement for a bot for someone. Who in their right mind would sign up for that? Even assuming someone had
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by doesnt_know 4y ago
It clearly states it's a project from 2016, that's 6 years ago. The IP test video was also uploaded in 2016. People are allowed to keep their own past projects up on their personal websites.
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by doesnt_know 4y ago
They are being integrated into the most widely used information retrieval systems (search engines). It's not enough that they are "smarter then most people", they have to always be correct when the question asked of them has
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by doesnt_know 4y ago
This one of the primary ideas in "So Good They Can't Ignore You"[1]. In your 30's there is a decent chance you've spent a bunch of time building career capital, so you're now in a position to cash that in. High
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by doesnt_know 4y ago
It doesn't really matter if in practise the source is released, that's just one possible (ideal) outcome. As long as damage is done to those that abuse the license, that's ultimately what matters as a disincentive to prevent
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by doesnt_know 4y ago
> This approach is what drives corporations to adopt zero-GPL policies. Good. It's literally the point of choosing the GPL that organisations producing proprietary software can't benefit and mix in GPL licensed work without pub
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by doesnt_know 4y ago
How so? You should still be doing those things with cloud deployment anyway. The alternative is (the pretty terribly named) "click ops" where devops folks have to fiddle with some cloud UI settings to make production changes or go

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