drewcrawford

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by drewcrawford 10y ago
Yeah, very legal. The "right of first sale" means that you can't be sued (well, you can be sued but they would lose) if you sell a book you own. It doesn't say that the publisher of that book must continue to sell you a
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
> 1) deontological: freedom to contract is always a good thing. A good thing for whom? It is good for lawyers and others who benefit from writing contracts. Imagine for a moment a world in which you sign a non-compete before ordering a
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
Well, OP is confused. There are of course some differences between the MT and the Dead Sea Scrolls in Daniel, but they are very minor [0], to the extent that in many cases the MT actually harmonizes better with the scrolls than they do wit
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
50,000 people is the order of magnitude of the Israelites alive at this time. So if 50,070 people died, Israel would cease to exist as a geopolitical entity, whereas this text has them going on to win a war against Philistia merely 10 vers
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
Most of the textual differences are ironed out in the source language which are not especially accessible. English bibles are not translated directly from manuscripts but from one or more "critical texts" which are scholarly reco
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
You are equating knowledge with mere numerical literacy , e.g., you are imagining that knowledge is a set of fundamental constants to be measured, and that he who knows the constants to the highest precision is the greatest. In fact knowle
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
> The Apple EULA objectively has clauses in it that state that users must follow the "acceptable usage policy" and it is enforced regardless of any external agreements -- this would mean that Apple would be violating the GPL
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
> If your theory stands true, then how come that overall, the global economy is growing? Doesn't it mean that we've created more jobs that we've destroyed? The number of jobs does not correlate to GDP growth [0]. So wheth
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
There is debate about to what extent patent protection is already extant in the current licenses. One example, the MIT has > to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merg
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
Well to cite an actual IP attorney [0], yes. A sublicense means that you (the licensee / sublicensor) grant somebody else (the sublicensee) the right to use the software, and you can do it under any terms you are permitted by the gran
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
"Additional restrictions" can be funny. You may recall the FSF's position that the app store EULA placed "additional restrictions" on the GPL, a position that was and remains controversial. In this case, it is a li
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
Both of the licenses used in LLVM contain the following clause: > Permission is hereby granted... to deal with the Software without restriction, including... the rights to... sublicense The effect of this clause is that all LLVM contrib
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
It's not actually any different; "technical unemployment" has caused many problems that are clearly visible from a cursory examination of the historical record. The obvious place to start is the horse: the horse population in
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
Heavy Gitlab CI user here. The real problem is isolating the runners themselves. You can assign runners to individual projects for isolation, but when the runners can't be AWSed (iOS hardware, for example) you have to make tough choice
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
I did read it. I do think it is a travesty. It seems unfortunate to me that we can't have a civil debate about important issues without importing baggage like "right-wing misogyny". Perhaps that is a good reason to flag the
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
Then it may surprise you to learn I still live in the South :-) I understand how it could be read as a bit of a partisan attack, particularly around this time of year. In reality though, I think every place has its own dysfunction. It&#x2
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
I grew up in this city, so it is surreal to see it on HN. Edmond is a special place that you must understand to make any sense of this story. It is effectively Republican Heaven. It is a small town, well-eduated, white, wealthy, growing,
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
Well yes, and as a developer I am very sympathetic to the "author's right" argument. But we must also allow that the netfilter people have the right to decide who is and who isn't one of their core developers, and publis
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
It is very clear to anyone who wants to look into it that Russia is the culprit. There were two attackers; one used the same tradecraft, malware, and command-and-control servers as the Sofacy group, [0] which we have known to be Russian in
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
I have it set to 2 already :-) Unfortunately I still ENOMEM at least once a day.
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
Hi sytse, while I've got you. I've been annoyed these last few releases by high memory usage. Every day, my backups fail due to ENOMEM. I have adjusted unicorn-worker-killer to undo the increased memory usage you did a few releas
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
I think you may be crunching the numbers the wrong way... Dropbox is valued at $10b (regardless of what you think of that number, someone was willing to buy at that price). But they only have 1800 employees. If by some miracle 80% of them
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
spiped is GREAT tech, and shares a lot of the same philosophy: small implementation, simplified protocol, no negotiation, key pinning, etc. It is really, really solid for the problem it solves. However, it's designed around a simplifi
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
Noise is not really a protocol but a toolkit to build one. It's really a symptom of the problem. We expect individual developers to take these tools and figure it out, when they won't because they don't care enough. If by
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
Shameless self-promotion, as this article is one of several that inspired me to work on this. I have been secretly working for several years on a drop-in iOS technology based on the latest peer-reviewed crypto research, pinned certificates,
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
It's way more complicated than that. Antitrust law doesn't care about "the market", it cares about "the relevant market", where "relevant" is a legal term of art that may or may not have anything
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
Suppose for a minute the miners and the software developers disagreed strongly on some important decision. What do you think would happen? * Would the software developers suck it up and follow the miners? * Would the pool of software devel
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
> Is this not a blatant layer violation? This is the one of the areas a recording engineer's problems are different than a software engineer's intuition. In software, we have a lot of problems that can ultimately be traced back
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
Chromium may have been packaged in 2010, but it was released three years before. The Debian weak keys "cockup" may have been created in 2006, but it was discovered two years later. Maintainers had long windows of time to add
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
I feel like this article is sort of attacking a straw man. > The promise: Sandboxing makes you immune to bad ISVs. The reality: It protects you from some things and not others. Well yeah, but the same could be said of maintainers. Main

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