drewcrawford

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by drewcrawford 10y ago
Was this lawyered? Because the clause reads to me like Programmer Law. > Provided that you are otherwise in compliance with the GPLv3... [we] also grants you the additional permission to convey through the Apple App Store non-source exe
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
As others have said, freedom of speech is not the first Amendment and America is not the world. But even American thinkers themselves define it more broadly, (and always have) e.g. > What is the liberty of the press? Who can give it
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
Of course it is necessarily about tribalism. If it were not we could just install an access gate that limits the throughput of the road to X cars per hour (without regard to whether you live on it or not) and consider the problem resolved.
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
But how do you reproduce the dpkg packages? When your friend hands you a deb, instead of a docker image, what have you accomplished as far as knowing how they arrived at their configuration? Debs are also binary blobs, just more of them, a
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
Saying that licenses should be readable to software developers is like saying sourcecode should be readable to lawyers. It's a nice idea, but in the real world, even problems as simple and universal as loading an image over HTTPS is t
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
This feels an overly technical objection? Very little of our problems are actually "impossible" if by "impossible" you mean something like "inverting a one-way function". What I think most people mean is that
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
There certainly are "respected and well-understood" "standard" texts, for example, the Apache or GPL licenses are widely understood and are used for "all kinds of applications already." The legal analyses of t
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
I don't understand your question. "The point" of an EULA is subjective, and depends on your legal strategy, and the exact text of the document. It is generally a good idea to ask a lawyer before agreeing to anything you don
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
My Google-fu produced the following Microsoft ISVLA from 2009 (not VS-related, but this language appears in several of their EULAs from the 2000s): http://www.microsoftvolumelicensing.com/userights/Downloader... > P
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
Does this work for autoscale runners? Are those privileged by default?
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
For what it's worth, that's my preferred solution in the long-term too. Speaking narrowly about the XCTest case: * It doesn't actually require runtime dynamism (since you have a finite number of tests that can be statically e
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
So, I'm deeply involved in Swift, in the sense that: I write the odd compiler feature. From my vantage point it seems to be the opposite of your analysis. While it is true that ObjC's dynamism has all kinds of problems we want to
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
Very few people are willing to pay the kind of money that would actually sustain a company. Let's run the math, and see if we can build a business around a text editor. Let's say we can get away with 2 good developers (across 3 pl
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
The unsupported assertion that a DRM-free universe "is not realistic" is not an argument, even when it is repeated for emphasis in italics. In the music industry, DRM seemed inevitable until one morning Steve Jobs woke up on the w
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
You're very misinformed. I live in the area. Uber/Lyft have campaigned really aggressively. I've got stuff from them in the mail, they contacted me at my unlisted cell, they've been canvassing hard for months. I&#x2
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
I'm not asking you to generate arguments a hypothetical NSA proponent might use, from a person who assures us (s)he finds them unconvincing. Far from evidence against groupthink, that's evidence in favor of it. I'm askin
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
> More importantly, on contentious issues HN will still reward quality participation. Describe 3 good arguments in favor of the NSA you've seen on HN.
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by drewcrawford 10y ago
Not really questions, but two facts I think you should know: I read your inability to use Morgan Freeman's voice in Morgan Freeman's voice. When you mentioned you were unable to hear the Star Wars theme my first reaction was how b
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by drewcrawford 11y ago
> There is virtually no way to have a consensus on what precisely needs to be guaranteed. I would personally prefer to move to a state that does not "guarantee" health insurance (I will pay for health insurance myself). There w
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by drewcrawford 11y ago
In Swift: let a = Int.max + 1 Produces a compile error as the overflow is within Swift's conception of a "literal expression". If we step out to a case where the overflow is not trivially a literal expression:
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by drewcrawford 11y ago
> That's also an unfair characterisation What specifically is unfair about it? Is it false? > especially since the original report starts out recognising that exact comment. I must be missing the part where a postmortem of this
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by drewcrawford 11y ago
> It's more about the spam for already-fixed features than the love of keeping users secure. I realize this is the reason presented in the comment, but after I dug into his statements elsewhere, I developed a different picture. Any
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by drewcrawford 11y ago
Suppose for a minute that it is legitimately impossible to have a secure screensaver older than 6 months. Like, we live in a universe where either we can have secure screensavers, or we can have Debian stable, but not both. What we have in
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by drewcrawford 11y ago
> All I see is a genetic fallacy, namely appeal to authority. Appeal to relevant authority is not a fallacy. > because we have Austrian and Keynesian economics at battle in America. This is a common misconception among "armchai
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by drewcrawford 11y ago
I refer you to Question A [0], where in 2013 a few dozen practicing economists were asked this question: > Raising the federal minimum wage to $9 per hour would make it noticeably harder for low-skilled workers to find employment. Not a
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by drewcrawford 11y ago
I need to ask a stupid question. What does one do with code coverage data? Like, I know what it is . What I'm asking is, on what occasion would the presence of code coverage data be more useful than stepping through the code in a de
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by drewcrawford 11y ago
The citation doesn't shed any light on whether the restrictions have been effective. It does shed light on Darwin having more overall vulnerabilities than Linux and less overall than MS, but unless you believe that browser policy speci
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by drewcrawford 11y ago
The situation with Microsoft in the 90s was substantially different. Go read all of https://www.justice.gov/atr/us-v-microsoft-courts-findings-f... , but here's a random paragraph: > 35. Microsoft possesses a d
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by drewcrawford 11y ago
What if I told you there was a valid technical reason not to allow alternate browsers on iOS? If you're on a Mac, paste this into Terminal: find /Applications/ -perm +111 -type f |while read fname; do otool -L "$fn
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by drewcrawford 11y ago
"secure enclave" is a marketing term that has grown over time and is hard to speak meaningfully about. In this particular device, the CPU has a small (~200 bytes) storage area of data that never leave the CPU, burned in at the fac

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