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by eschaton 3y ago
If you countersue a former employer that is suing you to enforce a non-compete agreement, that would probably be a significant element of the countersuit, yes. Hope you have the funds to see that through to completion including all the appe
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by eschaton 3y ago
Look into the case law. It happens. And what “certain pay out?” The company sues the former employee, if the employee wins they get to keep their job, effectively making that job cost millions. The employee would have to countersue, and tha
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by eschaton 3y ago
Incorrect, in a practical sense: If you would win after fully litigating the non-compete, but doing so would cost millions of dollars, whether or not the state is considered to be enforcing it is a distinction without a difference.
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by eschaton 3y ago
I sincerely thought it was when I first heard of it. At least Microsoft had an excuse with the wacky variations of the Exchange protocol: They built a Big Thing before Internet email “won” and thus have a bunch of legacy to carry forward. T
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by eschaton 3y ago
In other words, “they don’t sit atop the currently-fashionable implementation techniques that are the only thing webshits happen to know.” Well, no shit, they were designed before HTML and HTTP, not just JavaScript, and there’s zero need to
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by eschaton 3y ago
Amen, all of the actually-interesting features could have been done within the framework that MRC (RIP) laid down for IMAP, without going wholly into “screw line oriented text protocols, gotta be Web 2.0!” bullshit.
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by eschaton 3y ago
And you think this refutes the argument how? Obviously being illegal didn’t prevent addiction, and being legal also doesn’t prevent addiction. Perhaps when it comes to “drug addiction,” the part that actually needs to be addressed is “addic
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by eschaton 3y ago
Yeah, it’s yet another webshit forcing things into their preferred tech stack no matter whether it meets the needs of the problem domain or even whether the tech stack itself is sensible. JavaScript doesn’t belong anywhere in anyone’s tech
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by eschaton 3y ago
Also why do it in JavaScript in a web page? So much waste for something that literally didn’t require a CPU at all back when they were first created. (Terminals were originally implemented via state machines with pure logic.)
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by eschaton 3y ago
Because that reduces the degree of control an employer has and many, many small businesses in the US—as well as wholly corporate-owned stores—are run by petty tyrants for whom control over employees’ lives is nearly as important as (and in
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by eschaton 3y ago
Both LMI and Symbolics sold the CADR commercially though.
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by eschaton 3y ago
Yeah, it’s like comparing a Lisa running the Office System to a PowerMac G3 running Mac OS 8. The family resemblance is certainly there, but one is way more advanced than the other.
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by eschaton 3y ago
If he acquired it from Topping’s estate, I’d like to see proof that Toppings actually paid for it.
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by eschaton 3y ago
Because there’s a bunch of Hackernews trying to mimic the superficial trappings of their tech heroes by using extremely obfuscated interfaces and they get extremely loud when they’re not catered to. The risk in adding something like “`vi` k
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by eschaton 3y ago
Are you trying to use it on an ADM-3A or something? It’s a Macintosh application, it uses the Macintosh key bindings. If you’d rather use vi just use it.
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by eschaton 3y ago
When you’re an executive of a publicly traded company, coordinating with other executives at publicly traded companies like this can be illegal. Executive management aren’t workers.
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by eschaton 4y ago
Register for a hobbyist license for Alpha and Itanium, and you’ll also get an x86-64 hobbyist license. You can then download it all via the support portal at sp.vmssoftware.com and set up a VM to boot the installation ISO.
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by eschaton 4y ago
The web site hasn’t been updated yet. Register for hobbyist Alpha and Itanium and you’ll also get hobbyist x86-64 access.
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by eschaton 4y ago
It does have native compilers to download and install, the release notes are out of date.
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by eschaton 4y ago
I’ve owned the SQLite integration in a major OS, I know quite well what it is. (And I’m also quite familiar with the difference between static and dynamic/shared libraries too, thanks.) Rephrasing my question, why wouldn’t you just use
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by eschaton 4y ago
Kind of excessive for something that can be done with some passives if you don’t need to also scan-convert…
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by eschaton 4y ago
What’s the point of something like this instead of just using SQLite? Seriously, “foo but in bar!” is not exactly the sort of thing that solves real problems for most people.
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by eschaton 4y ago
That depends entirely on what kind of monetary and non-monetary damages a court may award the plaintiffs. They could easily wind up owing enough money they have to shut down, or even being shut down entirely by a court.
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by eschaton 4y ago
My whole point is that it’s *not* “anti-social behavior that undermines the public good” just because it denies “expected profit” to the creator! There are plenty of people creating open hardware for whom “someone else made a run of these a
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by eschaton 4y ago
I wouldn’t really call IEEE-1275 Open Firmware a “BIOS competitor” so much as an actual attempt to standardize firmware. By all rights, EFI, UEFI, and all the various random boot loaders shouldn’t exist because a manufacturer can just lev
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by eschaton 4y ago
Why do you think it sucks? Why do you think it isn't "fair play?" The creator specifically said it was OK to do exactly those things! Maybe not in those words, but definitely in the words of the license under which it was r
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by eschaton 4y ago
> The license is the limit, the worst you are allow to behave before you are breaking the law. You're not necessarily good actor just because you're within the bounds of the license. As long as someone else's derivative
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by eschaton 4y ago
Why does "the community" expect everyone to adhere to its social expectations despite the text of the license not requiring that adherence? Not everyone is a part of "the community," some people just want to make or buy
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by eschaton 4y ago
But that’s not what the license says. The license says that it’s perfectly fine to make 1:1 clones and sell them or even give them away. If the community expectation is otherwise then either pick a different license or disabuse the communit
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by eschaton 4y ago
Completely unsurprising since the modern corporation is centrally planned in a way that the Soviet Union could only dream of, and doesn’t have every capital-allied government actively working to undermine everything they do in any way possi

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