flushit

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by flushit 3y ago
It's sad because it basically gives a huge drawback to picking a copyleft license that has little to do with the actual contents of the license but mostly with market share of the license. (I won't start discussing the merits of c
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by flushit 3y ago
Cheat mitigation needs to be server-side. Anything coming from the client has to be fair game. No matter what you do, this is inevitable in the light of reverse engineering and AI progress. Chess is already there. It's really easy to c
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by flushit 3y ago
This is pretty sad. I believe there needs to be a critical mass. If, say, 90% of all FOSS projects were copyleft, then it would be much easier to introduce copyleft-licensed FOSS in companies, since they'd already know how to deal with
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by flushit 3y ago
> I see very little reason in cancelling profitable projects. Happens all the time everywhere. Money wants to maximize profits. If company A brings you 2% return and company B 5%, then the money will gravitate towards company B. It'
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by flushit 3y ago
> Unless Sennheiser can prove that the 555s are being sold at a loss, there is no "cross-subsidizing" happening here. Nope. That's part of the misconception here. It suffices that they are being sold for less profit than t
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by flushit 3y ago
> What’s “evil” is that the folks who’ve spent their life designing, optimizing, investing in, and producing these products aren't doing it purely out of the goodness of their hearts, but selfishly in the pursuit of a better life. S
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by flushit 3y ago
The alternative to the "'expensive headphones' vs 'less expensive headphones'" choice is not "less expensive headphones". Best case scenario, it's "slightly less expensive headphones but sti
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by flushit 3y ago
Everybody arguing like this in the thread seems to be missing that the company is offering cross-subsidized headphones for $150. If you actually make them stop the two-tier system, then they would stop offering those for $150 and would need
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by flushit 3y ago
No, sounds like "maximizing profits". Nobody is suffering here, so I don't really see how this should be illegal.
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by flushit 3y ago
> That's not "re-use design and manufacturing processes for multiple segments", it's intentionally breaking half the product line to sell at a lower price. Sure, you can call it like that if you will. You are free not
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by flushit 3y ago
> rip-off This term demonstrates a lack of understanding of market dynamics. As a company you aim for a certain profit when developing and later manufacturing and selling a product. The market has multiple segments and ideally you re-use
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by flushit 3y ago
There are enough companies out there without such managers. Drawing a comparison to slavery is quite shocking, tbh.
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by flushit 3y ago
I suppose there is a difference between companies that are tech to the core (where everybody in the management chain up to CEO is actually a sw eng) or a company where software engineering / programming is just a dept. somewhere on the
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by flushit 3y ago
> Guess Problem is that a lot of managers also don't know, and have same understanding as your Grandma. Well, nobody forces you to work for a company with managers like that. I personally wouldn't.
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by flushit 3y ago
My experience with sw eng job interviews is very different and I've been interrogated quite intensely about data structures, design patterns, computer architecture internals, and have done the same on the other side of the table many t
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by flushit 3y ago
You probably can. But the criticism was that the job ad was not requiring knowledge of how to write code, and I was pointing out that the degree requirement (strict or not) indicates that that's not true. If you don't have the req
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by flushit 3y ago
You kidding? A German university CS M.Sc. degree is very different from a Cisco certification.
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by flushit 3y ago
> Finished studies in Computer Science or software engineering (Bachelor, Master) That typically entails programming experience, especially in Germany.
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by flushit 3y ago
> And if someone then responds with "ooh, so you're in IT", I immediately go to another corner of the party and avoid them like the intolerable bores they are .. No need to be arrogant towards people outside the field. My
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by flushit 3y ago
And it will be really hard to look at the database entries that all changed in bulk to distinguish them from legit entries. /s
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by flushit 3y ago
Relevant: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZpDnRCeef2CLEFeKM/money-the-... (Also discussed recently on HN.)
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by flushit 3y ago
And that's why buying cheap is often really not the best choice. If I have the option to choose between two gadgets, the acquiring prince of one may be far less (assuming lower quality and everything else equal) and even usage is kinda
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by flushit 3y ago
Isn't that part of the "usage" cost? The time I spend reading that book I can't spend going surfing. But that's already the cost of "using" the book.
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by flushit 3y ago
I'd call $0.18 for a Covid-19 vaccine dose a "near zero cost".
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by flushit 3y ago
Is your friend Nathan Anderson? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Anderson
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by flushit 3y ago
How is this different from an investment in, say, BioNTech? In other words, if this single product the company is working on succeeds, then the unit cost can be brought down so much that it's still a gold mine.
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by flushit 3y ago
> Imagine every time you needed to troubleshoot something in a computer, you had to break out the multimeter. What disturbs me sometimes is that many people in software engineering approach debugging like empirical science. Run experimen
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by flushit 3y ago
Part of the trick of having an edge over the rest of the market is to not tell anybody, at least not widely. That's why all those "I tell you about my secret to making 5 grand a day if you click the link below, for free" yout
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by flushit 3y ago
> Ask your mom how much money she made raising you. Apart from getting this upside down like others point out -- Mom sent me to daycare, which is exactly the type of specialization discussed in the article. One woman taking care of 5-20

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