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by gcp 10y ago
April (x.04) releases on even years are LTS. Not the odd ones.
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by gcp 10y ago
Current Kubuntu with Plasma is anything but lightweight. There's really lightweight alternatives like Lubuntu and Xubuntu. You can give them a spin in a VM. If Linux for you mostly means a browser window and a few terminals, they'
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by gcp 10y ago
1) The article points out there are implicit patent grants if they're not expressly spelled out. 2) Microsoft has provided patent grants that are less severe than Facebook.
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by gcp 10y ago
Updated packages without the whole UI/system being changed underneath you isn't always bad.
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Intel Adds AVX512 Instructions for Deep Learning(lkml.org)
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by gcp 10y ago
though not as restrictive This is critical though. Nobody is complaining about the Google (which is also used by Microsoft and Mozilla) retaliation clauses. i think people do not realize how often google is getting sued for patent infrin
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by gcp 10y ago
You misunderstood. He says "I'll take this": https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/LICENSE which by admission of the blog post this is about, already includes an implicit patent
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by gcp 10y ago
Patent litigation against such companies is often carried out by specialized entities, so those have nothing to lose by having their "React" patents revoked.
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by gcp 10y ago
The Facebook competitor that is considering buying out your beer-ranking app making company might reconsider, though.
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by gcp 10y ago
The problem is that Facebook doesn't need to disarm, and it's removing your options to fight them if they do not [1]. It's like being forced to abide by the GPL but having the other party use your code under BSD. [1] I origin
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by gcp 10y ago
It's completely different. MPL 1.1 talks about "such Participant's Contributor Version directly or indirectly infringes any patent" Which refers to the software itself. Which means it's a patent retaliation clause s
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by gcp 10y ago
You can keep GPL changes private if you don't publish it, and the same applies to the original author. If you feed back changes, you're mutually bound. But the problem with Facebook's license is not the copyright, it's t
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by gcp 10y ago
1) Yes, and that's exactly the problem raised here. 2) The patent grants from Microsoft and Google grant a license on software (or a standard), and only give them a (reciprocal) license on the software or standard that is under conside
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by gcp 10y ago
I think the argument is that the grant is asymmetric. GPL is "I open up, you open up". The retaliation clause Facebook uses is "you don't get to sue us, but we may sue you".
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by gcp 10y ago
No, his problem is with the breadth of the patent assertion Facebook makes. He's not the first to point out it's unusually in favor of Facebook, even compared to patent grants from Microsoft and Google.
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by gcp 10y ago
Facebook's patent license doesn't grant you any patents outside the ones used by React. It does grant them freedom to use any patent you may have (if you use their software). See the problem? Even if you don't like patents, i
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by gcp 10y ago
The CDM is sandboxed in Firefox and Chrome.
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by gcp 10y ago
It would be unfair if there was no reason to believe Google's interview process is flawless. But it isn't. The rest of your post is speculation.
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by gcp 10y ago
I don't think the person you're arguing with is even necessarily denying this. He is pointing out that the trade-off of using the "perceptibly" faster browser has very bad long term consequences.
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by gcp 10y ago
You shouldn't have an inflated self opinion. (Duh!) But those were the words used to describe mxcl just because he opinionated that Google ought to have given him a more serious consideration given the software he had already produce
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by gcp 10y ago
It's due to the familiy, yes, but isn't having a family correlated with age as well?
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by gcp 10y ago
You can fiddle and have them start their career in another field for example.
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by gcp 10y ago
So is that, eh, the official Google stance on how they view their (prospective) employees? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12662182 Cogs in a machine? https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/05
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by gcp 10y ago
"well, i am doing the super important stuff, everyone else is not". Straw man argument. Nobody stated this. There's also a difference between thinking that your stuff is super important in isolation versus simply pointing o
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by gcp 10y ago
I would expect willingness to relocate to be tied to age.
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by gcp 10y ago
It was an excellent argument against "inflated opinion of self importance" though. If you write something that's as widely used by developers as homebrew, you've earned that right. So what if random Googlers could also h
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by gcp 10y ago
Submit equal resumes that only differ in age. If a significant difference in responses exists, you sue. There are several organizations that are doing this in my country, but for immigrants.
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by gcp 10y ago
Google Docs is more responsive and faster in Chrome (it improves in Firefox if you fake the Chrome UA, hah). YouTube relied on Flash much longer in Firefox, while Mozilla was working to make their MSE implementation compatible with Chrome.
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by gcp 10y ago
You can implement EME in open source (the part that W3C standardized), and then throw a closed source CDM module on top of it. You don't even have to provide the CDM, third parties can provide multiple ones. This is in fact how it work
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by gcp 10y ago
You should read up an understand the difference between EME and CDMs. You are confusing them. I can't blame you, because the EFF/FSF are often conflating the two. EME specifies a protocol to establish communication between a webpa

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