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by geofft 5y ago
I really wish the people who self-identify as free speech advocates (and especially the people who point out - correctly - that it doesn't matter that the First Amendment doesn't apply to corporate/social censorship, those fo
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by geofft 5y ago
> They can create localized distortions, but if they're doing something unsustainable then they won't stay billionaires long and it will end up a blip. My point is precisely that this assumption is not true. A more precise wa
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by geofft 5y ago
Sure. I'm not saying that a democracy always means one person, one vote. I'm saying it requires an ideal of trying to be meaningfully representative. One person, one vote is certainly gameable. One dollar, one vote is even more so
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by geofft 5y ago
Sure, but not all representative systems are democracies. A king may represent his subjects (in foreign policy and war, for instance, and even sometimes in rituals) and generally has way more leverage to be effective at however he chooses t
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by geofft 5y ago
The real answer, I think, is not to ban the nebulous idea of "cryptocurrency" but to ban (or highly tax) proof-of-work coins or similar schemes where the network requires a large amount of some physical resource to maintain its fu
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by geofft 5y ago
Thankfully? The problem is that we did make rich people the global arbiter of what people value, by giving them more units which can be used to value things. This is a fundamentally undemocratic system. Ten billionaires have way more abil
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by geofft 5y ago
I like this idea. It seems like it's related to another idea that I've always liked but never seen in practice: assuming that the code checked in always parses, you can re-lay-out code style (indentation, tabs/spaces, line le
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by geofft 5y ago
Wow, I didn't realize that OSXFUSE / macFUSE wasn't open-source. Good for Homebrew - the fact that distributions check these sorts of things so users don't have to worry about it is a very good argument in favor of distr
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by geofft 5y ago
"Software should be developed by small elite groups" is pretty much the opposite of the Rust developers' goal. I do agree with you that it's a bad goal to have, which is why I'm optimistic about Rust's success.
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by geofft 5y ago
In the context of for-profit business I wholeheartedly agree with you, but in the context of space exploration, if there is research about how to go to the moon and Mars that can be "stolen," isn't the moral culpability on wh
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by geofft 5y ago
I think the question is, how come an attack on a hospital does not have the optics of an attack on infrastructure? (It almost seems oil does not require infrastructure - you can, theoretically, prep for an oil infrastructure outage by sto
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by geofft 5y ago
Eggs are not milk either, that is a fact, yet they are also found in the dairy section of grocery stores. Our government should put a stop to this un-American behavior.
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by geofft 5y ago
The target audience of my suggestion is founders who don't yet have board members or CEOs who currently have like-minded board members, and who don't currently have public ownership. You're right, once you've given up ow
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by geofft 5y ago
I'm not talking about fair share of the profits - the OSS project, I hope, has no profits. Babel, in particular, is a project that's primarily interesting to software development companies. It's not consumer-facing software l
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by geofft 5y ago
Stop having boards and shareholders then. Or, at least tell them, our growth target this year is 2%, our growth max is 10%, if we grow more than that I'm concerned about the pressure on my employees and my goal is to have a great and
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by geofft 5y ago
The "open-source funding crisis" is simply the crisis of not knowing how to reliably organize our society in any way other than for-profit companies but wanting to direct our useful energies at something other than propping up tho
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by geofft 5y ago
I see a large number of code reviews per month, though.
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by geofft 5y ago
Since the moderators seem to have collapsed the subthread about it (but not flagged it, so I can't vouch for it), I'd just like to say that the random puerile joke in this article detracts from its technical merit.
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by geofft 5y ago
Generally, the accusation of "sexist" is used when someone is making unfair or irrelevant assumptions on the basis of sex. It is not generally leveled at technical documentation that assumes the reader has the technical background
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by geofft 5y ago
Shakespeare and Chaucer were not writing technical documentation.
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by geofft 5y ago
Doesn't that still have the problem of categorizing the reader, being wildly off-topic from the technical content of the article and distracting the reader by making them wonder, at least a bit, if the technical content of the article
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by geofft 5y ago
Honest answer: because it treats "you," the potential reader of the article, as separate from the class of "girls."
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by geofft 5y ago
We use this at my workplace to add $ORIGIN-relative rpaths to third-party dependencies of internal code, since we want to distribute/version those along with the code, not with the OS, and we also don't want to distribute them in
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by geofft 5y ago
Wow, I would love to work somewhere with waterfall requirements-gathering processes and change-control documents. Across several employers, I've seen a lot of misdirected work that just makes future work harder. Now of course the respo
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by geofft 5y ago
It's not an issue of it being technically hard - it defeats the whole point of using a PWA. Your users now need to download the app from the App Store and you're subject to App Store review policies.
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by geofft 5y ago
The way the post presents things is a little bit confusing. It does go on to present actual validation, which you'd still need to do in most typed languages, like checking for age < 10. However, despite talking about getting "i
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by geofft 5y ago
In the US at least, clean room reverse engineering is not required (see the "case law" section of the article, which documents two cases where clean-room separation was not maintained and the reverse engineers still prevailed) n
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by geofft 5y ago
On the other hand, people who bought a house last year are far less likely than the general population to buy a house this year. The non-obvious part is that the death penalty follows the first model and not the second. You could reason fro
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by geofft 6y ago
Well... the culture of your ancestors can't do anything for (or against) you in the present day. The so-called Anglo-Saxons were sometimes Anglo, sometimes Saxons, and in many cases neither - e.g., the Normans were a separate culture a
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by geofft 6y ago
Hm. In my experience, I've always found them reasonable and professional and I've never been called a bigot.

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