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by heretoo 8y ago
This book is way up there on my list to read! And I really should, because I probably don't agree with everything, but I probably also know nothing. Rant follows: I went home from school every day seeing an application in my own projec
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by heretoo 8y ago
Maybe libel?
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by heretoo 8y ago
Hi, looks great. I'm trying the tutorial, but the mousewheel doesn't zoom, but scrolls up and down on the map. The +/- keys also don't zoom. I'm running on a macbook pro, in chrome. UPDATE: +/- keys working now
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by heretoo 8y ago
Depends on which country you are in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_Germany
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by heretoo 8y ago
I think that is how it is in Switzerland. The "Urheber" is the person with the original copyright, but can hand over the usage rights to someone else, in turn losing them. [update: copyright in German might be like this: https:&#
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by heretoo 8y ago
If it is five lines of code vs. one line of code, and we believe that the number of bugs is proportional to the number of lines of code, irrespective of which language we are programming in, then this would be an obvious benefit. And it isn
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by heretoo 8y ago
The same can be said for function calls, with the indirection they create hiding details of broken and side-effecting implementations. None the less, the opposite is also true. Languages that have macro facilities can aid in writing more le
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by heretoo 9y ago
No reason to disagree with that.
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by heretoo 9y ago
I was addressing the comment "they knew it was illegal" and the response "what .. was illegal?". The two links suggest awareness by Facebook of the illegality. So, where is the irrelevance of the two links with regards t
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by heretoo 9y ago
Absolutety.
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by heretoo 9y ago
That depends on the law in each individual legal region (most probably country). For example, I believe Euthanasia is legal in some European countries. Even the opposite can be true. Life saving medication may be illegal in one country but
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by heretoo 9y ago
It is relevant and related to their track record regarding how they treat user privacy, what data they have previously released to third parties, and what their current legal standing is with regards to the same issue, especially in light o
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by heretoo 9y ago
He owes me nothing but he's not offering credible proof that his way is applicable to anyone but himself. And as for calling something immoral which is the result of someones hard work and doesn't impact them if they choose not to
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by heretoo 9y ago
Great response. Thanks!
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by heretoo 9y ago
If it mattered to me, was necessary, and i was in the right legally, then I would need to. Each country has its own laws covering this situation. Giving someone personal information still restricts them legally irrespective of what they thi
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by heretoo 9y ago
If this was about tracking and informed consent, then the illegal ity is there https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/31/facebook-... There was no consent because tracking was not opt-in but opt
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by heretoo 9y ago
Nice one! There are probably caveats to the 5 year timing, or whatever mechanism is chosen, but at least its an idea to iterate on and try out. Thanks for such a well thought out response.
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by heretoo 9y ago
Not really but probably should have been
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by heretoo 9y ago
Usually a replacement comes along to make it easier. Slack vs irc Facebook vs myspace vs geocities
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by heretoo 9y ago
That doesn't really offer a solution for those of us that need to get paid. The choice he may have made to quit his job and write free software is anecdotal and simply won't generalise to everyone. Stallman judges those that write
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by heretoo 9y ago
Isn't that what the "tragedy of the commons" describes, with the internet being diluted or poluted by content that doesn't add much value? I think you can probably find a suitable subset of the internet and it still feel
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by heretoo 9y ago
Since the past determines the future, the relevant part of the 1994 interview is "... Instead, he claimed distribution rights on the Slackware install scripts since they were derived from ones included in SLS...", which as I under
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by heretoo 9y ago
Or developers and companies could self regulate, because they care about other people. Or we could have a legal system where everything is forbidden except for those things explicitly allowed.
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by heretoo 9y ago
That definately is one solution, but perhaps made possible by restricting distribution of software in the first place to get a leg up (see comments regarding improvements and distribution restrictions regarding installer scripts in SLS htt
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by heretoo 9y ago
Yes, but where do they offer solutions to transition (emphasis on transition) from what people currently use to a more open ecosystem? At least in the software licensing arena, having personally visited a lecture from Stallman, I was left w
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by heretoo 9y ago
Oh man, I live in Melbourne, Australia and riding a bicycle here is terrible. The bike lanes are squeezed between parked cars and driving cars, with the risk of getting doored being really high (should be zero). And if you do get doored, th
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by heretoo 9y ago
Oh yeah! That's a constant minefield for me if I stream. Next time I do it, I'm going to have a separate account on my machine, where I will avoid having anything accessible that is sensitive.
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by heretoo 9y ago
So, they serve you the food, and you pay for it. But, you choose not to eat the raw onions they've served with the meal. This would be the analogy of choosing not to render html/javascript content.
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by heretoo 9y ago
Potentially, the author is using this example as a vehicle to ask us to consider that a 50/50 gender split is unrealistic when you ever try to correct for a different inequality. I think the author also intends to try and suggest that
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by heretoo 9y ago
Only until we have an ApolloGate scandal.

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