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> it wasn't worth the hassle If selling licenses is a hassle, then that indicates a problem with the open source ecosystem as GitHub and other code hosting websites should offer monetization tools for selling closed-source licenses
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I'm curious about the license change? This is an executable is it not? Invoking it as a separate process does not require you make the software calling it GPL so switching to MIT should have no affect in the common case. If the authors
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Is there a way to extrude an edge in Inkscape? I'm constantly having to create new shapes, align them with my existing shape by manually positioning the node coordinates, and then union them. I wish I could select an edge on my path an
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> Quality doesn’t sell as features do Isn't the linked article a counterpoint as folks are complaining of too many features? Consumers should be able to find a vehicle that meets there needs. If this isn't happening, then that
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> The problem is that first world labor is totally overpriced and their lifestyle is simply unsustainable. If labor is too expansive, then nobody gets the goods. This is a feature of capitalism, not a bug.
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The real problem is cars are "done" from a UX point of view but the automotive industry has to artificially manufacture innovation to claim progress and/or superiority and the automotive employees need to justify their payche
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Competition is a good thing and a core tenet of capitalism. If we don't have competition and regulators are wedding themselves to one particular business then that means we have a government sanctioned monopoly.
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> I remember once when I was in 9th grade and my elder brother was a sophomore in college. I found a textbook of his... I'm curious if/how your teachers reacted? I wrote a book Freshmen year of high school and started programmi
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The article didn't mention it but Dr. Frederick Banting sold the patent for Insulin for $1. He was quoted as saying, “Insulin does not belong to me, it belongs to the world.” He would be rolling in his grave today if he saw the outrage
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In the United States there have been scholarship programs sponsored by the US government that pay for a students IT degree in exchange for government employment for X years after graduation. Obviously, government pays less than private sect
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The big problem is lack of consistency: Most programming languages use infix notation for mathematical operations but polish notation for function calls. This creates an inconsistency. In languages, like LISP, that entirely use polish notat
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I've seen this type of API design in C before, but not with a context. I'm curious where HAMT would get the ctx instance to pass to hamt_malloc in this design?
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PEP 703 mentions the multiprocessing module which I used recently with great success. It is essentially message passing parallelism, i.e. the actor model. I would think even with the GIL removed message passing is still the best approach fo
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I understand why WebGPU defined a new API since it's primarily intended for web browsers, however, in this case why create a new API? Why not implement the OpenGL API? Essentially this could have been an OpenGL wrapper over the lower-l
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Overall I agree, but I will play devils advocate and say that an ad can also be useful for raising awareness that a product exists. Perhaps rather than outright condemning ads their display could be limited to only immediately after the pro
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To me it reads like an emotional rambling making assumptions about what I think ("I bet when you see [X] you hold [Y] accountable"), assumptions about people ("most people are too weak to resist the call to dehumanize others&
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Good article, but I'll mention two gotchas: 1. Storing nodes in a resizable array means as the input program grows the compiler will need a larger and larger block of contiguous memory (which may or may not be available). You could wor
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Biased conclusion as you could also conclude that two people were not enough to sell the top-down approach.
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Engagement is correct, but why does Facebook need engagement? It's so people stay on their website. Why does Facebook need people to stay on their website? It's because they need to show them ads. Why does Facebook need to show ad
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I realize I mistakenly responded to @Devasta thinking it was yourself [1]. You should read that response first as it was (mostly) intended for you. Playing the blame game is politics 101 so of course laws will reflect that. It is clear to m
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Algorithms are not a substitute for a human and Facebook is not the only means of broadcasting messages. If there is a problem, then address the root cause: ask why someone felt compelled to write hate. Every person with Internet access s
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> It’s been the primary organizational mode for the last 10,000 years. For most of human history, most businesses were small ma and pa shops operated by a few local people. These days large business chains are the norm. You could say tha
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I have not conflated censorship and libel. The article this topic links to is about moderation and I disagree with silencing speech. There is no need for the uncharitable interpretation. The Facebook staff do not sit around picking and choo
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I hear what you're saying, but I don't think game code - which is responsible for the mechanics and "feel" of a game - is merely "bits used to make images on screen." To me game code is as unique as the artwork
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I'm unsure you comprehended what I wrote because your examples prove my point: people are products of their culture. What I'm also saying is that technology is not to blame. Humans have been killing each other since the species in
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Games are a combination of art and code. Why should programmers be the only one's required to release their work under a viral license? Artist should as well.
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From what I understand, if a game engine's source code is GPL, there is no legal way to require derived games release their assets under a CC license. Does this mean we need a "super license" that incorporates the terms of bo
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I'm not familiar with Stormfront. I did some hasty research and it appears it's a bulletin board infamous for hateful speech. You, and the population at large, are free to either ignore it or sign up and drown out the hate with me
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Humans should have the capacity to say something "hateful" but the integrity not to. If you find speech disagreeable then blame the parents, educators, and culture for failing to provide proper guidance. Censorship and tool blamin
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The issue with guest workers is they undercut supply and demand: if a company can't find workers (low supply) and they need them (high demand) then they're supposed to raise wages to compete for them. Artificially increasing the s

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