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by hnarn 6y ago
What about legal demands on the original authors? In this case, say an end user has a copy of v2 but only in binary form, can they then legally demand the (v2) source code from the company and claim breach of contract if they refuse? AFAIK
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by hnarn 6y ago
Presumably the only effect this will have is that ideologically inclined netizens will now start seeding it on your nearest public torrent tracker instead. While not ideal, I’m happy we still have a free enough internet that these types of
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by hnarn 6y ago
But can you retroactively change a license? If you release v1 and v2 under GPL and then switch to a proprietary license for v3, I'm assuming v2 can still be forked, since many people now have started using that code under the license t
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by hnarn 6y ago
The fundamental difference between buying or not buying OSS products is that if you’re buying OSS, at least there’s a potential your product will be fixed and live on through the community if your original vendor disappears. The only thin
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by hnarn 6y ago
It matters because you're rich, which means you don't have to live in those neighborhoods.
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by hnarn 6y ago
I personally don't understand why anyone feels they have a "right" to use Facebook, or even the right to expect a statement as to why Facebook does not allow them to register. They're a corporation offering a service in
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by hnarn 6y ago
I’m annoyed by this but for direct messages at least it’s easily solved by simply not replying. If there’s no question or indication of criticality in a professional setting, that means it can wait. If they really need your help, they’ll se
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by hnarn 6y ago
I have to say that the assumption of a hobbyist satellite in 1970 to be able to run UNIX is pretty amusing, considering (Wikipedia): > In a 1970 survey, The New York Times suggested a consensus definition of a minicomputer as a machine c
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by hnarn 6y ago
It's still staggeringly elitist and unaware to assume that "genuinely" literate people (whatever that means) should not only know of Pratchett but also know his entire bibliography by heart. While it may come to a shock for E
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by hnarn 6y ago
Obviously "pretty common" is, just like "obscure", completely subjective. I consider it obscure, but all I can say from looking it up is that at least according to Google Ngram, it's about 1/10 as common as &qu
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by hnarn 6y ago
The HN filter bubble truly can be a staggering thing sometimes. I never knew I wasn't genuinely literate, but you learn something every day.
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by hnarn 6y ago
Why isn’t it obscure? Because you know it?
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by hnarn 6y ago
The company is called Jingling which seems to be a Chinese city, so I highly doubt they named it after some obscure English expression.
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by hnarn 6y ago
I had the same problem for a long time when I was learning English. It was amazing to me that even NO response to “how are you” was acceptable. My brain has these days taught itself to translate that “how are you” == “hello”, so these days
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by hnarn 6y ago
While that's definitely a Russian "thing" it's by no means confined to Russia.
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by hnarn 6y ago
I vastly prefer honest negativity over dishonest positivity. An example of this is the behavior of service personnel in the US compared to my native country, every time I go there I almost want to tell them to tone down the niceness, but of
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by hnarn 6y ago
Is this what's commonly seen as "Retrying connection in:" with a number of seconds increasing like 5 -> 10 -> 20 -> 40 -> 80 etc?
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by hnarn 6y ago
"There's no such thing as a free security incident"
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by hnarn 6y ago
I’m in my thirties, and I have a feeling the process of “growing up” is an ideological bell curve that goes something like: Youth: Extrovert certainty Young adulthood: Extrovert uncertainty Adulthood: Introvert certainty As you learn more a
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by hnarn 6y ago
I was kind of hoping that this was going to end along the lines of “I was actually studying law and the professor then called us out on the importance of reading contracts that you sign, and proceeded to list all the ridiculous things we ha
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by hnarn 6y ago
What’s so good about it? There’s a lot of musing about why this wasn’t a suicide, but for all the claims of relative certainty it makes it doesn’t once refer to one of the existing cases of pilot suicide we already know of. If this theory
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by hnarn 6y ago
How does that make a suicidal pilot “extremely unlikely”? That’s exactly what I’d expect a plane directed downwards to look like.
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by hnarn 6y ago
> use of cc licensed image in our site can be considered under fair use This is 100% incorrect and not what fair use means, ask a lawyer. > We will still insert the license going forward as it makes it more simpler and straightforward
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by hnarn 6y ago
While this could be the case, it was not always the case for landlines.
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by hnarn 6y ago
> It’s pretty gorilla. Very, very gorilla, but it works. I've never heard this expression before. Does he mean "guerilla", as in "improvised"?
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by hnarn 6y ago
You’re gonna “consider” complying with the law?
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by hnarn 6y ago
I deleted my Facebook account permanently about two years ago. I created a new one this Christmas for one very simple reason: I wanted to be able to use Messenger, because it's the only common denominator for my entire extended family.
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by hnarn 6y ago
GDPR applies for American companies in the EU, so to answer your question, no, it’s not “OK”.
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by hnarn 6y ago
My opinion has always been that restrictions on commercial usage is not "open source" for the simple reason that "commercial" is so hard to define. I always sigh when I see the Creative Commons "NonCommercial"
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by hnarn 6y ago
Isn’t having to check for integer overflows in rust an example of the exact opposite of your example, or is this something that requires extra effort in go as well?

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