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by jrowen 10mo ago
> It’s also vague as, what if I run a VPS provider and someone can upload images to a marketplace like thing, does that count as SaaS? How about if someone’s only use of my services is to run that image? This strikes me as somewhat contr
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by jrowen 10mo ago
That's fair, I understand that it's not the best learning tool but is it doing "good" overall in nudging people toward learning, is it more "educational" than Candy Crush or Tiktok (which he seems to see as com
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by jrowen 10mo ago
> I am betting on attracting young professionals, academics, white-collar types that like books, language and the experience of a white page with classic, black typography. This is cool, and I've auto-didacted a number of things wit
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by jrowen 10mo ago
This is interesting and a nice conversation, thank you. He talks about how they wanted to let people know that they would stop sending them notifications after five days of inactivity, but that the "passive-aggressive" nature of t
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by jrowen 10mo ago
Gamify it like Super Mario Brothers is a game. Concepts like "fun" and "progress" are good. Nagging, begging, and creating false urgency are bad. Gamification is fine if it doesn't "take over," which it wi
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by jrowen 10mo ago
Notably, the terms "UX" and "experience" are not present in that document. UI and UX are different things. UX is a newer concept that is more based on observing users and their emotional reactions to using the product. U
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by jrowen 10mo ago
I would almost define "experience" as that which can't be described by UML. Ask any person to go and find a stick and use it to brush their teeth, and then ask if that "experience" was the same as using their toothb
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by jrowen 10mo ago
Yes, whittling down a stick is pretty much the same experience as using an electric toothbrush. Or those weird mouthguard things they have now. I don't think most people would find this degree of reduction helpful.
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by jrowen 10mo ago
It could be argued that it was part of "embrace, extend, extinguish" to attract developers to the platform by keeping it open. They would just figure out how to capitalize on anything that got big enough, much like Google. Apple r
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by jrowen 10mo ago
Sure, there's a lot of that around, but I wouldn't call it journalism. Clickbait maybe.
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by jrowen 10mo ago
Kind of the same thing as "it was reported in a newspaper." It would normally be expected of a journalist to cite the specific source if they can.
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by jrowen 10mo ago
Unobtanium is fiction from the movie Avatar lol Notoriously bad exposition I might add ("This is unobtanium. This is what we're here for!").
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by jrowen 10mo ago
> This was a good step. But you will not admit calling it was loaded to call people who prefer legal clarity ornery? I did not intend to call the person ornery, I was asking if it was that ornery to them to have to care about getting sue
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by jrowen 10mo ago
> An expanded analogy would not increase understanding I think. Why not? Is there a better one? The relationship between open source and source available (and free software) is the core of what I'm trying to understand. > You sug
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by jrowen 10mo ago
> Would you say Canadians and Americans are largely synonymous? They have many shared interests. There are many dual citizens. The differences are subtle often. What would source available be in this analogy? > Several people highligh
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by jrowen 10mo ago
I will give you shit on, hardline, and selfish - my apologies. I need to slow down. By status quo I meant the closed source / proprietary world, which also supports a lot of open source projects with contributions and funding. Source a
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by jrowen 10mo ago
This sounds a lot more like a typical freelance client horror story than a problem with vibe coding. I was almost expecting to hear that it made the job too easy. This kind of work is perfect for vibe coding. But you should be the one doing
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by jrowen 10mo ago
I often have a vision in my head of a library (museum?) archive in a basement. Every so often someone comes down with some books that they want to keep but don't know exactly what to do with at the moment. Over time, of course, it beco
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by jrowen 10mo ago
The leak is not open source because it was not blessed by the creators. If we're worried about rug pull stuff, maybe there's some type of governance or commitments that can be worked out. Ultimately yeah we're at the whim of
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by jrowen 10mo ago
Well certainly there is some reasonable middle ground between everything and nothing, which is presumably what licenses like this one are trying to explore? People are afforded rights beyond just looking at it, they can run it, modify it, l
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by jrowen 10mo ago
Now it all makes sense, thank you.
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by jrowen 10mo ago
Understood, thanks.
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by jrowen 10mo ago
Haven't open source projects done the rug pull too? Can't they relicense new code going forward? I guess I would have thought of source available as existing under the open source umbrella. I get that there is an important distinc
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by jrowen 10mo ago
This is a good technical point. But this seems to kind of argue that one of the principles of open source is that businesses should be able to pull it into their proprietary projects to make money without hesitation. Is that accurate? I tho
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by jrowen 10mo ago
So would you say that (in your opinion) a source available license could in theory call itself open source, if it used language you found to be unambiguous about your rights? Or is that not possible?
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by jrowen 10mo ago
There was of course and I edited it out. Why is it important to give "everything" to the users? They have the source code. Why is it so important that they can use it for whatever they want?
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by jrowen 10mo ago
I didn't ask which part of the license violates OSS values, I asked what those principles and values are. I will infer that "anybody can do whatever they want with the code" is the principle you are referring to. I kind of th
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by jrowen 10mo ago
What principles and values of the open source movement are protected by staunchly refusing to allow "source available" to call itself open source? To an outsider it looks like counterproductive bickering between people on the same
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by jrowen 10mo ago
I know, the fact that "consecutive" is actually significant in this context is part of the joke. Just try to read it from the perspective of someone that isn't steeped in the details (and expectations) of the slog of fusion.
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by jrowen 10mo ago
I think it's the "consecutive" that makes it funny. This thing that entire continents have been working on together for decades was operational for 20 consecutive minutes?!? It's dark comedy because the progress of fus

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