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by jrpt 10y ago
And Optimizely is available today.
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There already is one, it's called Supported Source: https://supportedsource.org/ More projects just need to use it.
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How's this different from any other tactics trainers or tactic books?
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You can use Supported Source: https://supportedsource.org/ It's not copyleft, but if you ask you might be able to use it that way.
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It says right here, https://supportedsource.org/definition "Modifications. The license must permit modifications to the source code." But you also can't just take parts of the code and redistribute it for fre
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How do you know that's true? There's no shortage of mo/hotels, and you can just try another one down the street if you don't like the price. Last time I took a road trip, the room prices were all very cheap, and I didn&#
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It probably needs a question about whether the aliens are aquatic or land-based. Some of the follow up questions wouldn't be relevant, like bridges and roads, if the world were aquatic.
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And if you're looking for new maintainers, post your project on https://github.com/pickhardt/maintainers-wanted
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The second law of thermodynamics just follows from statistics and a large number of interacting particles. It's not actually inviolable as the article says. There are whole books written about far-from-equilibrium thermodynamics, and t
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DeNA ends western development with closure of San Francisco studio(gamasutra.com)
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The problem is that open source is given away for free, and companies are exploiting that. It's estimated that open source was worth at least $143M of Instagram's $1B acquisition. But the open source developers got nothing. The so
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It was definitely about having unpaid developers contribute code upstream too. That's a large part of The Cathedral and the Bazaar. That's open source in theory. Open source in practice, however, means 99% of users never contribu
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Projects should reconsider the default decision of going open source. There's just too much burnout and abandonware. No pun intended, but I wrote a blog post about this a couple weeks ago called Funding Open Source by Rethinking the As
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So it's basically a desalination process in a greenhouse powered by solar? I'm not sure why this is better than leveraging existing infrastructure to get freshwater and electricity. Also, farming somewhere other than a desert, the
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That's similar, main difference is that open core has an "internal moral hazard" (as Kent Beck calls it). Projects end up keeping the good parts out of the main repo, so that companies have an incentive to pay you. That'
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Funding Open Source by Rethinking the Assumption(supportedsource.org)
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I think it's time to try a new model other than open source, which I'm calling Supported Source. It's like open source in that the code is online and collaboration is welcome, but companies need to pay a licensing fee to use
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Beyond Open Source, a New Model(supportedsource.org)
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This happens in non-solo founder companies too. In fact, I would expect it to happen slightly more often in companies with multiple founders, because they jockey over what the roadmap should be. When there's a lack of leadership at the
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There are more advantages than just not having to learn something new. There are really compelling reasons you might want to use the same code in some combination of: a web browser, web server, Windows app, Mac app, iOS app, and Android app
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Manhattan's Luxury Real Estate Slowdown Is Spreading to Other Price Tiers(bloomberg.com)
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Actually, in this market, it's smarter to take out a home mortgage, and invest the remainder. Mortgage rates are low. If it were the opposite, and mortgage rates were high, you'd have an argument, but that hasn't been the cas
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Just call up a few insurance agents and go with the one you like best. I've used State Farm for Professional Liability Insurance. Never needed to actually use it. I wouldn't overthink it.
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For the Angola example, can't you ask people to pay a little bit ahead of time, then use an apartment-wide generator, but stop the circuit breaker for the apartments that didn't pay?
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Neighbors are friendly to each other in the USA. It depends a lot on where you live, especially whether you're surrounded by homeowners vs urban transient renters. It's not that renters are necessarily unfriendly, but they aren&#x
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You're welcome, glad you liked it!
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A lot of projects end up abandoned because their maintainers wanted to move on but couldn't find anyone to reliably take over. I thought it'd be useful to create a list of projects looking for new maintainers: Maintainers Wanted.
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Maintainers Wanted, open source projects looking for new maintainers(github.com)
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The definition of exploitation doesn't require coercion. https://www.google.com/search?q=define+exploitation Exploitation: the action or fact of treating someone unfairly in order to benefit from their work. It comes d
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Writing open source is voluntary, but when companies take so much without giving anything in return, it should be called exploitation. I just don't want to keep reading this stories of open source developers burning out.

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