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by knorker 4y ago
A distinction without a difference for the problem with AGPL.
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by knorker 4y ago
So says you, but not actual lawyers. AGPL is not LGPL, so is the client library of a client/server thing enough to infect you? Probably. If there is no client library, what's the license on the example code that you used in your a
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by knorker 4y ago
It was apparently a tiebreaker to me getting my first job. They liked how I documented technical stuff on my blog. And the process of writing something up is always great for making sure I know what I'm talking about. I want to write a
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by knorker 4y ago
Yikes, thanks for the warning. It's working OK, but honestly that may be because 1) most people don't care about licensing, even the difference between public domain, AGPL, BSD, or GPL, or frankly shareware, or even pirated; and 2
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> The thing that prevents them from contributing is the license that would require them to contribute? Yes. Because the way it which it mandates upstreaming means that it creates a huge liability and unclear exactly what is in scope of
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by knorker 4y ago
Yes, but also stop them contributing in any way what so ever, including diligently upstreaming. AGPL throws the community baby out with the bathwater.
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I don't disagree. SSH was already 25 years ago a mature code base with (more importantly) a limited scope and unchanging core requirements. I think its long life and limited scope is more of a factor to its security success than how go
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by knorker 4y ago
That's not accurate. OpenSSH (and OpenBSD) have a myth around it about lack of security vulnerabilities, but while better than the average, it's wildly exaggerated: Reference: https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerabili
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by knorker 4y ago
What has made me give up on Cities Skylines is that you can't build a liveable city. It forces you to build US-style car-centric dystopias. I found that once you reach a certain city size this game is just car traffic management.
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by knorker 4y ago
I think this review is either coming from a place of misunderstanding, or to help others not misunderstand what it is. The VF2 board is a development board. The Raspberry Pi is "small computer". Is a development board also a compu
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by knorker 4y ago
Shrug. Most of this is just a description of psycadelics trips in general. It's not a bad trip in itself that you don't know what a name is, or that you spent a lifetime living on (or even being) the "aau" sound from the
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by knorker 4y ago
Yeah. Google Cloud was the only one I knew off the top of my head. I'm sure other clouds (not just MSFT) are growing too. Maybe the second derivative is going down, but it's absolutely not even close to a drop. Public cloud will g
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by knorker 4y ago
Revenue drop? Google Cloud is still growing 30-40% year on year.
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by knorker 4y ago
> Ask for more and if you think you are being undervalued look elsewhere. I have a hard time following your logic here. The only way to get a SV salary has been to move to SV, because that's the only place the companies are willing
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by knorker 4y ago
The employer is paying the SV premium because either they want the employee physically in SV for job duty reasons, or because other SV companies do, so if you're not in SV then fewer employers are trying to hire you for SV salaries, wh
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by knorker 4y ago
Because your Warsaw coworkers are making the exact same profits for that exact same employer, yet paid much less. Seeing SV people whine about this is quite offensive, and a little bit racist.
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by knorker 4y ago
Yup. The company prefers people in the US in general, and SV in particular. That's why it "bribes" people to move there to work. If you leave, then of course you should no longer be bribed to work there.
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by knorker 4y ago
Then why are exactly the same workers in Poland being paid much less? SV employees are overpaid. They are being paid to work in SV . Because no sane person would want to live in San Francisco, Menlo Park, Cupertino, or Mountain View. And t
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by knorker 4y ago
Not sure if you're making my point, or arguing against it. The employer has been paying a premium for having employees local. Now employees are getting upset because they're losing the premium. As if they are some dirty European o
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by knorker 4y ago
"what do you mean i can't collect silicon valley salary while working from Montana?"
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by knorker 4y ago
You may also need -Wconversion
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by knorker 4y ago
Was there ever any doubt about this?
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I know the differences perfectly well. This is not a problem of me not knowing the difference. But what do the differences have to do with the point the author is trying to make? Because it doesn't make any sense to me.
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by knorker 4y ago
Seems to me that every argument is missing a crucial link. Not saying it's wrong, but it's fantastically poorly written. E.g. why can users of GPL stuff not just fork, just like BSD? Why can't someone take abandoned GPL and r
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This should be marked [2018]
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by knorker 4y ago
Sure. I just mostly see this argument made by silicon valley people moving to Texas or whatever, and asking why they should not continue getting silicon valley comp. Most just think they're clever and exploiting the system, and the tho
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by knorker 4y ago
> Unfortunately it's not that simple. It usually turns out that these lower paid employees are significantly worse, But it's literally the exact same people, in this case. Big tech currently pays to move them to the US, and the
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by knorker 4y ago
Big tech is largely staffed by people they "imported" for the job (don't mean that in a bad way, as it includes me). Why pay to get H1B and shipping for someone from India when you can just hire that same person in place and
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by knorker 4y ago
Offshoring is not the same thing. There are great people in India. It's just more conducive for them to get better pay if they manage to get an H1B and move to the US. If they could just "work remote", then you (as an America
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by knorker 4y ago
Do you want to play that game? Because if location doesn't matter then there are a billion people in India who are willing to do your job for much much less. In salary per value to the company you are extremely overpaid, assuming you l

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