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by millerc 14y ago
You are discussing the impossibility of a simple relicensing due to components owned by a third party. I am pointing out that the FSF has a history of going to great lengths rewriting software, or pressuring people to do so, just so the re
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by millerc 14y ago
There's the problem right there: "as long as". If I give you candy, I should have no say who gets to eat it - or even cook with it if he fancies. I don't like gifts with strings attached, so I don't cause others to suffer them.
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by millerc 14y ago
You seem to forget the primary reason why the GPL came to be, the principle that caused RMS to rewrite EMACS as an open source product in the first place: if a piece of software is closed, or in this case "not open enough", they want it rew
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by millerc 14y ago
Stating an opinion, not looking to debate logistics. Feel free to share the opinion or not.
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by millerc 14y ago
I'd like to propose a different perspective into this. In a respectable aerospace organization, a typical effort into such an optimization project would be in the order of 3 mid-to-senior staff, for a duration of 6 months. Consider a load
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by millerc 14y ago
Using the "Significant economic or community impact" clause, one could easily have enlisted the secret services into that investigation, saying the downloaded material represents thousands of man-years of work from the nation's top research
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by millerc 14y ago
Tutorial video and app download at this address: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.eightpen.a... Definitely won't take the place still in my heart for Graffiti ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti_(Palm_OS) ).
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by millerc 14y ago
Despite the irony, I'm not arguing it should be less of a concern. Recent mishandling of user accounts by Sony Entertainment and LinkedIn gave us a glimpse of how much damage an intrusion can cause, even though (?) their management thought
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by millerc 14y ago
Surely this is a giant target painted on Facebook or Gmail's servers for any blackhat out there who wants to intercept a whole lot of traffic.
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by millerc 14y ago
"At the peak of your game" after 5-10 years might be true. How would be the market for a "senior" software engineer of 20+ years experience? I have a feeling such a candidate would be deemed "too technical to manage, too senior to be manag
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by millerc 14y ago
FWIW, that article has very little more information than you could find on bookshelves for the past 20 years. http://www.amazon.com/Smart-Drugs-Nutrients-Intelligence-Neu... Besides Piracetam having become only one in a class of nootropic
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by millerc 14y ago
I would be MUCH more interested to get some insight as to WHY a binary numbering system, which can't represent accurately a number so trivial as 0.1, have ever become ubiquitous for general-purpose floating-point applications. Or why it's
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by millerc 14y ago
With all the hate going on about WakeMate, I have to give my 2 cents. I bought the product immediately after seeing the power adapter fiasco, and still use my WakeMate to this day. At times it does feel like you have to be an engineer to k
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by millerc 14y ago
> this is too little too late. Think so? I would be surprised if Google, so full of smart people and with enough marketing skills that they took over digital advertizing, really were so inept at negotiation. It doesn't seem a coinciden
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by millerc 15y ago
Yes. Tell me the algorithm you use and the bits from your decryption key, and we can decrypt everything. By the same token, the lock on your door is security by obscurity. Tell me the type of lock and the position of the 5 pins, and you'r
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by millerc 15y ago
Stories like this make me reflect on woes that I've been suffering for a couple of years. As founders (whatever the scale), shouldn't we pay more attention to the loyalty of the people we take under our wing? It seems a fairly common occu
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by millerc 15y ago
It doesn't have to be "extortion", as the article puts it. It can simply be that the patent owners are building a court precendent. They don't need to care about settlement/penalty money (although there's no harm in recouping some expense
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by millerc 15y ago
I've been turned down by Google after the infamous day of interviews; passed all of them with flying colours except the last one, given by an arrogant kid whose every question seemed like entrapment. Recalling the warnings i got from my HR
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by millerc 15y ago
I haven't seen this point mentioned anywhere yet, but... How many of you are willing to bet Sony will use the intrusion as an argument for material damages in court against GeoHot, somehow linking his exploit with the mode of intrusion? Thi
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by millerc 15y ago
Shouldn't this month be a wake-up call to drive the point that Cloud Services, SaS and all variations of "Live" content serve nobody else than the people selling us their projects? Amazon EC2, Sony PSN, Google's GMail outage last month and
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by millerc 15y ago
How is the incentive a blunder? Google employees can voluntarily devote a large portion of their paid time to any project of their choosing. By announcing this incentive, Larry is actually focusing the efforts of whole company into the ma
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by millerc 15y ago
It's not as technically difficult as it seems - see this discssion somewhere else in the thread. Definitely no crooked supply chain needed, except for the "don't ask, don't tell" mindset. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2419303
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by millerc 15y ago
IIRC from my time playing with Norton Utilities back when it was a real hacker tool, you only need to format the disk as usual then hand-modify the disk size in the MSDOS (2nd, logical drive's) boot sector. The FAT will contain all the ent
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by millerc 16y ago
If you have to ask why TeX is still used as a tool, then you don't understand what TeX is. You should not view it as a program or a fad that gets outdated when the latest version of BozOS Release 9 comes out. TeX is a theoretical solution
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by millerc 16y ago
I despise them with all my soul. But I agree to be bound to my word, and signing a contract is as much "giving your word" as can be.
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by millerc 16y ago
About time we see consequences for signing a non-compete agreements, if you ask me. Everyone I know signs these without giving it more consideration than running a yellow light, and expect to run away free the day after they leave.
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by millerc 16y ago
Same here. For $40 for pro software, i'll buy even i I don't need it. By the same token, if I see a board game on sale for $10, I take it and figure out later if I like it or not. I like the idea; i'll leave them figure out if it makes bu
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by millerc 16y ago
After 30 years, no wonder I feel dirty.
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by millerc 16y ago
If you tell me that sites who chronically scrape content elsewhere get a "pull-down weight" attached to the whole of their content, you've made my day.
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by millerc 16y ago
Beautiful, technically and visually. The only reason for (business) failure would be if you released it 20 years too soon. I sincerely hope you're the one to make the tipping point.

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