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by nadams 11y ago
> I wanted to believe that a team of 6 to 10 people could make a game that looked and felt AAA. What is your definition of AAA game? I believe Minecraft was created by 1 person (or at least started). I consider Terraria to be a AAA game
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by nadams 11y ago
> You're usually not going to want to reproduce so much of a work in your research that copyright law would come into play (you can legally paste a few sentences from a book on your blog IANAL). The content of the encyclopedia is st
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by nadams 11y ago
> If you haven't specified a license they have no legal right to use the code This is technically correct - however according to the github TOS [1] [2] you agree to allow people to view and fork your code. But - what is stopping me
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by nadams 11y ago
> I suffered this with a 2nd hand Windows 7 computer my mother was using that kept complaining about being counterfeit. That has been known to happen [1] (it's never happened to me personally). I suspect it has something to do with
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by nadams 11y ago
> The closest solution I've seen is to download some exe file that presupposes that I have Windows installed somewhere so I can... My guess they did that because it's probably just like BartPE or other PE products - it copies f
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by nadams 11y ago
Kind of hard when VPS hosters configure their systems with root access. I'm not really sure I want to start mucking with the way they have it configured too much. When I self-hosted VMs I did configure them with root disabled. I'm
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by nadams 11y ago
What I would like is an open source/self hosted solution where if I login as root to a system I would get a pop-up or message asking to verify this. Obviously for the individual sys admins it may not be useful - but for a company it ma
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by nadams 11y ago
Some googling came up with this reddit thread [1] and a quote: > It's a simple EMA crossover bot, don't buy this stuff. There's a chrome plugin that does the same for free. Rhetorical questions to the comments: What chrome
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by nadams 11y ago
> If I could I would redesign internet routing in a way that the webpage doesn't know where a request comes from. The internet already has that - it's called spoofing a packet. But in all seriousness - this is an extremely bad
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by nadams 11y ago
> And just a few lines below that: "for (auto item : { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 })". Why?? It's an almost comical abuse of C++11 for the sake of it. This comment is very interesting. His syntax reminds me of Python syntax
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by nadams 11y ago
I feel like an open code of conduct is unnecessary. Really - the only thing you need to remember is - be nice to each other and be patient with those supplying advice and those who are asking for advice. (I have screenshots of discussions t
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by nadams 11y ago
I guess it really depends on your definition. For example Mahara claims to be an online portfolio creator - but you can also build your CV with it [1]. I just wish someone would come out and say "this is the format your resume/CV
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by nadams 11y ago
> Github acts as a portfolio site for programmers. No [1] [2]. It is not your resume or your CV. You should be able to highlight projects or accomplishments on your CV - github gives you no control over the layout of your profile. > T
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by nadams 11y ago
Just as an aside - we seem to be crossing paths a lot on here... I think you should just hire me as your PR and/or developer guy ;). It's always good to have a guy with a different perspective who thinks and plays outside the box.
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by nadams 11y ago
> It turns out that unless you commit AWS creds, nobody cares about your repos. Oh there are people who care - just not the people you want to care. Imagine a wolf circling it's prey.
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by nadams 11y ago
> In case this is the policy it would mean we could not delete something like revenge porn ourselves I could argue either way (I'm a bit of a philosopher that way...). It all depends on how you want to run your service. Do you want
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by nadams 11y ago
Would you be ok with a policy of: > We don't delete repos unless explicitly requested by law enforcement or a DMCA takedown notice. What you said could be interpreted as "well...this repo was technically breaking the law so tha
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by nadams 11y ago
I upvoted you only because people should know where companies like gitlab stand on these kinds of issues. I'm not agreeing or disagreeing what he did was right - but it is important to know about it. I host my own free source code host
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by nadams 11y ago
> In contracts most terms are not defined. The GPL is one that I know that spells it out [1]: > This License applies to any program or other work which contains a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed unde
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by nadams 11y ago
I pointed this out because I've seen this over and over again with the single theme of "I was working on some silly project using AWS and I pushed my credentials to github". I don't think I've ever seen a profession
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by nadams 11y ago
> I don't want alerts, I want a fixed amount limit. I don't think you want AWS - I think you just want a VPS or a dedicated server. AWS is for people who are going to need to scale at large - and you pay a premium for that. I&#
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by nadams 11y ago
> I cut and pasted my personal AWS credentials into my source code, committed it, and pushed it to Github. This paradigm is very puzzling to me. Why do people feel the need to publish every small project to the public? Is it because gith
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by nadams 11y ago
Well for starters most licenses will define the meaning of the terms in question. You should define exactly what is a patch file (such as format and what it contains). Potentially a patch file could include whole files. Here is a hypothetic
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by nadams 11y ago
Distributing a patch would require distributing parts of the original code (the patch file will include lines of original and changed code) - which the latter is not allowed per the license. I'm not saying that gitlab would go after yo
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by nadams 11y ago
It doesn't matter which product it was for - it still seems contradictory. It says I can distribute patches but then it says I can't. I wasn't joking when telling you that you should get a lawyer on the phone. I've seen
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by nadams 11y ago
> You are free to modify this Software and publish patches. > It is forbidden to copy, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software. You might want to get a lawyer on the phone - because that seems c
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by nadams 11y ago
> Free software is one thing, but free hosting? Hosting basically boils down to the fact that ~98% of your users will use a small portion of your resources. This is why hundreds - even thousands - of users are shoved onto a single shared
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by nadams 11y ago
Why would Microsoft buy github? They have their own.
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by nadams 11y ago
I mean TOS, EULAs etc only go so far. If you think they are the word of god - then I'll create a TOS on my site that says for every page view you agree to pay me $X. Then when I sue you to get the money - any judge who isn't takin
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by nadams 11y ago
You could stamp everyone of your posts with a CC-NC license. Since the content is yours - I don't think they can magically wave the CC-NC license on the basis that you uploaded it to their site.

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