nevinera

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by nevinera 14y ago
>700 hand written lines in my .vimrc, and 45 plugins You're not using vim.
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by nevinera 14y ago
That's a pretty strong conclusion to draw from these results..
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by nevinera 14y ago
It's how they're written, but not how they work. In reality, that type of claim is not enforceable. It is a good signal that they will attempt to prove infringement on your outside work though, and you can't ever guarantee a win in that k
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by nevinera 14y ago
>Yes, yes it can No, it literally can't. It can be somewhat similar with contracts that promise a transfer of IP, but you'd get sued for breach of contract, not for copyright infringement. That doesn't stop companies from putting drac
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by nevinera 14y ago
The employer probably wanted to talk to him about it, to decide whether there really was enough similar tech (or even shared code) that it might harm the company. That's basic due diligence. Probably after going over it, they determined tha
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by nevinera 14y ago
> And as far as I know, both state of PA and US law permit a person to sign away the copywrite on any work they wish to They do, but not until it exists . You can't sign away work until you've done it, unless it fits the work-for-hire
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by nevinera 14y ago
Well... this strays into the territory of unenforceability and severability. You know how practically every contract you sign anymore has something to the effect of 'invalidating some portion of this contract does not invalidate the rest of
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by nevinera 14y ago
No, burgers aren't "intellectual property". If he wrote the burger-flipping manual for work, and then wrote another one and published it online, he'd have more of a problem. And yes, the entire concept of IP is on the strange side and needs
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by nevinera 14y ago
I agree that it's worth bringing up, though investigating yourself is likely more accurate (if they haven't released any open projects previously, I'd be hesitant to believe their newfound commitment to the cause). But it's not really somet
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by nevinera 14y ago
I'm not a lawyer, and the rules get messy - I'd need to do at least a few hours of research to answer you with any confidence. The type of stuff you're talking about is not addressed by the code itself, it's tangled up in case law, which is
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by nevinera 14y ago
We do have a similar rule (with similar origins), but it has to be contractually asserted, and it would only apply to portions of code integrated into a larger 'visual work' - mostly it doesn't come into play outside of contracting.
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by nevinera 14y ago
I am only guessing from the contents of the post, but it sounds like they were asserting possible infringement against his own previous work, not ownership of the library he developed on his own time. It is best to be careful though, I much
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by nevinera 14y ago
Definitely! Emcien (from mCn - we deal with a lot of combinatoric problems) is focused on analysis of large-scale data by constructing and operating on relationship graphs of tokens within that data. We use Rails pretty heavily for presenta
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by nevinera 14y ago
If he's working in the US, then debatably yes. Though 'jurisdiction' isn't the right word. Work performed by an employee during the course of operations is considered 'work for hire', and is the intellectual property of the employer. If he
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by nevinera 14y ago
That's not 'hardline dickery'. The company didn't get a lawyer involved and force him to take it down, they expressed concern - the author apparently agrees that it's related or similar to work he did while an employee, or there would have
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by nevinera 14y ago
>But that they owned ownership for every line of code written by me, even on my time off, was killing my inspiration. Where were you working? That's definitely not how US ip-law operates.
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by nevinera 14y ago
>This serves as a reminder to us all to be very careful when signing employment contracts. If he was a full-time employee in the US, a contract wouldn't be necessary for this to be an issue. All work done by an employee on company time
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by nevinera 14y ago
But small containers of any kind of liquid are right out .
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by nevinera 14y ago
That gets pretty unlikely, especially if you have many dynos and a low frequency of slow requests. The main reason unicorn can drastically reduce queue times here is that it does not use random routing internally.
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by nevinera 14y ago
That isn't the only problem with random routing - the problems aren't as pronounced with uniform response speeds, but you still get a significant difference in net effective queue time, especially if you're operating close to your throughpu
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by nevinera 14y ago
>The way I understand this, is that for a random walk of infinite length, your expected outcome is always 0. It doesn't matter that you started very lucky by winning 10 games in a row, because if you play an infinite number of times, yo
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by nevinera 14y ago
"A moral of this is that any lucky series will always eventually be reversed and an expected outcome of a random walk is always 0. Or in other words - don’t play roulette ;)" The apriori expected outcome of a random walk is zero. The expe
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by nevinera 14y ago
>It seems simpler, especially on a conceptual level, to just initialize the the duck with everything it could possibly need to be a duck, rather than adding things dynamically. It is simpler, on a conceptual level. On an implementation
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by nevinera 14y ago
Observing your body and changing positions whenever they become uncomfortable is far better for your long-term health than is a well-engineered chair. I now rotate between a standing desk, a normal desk, a couch (only when reading/explori
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by nevinera 14y ago
That first chart really bugs me. You're showing us an apparent asymptote, a totally reasonable thing to do to prove your point.. but then I notice it's a log plot . That isn't showing us anything, number of seconds would make the same sh
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by nevinera 14y ago
>Things I wish I knew about MongoDB a year ago The post reads as a series of criticisms about mongo. I don't love mongo, but I'm not aware of any data store that can perform that type of query purely from an index. Now, the descriptio
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by nevinera 14y ago
>Range queries are indexed differently If I'm reading your description right, this is hardly mongo-specific. Try it in mysql, for example: (index is [:last, :first]) select first from names where last in ('gordon','holmes','watso
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by nevinera 14y ago
They kept complaining about their 'conversion rate' thoughout the post. Everywhere they talked about how they weren't selling enough, they couched it in terms of how many downloads they got.
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by nevinera 14y ago
This smacked of RIAA logic. It doesn't matter what your conversion rate is when your game is free - non-converts don't cost you money.
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by nevinera 14y ago
Your chart shows a flat spot of 16 years across the 80s, and another one of about 25 years measured from the very peak of the market in 29.. So you're right, though that figure isn't impressively different. The figure I was remembering was

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