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by nknight 15y ago
> Some people They're called extroverts. They get into management and then fuck everything up for the mass of introvert engineers because they're incapable of conceiving that a human being wouldn't want to be in constant contact with
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by nknight 15y ago
> In a US workplace you can't tell someone directly "that's wrong" or "I don't like that". I know this varies to some degree with region, but if you're working tech in Silicon Valley and not saying "that's wrong", you're just not doin
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by nknight 15y ago
> This article is link-bait You should probably check out who Harald Welte is and what he does before making such accusations. I don't agree with him here, but "link bait" this is not.
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by nknight 15y ago
I could do 99% of my job effectively on a ~200MHz Pentium with maybe 64MB of RAM. About the only thing that would really bite me is the occasional need to help the client team, which often means booting Windows in a VM and replicating their
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by nknight 15y ago
> The iOS example was just to name one of many limitations of using GPL code. And is utterly irrelevant to the question that was asked. > No, for developers themselves. Dynamic vs. static linking mess etc. What mess? The require
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by nknight 15y ago
> You can't (technically) use GPL'd code inside your iOS application. Web startups don't generally build iOS apps, they build web apps. > GPL is not the greatest license, that's why they created LGPL (to remove some of its stupid
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by nknight 15y ago
Er, are you sure you're not thinking of Coltan? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coltan
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by nknight 15y ago
That is in no way different than the current situation. If all of the dozens of trusted certificate authorities the world over has decided that they shouldn't provide certs for company X, you should probably be looking to company X for the
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by nknight 15y ago
Isn't the obvious 80% solution a separate cookie that just says "this browser last logged in using service X" that the server can use to give UI cues?
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by nknight 15y ago
I don't, my parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles don't, my best friend doesn't, several of my favorite past and present colleagues don't. There are times I really wonder where Facebook's massive userbase comes from, and how it can ever p
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by nknight 15y ago
As far as I know, that's an Americanism. I don't know of any other country that concentrates so many legal professionals in their political system.
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by nknight 15y ago
No, but if they could and did, their business would come to an abrupt end when browsers stopped trusting them anyway.
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by nknight 15y ago
That was an analogy, it should be blindingly obvious I was in no way addressing whether Facebook is an open source company.
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by nknight 15y ago
Whether their code is open source or not is almost irrelevant. Read what ESR said carefully, it's not actually about the code itself, it's about user control of their data and experience. Appropriate, thorough APIs and policies can probably
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by nknight 15y ago
If Facebook embodied "the hacker way" internally, they wouldn't behave in the manner they do toward their users. They wouldn't elevate their "hacker employees" to a privileged position over a "hacker user" when it comes to that user's data
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by nknight 15y ago
Sorry, I was speaking imprecisely and off the top of my head. You of course have to have multiple certificates, but the point is all that is necessary is for all of the certificates to be sent to the browser and for the browser to check the
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by nknight 15y ago
I have to say I find that pretty laughable. First of all, START isn't even about non-proliferation. Has nothing to do with it. It's a series of agreements between two superpowers that served mostly as a diplomatic tool to de-escalate Cold W
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by nknight 15y ago
> The question is why don't you ever hear about some huge Chinese or Russian website being hacked? Well, I have, occasionally, heard about such things, but personally, I don't live in China or Russia, I don't speak Chinese or Russian,
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by nknight 15y ago
> That would greatly raise the cost of the SSL certificates. $0 x N is still $0, and the difference between 1 EV certificate and 3 EV certificates is not going to put anybody who really thinks they need one out of business. > And
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by nknight 15y ago
> Well, how do you distribute trust? Do you have a quorum or something? Basically, yes. > Consider this ... what if I wanted to introduce doubt that X is really verified, and thereby hurt their business. How can you avoid me doin
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by nknight 15y ago
What makes you think a irrationally protectionist French court isn't going to issue an order changing the licensing terms of Wikipedia's content?
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by nknight 15y ago
At this point, VeriSign might as well be an instrumentality of the US government. The answer to your question is "When we take substantive action on the brokenness of the US political system".
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by nknight 15y ago
It's an effort to harmonize international law with US law. It's essentially the DMCA in treaty form, and important provisions of the DMCA find no close analogue in most nations' laws -- or indeed almost any nation's laws until very recent
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by nknight 15y ago
No, he must act in good faith when acting in his capacity as a board member and corporate officer. When acting in his capacity as a shareholder, he has no such obligation. The line between the two roles is usually pretty clear. Think of a m
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by nknight 15y ago
> I wouldn't by into such an ownership structure I would under some circumstances, but there are absolutely no circumstances under which I would be prepared to invest in a company where one person has majority voting power. At least
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by nknight 15y ago
I really doubt they'll react at all. id releases source code when they're done with it. There's little reason for them to invest much time in a commercially dead codebase, they've always got new stuff to work on.
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by nknight 15y ago
> To me, git feels like building blocks that you use to create your own versioning system and workflow That's because it is almost exactly that. It helps to go back and read the earliest discussions of it. Linus didn't build a version
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by nknight 15y ago
Technically, the naïve implementation is perfectly fine for C/C++, so long as size_t is at least 268 bits long on your platform. :)
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I expect at least one of the Go authors was well aware of this very incident (the Java breakage), it was fairly well publicized before Go ever saw the light of day.
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I worked at a company that didn't merely issue this edict, but attempted to enforce it technologically. Every file in every commit was checked for the presence of a prescribed style of copyright string (something along the lines of "Copyrig

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