nknight

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by nknight 15y ago
No, you're explaining your viewpoint, and claiming it represents a "social contract". While I periodically hear whining from some people, particularly the OpenBSD crowd, about other open-source projects using their code, I've seen no eviden
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by nknight 15y ago
You appear to have taken a very libertarian worldview and attempted to apply it to software. That's OK, but you have to realize that, as in the political realm, your views are not even close to universal, and some of them are definitely in
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by nknight 15y ago
No, it's not. The core of why we disagree is your bizarre double standard. There are no circumstances under which I would find a corporation's proprietary use of BSD code more socially acceptable than a GPL project's open-source use of BSD
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by nknight 15y ago
> If the code they add is under the GPL, and the aggregate is the GPL, then the only new code retrievable from that project that is GPL code. Which is as it should be. You gave them the right to use your code as part of a larger, diff
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by nknight 15y ago
> Proprietary forks are always able to submit pieces of their code back to the originating BSD project So are the authors of the GPL project. > Any improvements they make can NEVER be sent back to us without all the contributors
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by nknight 15y ago
> I'm assuming a passport or military ID would have been adequate. I really can't emphasize enough the degree to which the US revolves around state-issued photo IDs, whether in the form of a driver's license or a simple ID card. This
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by nknight 15y ago
> already very important SPDY-enabled sites live on the Internet Certainly Google's sites qualify as important, but are any other major sites using it? Chrome doesn't seem to setup SPDY sessions for anything I visit regularly other th
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by nknight 15y ago
You seem to have read a much different post than I did. Where did she say there's nothing wrong? The post is relating facts about "how graphics rendering works on Android", it says so right at the top. I see absolutely nowhere that it says
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by nknight 15y ago
The context is a bunch of people going around pretending they know why Android behaves the way it does, when in fact they have no clue what they're talking about. It's not a defense of anything, it's just injecting facts where there has bee
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by nknight 15y ago
> Amazon does. What? http://www.talkandroid.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/185353... https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-M_Vcs9_9k8k/TsLckGIfzzI/A...
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by nknight 15y ago
We're the country that invented the TSA. You shouldn't be surprised we have a long tradition of security theater. :)
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by nknight 15y ago
(Edit: I'm rather displeased that the comment I'm replying to here is getting downvoted. It's in no way deserved. He asked a reasonable question as a European to whom this aspect of American culture is, not surprisingly, alien.) It's an emb
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by nknight 15y ago
How is it you are magically divining from 9 short bullet points posted on her personal blog how she acted in her encounters with Apple employees? And how is it you're magically divining that the people she encountered were not whiny, rude,
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by nknight 15y ago
Every time someone or some system lazily says "driver's license", substitute "state-issued photo ID" in your head. You can get one from your local DMV office for a few dollars and a little time. It and its number will work fine in any conte
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by nknight 15y ago
I'm from the USA and find most of my country to be pretty nauseating. People bragging about American innovation is just a brief dizzy spell that soon passes once I stop rolling my eyes.
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by nknight 15y ago
Bad headline, very bad. Water was definitively found on Mars years ago, this story is about finding what could be a large quantity of buried ice.
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by nknight 15y ago
Delivery services have been using routing software for years. UPS got a bunch of press attention for it several years ago. The concept of a crusty old lumbering behemoth that won't embrace new technology is largely mythical. Market disrupti
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by nknight 15y ago
I don't think I've ever seen a resumé covering a 14-year tech/tech-related career that fit on one page.
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by nknight 15y ago
You think Chanel cares about a web design website called CSS-Tricks?
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by nknight 15y ago
Schengen concerns passport/border controls, it has nothing to do with rights concerning living and working in EEA countries.
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by nknight 15y ago
> What are you trying to prove? What are you? Seems like every comment I see from you the last couple weeks is exceedingly angry rants, and half of them constitute the very metadrama you're calling "dumb". What's going on with you?
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by nknight 15y ago
Are you being deliberately obtuse? I honestly can't tell. First of all, I don't trust anyone from my social circle not to be a vector for malware on the Internet, just as I don't trust them to not be a vector for real-life viruses and bac
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by nknight 15y ago
"Untrusted websites". Which websites do you trust, exactly? Malware has been distributed on many major websites most people would consider "trusted", either via ad networks or through simply cracking the servers. On the Internet, you can't
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by nknight 15y ago
It's frowned upon by people who need high availability with minimum complexity of hardware and software configuration. There's very little state one can reasonably store on a single web server without interrupting sessions if the server fai
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by nknight 15y ago
> people that are desperate to type as little javascript as possible You've completely missed one of the author's most critical points. Verbosity isn't the problem. I actually hate CoffeeScript's syntax, but the language clearly reduc
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by nknight 15y ago
C++ has a domain where it has a large foothold and extreme inertia. That says nothing about its fundamental merits. Your statement is also misleading for another reason. Core engine logic might be in C++, but actual "game" logic is increasi
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by nknight 15y ago
The Python bindings are not very robust, don't fit the language well, and have a build process alien to the Python ecosystem. If it's representative of the other non-Java bindings, it's small wonder it doesn't get used by non-Java projects.
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by nknight 15y ago
> It is also unfair to take him to task for quoting from a publicly available source Quotes which were already removed from their full context, taken further out of context by Arrington, with a shallow, incomplete understanding of the
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by nknight 15y ago
YouTube would not exist today without the safe-harbor provisions of the DMCA. It would have been sued out of existence years ago. The DMCA did not create copyright law, it modified it, and pre-DMCA, YouTube would have had no protections.
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by nknight 15y ago
It's not as "bad" as the situation in the US, but software patents have been issued in the EU for decades. The question of which software patents are actually valid and enforceable has been giving everyone a headache for just as long. The E

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