pullmn

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by pullmn 6y ago
Spain is a majority Catholic country in part because of a widespread terroristic campaign of torturing and killing Jewish and Muslim Spanish people, carried out by the Catholic Church. What about the dignity of their lives?
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by pullmn 6y ago
Fair, I am using Redis as an example here, because I know more about (the technical side of) their product than some of the others. I think similar considerations apply to Mongo, Elastic and the others.
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by pullmn 6y ago
I'm just using piracy here to illustrate how your take is not founded in reality. You said: >Before we had open source, we released software as public domain. The spirit existed before the trademark phrase You're claiming that
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by pullmn 6y ago
Well, I think a lot of the people who were doing piracy would argue that they embodied the spirit of the community, and the anti-pirates were just a small minority who had a particular approach. So I don't think it's possible
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by pullmn 6y ago
Do you include piracy in this? As I remember it the 'community' was completely divided for most of its existence between those who held that the spirit meant writing your own software and sharing that of others who had agreed to
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by pullmn 6y ago
I would say the difference between Amazon and Elastic is that Amazon has to compete in the marketplace and keep their customers happy to earn money. Elastic now has a business model where they simply own a rare thing and charge people to lo
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by pullmn 6y ago
First of all the 'spirit' of the new license is "you can do anything you like with the code, except if we don't want you to". Nobody knows when or whether one of these companies will turn around and say "that&#
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by pullmn 6y ago
I disagree. I personally would prefer to license the code I write myself with a GPL copyleft or a 'no commercial use' type of license. However, I license it instead under MIT, specifically to make sure that your average corporate
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by pullmn 6y ago
Yes, I think that this article missed the point to some extent. Knowing C quite well and C++ not very well, learning the Java 'language' was quite easy. Learning the Java 'model'/'runtime' was much harder
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by pullmn 6y ago
Psychiatry is extremely committed to other forms of medication, which are in general not particularly effective, and also extremely dangerous in various ways. Of course there are some exaggerated claims by proponents of psychedelics. But if
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by pullmn 6y ago
Well, you don't need steak either, but both things are considered extremely important to human life and our society.
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by pullmn 6y ago
Yes, if you compare farmers with actors, they seem to have similar problems with stability of employment, low pay, and hard working conditions. In both cases these are partly caused by unavoidable factors about the industry, partly caused b