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by sam0x17 5y ago
Though you don't mention this particular issue, it often comes up, and as someone who used to work as a DoD research scientist, I will say this: I think academics are largely under the impression that they should be worried about peopl
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by sam0x17 5y ago
imo the value prop of the App store can be entirely propped up by the $100/year developer subscriptions. They don't even need a profit cut. The app store infra is a joke. You could probably fund it with under $1m/yr
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by sam0x17 5y ago
Whether they are a mixed bag or not, it is extremely inappropriate, unethical, and should be illegal for an employer to discourage or manipulate employees into not unionizing or joining a union. This is in my opinion the moral equivalent of
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by sam0x17 5y ago
Because they are interfering with _his_ distribution of the code. They are free to distribute it separately and make changes in those cases, but instead they are essentially re-writing history without the knowledge of the package owner, and
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by sam0x17 5y ago
Unfortunately Gen Z only deals in irony, more so than any generation. One of their central tenants is that nothing can be truly sincere. Maybe in another decade or two we'll see a generation that takes this to the next logical evolutio
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by sam0x17 5y ago
I'm not saying things aren't worse, I'm saying they are worse in a different way. The suit wearing corporate drone software developer in a cubicle isn't a thing anymore. Now it's a t-shirt wearing bearded fair-trade
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by sam0x17 5y ago
The maintainer's intended release was text spamming the console. They replaced it with the old faker. This is changing the maintainer's code.
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by sam0x17 5y ago
I should add, though, I did like the interesting tidbits on what happened with Zion, how the machines went to war with _each other_, and how a new Zion (I forget the name) was formed, but instead allying with exiled machines. I was fascinat
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by sam0x17 5y ago
> Modifying the package to be abusive may technically (legally) be within his rights but is certainly not ethical Sorry to play devil's advocate here, but who are you to say that the future vision of faker isn't some text being
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by sam0x17 5y ago
The correct approach would be to allow changes like this to be pushed to _new_ versions but to lock pre-existing versions in place. The alternative is this weird world where the platforms themselves have spooky editorial control over every
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by sam0x17 5y ago
> The project's author committed a change to his own open source project, which he had every right to do. Indeed, and it goes beyond this. I think the real implication is that software published on NPM and similar networks isn'
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by sam0x17 5y ago
Hot take: I was a huge fan of the original matrix trilogy and the animatrix, and while it wasn't what I expected, I enjoyed the film. In the late 90s, we had this whole thing of the corporate drone. That's sort of dead now. Instea
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by sam0x17 5y ago
You can also always take the time to _become_ a CPA. I've thought about it a few times.
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by sam0x17 5y ago
Is it really open and free if NPM can make editorial decisions that trump the repo owner, whenever they want? I think the implication of this is software packaged on NPM isn't really open source.
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by sam0x17 5y ago
Not much you can do about it even as a remote org. One employee living in Cali and you have to pay cali taxes.
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by sam0x17 5y ago
It just really rubs me the wrong way -- who can argue this isn't just a legitimate reboot of faker? Why does npm get to say that the future of faker isn't a directory with a single .md file? What's to stop this from happening
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by sam0x17 5y ago
I think it's utter bullshit that npm took action the way they did. It's well within his rights to pull the project and update the namespace to whatever he wants. Woe be to those who didn't contribute all these years.
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by sam0x17 5y ago
You don't even need any. Eventually the zoomers will be the boomers, is more my point. At some point, even the baseline becomes progressive.
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by sam0x17 5y ago
This is very true if you don't actually understand and/or couldn't implement the magic yourself. As someone who has had to implement CSRF protection, cookie management, etc., from scratch in other languages/frameworks, i
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by sam0x17 5y ago
Crystal is also my go-to for writing a quick script to do something.
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by sam0x17 5y ago
Hot take: I'd love to see JSON die and get replaced with something more strongly typed and safer to work with. What, I'm not sure, but it is, as you say, a major pain point no matter what language you're in. Either it's
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by sam0x17 5y ago
Yes, I find that community interest tends to peak about 10 years before business interest peaks in any given language. Right now we have more companies using Ruby/Rails than perhaps we ever did, but community interest peaked 10 years a
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by sam0x17 5y ago
Productivity. Also you can short circuit a lot of what you said with Crystal lang (for speed) or Ruby on Jets (for ease of deployment, serverless, etc). At Arist (YC S20), we were able to fully rebuild our app in Ruby on Jets, pass a pen te
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by sam0x17 5y ago
When the boomers die out, the zoomers are going to obliterate DMCA. Their only exposure to it has been "thing that pisses off fav content creators"
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At most startups it's about $1.3k for self + one.
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by sam0x17 5y ago
I pay $1.3k/month for myself + husband in MD, both early 30s.
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by sam0x17 5y ago
> Apple is building a billion-dollar campus in Austin, Texas That they're already seriously regretting doing now that the promises of the remote economy are starting to be truly realized and the pandemic shows no end in sight. Billi
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by sam0x17 5y ago
I pay $1.3k/month for private insurance for myself + my husband, so it would be an easy yes vote for me.
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by sam0x17 5y ago
This is key when you note that for good private insurance for self+one, you typically have to pay out $1.2k / month at least. Did that for a number of years.
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by sam0x17 5y ago
And what changed? We stopped regulating corporations, and they started becoming bad for society. You have to lead corporations to the good, with guardrails, incentives, and regulations, like a petulant child. Without this safety-net in plac

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