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by signal11 6y ago
Re “spirit of open source”: For people who believe in this, please study your history — look up the claims and counter claims around Emacs, specifically how it was created, commercialised, and then liberated (then forked and merged again).
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by signal11 6y ago
> Building your business around something that you give away for free Although it’s great for new entrants to the market who’re looking to build mindshare and marketshare. Because it’s hard for incumbents to compete with Free. “Open Sour
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by signal11 6y ago
Even if MongoDB was closed-source, it would not stop anyone from creating a product that was compatible with the MongoDB API. Put another way, your API cannot be your USP. Lots of companies offer S3-compatible APIs, for instance. They compe
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by signal11 6y ago
I suspect it depends upon context. Uncle and Aunty are an inherently respectful term, it’s just that kids do also use it ironically, reversing the meaning. There are other words used like that, eg “mate”, which can be used in a friendly&#x2
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by signal11 6y ago
I appreciate your quandary, but I wonder if most people realise how little explicit profile data WhatsApp has for its users. It doesn’t have a name, country of residence, ... anything really. Just a phone number. I know looking at a phone n
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by signal11 6y ago
I don’t know the details and would love to know. However if I were asked to “get this done”, this is what I’d do: The user’s phone number is a unique ID as far as WhatsApp is concerned, so any metadata related to phone numbers in the “Europ
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by signal11 6y ago
As background, to set the scene for what the state of privacy is in India: India has no privacy legislation, and selling datasets seems to be a popular informal activity[1]. (That article is worth a read in its entirety.) It’s not unusual
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by signal11 6y ago
I think "OSI Approved Open Source License" could easily be an OSI trademark, if it's not already. Ironicallly, like many other organizations, Elastic themselves have used OSI's approval as a benchmark for 'open sour
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by signal11 6y ago
If you're a paying customer, you are probably fine. If you're using SSPL'd Elastic (or Mongo DB, the risks are the same) for anything serious -- i.e. beyond a hobby, get legal advice ASAP. SSPL isn't an OSI certified lic
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by signal11 6y ago
While the imagery is evocative, scale of usage isn't a factor in open source licenses, so the metaphor sort of breaks apart. Sun found that out the hard way -- IBM probably profited off Java way more than pre-acquisition Sun.
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by signal11 6y ago
Only a few of them are done. The others are marked essentially closed wontfix ("To keep the number of issues in our inbox at a manageable level, we're closing issues that have been on the backlog for a long time")[1] or &quot
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by signal11 6y ago
> Shortcuts in VS Code are a setting. Just load which shortcut-setup you prefer. There are quite a few shortcuts that cannot be implemented due to missing capabilities in VS Code. For example -- this list from an author of a VS Code plug
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by signal11 6y ago
I don’t find VS Code to be a good text editor in the sense of a tool to wrangle text: the keyboard shortcuts are rather arbitrary and don’t seem to be logically organised, and it seems not to have learnt much from eg modern text editors lik
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by signal11 6y ago
Also, Bluetooth based keys exist that don’t have to be plugged in.
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by signal11 6y ago
> Same with the ads for Amazon videos on Amazon Prime. On some smart TVs, there's an explicit (or on-screen) button to skip these. If you don't see a skip button and you have a Fire TV remote, you can press the >> double
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by signal11 6y ago
> ...if you provide a way to upload logs and then search them that's Elasticsearch as a service Yes, and if you let your internal company blogging platform ping a service upon every new post, which then feeds that post into Elastic
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by signal11 6y ago
The marginal cost of storage is quite small. “Dumping” and “predatory pricing” arguments make more sense for physical goods — competitors like OneDrive or Google Drive could easily make the case that Dropbox is a premium storage service tha
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by signal11 6y ago
I'd agree with you, but writing relatively clearly at speed has benefits in some types of exams (that are not multiple choice). It may also help if you choose to enter a profession which still relies on written notes (e.g., law or law
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by signal11 6y ago
> rote learning of multiplication tables I'm curious - doesn't rote learning of multiplication tables make it easier to do a bunch of K-12 (in the UK, Foundation through Sixth Form - I think) math? Also, yes, coins are less imp
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by signal11 6y ago
Well, do democratic values (and facts, really) matter more than the sweet, sweet engagement metrics and ad revenue Mr Zuckerburg gets from the MAGA crowd? Sorry if this comes across as bitter. I’m very disappointed at how the large social
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by signal11 6y ago
Note that normal Telegram chats are not end to end encrypted. You have to start a “secret chat” for that.
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by signal11 6y ago
Not just any pharma firm, she joined BioNTech, which created the Pfizer vaccine.
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by signal11 6y ago
There is some talk of a Nobel Prize in chemistry for Dr Katalin Karikó and her collaborator Dr Drew Weissman. From what I’ve heard, mRNA as a technique is quite an advance — if true then they deserve all the accolades they get to make up fo
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by signal11 6y ago
Fair enough, but that's just really shitty consultants. These days practitioners (the ones I run into anyway) are quite conscious of process overhead. It helps that many are into Lean as well. FWIW, shitty agile consultants have had
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by signal11 6y ago
Great story, but re the “killed respect for Agile” bit: Agile done right is all about less process. It’s right there on the Agile Manifesto: > Individuals and interactions over processes and tools I’d also read https://agi
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by signal11 6y ago
I wonder if POSIX/sh is really necessary if you're targeting Linux. I mean, if you're targeting multiple Unixes, sure, but a lot of my scripts are company/infrastructure specific and won't really target anything but
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by signal11 6y ago
Very cool, thank you! The Black and White dither is very reminiscent of the WSJ's stippled portraits[1]. Very useful for those who like that style. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedcut
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by signal11 6y ago
> That's a bit like saying "This person won the lottery, so therefore..." Caveat: I love Jetbrains, and am a happy subscriber. However, as the parent commenter says, it's important to realise that Jetbrains has been l
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by signal11 6y ago
SE Asia and China are a different animal altogether. Privacy laws there are much looser, but this is offset by much stricter government control and much less recourse by companies like WeChat to the courts. Hint: if WeChat doesn't toe
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by signal11 6y ago
Newsletters are always at risk of being flagged as spam, or not delivered (eg the recent Gmail outage). Meaning their email delivery has to be perfect or their subscribers miss out. An RSS reader makes perfect sense for them, actually.

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