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by speedplane 7y ago
> many variables and factors also influence how things happen, but the fundamental idea that people actually do limit themselves for no good reason is also frequently seen. There are a ton of reasons why many "average" people d
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by speedplane 7y ago
> look at the proliferation of desktop GUIs in the late 80s and into the 90s. Everybody was throwing in gratuitous differences in the hopes of making their look and feel "different enough" to avoid a lawsuit. So we ended up wit
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by speedplane 7y ago
> suggesting it'll be back to normal in 6 months implies you don't understand the scale of the problem No one knows the scale of the problem. It's the uncertainty that's driving the volatility.
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by speedplane 7y ago
> I hope that whoever created int max(int a, int b) is benevolent because just about every programmer has reinvented that at some point. What about Response get(String url) which returns an HTTP GET response. We have probably all written
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by speedplane 7y ago
> The idea that giving people an effectively eternal copyright interest in making interoperable software would improve software strains credulity. Why would it? Giving a company the right to prevent interoperability does not necessarily
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by speedplane 7y ago
> When I WFH I just slack off. I've worked in an office for years, and then transitioned to working from home for years. The initial transition was rough: snacking, lack of motivation, lack of structure. But it only took about a mon
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by speedplane 7y ago
> Run Matlab Production Server on AWS as a microservice. But the licensing cost of Matlab Production Server is "contact us". Scary. Starting a business is scary. Contact them, figure out the cost, and figure out if it's wo
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by speedplane 7y ago
> I wonder what would happen if the api had the text "oracle" in the function names? Wouldn't affect copyright law too much, but Oracle could probably raise a trademark infringement claim too.
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by speedplane 7y ago
> everyone in the industry is saddled with huge potential liabilities until a massive multi-year relicensing project can be completed to confirm who is committed to never trying Oracle's tactics when they fall on hard times. That is
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by speedplane 7y ago
> I think by "Copying a functional spec" he meant to say implementing someone else's functional spec, rather than just re-publishing it. So that what's being copied is not the copyrightable text of the spec, but the n
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by speedplane 7y ago
> I agree, and that's precisely the sort of software I've seen using the WTFPL license. I don't think it's right to characterize this as reckless. "Reckless" is too strong, but shortsighted or poor judgment
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by speedplane 7y ago
> Copying a functional spec - like for SQL - is fine. But copying implementation code is not (unless that's the only way it can be implemented). Why are specs fundamentally different than implementations?
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by speedplane 7y ago
> The project for some compilers courses is implementing a compiler for a subset for Java. Would the current ruling mean that doing the project is copyright infringement? Fair use would probably protect you because you're doing it f
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by speedplane 7y ago
> Copyright is not some innate right. Interfaces should not be copyrightable just because they require some level of competence to design. The purpose of copyright, according to the constitution is "[t]o promote the progress of scie
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by speedplane 7y ago
> The idea that so much existing infrastructure would infringe on this new kind of copyright is tough to accept, but at least it's very straightforward in a way, with brutal direct consequences. I don't anticipate a doom-and-gl
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by speedplane 7y ago
> I think if Oracle wins, the best thing that could happen is IBM immediately suing for infringment on SQL. IBM's potential claim on SQL wouldn't be a threat to Oracle. IBM uses Java heavily. The most likely outcome is that the
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by speedplane 7y ago
> I believe that's a fair price to pay for breaking the software industry. There is a theoretical legal question of whether APIs should be copyrightable, and then there are the practical issues. As a purely legal matter, there is a
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by speedplane 7y ago
> We lost the chance at containment weeks ago. It's in the community. We need to stop all flights, close all schools, and discourage travel. Our best chance now is in flattening the curve so our healthcare system isn't overburd
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by speedplane 7y ago
> There are a two options: first is to do social distancing properly and the virus will naturally die out, the other is to "go on as normal" and eventually most people will be infected. Will social distancing really work over t
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by speedplane 7y ago
> The sort of software you see using this license is not the sort of software anybody is likely to get sued over anyway. ... I think a lot of people forget that not all software needs to be aerospace grade shit that with licenses corpor
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by speedplane 7y ago
> The issue I see is that it limits the usage to those associated with Academic Institutions. What if you're a data scientist, or an interested person, not working in Academia? Any research you'd want to do and publish isn&#x27
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by speedplane 7y ago
Here is Trial Exhibit 980: https://www.docketalarm.com/cases/California_Northern_Distri...
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by speedplane 7y ago
> it's a simplification to point out that there aren't as many doctors, without noting all the other doctor-esque roles with significant overlap. Comparing the number of doctors in the US to other countries is not a good measur
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by speedplane 7y ago
> What a completely different world these people live in. - No Wikipedia. - No user generated yelp reviews. - No non-government approved news articles. - Every message you write online can affect your credit-worthiness and your children&
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by speedplane 7y ago
> You definitely can, most of the times you can’t collect all the hours you put in. Client pays what it pays and the rest is written off. It’s the senior’s job to manage the ratio of billed hours to collected hours. I am telling you --fr
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by speedplane 7y ago
> As a counterpoint, I’d like to state that being able to raise efficiency when you need it could be a huge selling point. On slow days, I don’t want to raise my efficiency that much , I take my time and review more thorougly. I don&#x27
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by speedplane 7y ago
> If Microsoft had given us a clean C++ API for Windows, the world of programming would be very different today. I mean, Win32 was a relatively clean C library. Not beautiful by any means, but it worked and was well documented. At the ti
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by speedplane 7y ago
> What was the difference between the rich and the poor family? Who is the parasite? What is it exactly that the rich family does better or gives to this world that they deserve the exceptionally better lifestyle? If you're looking
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by speedplane 7y ago
> What struck me is that the main family has a ton of talent. They're excellent actors and planners. In a healthy society, they could use those talents to do something productive You got it both right and wrong. In "Parasite&qu
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by speedplane 7y ago
> Anonymous people over the web have become guides to personal finance, reddit just facilitates that. The same advice was available during the "blogging/RSS era". Every generation needs their own form. Before blogging&#x2F

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