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by tgma 2y ago
Sure that counts as differential testing. The issue is there are limited number of them compared to the amount of code you can generate mechanically, and especially in the case of C, it is not straightforward to write a standardized script
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by tgma 2y ago
> A large corporation cannot seriously pretend to encourage their employees to "play to win" when it is structuring itself against that precisely. I am not so sure it's that cut and dry. Even among the FANG, the desire to
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by tgma 2y ago
I did not. That said, it is up to the individual to work at Google or not, so it's not like they are a self-selecting population of maximally driven people. At least not the recently-joined folks. By and large, Google is branded as the
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by tgma 2y ago
hear hear You can't influence the course of the company (hence the 'beating drive out of you' comment I made). I am not root-causing the issue and putting the blame on leaf-level folks, just describing it. Quite the contr
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by tgma 2y ago
I think the reporting of his quote overemphasizes on "work from home" piece of his sentence as that fits right into a continuous obsession/bike sheds. Whether "work from home" is the cause or not, I think he is abso
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by tgma 2y ago
He had a class at Stanford a few years back where you can see some of his insightfulness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcRxFRgNpns
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by tgma 2y ago
Wrong. Eric Schmidt might be more of a suit than Larry, but calling him a bean counter is a stretch. He is a Computer Scientist. He has written Lex[1] ffs. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_(software) P.S. re the
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by tgma 2y ago
The article touches on basic testing strategies that apply to general software as well as compilers. I have been involved with compiler testing projects on production LLVM and GCC in my past life. One thing that makes compiler testing speci
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by tgma 2y ago
Can’t really refute a hypothetical. Is there a polymarket bet for that? I will categorically take the under on your position for any company doing CLA with AGPL. The intent is so glaringly obvious.
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by tgma 2y ago
> You can fork it and use it in and as free software forever. This is only 'unreasonable' if you're a proprietary software vendor. The complaint of a proprietary software vendor strikes me as somewhat ironic here: what, th
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by tgma 2y ago
Importantly, GPL does not include such line. That line is not part of the GPL. Critical software such as Linux famously do not have that and are not GPLv3 for example. The Author can choose to license the Copyrighted Work under various lice
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by tgma 2y ago
The model is equivalent. Everything else is different. FSF's structure, purpose, history and guardrails against non-hijacking make it distinct from a startup whose purpose is to claim "open source" but preclude Amazon and kee
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by tgma 2y ago
Strictly speaking you are correct. I concede that from an individual licensee perspective. The scenario I had in my head is under permissive, if the community forks, they would be on par with the original author. Under AGPL+CLA, if the com
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by tgma 2y ago
There are clear differences. [Let's say I am not a competitor and Amazonifying them] I can keep using a permissively licensed software or a fork of it at the moment they pull the rug and keep using it in the same manner; I just don&#x2
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by tgma 2y ago
Yes. If they do it they will be able to license the form back as AGPL but that wouldn't let them license the new thing under their commercial license (effectively useless commercially). At that point they are a peer with you. Some star
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by tgma 2y ago
This. The AGPL deception is you brand yourself as community-minded. As long as you don't rely on external contributions that's fair. But what the AGPL startups don't emphasize is they require you to either assign your copyrig
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by tgma 2y ago
Assuming they were going to do that, it'd likely still be much cheaper to trade the old one in and discard it and get a new one.
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by tgma 2y ago
Those are traditionally done with existing proven solutions, not "rolling your own crypto" though.
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by tgma 2y ago
> Rolling your own crypto is already hard enough Wait, what? Do you role your crypto to handle standard auth flows? Is this some machine generated text?
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by tgma 2y ago
I always am curious when someone asks this question from an open forum why wouldn't they simply fill out the form and get a definitive answer? What we know for sure is they don't accept founders that don't fill out the form[1
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by tgma 2y ago
Did you just misquote me and "well, actually'd" your own paraphrase? I never used "one or more" :)
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by tgma 2y ago
I will almost always choose to buy a product if offered at a cheaper price if I can do so by declining longer warranties, so, no, it's not "always a benefit". It's not a fairy tale. Someone has to pay for things.
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by tgma 2y ago
Is that the "usual case" really? I find it very rare actually. You really think "Smart TV" is some collusion/conspiracy and not emergent from the market behavior? The most malicious theory I can come up with is tha
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by tgma 2y ago
Interestingly, the particular retailer in question, actually offers at least "second year warranty" for free to products you purchase from them at no explicit additional cost, so you don't have to make a trade-off by summing
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by tgma 2y ago
Various negative consequences but off the top of my head: - Any regulation needs to be written, read, analyzed, made sure to comply with, defend in court, etc. which costs money. - I might want to be very generous and voluntarily take back
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by tgma 2y ago
I can look it up if I am already motivated, but it is much easier for me to convince you to take a collective political action if you feel the depth of the government's dong in your rear end every day.
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by tgma 2y ago
Actually, no... At least not quite the same way. In the US, a lot of people think of tax day as a "good day" because they get a refund from the government! Psychologically it is very different if you steal the money before they e
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by tgma 2y ago
That's a single function pointer not an interface which is a named set of function pointers.
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by tgma 2y ago
> The amount of tax is equally useless to me. Not if you are voting someone in a political office in the next election.
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by tgma 2y ago
Not sure why you're downvoted. There is material difference in prices of electronics due to whatever reason (taxes, warranties, low scale, etc) to the degree that my European friends often purchase laptops and iPhones when they travel

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