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by vortico 6y ago
Maybe so, but much easier to read . Code is read 10x more often than written, especially in teams, so it makes sense to optimize for legibility rather than elegance in some "higher" mindset, or less keys pressed (because most of
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by vortico 6y ago
Why do you need all this theory when you can use simple imperative languages? for staff in company.staff: for pet in staff.pets: if pet.type == 'cat': print(pet.name + " belongs to " + staff
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by vortico 6y ago
We freely accepted contributions without a CLA during the first year after initial release. I can recall one PR that was worth my time, the others would have been easier if I wrote it myself. After learning my lesson, all code has been repl
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by vortico 6y ago
No issues. We use VST 2 and 3 SDK in this proprietary product https://vcvrack.com/Host
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by vortico 6y ago
Yes, actually. The idea is to imagine the best environment a new intern can experience in a team at a software company and then apply the same principles to treating open-source contributors (if they are willing to dedicate several hours of
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by vortico 6y ago
DRM for commercial plugins that allows time-limited or function-limited use is on the to-do list.
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by vortico 6y ago
I've developed web apps for years and don't remember any time when I needed to use GPL software anywhere in the web stack. Pretty much all tools are BSD/MIT-like. So I'd say this isn't a contribution for web apps be
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by vortico 6y ago
We ( https://vcvrack.com/ ) do this and it works great for us and our users. Wouldn't give up the licensing scheme for the world. We'll soon release a proprietary fork (Rack for DAWs) of our GPLv3 software (Rack) as
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by vortico 6y ago
Looks similar to CSON, at least superficially. https://github.com/bevry/cson
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by vortico 6y ago
Do freelancers magically become 100% reliable and trustworthy when they work with certain organizations? No, they behave virtually the same regardless of who they're working for.
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by vortico 6y ago
Nope. But working with designers/photographers will be a similar experience regardless of what organization you are.
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by vortico 6y ago
In the last decade I've hired about a dozen graphic design, media, and photography freelancers, and it's extremely difficult to build trust with a new hire without having prior experience with that person. What "trust" i
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by vortico 6y ago
Why not get into the topic of taxes in a discussion of social security? :) They're the two sides of the same coin. There seems to be little discussion in here on the tax cost of this paternity leave law.
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by vortico 6y ago
Oh, I see how it works then. It's funded through income tax from the employee's past work history. Thanks!
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by vortico 6y ago
I'm dumb and don't know anything about maternity/paternity leave. What prevents someone from being hired by a company, taking leave due to a child in X days, taking the salary the government forces the company to give you, an
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by vortico 6y ago
Why not license your software under the GPL? For end-user applications like these, there's no reason software shouldn't be GPL, and if fact it would be better for you since it prevents companies from exploiting your work that you
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by vortico 6y ago
Surely there's one in here that would be acceptable. https://community.vcvrack.com/t/complete-list-of-c-c-fft-lib...
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by vortico 6y ago
We need to stop using that terminology.
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by vortico 6y ago
Yes, "Under the name of Maxima, it [Macsyma] was released under the GPL in 1999, and remains under active maintenance." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macsyma
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by vortico 6y ago
This reminds me a bit of a wing-man situation not working. "Donald tried to hook us up on a date, but she wasn't interested."
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by vortico 6y ago
This license assumes that "randos on the internet" don't read license texts. Not true---I read every single one!
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by vortico 6y ago
Would be marginally useful if it listed a counterexample for each incorrect assumption, so readers could expand their knowledge of time rather than simply be told that they're wrong. I seem to remember an article very similar to this o
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by vortico 6y ago
Also not the synthesizer thing. https://tytel.org/helm/
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by vortico 6y ago
I use this term for https://github.com/VCVRack/Rack . Sometimes I say "`x` is a normalized float between 0 to 1" to somewhat reveal the definition of the term.
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by vortico 6y ago
Pretty much any laptop can be programmed on. None will struggle with software development. Just go shopping?
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by vortico 6y ago
I was making a joke based on how the article starts out implying that everyone cares about getting married. "And yet we do it all the same..."
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by vortico 6y ago
Joke's on them, I refuse to marry.
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by vortico 6y ago
Why do you prefer to leave undefined behavior?
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by vortico 6y ago
Not sure what you mean. If I want to clamp 1 between 2 and 0, the most reasonable answer is 1, which is correctly returned by this code.
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by vortico 6y ago
This is also nice because it gracefully handles the case where `max < min`.

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