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.... Which was the exact moment computing stopped looking like biotech. Before microcomputers, starting a computer company required an investment of perhaps a million dollars in today's currency, depending on the type of company. After
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I think THE major difference was enforcement of noncompetes (as well as those as a proxy for a slew of similar regulatory differences). Financial resources went to route 128 because of a more corporate-friendly regulatory climate. Innovatio
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I trust Apple as much as I trust Yahoo or Google. Which is to say, Google was honest 5-10 years ago, and Yahoo was honest 15-20 years ago. Apple is honest today, but whether it's honest in 5-10 years is TBD. This document is a little b
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For example: "It may be necessary − by law, legal process, litigation, and/or requests from public and governmental authorities within or outside your country of residence − for Apple to disclose your personal information. We may
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I'd pay good money if I had Chinese hardware with secure, privacy-guaranteeing software. I'd buy the smart watch right now if it was either open-source, it came with a strong privacy policy. As is, I see no reason to upload my hea
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Yes. That's what you did. It's called stereotyping or bigotry. I am not one of those "kind of people." I don't happen to live in the south of Spain, or even in Europe. In this case, your stereotyping happened to be
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Rereading my post, I can't find any sort of argument for either changing the system, keeping things as-is, or advocating for any sort of specific change. Simply pattern-matching what people say to ideology is what leads to nothing gett
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... more like European old wealth. There are land-owning European families whose wealth and power date back half a millennium. Most of these valued, recognizable products are mostly produced on land and capital owned by those families.
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You're arguing semantics. I never said "text-based preprocessing," I said "preprocessing." I specifically pointed to C++ templates which is a preprocessing layer with is most definitely NOT text-based.
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For the most part, no. Optimizing compilers can't do this. There are whole classes of problems one runs into from: - The ability to change variables by reference or through introspection - Exceptions in intermediate computations - Etc.
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Nope. There are plenty of C/C++ tools which do this sort of test. This was a popular one for a while, back when C++ was still used for major new applications: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BoundsChecker There are
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The concept of a preprocessor is helpful here. Most modern languages no longer have preprocessors, which is a pity. In cases like these, you want complex computed constants. You want those computed at build time, and not at runtime. I can:
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I've spent most of my career doing open source. I take home a decent salary. It's about the upper end of software engineers NOT in FAANG and related companies. If I went to FAANG, I'd get double, potentially much more, and ha
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Sort of. It's a quantitative argument, and that's not how the numbers work out. In the US, about 1 in 30 people have had a reasonably confirmed case of COVID (10 million out of a bit over 300 million). The odds of being exposed to
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As much as OP's comment is wacko crazy, it's in everyone's best interest if people speak honestly. This whole white-lie-in-the-public-interest never turns out well. If there was one reason attributable to the USSR's down
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I use DDG, powered by Bing! I recommend it. Yeah, I remember when Bing was a joke. Joke's increasingly on Google. Google stopped hiring the best and brightest, and instead started optimizing for maximizing headcount. Product quality fo
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After Nat's cynically duplicitous comments and actions, it's hard to view this as anything other than PR. A $1 million expense is not a big advertising expense for github. It was a $7.5 billion sale. Microsoft spend 0.013% of that
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Yes it does. I go to the page (ad), copy the URL, and youtube-dl. More critically, Youtube relies on network effects and people using it. Part of the reason we share family videos, educational content, and other things is so it's, well
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And if you put India over the South Pole, it covers the whole world. System's buggy is all I'm sayin'. It's pretty, but I don't trust it for much of anything.
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I suspect this is why Google lawyers were so lackadaisical in the Oracle Java case. Tactical loss. Strategic victory.
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That's an excellent analogy. Best I've heard. I'll make it a little bit more accurate. If I poor water into a bucket at a set rate, it takes incredible computing power to simulate the hydrodynamics and understand how the wate
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Or a polite request to github, apparently, which seems to work too. I don't feel as bad about it here as about youtube-dl. I disagree, mind you -- I'd like github to act as a neutral service provider -- but this one is a place whe
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I find it goes the other way. I pirate things when legal services become too cumbersome, unethical, or dirty. DRM often does that. I won't avoid all DRM, but there's a threshold. The RIAA crossed with youtube-dl. When I was in col
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It is a valid DMCA notice, but not for that reason. The repo contained Google copyrighted code.
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It's all over. Here's an example: Massachusetts does not have a statutory presumption regarding physical custody following a trial, though lawyers told us that courts have strong biases. "The adage is that unless the woman h
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Interviewee. Same problem in the papers cited.
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The solution to sexism isn't sexism. There's a bizarre belief in some darker corners of feminism that if a group is disadvantaged, you want to address that by advantaging them in other ways, rather than by pushing for equality. Th
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http://realworlddivorce.com/ has in-depth state-by-state statistics, interviews with lawyers (who see many cases), and is incredibly well-researched. TL;DR: Dads very rarely get more than 50/50 custody in most states.
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I hate the sexism of these stories. More women are taking more responsibility, but plenty of dads are too. The result of articles like this one is that Dads becoming primary caretakers during learn-from-home face a triple-whammy. It discour
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IANAL either, but the RIAA letter never claimed to be a valid DMCA 512 takedown letter. It simply listed a series of facts, beliefs, opinions, and requests, none of which seem fraudulent, as far as my lay reading goes. If someone sends you

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