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by zucker42 7y ago
Many developers work on FOSS for free. A project with a good community often has many people who contribute the occasional bug report, patch, or documentation addition. Few developers work on FOSS full time for free, at least for very long.
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> Feel free to email me if you want to chat further on the topic. Is there any way we can contact you on slack or discord instead?
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This is a pretty poor refutation to the thesis that web performance is an ethical issue. Your argument is that both points in the article are unimportant or outweighed by other factors. However, by making that argument, you are already taci
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This is a fallacious argument. Just because banks use credit scores doesn't mean they are accurate (see argumentum ad populum). What we'd need to demonstrate your claim is for example some data linking credit scores at time of loa
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by zucker42 7y ago
Boeing benefits from cutting costs. Cutting costs can lead to decreased quality. The plane crashing is a risk of decreased quality. Making anything often involves tradeoffs and the point of Boeing's maximum profit is probably not the
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Luckily, some people will get suspicious when you ask for the ballot to be sent to Moscow.
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Instead of just assuming that requiring ID leads to better representation, shouldn't we objectively analyze what choices lead to the best representation? Requiring ID has the obvious tradeoff that it prevents some people who should be
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As long as schools use Windows, it won't die.
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Like other comments have noted, that's not what the article is complaining about. In the context of this article, Wikipedia's design is analogous to the existing MDN site. I think Wikipedia is a website other websites should seek
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Do you know why browsers moved away from tracing JIT?
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Not every project is the same. I suspect there are many applications where an SPA is a much better experience than a traditional website. In my opinion, a documentation site is not one of them.
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He claimed in the article that a MDN developer said that was the reason.
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Have you used Riot on mobile recently? Sure it's not perfect, but it consistently outperforms FB Messenger on my very poor phone.
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This site desperately needs a picture like the one you just posted on its front page.
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The specific point about nightly isn't about Rust per say. It's more about using what is essentially a development version of a compiler, updated nightly. Exploits aren't necessarily even the biggest threat. Nightly could hav
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People aren't going to take down the source for a GPL violation. If anything, this will cause the source to be released under the GPL, so it's not illegal to use/host the source code. Surely the idea of checking other games f
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The copyright owners here are only the people who wrote the specific function in question. Additionally, I believe you'd only need one of those people to bring a suit or other legal action. Note that some FOSS gets around the problem o
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As a note, the FSF says on their website that their primary goal in any GPL litigation is to get the company to release the source under the GPL.
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I think the key point here is that an API is a specification of functionality, and therefore is an idea (the idea being the idea of program which other code interacts with in a particular way). There is no way to write a runtime environment
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Actually, there were 8 lines (of out however many million) that all parties agree was copied, but that's been ruled de minimis. All the implementation code they're ruling on now is not orcale's.
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This is why I don't use WhatsApp despite the fact I know many people who use it. To use the app, you have to give access to your entire contacts list. Even if I'm okay with them having my information, I don't feel comfortable
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A great first step in encouraging technological openness would be dropping the Chinese Firewall[1,2]. Chinese companies have had a playing field slanted toward them for a while now. We should work toward open innovations in both the U.S. an
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Of course no script increases the entropy. Most people don't run NoScript, so you are more identifiable when you run it.
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There's no reason this couldn't be added now, though, right?