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>>that tragic day in September was in opposition to US interference in their lives.

To you these attacks are a valid grievance redressal mechanisms??? Is that the path every disenfranchised group should take?? If you are okay with such approach, no point in having a discussion.
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> Can you just use markup like :zap: in a commit message, and GitHub will automatically replace it with an emoji?

Yes. GitLab does that too.
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Why is that surprising? All my needs are catered for so why would I download more apps?

I'm actually surprised the 51% are downloading one or more a month, that's hundreds of millions of potential customers right there.
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This is why there are two types of people. Those that ruin it for everybody else, and those that don't. What a dunce.
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You buy a box of old documents on Ebay. It contains an original manuscript of The Fellowship of the Ring with J. R. R. Tolkien's edits and notes in the margins. Tolkien's estate demands the copy back so they can burn it. You should mail it to them because they own it, right? It's just a book, right?

No, you shouldn't. They owners shouldn't be able to destroy it for the same reason we have laws protecting monuments and historical sites. When something has historical or cultural value, the public has a right to preserve it even against the wishes of the owner.
.. nothing changes. We are too small of a group, even as influencers to change that.

However, if someday a zeroday is used to duke it out, a very angry, very unreasonable, not interested PR-Bla and Excuses crowd is going to assemble outside someones office tower. The someone will call the police, but the police will be busy, with the mess someones ECU peeping has made. The privat guards will do what private guards always do, if they see no good outcome for themselves and step aside.
The escape helicopter pilot will have lost loved ones in the mess and take off.
Someone is going to get shoved out the airlock, for all the other someones to see.
That will have a interesting learning effect.
Thus ended the lesson.
To compare a turn based CCG to a competitive FPS is an absolute joke.

To generalize your dislike of a CCG, one of Blizzard's multiple games, into an argument against GP is a joke.

Whether modders would make as positive an impact in HS as they did in Valve games is very unclear, and I say that as the author of a Hearthstone simulator and founder of a community and company heavily involved in Hearthstone modding, reverse engineering and third party tooling.
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Does your argument still apply if you change "coins" to "cash" and "brokers" to "banks"?

I leave my fiat money in banks because I judge that the risk of the bank disappearing and taking my money with it is lower than the risk of my house getting burgled, catching fire, etc. Likewise, it's entirely reasonable to think that a competent Bitcoin broker is more secure and safe than my half-assed attempt to keep my own keys and risk losing access to my coins through my own incompetence.
> The pursuer arrived, and was all upset to find only Ali Baba under the sacks at the dead end of the passage. The thief had escaped.

The story clearly misses lively scene of beating Ali Baba as a thief.
Yeah, that should be much more feasible once the car can drive back to a more populated area for rental use there, until it takes off to pick you up from the trailhead again. I like this line of thinking as well! Higher mileage but also a higher degree of utilization, hopefully leading to less cars being needed overall.
Veblen uses the word "Barbarian" in a way I have not seen before. For example he mentions European and Japanese Feudal societies as "higher Barbarian cultures", and others as "Lower Barbarian". The common use of "Barbarian" I have seen are entirely derogatory, and not something that would have been used in a serious work like this. Anyone that know what its meaning is in this context?
yes, this is how we should do things.

we also need react components to make official HTML markup look modern without needing to add classes or wrap things with divs.

also maybe extend inputs a bit, such as have a type='slider' for example.
That's a joke for what that CD was worth in sheer value to the community of hackers and gamers and modders worldwide for years to come. Once he made that reddit post he sealed his fate. Should hsve just silently torrented it from a coffee shop over Tor. Silly kid.
Correct: the right to distribute a game with that branding and those mechanics is valuable if you have the means (such as any copy of the source) to do so.

The source by itself is hardly (monetarily) valuable, pretty much to anybody. Blizzard clearly still has other copies, and anybody else wouldn't be able to do much of anything commercially with the code.

It's quite possible somebody has even already reverse engineered much of it, rendering it even less valuable by itself, even to copy-cats.
> Is there really much practical difference between a police officer demanding a bribe and being robbed?

Yes: you can say no to coercion but you have no choice when you are being robbed.

Violence (or the threat of it) is a hallmark of robbery: Zimbabwean police will not do that at traffic stops - they are usually not armed. They will, however threaten to impound your vehicle for minor infractions (which would be illegal in most cases) and/or threaten to jail you to wait for your court date. Either of these situations will require paperwork and the money goes to the state and not their pockets, so they make you wait and reconsider the bribe, but eventually let you go. Usually.

Also, in the context of this thread, having cash or money in the bank makes no difference because traffic stops now have portable card machines for "spot fines"!
Picking locks requires physical presence. Stealing bank credentials online can be done from another continent using public wifi. It's not a great comparison because the number of criminals with access to your computer is much higher than the number of criminals with access to your front door (multiple orders of magnitude), and their ability to distance themselves from the act (both geographically and forensically) is also orders of magnitude higher.
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I thought it was for iOS from the name.

Just a tip.
> As for morality, I apply the golden rule: if someone found the code I wrote for a groundbreaking piece of software, and I didn't want to open source it, I'd really like for them to respect my wishes and return it.

What if you said that after the copyright had expired? Would you still say it's immoral to release it against your wishes?
For the US thats true, as a german who can basically study for free at any of the "elite" Universities in the country (same for scandinavia, netherlands etc) the whole higher ed concept in the US seems borderline scam to me anyway.
> No, they moved into factory, mining, retail, and other jobs that were commensurate with their abilities. The automation shift is not the same, because it will take over all the unskilled/low-skilled jobs, and there will be nowhere in the economy for the displaced people to move into.

I think a lot of people will be surprised at exactly which jobs too. It's not going to be the cleaners, the carpenters or the plumbers who still have to get into tight spaces that a robot butler can't handle. It's going to be the office workers that push computer bits around all day.
I can't find it viscerally in me to take moral issue with the guy releasing the code. I understand it belongs to Blizzard, but I just don't feel sorry for them. Not defending that, just stating a fact about the absence of an emotion in me.

That said: if you believe the guy would've been right to distribute the code, it follows that you believe the right thing for Blizzard to do is to release the code themselves. Instead of arguing morality here, one might spend one's energy articulating that argument to Blizzard instead.
So, instead of giving back to their community, or giving some underprivileged kid an opportunity to have an amazing experience, or donating to Child's Play, or something for someone who might need some help, Blizzard instead pays for the expensive flight, hotel, con, and drinks for a 32 year old white male computer nerd who accidentally found a CD in a storage unit and then agonized over returning it until being threatened by a lawyer.

And everyone is upset - not from the waste of money or opportunity to do good, but upset that they didn't get to steal someone's property. This speaks volumes about that community's values.

edit: I hit the post rate limiter so I can't reply, so i'll add this: demographics have a direct correlation to opportunities people get (as every startup hiring manager knows) and his particular demographic gets the most benefit even though they need it the least. I'm not saying this as a sjw, I'm just sick of people like myself (also a 32 year old white male computer nerd) getting handed an unnecessarily gratuitous amount of favor while people who could actually use a hand get jack shit. Perhaps my feeling is misguided, but it still felt gratuitous and wasteful.
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From what I could find quickly Toronto has over 2.5x as many new condo development projects under way.
Canberra, Australia sort of does this - houses were originally built by the government and have a 99 year lease hold, the first of these leases is expiring now.
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Most of the people who by gold don't seem to be concerned also by the fact that they just hold paper not the real thing. If this business model works for gold it should be viable for btc also.

I am not talking about if it is a good idea to hold paper gold or btc, just if people would by paper btc.
Come on guys... Had any of you made Starcraft, you'd be very happy to have the disc back. Blizzard's behaved ok I believe in flying the guy to blizzcon and giving him the perks he got.

While it's interesting to have the code, there's probably nothing really amazing about it. However, the game is still being played, so releasing the source code may help people cheat.
And that is, of course, how Facebook became a billion dollar company.
It's not the "financial guys" forcing everyone to sign up for the huge amounts of per-capita debt we're now up to. People are doing that themselves out of their utter lack of self-discipline to save money instead of buying a stupidly overpriced SUV or pickup truck.

And the housing market really went off the rails because people were making stupid bets. Does the casino enable stupid bets? Damn right. But we don't blame them when a gambler loses all their money on a stupid bet.

I'm as pissed as anyone that bankers didn't go to prison en masse, but what they did was package mortgage debt up as more safe than it was. It was home buyers eating up easy money with no restraint that caused the pricing to hit bubble territory.
I would put this in the same category as Uber breaking the taxi regulations. In short, I welcome it. I find the current system of requiring prescriptions for so many drugs to be morally repugnant. I support anyone who wants to break those laws, even if they're doing it for completely selfish reasons.
This is exactly why I dig up the bodies of influential historical figures every chance I get.
No. It's not.

Chiefly because Starcraft is not a normal game.

This is a game that defined a cultural generation in South Korea, established e-sports singlehandedly and in many ways made the RTS genre what it is today.

It should be archived. Even if it can never be released due to copyright or other legal nonsense it shouldn't be left to a commercial entity to ensure it survives.
They can't, they'd have to surrender the tech and may face some consequences. But far less than if they knew and orchestrated the theft.
This is not a recent phenomena though so those two factors you mentioned can't be considered as reasons.
No yeah, I get that. My critique was meant as an example of why implementation matters so much in a product like this. Because without even a rough estimate of how the index would be composed, it's hard to give any kind of feedback really.

EDIT: also, the btc bias comment was meant to generalize beyond just that example portfolio, because as a potential 'customer', I felt it should be made clear that btc is what I hold when I want liquidity, therefore it seems redundant to allocate any significant portion of my investment portfolio into an asset that I'm already going to be maintaining for everyday use and casual savings anyway.
Fair chance Blizzard expected he had at least made a copy. Their being so generous with gifts and inviting him to speak with him personally seems to me a desperate effort to generate even more loyalty in him, which is actually really smart. It's their best chance for very little money and effort to prevent this source code to circulate on the internet.
You can do that in Portugal.

Basically the three last years of high-school are mixed with some apprenticeship, both theoretical and practical, with some kind of training at the end, sadly usually not remunerated.

Students can still apply to the university if they want to, they just need to meet the requested scores and do the exams like everyone else.

At the university level you can take the usual 5 year university degree oriented to "learn to learn", or a more skill oriented one just 3 years long.

With Bologna those 5 year degrees became a classical 3 + 2 master, but still kept their "learn to learn" spirit. At least on the good universities, the majority being public ones.
The Vive also interferes if two different sets are setup such that the lighthouses overlap. Two of my coworkers had to setup a curtain because of it.
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Go ahead and disagree with that train of thought, but I don't see how it's 'twisted' to call him selfish.

You can call the venom in those posts twisted, but that is a very different thing from saying the actual reasoning behind the posts is twisted.
It's Blizzard's right, but only insofar as that happens to be what copyright terms say right now. Also, something having intrinsic value to society at large outside of the ability of a private entity to benefit from ownership is, quite literally, the reason why people should lose property rights to copyrighted works at some point.
I already have so many different accounts on various websites that I regularly forget a password, the same can happen with an encryption key. Should that be a crime?
I feel bad for this dude. There are a lot of bitter people that are mad at him for doing what he thought was right just because they don't agree with the moral and legal situation.
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Formerly, I'd say maintaining your own email server isn't easy. It was hell trying to set one up 10-15 years ago. This guy (and the contributors) have made it about as easy as it can get. I've hosted mail for one of my domains on a DO droplet, where I set up a mail server with that guide. Been running it for ~4 years. No issues. Highly recommended.
I too wish I could be spending today looking at the SC gold master source code and playing with it, but it's really arrogant to say with definite certainty what this guy "should" have done.
Blizzard already has the source code, in fact it's actively being extended as part of a HD remaster right now.

I have no doubt they are very happy to have the original copy back, it probably means quite a lot of the original developers and I would never dream of keeping it from them had it been up to me.

I would definitely hope they keep the hard copy somewhere safe but history hasn't been kind to game source code.
China is nowhere near cashless. Though, they do do a lot of payments by mobile apps like Alipay and WeChat. I was there for 3 months recently and I used Alipay for almost every cos Im from NZ and whilst we have cash here I never use it, every transaction is done via debit card. Was so good when I got Alipay in China cos I hate cash. Still... China definitely isnt cashless.
> Instead, preserving it to study and learn things about game development at that time would be far more valuable for the common good.

Given the game recently went free to play and many people still play it, its not surprising blizzard are not releasing the source. If the game had been dead for 5-10 years, then sure, they should probably release the source. Its still going strong and shows no signs of stopping in the next 5-10 years, especially now due to the remaster.

There are plenty of other games out there to learn from using the source, if that's your goal.

> For goodness sake this thing is older than half of people on HN.

Are you saying that half of HN are younger than 19? I would have thought the average age on HN would be somewhere around 30. I would expect the average HN person was a kid or teenager when Starcraft was released.
Replying to myself here because I can no longer edit my comment. Just wanted to say that, while this is potentially a huge thing, there are certain things that need to be taken into account.

First of all, there's heavy regulation when it comes to banking software. There are laws and bank regulations that are here to prevent people from losing their money and/or suing the bank for some reason or another. Root needs to take great care to ensure that the software written by their users stays within the boundaries of south african law and their own bank regulations.

Second, the software absolutely needs to be reviewed not just by people from Root but also by a reputable independent consulting company.

Third, Root mustn't allow direct initiation of transactions from their platform to prevent potential disastrous effects due to bugs. You should be able to write code that does something when the money is being received or sent from your account but not code that charges your account.
And about half of us are
seriously ? do you want I made the same game than starcraft? because it's quite easy... more easy than other RTS.
Edit: never mind, silly question
Thats C++ source from v1.00 pre-expansion, an early version that is quite not the polished game that v1.07/v1.08 was, written on pre-c++98 MSVC code by inexpirienced and overworked programmers, when win95 was the mainstream OS and 128mB of ram was plenty and 3D cards were luxury products(most used motherboard graphics).

https://www.codeofhonor.com/blog/tough-times-on-the-road-to-...
I did the Portuguese apprenticeship program back in the late 80's/early 90's, as I wasn't sure to be able to qualify for the university on my first round and wanted to have already some kind of degree, to pay bills until the next attempt.

Those three years of apprentice were great and I learned a lot, but at the university I got to learn how little did I knew, even if those of us coming from informatics apprenticeships knew more than the majority coming from classical high-school programs.
Yeah except being able to catch, clean and cook your food is still a valuable skill. However I would say there are more Americans who can do that than Germans... It's hard as hell to get a hunting license in Germany.
Of course, but if the lenders miscalculate the risk then that's on them.
Not like that at all. The source is Blizzard's intellectual property, doesn't matter where you found it (not to mention you're overestimating the cultural value of the source files).

If culture is to be preserved I'm sure some of the original developers would make so. On the other hand, we could definitely do with shorter IP rights like 20-30 years, so that devs could legally release it within their lifetimes.
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Or don't share your values of right and wrong. It may surprise you, but people have different opinions on this matter and it frames what they do in life.
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It's powerful software, but goddamn that command-line interface makes ImageMagick look downright simplistic.

There are GUI tools for setting these options, but they're absolutely atrocious. You may as well be trying to program a guided missile.
Right and wrong is, roughly speaking, defined based on what is good for society as a whole, balanced against the needs of the individual. It has nothing to do with some higher or cosmic absolute truth.
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exactly. This is something i'll never understand how people fail to consider. It seems they think that the wages can be magically high and the economy can go with it 'if we just were willing to want better things'. The fact is if you ask those workers what do they prefer: a good enough pay for a secure job or a Better pay for a job that might move tomorrow to a cheaper country? What will they choose? It seems people of different countries have answered this differently and we see different results.

No, the magic Better pay and still secure job does no exist outside of naive communist Ideas.
> AGPL adds additional restrictions for server-side/self-hosted projects

Fixed that for you.
If you're concerned about privacy, don't use a free service. Pay for it and the privacy concern usually goes away.
If you specifically concerned with US laws go German:
https://posteo.de/ is a good one to consider.
Selfish for following the law and respecting the wishes of the authors of a work? Jesus, people are really performing some mental gymnastics to justify the hypothetical theft of property in this case in order to arrive at the conclusion that the finder is somehow being selfish.
I agree but that is not the case for most of this. People spend to much and run up to much debt because they are trying to keep up with the Jones. My wife was property manager for a large company. One of the properties in Orange County, New Port Beach area, had the highest rate of late payments and evictions. This is a A+ complex and has some of the highest rents for the units in the area. Guess what, those people that were late came in to the office with their bags from Nordstrom that they just came from in their BMW or MB asking for extendtions because they did not have the cash (but still had the CC to run up shopping). We as a country over all have made it okay for people not to be responsible for their actions and it will be our downfall. I agree with having the bankruptcy laws but we need to make it harder to get a reset whenthe cause of the situation was your own stupidity. I personally know people (Not friends) that have gone through bankruptcy 2 times, doing the same stupid shit the 2nd time as the first and it does not look like anything has changed with the last.
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The entire premise of appellate courts (and by extension the Supreme Court) is that if the government does something wrong it should be reversed. Ignoring this fundamental truth seems completely insane.
Fair point. But at least it will be objective. Applied to everyone with the same algorithm. And yes, the algorithm can get improved.
>>They owners shouldn't be able to destroy it for the same reason we have laws protecting monuments and historical sites.

Monuments and historical sites require Acts of Congress or Executive Orders to establish. If you care so much about this game's source code, maybe you should write to your congress critter.