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>Essentially all of the permissive OSI-blessed “open source” licenses are also FSF-blessed “free software licenses”; they are not “totally against what the FSF and Stallman is all about.”

To both dragonwriter and steveklabnik,

Saying "totally against" was too strong. Let me try to clarify.

Yes, the GNU license list has "The following licenses qualify as free software licenses, and are compatible with the GNU GPL."[1]

To me, that isn't really about BSD & MIT being compatible with underlying philosophy of FSF and Stallman. That just says using those licenses as part of GPL projects is acceptable. However, they don't really fulfill Stallman's strategy and objectives.

An example of what I mean by BSD & MIT not aligning with Stallman's objectives would be past comments about him missing the chance to include Chris Lattner's LLVM/clang project in GCC.[2]

Presumably, Stallman would have not let llvm/clang become permissive-BSD license like Lattner did. He would prefer llvm/clang's valuable capabilities to be licensed as copyleft-GPL just like GCC. (More commentary on that style of thinking.[3]) To him, the permissive licenses "helps the enemies create proprietary software" (paraphrasing previous Stallman comments).

That's why I believe FSF and OSI have fundamental incompatibilities. The MIT & BSD licenses being on the GNU "approved" list doesn't really solve that.

EDIT to add reply to: >The FSF and OSI are broadly aligned on what freedom software should be provide.

I disagree because it seems that Stallman has taken great pains to explain why they are not aligned on the freedoms that software should provide. There is some overlap between FSF and OSI but that's different from alignment.

[1] from: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html

[2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-02/msg00...

[3] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html
Not sure how to reconcile the fact that a) you had golden handcuffs because of the exercise tax and b) the amount u got was embarrassingly low. Was your strike price too large or something? Obviously you made a lot of money if you couldn't afford the taxes up front.
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Astromycologist.

Speaking of which: http://journalofastrobiology.com/Mars5.html?fbclid=IwAR0YOON...
Great! Now I get the web interface I thoroughly despise viewing on my phone browser delivered directly to my mail client!

Puke.

I have been strongly considering migrating off of G Suite for my domains, files, and emails. Maybe it’s time I bite the bullet rather than keep using a product I have to actively fight to use.
I mean strong vs weak government is really a whole other discussion.

Parties exist almost as a separate mechanism than government itself. They're more strongly tied to elections and voting than any specific application or creation of policy. They're about how we select our leaders, not what our leaders can do.

Unless your goal is to short circuit the process by created additional bureaucracy/difficulty in the process, it still doesn't seem like a bug. And if that is your goal, it seems more that you have a problem with the law creation/implementation and not how people's voices are being represented.
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the creator of History Lapse here. the UX is not terrible, it is in fact great. You’re just mouse lazy.
This is what does it for me. Working for large companies kills me. Being totally alienated and disconnected makes going to work feel like torture. But working on my own projects is a delight. Working somewhere where you're one of 2 or 3 engineers is fun. It's exciting. You can do things.
Microsoft is one of the more loathed companies for what they’ve already done, never mind what they do now. I’m not sure where you’re getting “minimal scrutiny” from, except as another attempt to mitigate an understandable reaction to Google’s “winning” combination of hypocrisy and dominance.
Predictive modeling will be nearly automated (except in cases where manual feature engineering helps).

Data science will focus more attention on solution finding, data gathering, cleaning, ETL, and business.
Except its more of "and then you kick out anyone in the offenders social network including former coworkers" and "trolls" include "people who put the wrong credit card down" and "You" is a machine learning system with apparently minimum oversite. :-/
Plenty of Taiwanese and Korean and even Japanese SDEs work in the mainland because the pay is much better (this is how it was when I was working at MS China). China is almost second only to the states in programmer salaries.
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Yes, I'm aware that this is going to attract strong political opinions.

However anyone who, for instance, hosts reviews or discussion forums that Europeans use need to be aware that under European law they will need to seek copyright licenses and install European-specified filtering software to avoid being liable for what users choose to post. This will affect a lot of online companies.

Hopefully US courts will not enforce European court decisions about European copyright claims for activity that falls under the DCMA safe harbor in the USA. However if you're a European site or have European customers, the story may be very different and you should be paying close attention to this.
How would you deal with spending a bunch of money on redesigning a company's website (in practice, as opposed to in theory)? On the one hand it has a lot of similarities to making improvements to a retail location (which would typically be amortized). On the other hand, my experience (not as an accountant, but as someone who has been exposed to accounting in small business contexts) is that that would typically get booked as an expense.
ATTA ELAYYAN' It is so good to read some one with common SENSE, IN MY FINAL YEARS ON THIS PLANET. iN MY 95 year. Having raised in a RC orphanage and thru all the RC's educations and then Married in a RC building (church) and we raised 2 girls , one married a RC wonderfull man and the younger girl married a Jewish wonderfull guy. However, they all gave up their parents cults and are "free at last", and HAPPY WITH LIFE.
Any processing fee should only go to a third party, otherwise you'll have a hard time avoiding bad incentives. Even for something like youtube, were you already have three parties, any arbitrator should be mostly independent from google, since they have a lot of control about what conflicts emerge in the first place (think content ID, punishments for false DMCAs, etc).

But i really cannot understand why something like this doesn't already exist. Imagine how many false DMCA conflicts could be avoided if both parties had to place a $5 deposit to get a human ruling. And the $5 of the losing party should easily be enough to compensate the arbitrators work for most conflicts. Building such a mechanical turk like small claims online arbitration service seems easy and no matter how hard I try, I cannot come up with any reason youtube wouldn't want to use such a service. So why does it not exist already?
I'm aware of this, but was pointing instead to his history of involvement with the FTC. He seems like a perfectly fine choice.
It's a guide, and once it's been used a few times the language can be adapted to sound more like your nature voice but still conveying the same information.
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If you read the book you'll notice that I-messages are a rough approximation of the tools. Sometimes I think this summary does more harm than good by presenting it without the richness of the book
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There are number of different definitions for "open standards". Requirements for open standard often include restrictions for the process and completeness.

such as:

* Further develop­ment must be open for anyone to par­tic­i­pate in

* Further develop­ment must be open for anyone to view

* Techno­logically mature standards must be imple­mented by
multiple vendors or an open reference implemen­tation
Working for a startup absolutely makes sense.

The unstated assumption here is that you have a pile of offers from Amazon, Google, Microsoft, etc along with some from startups and you have to make a decision about which to go with.

I suppose my experience might be unusual, but I don't think that's typical. You've got an offer on the table, and your choice is to go with it, or reject it and hope you're given an offer by some other company.

I've seen it go both ways. Maybe the next week you do see the better offer. Or maybe 3 months later and a few dozen rejections later you've got nothing to show for it.

So you take what you're given.
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I'm not sure I understand what the real dilemma is here of working for a startup. Being employee #15 is not the same as being in the first 5 hired. You don't take the same risks (or even do the same type of work), so there is obviously less reward when it's time to exit.

If you want to get rich, the best way to do it is to start a company yourself - but it sounds like the author didn't want to go that route after trying it. That's OK though, it's not for everyone. But I think the author needs to understand the risk-reward thing here a little better - you need to take more risks to earn more reward, and being the 15th hire at a company that has most likely already raised money is significantly less risk then being like employee #3. A lot of companies compensate their first handful of employees in equity a lot more than others because they took risks (and pay cuts) plus made contributions to the growth of the company that that employees #10 and after most likely didn't.

It still makes perfect sense to work at, or start, a startup - you just have to have the right appetite for risk and the right mindset for the varying types of work you'll be doing (compared to latter employees who can specialize more). You simply won't get "rich" without taking the risk and accepting that you have to broaden your capabilities beyond core technical skills to grow at a startup and earn your way to a nice exit package.
Yeah, but what does that have to do with being founder friendly?
HIPAA, I imagine.
"The immensely difficult job of the local management team was to predict and implement the optimal mix that could theoretically have been found if every possible permutation were tested by the local economy."

So...communism would work?
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Please let me import from another password manager! There's just too much friction involved in switching if I have to manually import all my existing passwords. And if I can't import them, then I have to keep my old password manager around until I'm sure that I've imported all my old logins by visiting all the sites in case the reset password email is linked to an address I no longer have access to. If I have to do that, there's no point in me switching because I'll never actually be sure I've got all the logins moved over.
In what way would you boycott China? Refuse to buy or use products made there? How likely do you think this could scale to an impact that would meaningfully impact China's trade?

And as horrible as I think the social credit system is, there's an interesting question, as people who don't live in China, what business it is of ours (except, perhaps, as a cautionary tale)?
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Also, nothing is said about the cost to the employees of these companies, especially those on the lower rungs.
> I had what would be considered a good payout. When looking over the course of my career, however, it simply made up for the reduced salary I took for the years I worked there.

This is such an important point for people to know when they're joining startups. You're basically investing in the startup.

If you're going to be an investor it's good to know what your alternative investments are.

If you put $50k in the stock market every year for 5 years @ avg. 8% return, your have ~$400k. Over 10 years it's ~$900k.

At 1% equity (after dilution) you'll need a ~40-90M exit to reach those goals. Given that your taxable event will be bigger, it's probably more like a $60-120M exit to break even if you're considering a $50k/year pay cut in return for equity.

Both the market and startups have risks. But if the upside of investing in a startup won't reasonably beat the market then you're essentially taking a pay cut.
And I think it’s so easily improved by just not sounding like a robot manager: “Hey, is 1pm not a good time for the team meeting? We had to wait for you the last few.”

The formal-speak sets off most people’s “I am being disciplined” alert right away.
^ cramforce works for Google on AMP.
You seem to have misinterpreted me. I was not speaking to the finality of the Brexit vote (and I agree that a roughly 50/50 split is not a mandate), but to the tactic of attempting to invalidate your political opponents by claiming that they were duped or hoodwinked into voting the way they did. It's incredibly patronizing (in addition to being illogical).
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Good. It's disgusting the contempt that telecom companies have for American's privacy.
Yeah, except the city defines what's an acceptable fence height(3ft) and how much you spend(~$400) when you want to fix the fence that's falling over(via permit process).

(FWIW I have no issues with paying taxes but annoying to have to pay to fix something existing that's broken).
How do you find the "right" co-founder? Or it doesn't really matter as long as you trust them and they are good enough? I have had some folks in my network offer to join as "co-founders" but it's been tricky to figure out if I should just go for it because "co-founders are awesome".
> This kind of dictatorship and purges of competent people certainly lessened the capabilities of Soviet Union, lead to the unexpected result of the Winter War, and greatly increased the losses of USSR in the coming great war.

It's quite a feat to lessen your capabilities, and still be able to repel an invasion by all of Europe (sans England, as well as smaller countries like Switzerland, Ireland etc.)

The other view is Stalin had loyal cadre around him during the war, and did not have lieutenant colonels with links through the high command making bomb attempts against him.
Isn't that just a missile then?
>This feels like a gigantic separation of concerns violation.

Reminds me of QUIC/HTTP3. Seems like the way things work at Google nowadays.
Mentally I have a third group for his music, in addition to the two you mentioned, which is full of fast paced melodic music like 'xtal' that doesn't have any of the harsh beats of his music like Come to Daddy.
That email would probably otherwise just contain a link. It really doesn't make a difference.

Clients can (and do) use trust scoring to activate AMP in emails. Right now they use the same model that would allow loading images by default.
The percentage of the population who is a neo-Nazi and let alone white separatists is negligible. Why is everyone obsessed with them nowadays?

And why are you including me in that group (since you said only neo-Nazis believe Macron is left-wing).

That's extremely weird.
> the Dist::Zilla config file
What are the blog,website you visit about programming common?
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I was under the impression that those kinds of tricks already happen with today's technology.

Advertisers will put the advertised price in a hotlinked image served from a server, and they will both (1) use the image being fetched as a proxy for the email being downloaded/opened/read, and (2) change the contents of the served image after-the-fact. ("Save this email and open it every day this week for a new deal" and other horrors.)

Alphabet's Code of Conduct can be found at https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct/ . I'm pretty sure "all our users" is intended to include advertisers and rightsholders (like music labels, movie companies).
History Lapse is meant to be read in cadence with the bits of text. The association is meant to stay in memory for a longer time since it is the natural way our brain works. Also, there is almost no reading fatigue because of the start-stop UX.
There’s a simple thing Google could do to convince me that their intentions with AMP are honorable: make it possible to turn it off.

EDIT, to be clear: for Google search results.
> The requirements aren't set out in detail, and will largely be fleshed out by the courts. This is where the reality of Art. 13 will be set - in the rulings which follow.

But that's part of the problem. It means a service you operate today is subject to a law that will be decided on tomorrow. So you either make the conservative choice, which is onerously expensive and may put you out of business immediately, or you risk being the case of first impression where the more cost effective choice you made is decided to be insufficient, and that too puts you out of business -- but only after you've dedicated years of your life to it.

> Also, elements in a test don't react linearly in court judgements. Scaling from 100 users to 200 isn't going to suddenly mean that it's proportional for you to implement Content ID from scratch or that an applicable fine doubles.

Users don't scale linearly either. Things have network effects. Side projects get posted to HN or similar and go from hundreds of users to hundreds of thousands in the course of an afternoon.

And again, just because you have a lot of users doesn't mean you make a lot of money. Your project may have had a million users for a decade, but if the revenue from those users is only just covering your hosting costs as it is, now you're out of business.

> I think most people can agree that the cut and dry abuse of copyright and copyright-adjacent systems should be penalized. But it is. Just not at the scale of individual content producers. If someone tried to extort you by placing false copystrikes on your work and you had proof, you would have a few torts or more general omnibus civil code provisions to use in most jurisdictions. But the cost and hassle of doing so might be higher than your expected return.

Which means that it isn't, because then nobody does that and there is no penalty for continuing to do it in practice. And the solution to that is quite straight forward -- make the penalty for a false claim sufficiently large, and the process for having it enforced sufficiently simple, that it justifies the victim in spending that amount of time to enforce the penalty.

Moreover, even the existing penalties are quite useless because the biggest problem isn't overtly fraudulent claims, it's the extremely high volume of false positives the claimants have no real incentive to reduce.
While technically possible, since it would require a constitutional amendment, there is no plausible scenario under which the term of the US president will be extended in the foreseeable future.
Well, my next-door neighbors are retired, but they're not jerks.

I agree that more space is better. Once my kids are out of school (which is within walking distance currently) we will move farther out of town. Mostly because I get tired of listening to my neighbors' hobbies ;-)
Whether lies were spread on one side or another does not invalidate the fact that people showed up to the polls and cast votes.
I worked at a company for roughly five years, that sold for 250M. When I was hired I was like 4th engineer, but by the time I left I had 2nd most seniority in engineering. Exercised my mostly vested options when I left.

I got mid-5 figures. In the year following my departure to BigCo, the difference in my salary was more than what my options ended up being worth.

One of the C-level guys who was there for 8 months when the company sold made 100x what I got. He wasn't a founder. He came on late in the game and basically had nothing invested.

That's why working for a startup hoping to get rich is a sucker's bet. The game is rigged against you unless you're a company officer.
Thanks for some reasonable(?) numbers. I too often see people here and other places positing that mid-level developers easily net $500k a few years out of college. I've no doubt that some at FAANG companies make that, but those seem very much at the high end.

"Total comp" vs "total cost" are different numbers as well - stock, 401k, etc all can add to the final numbers too, but $200-$250k seems a lot more in line with the top end numbers I'm familiar with.
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If we are being honest, Facebook easily gets most of the scrutiny here because of the rampant news hysteria. Google is a very distant second.

But I agree that Apple seems to get a pass here and in the news coverage as well. Perhaps because Apple is more established or because Tim Cook has better connections with media and government? Or maybe they hire the best PR firms.

But rather than focusing on individual firms, I think we should be focusing on the monopolies these tech giants are creating and the dangerous it can be for society if they aren't "fair" actors. And if we want, we should expand it beyond tech to banking, agriculture, media, etc.

Just a few years ago we were worrying about "too-big-to-fail". And here we are with endless mergers and ever greater concentration of wealth and power and influence.
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Apple hasn't disregarded any US laws. The Constitution specifically protects their ability to act in the ways they did. The Chinese government, however, does not.

This isn't an Apples to apples comparison.
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> There are a lot of new software engineers popping up all the time, but very few ever reach a "senior" change

And yet many of them still get the 'senior' title and role, and still end up producing unmaintainable systems. I've had to clean up after quite a few.
Everything you said makes sense. Now pick up the phone and talk to a recruiter who is trying to hire employee #15 - the tales and projections you will get will be off the charts. My take is that there are people out there who will thrive for every risk/reward ratio. The misgivings usually arrive when employers misrepresent the risk/reward ratio during the hiring process.

One of my favorite questions to ask startups during interviewing is - "In a semi plausible best case scenario how much money do you want me to make?". Answers are usually all over the place.
Proper standards bodies generally have a "should we even create this standard?" stage but AMP skipped it.