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If you have business policies that actively disable you from being able to compete, then in a way its "self-defeating". You could say that "self-defeating" is the same as anti-competitive, because, well, if your company doesn't exist, that's one less competitor.

Imperfect analogy: If Uber gave away every ride for free, that would be more "competitive" for some definition (lower fares = more competitive rate), but, Uber would go out of business within months.

That example isn't as strong as in this case though, but the general idea holds (price isn't as clear as business model). In this case Sentry is saying in order to survive as a company they can't sacrifice their only source of revenue completely, or they'd have no advantage. In doing so, they are keeping their own company alive, which increases competition against other companies in their area.

So it reduces competition of their own product against themselves, while it increases competition (by keeping them afloat) by making them stronger against their competitors. There's no real better way to phrase this, and I think the shorthand here works just fine. I don't see this as doublespeak or even lax phrasing, just choosing a frame that makes sense given Sentry is the one speaking.
On the other hand, there will be some fights that defy such classification of the participants. In those circumstances, improperly classifying one participant as the victim and the other as the bully can make the situation worse than it was before.
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We recently adopted the BSL too. Here's a blog post that goes into detail about our rationale.

https://www.zerotier.com/on-the-gpl-to-bsl-transition/
> If you don’t want open, don’t make your code open.

There are more things than the extremes.
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Ditto. I have found that it has improved slowly over the years as fingerprint readers' sensors have become more advanced. My Pixel 3 gets it almost 60%~70% of the time now (unless my fingers are wet).
A poor person might momentarily accrue wealth from a paycheck and then lose it to rent, preventing real wealth growth.

Low-income rental housing tends to be quite exploitative.

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/03/housing-rent-landlord...
I was at an open source event hosted by a16z ( a blog post about it is here https://a16z.com/2019/10/04/commercializing-open-source/ ), and one of the things that was abundantly clear is there is no reason you can't have open source and a viable business model. Companies moving to BSL are effectively saying they can't actually compete so they are trying to shore up their business by using a license change. At the end of the day the better product will win out, and companies moving to BSL are tacitly admitting they don't have the better product so they want to lock in market share before they get out competed.
It's refreshing that the author acknowledges the nuances around tradeoffs of using, and not using, GraphQL.

Having used REST (with swagger/openAPI), gRPC and now graphQL, the most painful thing has been the tribal militance from supporters of each, defending their own vested interest.

It's almost like different tools are useful for different things.
> Why don’t “Unknown” objects get stored and individually have their trajectories tracked? Hello?

Because what if that "unknown" object is just a plastic bag blowing in the wind?

People would get mighty annoyed very quickly if emergency braking kicked in for every piece of garbage blowing onto the road.
Yeah, but isn't being greedy with optimizations good?
I'm always looking for a Redis GUI too, no clear winners. Haven't checked out your offering yet.

I'd suggest if you want to sell it, reach out to all the Redis hosting companies and tell them to offer your client as a feature for their users.
God this article is dreadful--the content, not the writing. I couldn't finish it because it was so gruesome!
GPL is only concerned about redistribution of your program. A modified version can be kept private as long as it's hosted on your own servers and not distributed. The primary concern of Sentry is large cloud providers that have more capital and better economies of scale providing their hosted service for a cheaper price.
What if we moved to an 8 day week?
5 days (40hrs) and 3 days off? This coming from a software developer.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v14/n19/wynne-godley/maastricht-and-al...

>If a country or region has no power to devalue, and if it is not the beneficiary of a system of fiscal equalisation, then there is nothing to stop it suffering a process of cumulative and terminal decline leading, in the end, to emigration as the only alternative to poverty or starvation.
> There are a number of companies who started with nothing and grew their business via online ads and this seems like a giant blind spot in the article as well as the studies that you mentioned.

But is that number statistically significant? some do, how many others tried the same route and failed, how many grew without it, etc
Well, as long as you can build a query to get the data in the right format (which you almost inevitably can) you can make a view out of it. But honestly the true solution here would be to migrate away from such a brain damaged format.
Not that $2 a gene isn't in our near future, but the method you're citing is highly error prone (on the order of 80% misassembled) and (hopefully) wouldn't look like a natural sample to a forensic lab. Commercial prices for gene assemblies are still ~$200 per, so not super accessible yet.
Seems reasonable.

Easy to be a purist, hard to reconcile that purism with the need to run a business (and let's not forget, pay engineers and other employees with the proceeds of that business).
> If someone is underperforming, do what you will. But why would you go looking for it just because they're doing a second job?

I've done some freelance work while also having a full-time job. It's great at first, when you still think that you can give 100% to your dayjob and fit the freelance work into your free time on evenings and weekends. If you can find relaxed contract work that fits to your schedule without detracting from your dayjob, then by all means go for it.

The problem is that contract work is rarely perfectly asynchronous like that. It won't take long until the company has some questions about your work that require a phone call during daytime hours. Or they find a one-liner issue that they need fixed ASAP, not when you have free time. Or they say they would like to continue paying you for contract work, but only if you can start responding faster during the day and turning requests around more quickly.

All of these pressures start adding up, tempting you to sandbag your salaried dayjob so you can have more hours to rake in that incremental hourly contracting money. In my case, I chose to give up contracting to avoid any moral, ethical, or legal breaches with my day job. However, I've seen many junior employees sabotage their own career progress by spreading themselves too thin with salaried work and freelancing work. Something has to give.

Worse yet, I've seen at least one case where someone used their company laptop and company phone for the contracting work for clients. Per your employment agreement, that puts the ownership of the code into a gray area. You don't want to go there, but when the clients are hammering your e-mail and phone for an answer it's tempting to just give in and interleave that work with your dayjob. Bad idea.

Finally, there's a myth that employees have a finite amount of work each week. When we do sprint planning, we calibrate to velocity, based on how much work the employee got done last week. I rely on my employees to help inform me about reasonable estimates and to help judge task complexity. Side hustlers have a misaligned incentive to exaggerate complexity, sandbag on tasks, and otherwise manipulate the system to minimize their dayjob workload. Less dayjob work equals more time for freelance income.

Bottom line: Some people can pull it off in rare circumstances, but more often than not a side hustler on your team will drag everyone down.
That was my first thought. Chicago's red light program is rather infamous, and, as a pedestrian, I do feel less safe at the intersections that had them installed. The lights change so fast that a motorists who presumably don't realize how ridiculously short the timing on Chicago traffic lights can be often sail through the intersection a good 1-2 seconds after the lights have signaled for crossing traffic - both vehicles and pedestrians - to proceed.

IMO, the best system is the one they have in Montréal. The traffic lights work a bit differently from the rest of North America in several ways, but one is special "vertical green bar" lights indicating that you're only allowed to go straight. No turns allowed until the regular green lamp illuminates. This does a pretty effective job of encouraging motorists to wait for pedestrians. Québec drivers are somewhat famously aggressive, but I still felt safer as a pedestrian in Montréal than in any other North American city I've visited.
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Having a sustainable funding model for open source isn’t necessarily a bad thing IMHO. The potential upside here is that Sentry will be able to invest more into large improvements to the code knowing that their funding is sustainable. This is to the benefit of everyone who wants to use this software in the purest sense of open source, which is running the code on your own systems.
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> You can deny it if you want, but you clearly wanted to get

> into it with someone here on Brexit :-)

The original intent was just to show that £3.3 billion is really nothing compared to our other expenses, but clearly I kicked the hornets nest.
Go back to the drawing board.
Porsche and BMW make completely different types of cars compared to Toyota. They are better in different ways with tradeoffs.

Reliability wise? Sure they are not far off.
Indeedly!

Very clean and simple, but not trivial or bare. Really good job, jmstfv.
They do measure it though, and the best measurements show that the USA does not compare favourably to other developed nations at all.

I think the line commentators tend to use is “the American Dream is alive and well, in Denmark”
"formally". They're using weasel words to pretend it's still 'open-source', but that they just can't technically call it that. And later-on in the article they say this:

> It’s a brave new world, but we believe this licensing change will best ensure the future of Sentry and that protections-oriented OSS licenses like the BSL will become increasingly common as time goes on.

"protections-oriented OSS licenses like the BSL" - I guess they can't call it an "Open-Source license", but calling it an "Open-Source Software license" is ok? Are they supposed to mean different things?
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Why should we trust you not to change that in the future?
What did I relate if not an anecdote? Take a look at shroomery.org for a large group of people's attitude towards psychedelics and meditation, larger than n=39.
They aren't closing their source though, just making it against the license to use it as a hosted service.

Example: Our company self-hosts sentry, this license won't effect us at all, we're still free to use and modify the source. We only use it internally - we don't sell "access" to it.

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This is cropping up more and more with various software companies. They _want_ to keep their source open. But people take the source, and just start selling it (Looking at you amazon) without actually contributing. It's one of those, "This is why we can't have nice things"
You have to keep in mind how cheap advertising is. An ad campaign that affects one in a hundred thousand can be successful.

In some areas, you'll find a ton of billboards for personal injury lawyers. Right off the bat, maybe only one in several thousand people is a potential client, and it's totally irrelevant to the remainder. Of the relevant population, most of them have the common sense not to hire a lawyer purely based on an advertisement. But those billboards are still worth it. They know because they ask people how they learned about them, making it simple to calculate their value.
I liked Remarkable initially. But its development has stopped with bugs outstanding. One is that typing with live-preview enabled jumps the viewport to the top. Typora seems nicer.
They do actually. I learned in a marine navigation class that the tides are on a cycle of 18.6 years. If only the moon affected the tides, the cycle would be about 28 days.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tide
> Nineteen years is preferred because the Earth, Moon and Sun's relative positions repeat almost exactly in the Metonic cycle of 19 years, which is long enough to include the 18.613 year lunar nodal tidal constituent.
Link to the aforementioned Tesla video: https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/ds6p3b/psa_be_...
Try get a group of 8 or more people who are right in the middle of the city center decide on where to go for dinner.

Getting people to agree on anything is a massive effort. Getting the entirety of humanity to agree on something that will satisfy everyone will take until everyone is dead and there are few enough people it can be done.
"we have provided thousands of pages of written responses and hundreds of thousands of documents"

I see that all the time when people haven't actually provided the requested info, whether a company or a local, state, or federal agency. It's often a form of BS.

Technically every DB entry could be considered a document, but if you haven't provided emails from the CEO, you haven't provided emails from the CEO.
If they're in your path and you can't tell the difference is what we're talking about here. And that difference is very important because the dynamic characteristics of a pedestrian, bicycle, car or other object should factor into your model of their future trajectory and speed.
Well its pretty easy to tell if its because of the advertising. Just turn it off for a while and see if it affects revenue.
>You don’t call having to use its biggest rivals browser engine and Bing missing out on the web?

They run windows at Google HQ and AWS but you don't see anyone saying Google and Amazon "missed out"
The propulsive landing is still potentially a backup option to a parachute failure in the future.

Q: Are thrusters programmed as backup if chutes fail to deploy properly?

A: Most likely, but this is contingent upon NASA review & approval

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1104510803313487872?lang...
I don't think that's what's being argued here at all.

The point is primarily one about productivity growth and that causes the economy to grow. Consider agriculture.

When we were all out in the fields plowing them with oxen the whole time, and grinding flour by hand with stones, we didn't have much time to be doing anything else.

The invention of water- and wind-powered mills reduced the amount of time spent milling. Add (in no particular order) the seed drill, the horse-drawn reaper, pesticides, crop rotation, scientific theories of plant breeding, combine harvesters, nitrogen-based fertilizers, insect-resistant bio-engineered crops etc.

Productivity in agriculture in the developed world has DOUBLED since the 1960s.

John Deere invented the self-scouring steel plow and became famous and wealthy as a result. Some of that wealth came as a result of people buying his plow instead of buying someone else's; but the economic growth that resulted from his innovation was in terms of improved efficiency in farming in the plains of the Mid-West.
The creation of wealth extends far beyond the mere sum of natural resources. It's about the knowledge required to make use of it. Finding it, understanding it, combining it. Knowledge expands the range of our reach and of our ability to re-arrange - to create. In my view, wealth creation has its foundation in the expansion of knowledge.
I'm also a big fan of reading out my favourite quotes. If you're not sure what to say for your funeral then try to imagine yourself saying them, what do they say and where would you want them read out? A bit like a funeral speech, but a little more personal.
You can't exactly get a blood test for it for sure, it's pretty much diagnosed based on the symptoms at the moment.
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I think it's absolutely fine for people to send slacks, emails, etc after 5pm.

Being _expected_ to, however, is a different story.
By my reading, direct marketing was LITERALLY the example used in the article that showed some of the dodgy reasoning/metrics behind common measurements of marketing success :/
The E195-E2 is much larger than a typical regional jet, and it even has the range to go coast-to-coast in the U.S. It seems to have been overshadowed by the A220, though, perhaps for good reason.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embraer_E-Jet_E2_family#E195-E...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A220#/media/File:CSerie...

I think what's missing in the Airbus-Boeing debate is an appreciation for the role of engine manufacturers. The A220, E195-E2, and Mitsubishi SpaceJet are all built around P&W's new geared turbofan engines.

It seems to me that at this point in the evolution of the industry everybody effectively builds their planes around the capabilities and limits of available engine technology. The immediate cause of death of the A380 was the refusal of any engine manufacturer to design and sell a more modern engine. The A380 became inefficient because its engines were at least 1.5 generations behind, not because there were 4 of them. (Of course, the reason nobody wanted to invest in a newer engine was because the market was too small to make it worth their time, especially considering their struggles with existing commitments.)

I imagine any aerospace engineering company could design a state-of-the-art and competitive body around the available engines. Aircraft manufacturers seem to self-select into market niches not because of engineering costs and difficulties, but simply because the global markets aren't large enough to support a third wide body manufacturer and only barely large enough, if at all, to support another 737/A320.
I have mixed feelings about this. The form factor is great as a second factor, but I don’t trust fingerprints as a primary auth factor due to (1) existing precedent of bugs in fingerprint recognition (2) that you can’t revoke your fingerprint, and (3) that Yubikeys are somewhat easy to lose.
I would say that being able to own a house somewhere that is compatible with your overall goals in life[1] is a feature of a functioning society/economic system.

Whether that makes it a "right" depends on your stance on things like positive versus negative rights. I'm arguing that a system that doesn't provide that to regular people is broken regardless of whether it is a right or not.

[1] By goals in life I do not mean things like "I want to own my own island" or "I want a penthouse in Manhattan". Rather I mean something along the lines of "I want to live somewhere that I can go hiking everyday" or "I want to live in a cosmopolitan city".
I would love to see the in-editor documentation improved. Maybe have in-editor tutorials as well, or a book? That would be awesome.

I would also like to see a set of templates that can be used to actually develop a commercial or finished game. The examples that Godot currently ships with are very nice but all are pretty far from being a template, nevermind a real game.

As for assets, I would want to see lots of 3D props, a 3D "player" actor with animations, maybe textures and skyboxes.
I sent an email a month (or maybe more) ago but never heard back. :/
why? it is no different than any prediction ten or more years off. guess it depends on the subject matter, if you already believe in something they any number of years is acceptable
Some people have bad motivations, but that is not true for everyone saying these things.

I had no choice, I couldn't do anything but start a business, I was a failure as an employee because of how I looked at life and the process of building/creating. I was always at odds with my employers to make things work better. (I was told to work slower and less hard because I made others look bad sigh)

So what do you say to someone like me? I need to hear "you can do it" because even though I am inclined to do it anyways, it's still really hard to build your own business.

This kind of information is incredibly helpful (encouraging) for me in my situation at this point in time. For many others it's not good advice.
I've already been saving for 5. And by "FU" money I was considering an amount that would allow me to say "fuck you" to a boss and survive until I found a new job without worrying too much. Like, $100,000 or less. Probably closer to $70k, after ten years of saving.
> but if you are sensitive to the taste that can override the other factors.

I can taste the difference between certain bottled water brands and that really is the number one concern for me. The differences are much less apparent to me with spring water than in the filtered tap water brands like Dasani and Aquafina (who often add salt and other minerals). For spring water brands I try to buy ones that aren't owned by Nestlé but that's not because of the product itself.
I find the distinction between libraries and applications to be rather self serving. It's basically saying "I want to use these open source libraries to bootstrap my business, but I don't believe others should be able to use my code in an open source way because apps should have profit".

Now, I'm not disagreeing that one of the goals many people have for building code is to make money. But this line between apps and libraries is completely artificial and seems to exist for no reason other than justifying their closing a previously open source project.
Unfortunately no. "Effort" is indicated by cost, and fusion power plants promise to be exorbitantly exoensive.