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I think one can, but maybe experience has (wrongfully) taught some of those folks that it can actually be a positive experience.

If it weren't for the INCREDIBLY detailed, well-reasoned, documented blog post, and its ability to reach the front page, the tactics of the CEO would have actually succeeded. He did, indeed, take the project down, and took the threat seriously. What the CEO didn't anticipate was the intern's ability to get so much exposure on this.

I can see this tactic working 95% of the time, which is prob. why when it doesn't it REALLY doesn't.
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Agreed... but the intern is obviously incredibly naive in thinking that repl.it would be happy to see one of their ex-interns working on a project that does pretty much the same kind of thing they're doing... whether or not this is a threat to them right now. There's a tiny, but non-zero chance, that this project could become successful and who knows, take marketshare from repl.it... and while everyone is pretending they would never be afraid of an intern stealing their business, I doubt many of them saying that have been through this experience and know how it feels like running a business and trying to stay on top of all the scams and bullshit that will get in your way, including from previous "allies" like ex-employees who think can do better.

Just look at this from the other side: you employ lots of people to work on some product, you teach them "secrets of the trade", send them to conferences, let them participate in making decisions, giving them extraordinary insight in the area of work you are active on... and as soon as they leave your company, they use all that knowledge to try to create something with that on their own (I can understand it, once you konw stuff and enjoy it, you want to keep working on it even in your own time), just for fun... basically spreading some of that knowledge you gave them and making it packaged and accessible not only to future contributors of their project, but to all competitors and genuine copycats out there.

This is incredibly unprofessional. If he had at least come up with something original based on that knowledge , I would be totally on his side, but his stuff, while it may not be an exact copy of repl.it, is clearly doing the exact same thing... how is that not at least "stealing the idea"?? Just don't do that.

Show some respect to your ex-boss and collegues who are working hard for several years to get an idea out to the world and make it work for others as good as they can... if you want to use your knowledge, just contribute back to the project if it's open-source (your contribution will be a lot more useful, very likely, to other people than your poor, basic little project)! If you actually want to compete, which the author claims was not at all his goal (yeah, right, until someone shows even a trace of interest in paying something for it), then by all means go ahead and act reckless, but you'll need to come up with some pretty major advantage to have any chance, and will be taking pretty huge risks with lawsuits, but that's business as usual in the corporate world.
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This is old, but I remember my grandpa saying he didn't buy Deere because "everything's backwards." Not sure if he meant the controls or mechanics, or how literal he was being. Beyond that, he didn't seem to care about brand all that much, and he had great luck with his Kubota.
There are thousands of startups. Are you generalising some bad actors to characterise an entire segment?
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Just having raw Tex code for the formula would be already immensely helpful. Right now we're in the situation that the information about formulas is lost for screenreader users. Once there's raw Tex formula, then screenreader developers, myself included, can come up with many different ways to present formulas in more convenient form. But again, so far, the raw tex code of the formulas is lost, and apparently it seems to be either incredibly hard to embed it into PDFs or something - judging by so little progress in this direction over the last decade.
When someone accuses colleagues of bigotry and other toxic behaviour, it's typically because those people are perpetrating bigotry and other toxic behaviour.
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Even if they get paid in advance, lawyers are acutely aware of the costs of litigation (even when you ultimately win) and that losing cases is one of the most common triggers for lawyers being sued, so, they really don't like losing cases even if they are getting paid. (There are caveats and exceptions, sure, but as a broad rule...)
> Talented business consultant Nathan Fielder

This is a gross understatement. Before being a consultant, Nathan also had a phenomenal career on CBC's On Your Side segment, it was CBC Marketplace before Marketplace. Why Nathan hasn't been awarded the Order of Canada for his hard work on behalf of the every day Canadian is beyond me.
I was responding specifically to the German poster above. Crushing guilt laid on a generation that wasn't even alive at the time is unwarranted.
That is indeed surprising and ironic.
I feel like there's been a dramatic shift in sentiment since I started reading HN in 2010/2011 or so.

Having lived and worked through the last startup boom, it's easy to see why. Startups as a force in our economy and our culture were (once again) new and interesting and untested and exciting. You could make an app and be an "instant" millionaire! Money was flowing freely - the Bay Area office-warming parties from newly-minted Series A startups were a sight to behold.

Of course we (I) saw it all with rose-colored glasses; reality is always more complicated. Years have passed, and the plucky upstarts have become capitalist overlords. Many vested interests have worked hard over time to establish an alternate narrative where tech is ominous, unaccountable, and used for political ill. People are people and do shitty things, even at startups.

It's all just people and always has been, but for a time it really did feel special. Maybe I'm just old.
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Tbh, YC is not a public taxpayer-funded institution: they are free to fund whomever they like, be it nephews, spouses, or relatives.
I don't need to. He can mean whatever he wants. I am a user of a technology he has created. I don't care about the wild ride of politisation of everything in the States and "identity poltics"... See how far that has gotten you.
> Hungry starving sick people make the least effective revolutionaries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_food_riots

https://www.history.com/news/bread-french-revolution-marie-a...

https://slate.com/technology/2014/04/food-riots-and-revoluti...

History. Read it.

> but there is a reason we let them exist

Please, do tell.
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About a decade ago, Gabriel Weinberg of DuckDuckGo fame set up fosstithe.org, which was about encouraging companies to set aside some percentage of your profit to donate to FOSS projects. Alas, the website no longer seems to exist. I still think it's a great idea, and every year I donate 5% of my profits to FOSS projects I like.

Convincing corporates to do the same is a little trickier. They want things like invoices, which can be hard for many smaller FOSS projects. Not every FOSS developer has a consulting gig. Not sure how to help out those developers, except by using their software and being appreciative, I guess.
You are right, to an extent. Health systems and EHR vendors both have historically had an economic disincentive to share data. Think “ecosystem lock-in”. My impression is that things are gradually changing for the better.
I'm sure you can understand the context and I'm sure that the point you are insistent on inserting is not novel information to any readers of this thread.
Deere does not have a monopoly on quality. Yes, if you compare them to Kioti (a discount brand), they are superior, but there are other manufacturers (NH, Mahindra, Kubota, etc) where they stand up just as well.
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I am fascinated with the Bolton Strid. Especially when it is in a low water state and you can get a sense of the enormity of it.
> Just the tone of his writing seems, and the "one of most difficult interns" gives me gut reaction that he might actually be someone who tries to be pushy while being nice.

You took a single sentence out of an entire article with plenty of other supporting evidence to construct a reality where someone in a similar position as you would have cover.

It's extraordinary.
Adding to the list of people who grew up on a ranch...

Growing up in the 80s and 90s, we had a bunch of old farm equipment, some from like the 1930s-era. Mostly a lot of stuff from the 60s and 70s.

And like every bit of equipment on the place had special operation rules.

"Don't run that tractor past 5k RPMs" or "Don't use the PTO Shaft (Power Take Off, the gear in the back that hooks in to power towed equipment) from Tractor A with Equipment Item B since it'll blow out." "Remember Tractor J is Brand X, but it has an engine from Brand Z, and a PTO shaft from Brand Y..."

Point being, like every piece of equipment was rigged together with duct tape. It's horrible unsafe. When you buy used equipment, nothing comes written down... like you try it, break it, and duct tape it all back together again.

Parts from Brand Y in Engine X -- because that's what the implement had in stock when you needed to repair something. Lots of home-welds, lots of splice jobs. Need a new hose? Grab one off a car... it's not rated for the tractor, but it sort of fits... and it lets you get the job done today... so cool, "works" and then likely just forget about it until it breaks.

So how on earth could John Deere be liable for the performance or safety of their equipment? If a John Deere tractor blows up, or more aptly some part suffers catastrophic failure and hurts someone... who's at fault? Does John Deere have to honor a 10-year warranty, if you cut corners on the repairs?

And, in the case of accidents, even if it's the farmer who is at, the brand suffers from the news report, "A farmer father of 7 was killed today when his John Deere tractor malfunctioned..." Left out of the story is the fact that the farmer didn't repair it to spec, or the guy the farmer bought it from didn't repair it to spec...

Anyway I side with John Deere here. It's chaos not to lock this stuff down. Who owns liability? These things are used hard, they break frequently -- especially with age. How to you know something actually works right if you don't lock down the repair process?
> Most professionals and academics don't enter their fields for the high pay

Those careers still have to pay enough to compensate for the effort involved in acquiring the relevant skills.

This is the main limiting factor to labor supply in these fields, and also a reason why putting one's "nose to the grindstone" once working in the field may actually be efficient. Even accounting for the fact that some or even most of this effort may not be as "good, intensive or professional" as the first few hours in the workday, it might nonetheless be more socially beneficial than merely working some generic, unskilled job.

(In fact, since one of the factors behind wages is the inconvenience of the marginal unit of work, we also shouldn't be surprised that pay can be high even though on average one might be willing to work for less!)
Apparently he tried (and failed), which is perhaps further evidence of OPs talent.
Really disappointed this was downvoted. Not for the HN Karma (who cares?) but because the GP's comment (from virgil_disgr4ce), calling attention to victim shaming, really is worthwhile.
> 4. TimeCapsule for iOS. For Pete Sake this needs to be a thing.

It will never be, because iCloud is a cash cow.
> If that's your threat model, you should not be using any repair shop.

That's exactly what I said in my first comment:

>> If you really don't trust them, you probably should not give them your device at all.

> And the attacks you describe are not just "a bit more sophisticated than Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V", they're most likely far beyond the abilities of most repair technicians.

The RAM one, yes. ROM chip swaps, on the other hand, are rather common. You will need to be able to solder quite well, but given the current state of macs, this is basically a given for anyone doing repairs on them. You'd of course need to get a malicious ROM chip, which might not be so easy, but probably doable - the technician only needs to be able to swap it, not to manufacture one.

And if you can't get your hands on one - your can order a keylogger right now, for just a few bucks! [0] This was just the first result; if you invest a bit more time, you can surely find a smaller one or more fitting one. The keyboard is probably connected with USB [1], so no trouble there. As a bonus, you get all the passwords of accounts that were not saved at the time.

Sure, simply unlocking is a bit easier. But it's not like this stuff is beyond anyone who is able to debug and solder on a Mac.

[0] https://de.aliexpress.com/item/1005001988834597.html?

[1] It's in my laptops; I don't know the specifics for macs, but I doubt is something more sophisticated than a strange plug.
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I believe it. When I worked at an electronics retailer as a teen I knew a manager that would erroneously mark brand new products as "open box". Once they were marked as such the manager could change the price to anything they wanted. Then they would sell the products to friends and family for next to nothing.
Why does it have to be original to be a product people will pay for? There are plenty of unoriginal yet profitable products.

What you've said is all true, but most users today don't use computers like that. Arguably developers already do if they have SSH access somewhere, but if repl.it brings that experience to a general audience via a web browser then it's already valuable.

If the Chrome cloud VM idea[1] can raise millions in funding, so can a web timesharing system. ;)

[1]: https://mightyapp.com/
Once it becomes personal, don’t assume economic analysis will have any weight in the decision to continue suing.

VCs give money but they’re not going to micromanage the company unless something becomes a major distraction. Given how much the VC model involves finding things to monetize, I would not expect strong pushback against a claim that they have IP to protect (that’s an asset which the VCs co-own & intend to monetize) and if they have a lawyer on retainer it might not even be much of an expense to pursue early on.
Regardless, a huge portion of the soviet population was constantly exposed to it. For example, all the people living near the borders who could watch foreign tv.
To be fair, that's like the guy that wrote moment-js or jQuery. I've worked at a number of Perl-based companies and every single one used DateTime (I'm a huge fan, btw). Something like that is going to be noticeable on a resume. Assuming they have some experience with Perl.

There was a company I know of that was advertising in their job postings that the guy that wrote Perl's DBI once worked for them or was their CTO or whatever. That was about 6 years ago, so not that far off.
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What were your symptoms? or was this only noticed during an exam and you had not realized anything was going before the exam?

> and I also have to agree to not make a claim on my insurance to reimburse me, so its all out of pocket. Its pretty shady, but they are what my ophthalmologist wants me to use, and I don't want to mess around with blindness.

I'm not too familiar with the all the inner workings of insurances but curious why you had to do this?
If you poke at McD's corporate jobs in IT, you'll find a bunch of jobs in machine learning, audio processing and similar for an AI drive through project.

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Many of the tech positions have been filled (from what they were a year ago)... though still more than a few.
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Their docs might be a good place to start.
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> He should just go get his own highly paid lawyers and dig down for a lengthy legal battle.

Have you considered that what the person did in this situation was actually illegal?

Yes, when you do illegal things, it is difficult to defend them in court. But that doesn't make him in the right.

It doesn't even look like he was going to be sued, since he took down the website, and apologized.

It was the kid who went public with all of this, in order to get the clicks and likes.
GitLab's public handbook goes into far more and better detail, but here's some of my take-aways from my time with them as well as since;

- What to do when unsure what to do? There needs to be processes in place, like a Handbook-First / Manager-of-One kind of approach so people know where to go to re-orient themselves when a bit lost.

- As already mentioned, equity on the playing field. Remote-First approach even when hybrid means that everyone is starting from the same foot, so to speak.

- I suspect that Async itself is going to forever be a set of shifting goalposts. What works for an individual, team, or organization one quarter may not the next, or a year from now.

- Socializing is now a high-touch, deliberate act of peer-support. At any given point, some team members need to social support of their peers, while others do not and are able to lend a shoulder. This can range anywhere from coffee-chats to on-sites.

- Oh! and last but not least, the fact that the last year+ has not been what Remote / Remote-Hybrid work should look like. It's WFH during a pandemic, yah?
I hope the CEO won't threat my Telegram bot projects. It's been on the Replit for a while, is there any other platforms that provide the same as Replit?
Approx 85% of the population is over 12. 75% is over 18. The percentage who say they wont vaccinate or wont vaccinate unless its required are 20%.

This means that 15% are too young at this point to vaccinate and 17% (20% of 85%) wont vaccinate. This means full vaccination of everyone who intends to vaccinate would be about 68% of the population. This means that 26% of the population is still in progress.
They should sell as long as they still can.

A year ago Altium positioned itself as the hobbyist friendly EAGLE alternative by advertising that they still sell affordable permanent licenses when Autodesk forced subscriptions down everyones throat.

Recently, they burned those bridges by insisting on subscriptions, making the cheapest license $10k all while still keeping the old advertisements listing a $2.9k price online. And for hobbyists, $10k is too steep.

I tried to reason with them, but to no avail. I know of several other people who had a similar experience.

Recently, the KiCAD nightly built has gained an almost flawless Altium importer, better OpenGL rendering with supersampling, and there's a patch in the pipeline that'll let KiCAD open, modify and display Altium documents almost pixel-perfect. And thanks to automated tools, the free offline-capable KiCAD library is now exceeding the scope of the paid online-only Altium vault.

I'd give them until the KiCAD 7.0 stable release expected to arrive in 1-2 years.
I've had a horrific time with Dropbox and photos. Some photos not backing up, losing permissions to my own folders, etc. I've since just spun up a server and use icloudpd to sync the originals nightly, backed up to B2.

Obviously not a scalable solution for many, but I finally feel good about having access to my photos.
Darktable is not sufficient quality to be considered seriously as a LR replacement, sadly.
So where are the pictures?
Agreed.

It's one thing to do this to learn more about software development, it's another to give it a name and a website.

They're really leaning into the "I'm just an intern without commercial intents" narrative, but regardless of their intent, it's still incredibly unethical to create something similar your previous employer's IP and market it independently.
>> In fact, most of our R&D and testing was done overseas in a more friendly single payer system.

So are CV/ML radiology systems deployed somewhere globally? Where, and how successful are they ?

And if not, why ?
I just... Amjad has been excellent, and I’ve never gotten the sense he would do something like this. It doesn’t even make sense for him to worry at all, let alone to send legal threats. Replit is at “early google/Microsoft vibes,” as pg put it. It would be hard for anything to kill replit, unless they do it themselves.

I saw this pop up while I was out driving to the gas station, but I was so shocked that I wanted to urge caution. Now that I’m back, I too will look carefully at all sides. Thank you for vouching for Radon — it helps to know that this isn’t just someone with a chip on their shoulder making up stories.

Admittedly, if I have to reach for “maybe it’s a lie,” it’s not looking great. But the fair thing to do is to wait and hear from amjad.

What kind of stuff have you done together? I haven’t worked directly with Amjad, but some years ago I almost joined, and we’ve since thrown around ideas for how to use ML to build some great tooling at replit. He strikes me as extremely reasonable, and I’ve seen him change his mind from talking with him. (It wasn’t just a technical plan that he changed his mind about; it was a tricky social situation thing.) I didn’t get the sense he would stomp on someone.

I agree it’s possible I was off the mark, and if so, I’ll readjust. But I believe in him. So I won’t let myself be dragged to a certain judgement without listening to the other side of the story first, no matter how bad it looks.

But it’s fair if other people don’t feel that way. It’s just, the inside situation often looks much, much different, y’know? It’s good to wait and see.
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This is somewhat true. For example, they put out a press release talking about Facebook / Twitter's unchecked power when they banned President Trump, but they didn't go further than that.

Speech they hate gets a strongly worded press release.

Speech they like gets actual litigation support.
That's correct, and OP himself feared as much. But Amjad explicitly refused an offer to uncross those wires. As much as the benefit of the doubt should still be given and this may indeed just be a miscommunication issue, at that juncture he really has no one to blame but himself for this fallout.
Markus Pilman from Snowflake did an awesome talk on FoundationDB's testing at CMU's Quarantine Tech Talks (2020), How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Trust the Database:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJb8A6h9jQQ
Pixelmator is like $30 (once, not subscription) and is better than Photoshop.

IIRC it's made by a small team of dedicated devs in Latvia (edit: actually it's their other l-neighbor Lithuania, just looked it up), and I love it.

DaVinci Resolve (now stewarded by Blackmagic Design) is a Premiere/AE replacement that is preferred by many in industry. It's also buy-once-ware (not subscription) and runs natively on Linux.

Adobe has nothing resembling a monopoly.