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by cpks 8y ago
To be fair, the "true origin" story is a little misleading. A bunch of douchebags wanted credit for Stallman's work and basically threw an underhanded hissy-cow to try to undermine him to co-opt his position. There was a pile
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by cpks 8y ago
Nope. Open Source is a trademark precisely to avoid this sort of misuse. It's not a "what it means to whomever" sort of deal. That was done in part due to intentional (and damaging, if ultimately unsuccessful) efforts to unde
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by cpks 8y ago
For example, if the Russian School of Math, or Kumon, wanted to adopt this calculator and software (commercial use, tutoring center), they'd be breaking the license. This license is a non-starter...
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by cpks 9y ago
I can't speak for this situation, but I was involved in situations with corporate crime at high levels. People were very cognizant of what was in email and what was verbal. When I considered whistleblowing -- what started as little spi
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by cpks 9y ago
It's an interesting project, but I'd never rely on it without some idea of what the goals are. Why isn't it open source? What's the business model? Will you charge me $1000 in two years, once I become dependent? Will it
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by cpks 10y ago
I'd like to know who has endorsed racism or misogyny. Could someone point me to such an endorsement from someone senior in Trump's administration?
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by cpks 10y ago
I like the caption: "Liberty Writers News founders Paris Wade, left, and Ben Goldman work at their apartment in Long Beach, Calif., on Nov. 14, 2016. Stuart Palley For The Washington Post" It flows like a single sentence.
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by cpks 10y ago
I'll anti-vouch for Route53 for personal use. I use AWS pretty broadly, but with something like DNS, I like having a little bit more support if things go wrong. Amazon won't do much without a $upport contract. It's fine for b
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by cpks 10y ago
git and mercurial are a million times more clever than a state-of-the-art DCVS like bitkeeper. It's a new data structure. It's a brilliant data structure. It's robust in ways even distributed databases aren't. It's
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by cpks 10y ago
If someone, of either gender, whom I was hiring as a designer, went into "advanced learning theory and the use of metaphor and semiotics along with the theoretical foundations of design patterns," my response would be to consider
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by cpks 10y ago
Minolta had rather astonishingly good lenses, actually. They had a number of oddballs, from an STF lens (great bokeh) to a tiny 500mm autofocus mirror lens (with very good image quality -- not the reputation mirror lenses have), and many ot
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by cpks 10y ago
I felt dirty reading the a16z post. Really dirty. They tried to phrase screwing over the employees for the investors as somehow employee-friendly.
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by cpks 10y ago
And conversely, I've seen people from cultures with different communications styles substantially and unfairly discriminated in the industry for not matching 2016 American business culture. I've found Germans (and Finns!) to be pa
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by cpks 10y ago
I absolutely hate tips in Lyft. I wish the service just cost 15% more. The Uber experience is just slicker. Hit a button, get in, get out, and the only impediment is rating. Tips, you have to guess amount ($1? 15%? 20%?) and it's alway
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by cpks 11y ago
1) I really like this, for transparency, clarity, and design. 2) The actual numbers there are a little bit scary. 0.03% equity grant? That's tiny. It's basically worthless. When did startup equity get so tiny? I'm not singlin
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by cpks 11y ago
Boyfriend in hospital doesn't qualify as 'sick leave.' FMLA is very narrow. I've been down a similar hole once in my life before. I was sickened and shocked. One emergency in my whole life. Nominal top employer. Senior p
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by cpks 11y ago
This was completely predicted by Peter Thiel in Zero to One. There's a common set of personality traits, a little related to Asperger's, where one works from first principles, is less influenced by what other people think, has les
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by cpks 11y ago
Anyone who runs something like WikiLeaks will be vilified. We all have something in our past -- whether a jilted lover willing to make things up about you, or a conflict at work, or whatnot. We all have some slightly unpopular political vie
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by cpks 11y ago
I saw a sheet of salaries for a random subset of employees. Pre-funding engineering hires were universally paid substantially less than post-funding hires. The way we're structured, there isn't an equity upside which would cover t
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by cpks 11y ago
Honestly, I just found out, and I am trying to figure out when and how to bring this up. It feels like there are several good timings for bringing this up: 1. When I've just delivered something of high business value 2. When the compan
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by cpks 11y ago
A bigger issue is that drone power consumption goes down as they go faster. Even if 20m at 25MPH is fine, you'll actually get less than that if you go slower. Hovering uses a lot of power.
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by cpks 11y ago
You can buy a gun. You can still (barely) buy model rockets. You can buy glass windows (which shatter into thousands of sharp pieces if broken). I want proper insurance, liability, etc. when things fail, and good risk management. I don&#x27
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by cpks 11y ago
> Someone really needs to explain to me why PostgreSQL users in particular seem to always want to bash the competition in order to justify their technology choice. It's been going on for years against MySQL/Oracle first, then M
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by cpks 11y ago
That's not exactly the sort of team where you'd expect MIT Ph.Ds to work. It's precisely big teams of mediocre people who run into issues based on not knowing exactly what the database is doing and how it's supposed to w
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by cpks 11y ago
You misunderstand the results. PostgreSQL behaves as expected, and indeed, the only way it can behave. That's the Two General's Problem ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Generals%27_Problem ). There is no way
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by cpks 11y ago
I didn't say Eventual Consistency. I said Occasional Consistency. MongoDB is has hard Occasional Consistency. Indeed, it is the most occasionally consistent database I know of. I once wrote a few million records into Mongo. It was cons
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by cpks 11y ago
People really underestimate the value of Occasional Consistency. Occasionally Consistent databases, like MongoDB, are great for approximation algorithms, sublinear time algorithms, and similar applications.
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by cpks 11y ago
It depends on context. First-order: * At a computer ==> Text * Commuting ==> Audio/video Second-order depends on things like type of content, cognitive load, etc.
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by cpks 11y ago
Projectile vs. rocket. The calculation is entirely correct -- we cannot shoot a projectile into space. There is no sensible way to get something to go fast enough to make it to space from Earth with no further propulsion. A better argument,

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