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by iostream25 4y ago
So, it's not Microsofts information they are selling for $10/month. They are wholesale ripping it, sans attribution and sans licenses, IN VIOLATION OF LAW on an industrial scale. It surely must be stopped and punished, or no licen
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by iostream25 4y ago
My, how odd that copilot wants to "liberate" other peoples code from attribution, licenses, the project it was ripped from... How curious that copilot doesn't ripoff Microsoft Windows or Office code... Spare us the astroturfe
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by iostream25 4y ago
you are either complying with a legally binding license, or you aren't.
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by iostream25 4y ago
Either the user-base of HN suddenly became a bunch of unethical folks who don't CARE about copyrights, usage licenses, authorship, or the future of open-source projects, OR This place is currently crawling with Micro$oft employees who
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by iostream25 4y ago
Frames made a side or top nav clearly separated from the content in the middle. Framesets were super useful, in that regard, in the era of dialup.
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by iostream25 4y ago
That's a general thing I've been noticing. Maybe it's long COVID or quiet-quitting or was it ghosting? I know it's not gaslighting. I'm trying to keep up, bear with me.
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by iostream25 4y ago
My general sense is that not even Putin believes his own rhetoric, such is his inconsistency of thought. The reality is that Putin has elected to invade a sovereign neighbor country and can unelect to do so. Not one "western" lea
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by iostream25 4y ago
A quote from Kier Giles, whose article in today's Guardian addresses some of the silliness and contradictions in Putin's speech this morning. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/21&#x2
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Myths and misconceptions around Russian military intent(chathamhouse.org)
4 points by iostream25 4y ago|0 comments
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by iostream25 4y ago
not the op. agree that op is not refugee fleeing war on inflatable boat. I distilled "lack of agency" as: not rewarding initiative, people afraid to take initiative. the portuguese boss does not like the employee to take initiativ
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by iostream25 4y ago
No mention of the vast holdings the church or bombeiros have in Lisbon and the insane amount of empty un-renovated buildings that are essentially just place-holders until the right CML-connected developers show-up with lots of money?
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by iostream25 4y ago
I remember Passos Coelho suggesting that the young will need to emigrate for work, circa the time of the crisis/austerity.
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by iostream25 4y ago
You could say the same about <countryname> where <countryname> is a popular tourist destination that has over 15% of it's economy based in tourism. Czechs were the minority property owners in Prague some 20 years ago, alrea
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by iostream25 4y ago
It would seem that animals evolved to eat plants and other animals are probably not going to switch to dead packaged food from a singular company en-masse. There are also cultural factors. Meals are one of the few social excuses for hanging
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by iostream25 4y ago
Cue jokes like "... and today was 32% less productive for developers worldwide"
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by iostream25 4y ago
This is a great opportunity to remind everyone about the extremely negative dampening effects Micro$oft has had on innovation in both hardware and operating systems. It's a monopoly and should have been broken up. We still can barely f
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by iostream25 4y ago
https://www.concatenative.org/ might be interesting for some folks
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by iostream25 4y ago
actually.... FORTH... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_(programming_language)
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by iostream25 4y ago
Great stuff, this is a different approach than the FORTH books provide, and I suspect it may open other doors.
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by iostream25 4y ago
Let's all talk about US actions while Russia invades Ukraine and flattens shopping centers far away from military targets, mass-executes civilians, etc. While the US certain has plenty of foreign policy history to answer for, I find th
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by iostream25 4y ago
The true reality that precedes your complaint: The world wide web was created as a remote-folder document-browsing application in which an index-page told you of the contents of a folder, etc. One still speaks of a "web root" fold
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by iostream25 4y ago
It's more like: there's no standard "backend as a service" API, so it's "vendor lock-in city" Your complaint has been largely addressed by UI component libraries, starting with React and Vue and now Svelte
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by iostream25 4y ago
If you were to wish to switch backend providers, is there some standard API or interface they adhere to? not yet, right? will there ever be? in other words: vendor lock-in... there can be a variety of ways this can screw one over in product
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by iostream25 4y ago
This sort of thing sounds like "vendor lock-in city", to be blunt, but that is a categorical criticism I level at this entire market niche of BEAAS
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by iostream25 4y ago
... and it will likely get stuck in all the narrow streets ancient European towns/cities are filled with... a Hummer is too wide to enter many villages
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by iostream25 4y ago
When will OEM's realize that forcing Windows on computer purchasers is less than ideal? I don't mean to merely refer to this particular issue/non-issue. I refer to the entire industry pre-loading Microsoft Windows on every ne
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by iostream25 4y ago
We need to first get past: 1) differing rail gauges 2) inability to buy international tickets from many (most?) national rail providers Here in Portugal, the formerly national rail line "Comboio Portugal" was privatized and sold o
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U.S. Mass Shootings On Rise No Matter How You Define Them(themarshallproject.org)
57 points by iostream25 4y ago|183 comments
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by iostream25 4y ago
There are a whole slew of Stockholm Syndrome answers here that effectively repeat the precise point you make. If it gets you the 6 figure salary, who cares about the corrosive bad practice remaining prevalent?
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by iostream25 4y ago
... and as a result there are false negatives and you turn away actual top talent who can't Leetcode. Effort spent on hiring process is reflected in quality of employees.

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