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They work really hard to hide this, but they do have a LGPL license that applies to most of the framework, and only some parts (charts, etc.) are GPL/commercial only. For those old enough to remember, this license issue was at the heart of the Gnome/KDE schism.

From their site <https://www.qt.io/download-open-source>: LGPL – Any modification to a Qt component covered by the GNU Lesser General Public License must be contributed back to the community. This is the primary open source Qt license, which covers the majority of Qt modules.

If you're not familiar, in practice, the difference between GPL and LGPL is that LGPL does allow dynamically linking a library with a closed source program, without requiring that the program also becomes GPL/LGPL. This is compatible with most development as long as you either don't modify Qt, or are ok with those modifications becoming open source.

Zeno has entered the chat.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno%27s_paradoxes#Achilles_an...

I see it as a last chance to move to a position that's not being terminated, and also an opportunity for someone who needs headcount and has the budget for it to pick proven candidates without the hassle of an external hire. Large companies are worlds of their own. But still, I imagine if you receive that message, I'd be worried.

He blued himself later on, so...

Stripe's documentation was terrific when we were doing our initial integration. Clear descriptions, frequent use cases were described and indexed so they're easy to find, and the code samples (in 6-8 languages) are copy-paste ready using your own pre-populated credentials.

Good read, thanks!

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...

It reminds me of "u-pick" farms. Less labor, higher prices. The only constraint is that they have to be somewhere easy to reach.

The second half of the article describes that in some detail.

Yes, it's so interesting how tortuous and serendipitous the evolution of Java has been. It started as a language for embedded devices, then made its way to the interactive web because its bytecode was so portable, and then somehow people figured out it's a good language for the backend because it's managed and thus safer than the alternatives, despite its inherent performance disadvantage. So many unintended extra lives.

That seems like an uncharitable read. The phrase "an obligation of result, not of means" simply stating that the regulation doesn't choose a specific methodology, as it only prescribes a standard for its results. It's as if regulations for clinical thermometers require accuracy within a 0.1C margin of error, but manufacturers can choose how the device works, and how to make it.

Of course, the scary part is that they would consider an 10% error rate to be OK.

Back in college I had an assignment to build some kind of CRM-like system, and the professor made a point that we used Java applets, because that was the future (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write_once,_run_anywhere was all the rage).

I proposed instead learning PHP and using it for that purpose, but was laughed out of the room. Developing this was a PITA and I feel vindicated that applets faded away soon after, and PHP became part of the web-app "standard" (the LAMP acronym was started to be used around then). But I never learned PHP.

It sounds like a nightmare. Much like my YouTube suggestions, which now are mostly my kids' planet videos, and my wife's workout ones.

It's fairly trivial to keep the recommendations consistent depending on the latest request, not just the logged user. Pandora does a good job at this. We have it on our Alexa and at dinner, we take turns with the kids requesting songs. If we stop requesting, it keeps playing an internally consistent series based on the latest song we asked for. So if it's the kids' choice, it's a never ending row of Kids Learning Tube :-)

What? Can you elaborate on the hair dying and color enforcement?

Indeed, and that's why I love it. When I need extra performance, which is very rarely, I don't mind spending extra effort outsourcing it to a binary module. More often, the problem is an inefficient algorithm or data arrangement.

I took a graduate level data structures class and the professor used Python among other things "because it's about 80 times slower than C, so you have to think hard about your algorithms". At scale, that matters.

Side point here, but that's a very justifiable cost. The damaged to a road is proportional to the fourth power of the axle weight [1]. That's something that amuses me when drivers complain that bike riders don't pay a "road tax". If they did, it would be a laughably low amount compared to what a car driver would have to pay in proportion.

[1] https://www.insidescience.org/news/how-much-damage-do-heavy-...

This should be resolved, if you'd like to give it another go.

We're looking into that, thanks for the heads-up.

Yes! You can use the dashboard to edit, reschedule or cancel upcoming messages: https://delayedsend.com/app

I've heard this time and time again in SV circles. It probably is for the right founder who is able to paint a rosy picture and a nice story. I'm not that kind of person, so it's bonkers to me.

Unintentional injury (likely mostly car crashes?) seems to be the leading cause for all age group up to age 44. Then come suicide/homicide which only start declining in the ranks in your 40s, probably because other causes (cancer, heart conditions) start to take over.

I'm in my 40s and officially more likely to have my heart kill me, than myself.

https://wisqars.cdc.gov/fatal-leading

Interested in learning what others do. I've been in this same situation and the options are not ideal. My best bet so far is to cobble together some public domain (no attribution) SVGs, lightly adapt as needed, and use them to generate my PNGs, etc.

That's what I did for https://delayedsend.com, for example.

But if your clients are mostly asleep while this is happening, they might not notice.

My understanding is that in the typical hip-breaking fall, the fall is the consequence of the bone-breaking, and not the cause.

In other words, osteoporosis causes brittle bones that break at odd times, and that makes you fall. If that's the case, bone-strengthening exercises and diet would be more effective at preventing this catastrophic scenario.

But I'm not a medical doctor.

Generally that happens in places where biking would be the ideal transportation mean (due to distances/weather/density) but the infrastructure is poor to support it. Give people safe means to move around and they will use it.

On the other hand, statistics show that bikes are comparatively much safer than cars when it comes to the safety of others. When a bike rider kills someone else, it makes the news. When a driver kills someone else, it's business as usual because it's so common.

During military service, you're typically not home with service weapons. You're stationed wherever you're receiving training, and that's where weapons remain.

I bought one at a swap meet in Amsterdam a few years ago. They were piled up high and cheap. It made a fun gift for a friend back home, but we got really odd looks on the train when wearing it :).

I know someone who published an academic paper on doing exactly this.

I've been daydreaming about something like this for my squirrel problem. The damn things nearly leave me without nectarines unless I install a cumbersome, unsightly net over the tree.

What concerns me, as a non-Canadian not living in Canada, is that if a separate cause (i.e. global recession) makes housing prices drop in Canada during this period, NIMBYs everywhere will use that as evidence that "it works", and will try to replicate elsewhere.