MIT / Apache are not copyleft and do not stipulate any obligations to release modifications. There would be no basis for a third party to go after a product that incorporates software with these licenses and ask them to release it.
This is a really impressive reverse engineering feat of the iMessage protocol, all the way down to the iMessage auth flows and identity credentials. The deep dive the authors posted is interesting
You do not need to wear a uniform to get into Berghain. The bouncers, above all, are looking for interesting people who they believe will add something to the mix rather than just go there to consume and gawk. There really is not much to conform to, other than some contextual awareness of the fact that you're going to a techno venue and there is a certain culture behind that, e.g. flashy logos or ostentatious clothing is generally frowned upon, and you should be dressed comfortably enough to actually rave. Most importantly, I think, you need to give off a vibe of freedom and non judgement, the things going on in Berghain are not for everyone. Elon didn't get in, and frankly it would probably be a buzzkill if he did.
There is a Michelin star restaurant in Palermo, Sicily called MEC that has a surprising collection of Apple products and personal photos, letters, and other effects from Steve Jobs (including his shoes?). I think they also had a camera pointed at our table so that the kitchen could deliver each course in optimal time. One of the more interesting meals I have had in my life, eating creative food while sitting next to an iMac G4 opulently displayed in a glass museum case.
I too find the it patronizing to shop in-store – it seems the staff are trained to assume everyone has less knowledge of the products than they do – this might work in other consumer retail environments but not when you're selling "Pro" level products. The tone and efficiency of the retail experience is much better at a store like Adorama or B&H (NYC pro photo/video shops). Not to mention the irritating processes and many touchpoints of reaching the right person in an Apple store
Shrewd shopkeepers know the AMEX deal – higher transaction fees, potential chargebacks, etc. Even when they do accept it, I feel bad giving my AMEX to a small business, especially when I'm abroad. Accepting AMEX is common at a high-end restaurant or hotel around the world, but good luck once you're off the beaten track...
While Astrud captured a beautiful english rendition of this song, the lure and enchantment of bossa and samba is lost quite easily to my ears when english vocals chime in. If you love this stuff and you want to branch out from well known Getz and Jobim, hear Paulinho Da Viola, Gabor Szabo, Novos Bainanos, Gilberto Gil, Maria Bethânia - you’ll find some of these in any classics loving brasileira’s vinyl crate.
I like to think that you are either consuming culture or contributing to it – if all you are there to do is consume, you may be better off in a place less foreign. I've found that taking the time to integrate with the people, learning the local language and overall just trying really hard to fit in with the rhythm around me has melded quite a different experience for myself. I have tried hopping around the world, doing a month at a time here or there and I've had mixed results - in Lisbon I felt like just another one in a pack of people taking the charm out of a small city that has a lot of resent toward digital nomads and the like, from younger folks to old. In Vienna and around Switzerland less so, as english didn't make me stick out like a sore thumb and there is much less of an influx in those places. On the other hand, during my last trip I stayed about 4 months in Buenos Aires, taking language courses with a teacher, working a bit less, and making lasting friendships with several people. Argentina felt very welcoming, but I think my efforts helped tremendously. If all you have time for is work, good luck in an Iberian or Latin city – these are slow places that do not have sympathy for people who revolve their lives around work as a city like New York or Zurich may.
As culture becomes more global, cities that are glossed over with the amenities digital nomads demand will all look one and the same. You can go to a city center in nearly any part of the world and get a pretty latte and an avocado toast, or go to a cute cowork. But why travel at that point?
When I'm traveling and in apartments that don't have cable television, I use these super long videos to keep the TV on and make it look like I'm home. I wonder how many other people doing the same and driving up views.
Kagan's dissent is particularly thought provoking. While the majority ruled that the use was not sufficiently transformative because it was licensed to publications in the same manner as the original photograph, Kagan believes that Conde Nast could have chosen either photo to license, and that they chose the Warhol not as a substitute, but a work of its own.
"The majority holds that because Warhol licensed his work to a magazine—as Goldsmith sometimes also did—the first factor goes against him. It does not matter how different the Warhol is from the original photo—how much “new expression, meaning, or message” he added. It does not matter that the silkscreen and the photo do not have the same aesthetic characteristics and do not convey the same meaning. It does not matter that because of those dissimilarities, the magazine publisher did not view the one as a substitute for the other. All that matters is that Warhol and the publisher entered into a licensing transaction, similar to one Goldsmith might have done. Because the artist had such a commercial purpose, all the creativity in the world could not save him. ."
Individual actions like these feel good for people, but don't really make much headway on the broader problems. For example if you are vegan, you are not directly supporting the factory farming of animal products, but meanwhile people will continue buying those products. I would venture to guess that inconvenient legislations like plastic straw or plastic bag bans have far more powerful outcomes than these sort of individual lifestyle efforts.
I've seen implementations of this trend in Switzerland at natural markets - I wouldn't exactly call it "zero waste", but some shops are catering to customers who aspire to be more environmentally conscious. For example, products that keep well, e.g. olive oil, liquid shampoo and conditioner are available in taps, and customers can bring their mason jars or the like. Paper or compostable bags for the produce. Grains / nuts available by weight like in old school co-op groceries.
I don't think zero waste is feasible for the entire product mix, and we can always wonder what's happening higher up in the supply chain, but some customers definitely enjoy dealing with less waste and will prefer to shop in a store that facilitates this.
We can’t avoid feature creep as viable company leaders because we would miss out on new customers. Maintaining a good UI amid constantly added features is really a product design issue. The real problem is rogue teams/line level product managers working in silos and missing opportunities to solve for feature demands with better planning and product design.
There are plenty of products have iterated over decades and maintained the same simplicity, think Ableton Live. I would even give Word some credit in that it has recovered from the earlier mess the author points out by delivering a toolbar architecture through its ribbon menus and advanced settings to hit those less common use cases while maintaining a level of approachability. Sometimes all it takes is a step back and a bit of thought on design.
Unfortunately beyond / impossible meats were just mimicked by all the incumbent meat alternative brands and it turns out what they are doing isn't that special or proprietary. Most people eating them are not hardcore vegans / plant based folks, tried them for novelty and switched back to beef. People don't want to eat this regularly and when we do, there are 10 brands on the shelf with it on offer and it's a race to the bottom.
Their goal is to create cost predictability and ensure things are budgeted for. It's about reducing risk and locking in cost. In some cases, if the cost is discretionary, people may also want to ensure they spend their budget so it isn't cut. But in the >10k MRR territory usually that is budgeted for and approved through multiple levels and not coming out of a team budget. Going back to ask for more later is too time consuming.
The court based the award on “actual usage” of the software (i.e. auditable use by uniquely identifiable users). In a real life contract negotiation, the Navy would have purchased far more licenses. Enterprises tend to buy surplus licenses so they don’t need to renegotiate and in some cases in defense deals the government actually has to buy the software for everyone, and cannot license only for specific people due to internal guidelines. This could have and should have been a lucrative deal for the german software company, instead the Navy went ahead with deploying the software widely without a legitimate license deal in place.
I love companies that can actually thrive with this way of working but it only works at a certain size. This only works in a senior heavy, relatively flat engineering org. Once process ramps up due to new compliance demands or HR wants more of a mixed skill level in engineering, rapid fire product delivery and async culture dies out. I think this could be sustained in a software company in the right context, but orgs eyeing unicorn valuations or headline exits only leverage this way of working until they need to recalibrate.
Wine quality ranking (and price) in France is less interested in what tastes good and more interested in what is most distinctive.
A lot of fine wine is priced on geographic prestige / scarcity. For example, there are many hectares of land that can produce Chablis (much of it perfectly fine to you and me), but only 1% of the wine producing estates of the region have Grand Cru status. This status is a combination of competency of the wine producer + geography of the estate (more so geography). The chablis grand cru producing estates sit at the top of the appelation, and all the environmental variables (“terroir”) of this micro area and the expression of these in the final product contribute to the wine being considered more distinctive.
As a gay adult not planning to have children, friends are the center of my life and probably will be for a long time. I think gay culture in NYC is an excellent example of the opposite of what this article describes - we all work hard, and many of us have partners, but we all maintain an evolving network of friends. It’s not hard to stay in touch or run into someone or make plans on a whim. It feels kind of like we’re all permanently adolescents. People come and go (jobs, travel, new opportunities), but with enough connections there’s always someone you’ve known for a while who is currently around. Sometimes these friendships aren’t very deep, sometimes they are. Some are brief, some are decades long.
I bill by the week only and generally tie it to functional deliverables. E.g, deliver x feature in y weeks. Instead of going back and forth on how I spent my time, it works better for me to invest the time to scope things out carefully ahead of time. This process also forces clients to think things through earlier on and do their homework on what they’re asking for.
These are a nice way to show larger companies you want to work with that you've made long term considerations for the sustainability of your software. We've brought this sort of thing up later in deal cycles if prospects have concerns over company future. We have contract clauses ready if they want to participate in the code escrow and many are happy to pay to join on as a beneficiary if we shut doors or discontinue our product.
In practice though, code escrows are kind of fraught with issues -- deposited source code that doesn't compile, out of date, etc. It's up to vendors to deposit working materials, as there isn't usually any kind of audit process. I can't imagine the costs and time it would take to pick up a vendor's source code, staff some maintainers, and get them efficient. Enterprise customers are usually shopping by requirements, not underlying tech, so they are likely not even aware of the tech they would need to hire for.
Around $4k to $10k depending on the number of beneficiaries. Each beneficiary enters into their own agreement with your company and NCC group, and then there is an overarching agreement between your company and NCC. There is a cost associated with initial setup between you and NCC, and then each beneficiary pays a bit too (you can pass on this cost to them if you like).
Writing off parts of your rent as a founder or business owner is perfectly ok with the IRS. Such a space needs to have "regular and exclusive use" for running your business and be your principle place of business (i.e. you do not maintain an office outside of your home).
In my experience CPAs consider it reasonable to take the square footage of the dedicated office area and divide it by the total square footage of your home and deduct that much from your rent.
The handbook says that employees stack rank each other based on value contribution and salary is adjusted accordingly. Compensation is controlled by the initial offer and then adjusted based on peer review.
Interesting how this article points out that foods like fish and eggs are high in sulfur contribute to gum inflammation, but that omega-3 fatty acids can help reduce this inflammation. I guess that piece of salmon may counterbalance itself.