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> You have the burden of proof here.

even transistors, the basic underpinning of our digital worlds, have middle ground - it's the norm, not the exception, and dichotomies are almost entirely a human fiction to make things more computationally tractable

the burden is yours

you're creating a false dichotomy

neither open source nor proprietary represents a single thing and there's a continuum between the two extremes

this license is clearly somewhere near the middle

open source can certainly be profitable for some personalities and some projects, but there seems to be a large portion of the space that's hard to monetize

i've taken a cut at making a license that attempts to bridge the divide - capturing many of the freedoms of open source while still requiring a subscription

https://github.com/db4j/pupl

beautiful writing and a beautiful approach to building consensus

i'm nearly incapable of reading light-text-on-dark-background (i get visual auras and nausea). can this extension be used selectively to invert sites that are naturally dark ?

from the github:

> This extension inverts brightness of web pages

i guess a related question is can it be activated for individual pages (as opposed to for-all-pages)

i do

bright text on a dark background (at least on a display) triggers auras and nausea for me. the auras can vary a bit, but a typical one would be seeing an overlay of flickering, scrolling dark-colored horizontal bars for the next few minutes

i actually came to this thread to see if the extension supported "Light mode for everything" as an option :)

mariadb's Business Source License (https://mariadb.com/bsl11) is consistent with what you describe, though without any assurances during the proprietary phase

possible that combining the two as you suggest would be the best of both worlds. i need to think about the business implications for the author

part of this issue is that it's difficult for maintainers to capture value for their work even when they're successful

i've written a "paid use" license that attempts to capture many of the freedoms of FOSS while allowing a revenue stream if a package is successful. would love any feedback

https://github.com/db4j/pupl

i'm sympathetic to (and in the same boat) as the developers that are considering "licenses" like this one. but i agree with the author that the language being used is fraudulent and the terms are one-sided (hence the quotes). i've made an attempt at coming up with a license that better bridges the gap between open and closed. my goals were:

* pay to use the software * assure developers that they can also monetize their work * assure users that prices won't change unpredictably

https://github.com/db4j/pupl/blob/master/PUPL.md

would love any feedback or alternative licenses that capture similar elements

the only thing wrong with this analogy is that it's more of a giant spoonful than a sprinkling

anyone have a sense whether this frontend could be decoupled from the php backend ?

great post - thank you for convincing me not to spend another moment considering using k8s ! /s

the six are professors, phd candidates and a recent graduate that hasn't started working. it would be much more interesting to hear from women (ideally chosen at random) that graduated with cs degrees 5-10 years ago and talk about their own personal career paths

and do the same with men, and compare

not sure that we have to tools to understand these sorts of questions quantitatively, but i'd like to see at the least some qualitative data instead of opinions (whether reges or this group)

i recently stumbled upon cheese-making by accident. and it turns out it's trivially easy. and with raw milk, it probably wasn't just easy but almost unavoidable once you were milking cows

cheese making has 3 stages. milk is curdled, then strained, then pressed, and then optionally aged (i haven't tried aging yet)

raw milk curdles itself and the whey could be strained out as easily as pouring it on a bed of grass or leaves and pressed by hand or with the weight of a stone in that same bed of grass. the result is cheese

i can't buy raw milk, so my process is a bit different. i make yogurt, strain with a piece of fabric, and then press with a potato ricer

making yogurt with pasteurized skim (or near skim, or non-homogenized) is trivially easy once the bacteria exists - inoculate with a starter (which can be as easy as adding milk to a "dirty" vessel) and let it sit till it curdles. for my first batch i used stonyfield to inoculate, and have used my own yogurt (or whey) as the starter since then. heat the mixture to 110°F and let it sit for several hours. there are also strains that work at room temp (but i haven't tried them). the result isn't as thick as commercial yogurt, but it's easier to strain. homogenized milk with fat doesn't produce a strong enough curd to strain, but that's a modern problem

the only thing you've changed is now those 99.9% users can't even find the information they need to ask the .1% for help

great work

these apps appear to be doing exactly what they claim to be doing, or at least the articles don't make a claim otherwise and (at least for extensions, google has a strict policy about do-only-on-thing - i just got flagged and thankfully reinstated). CA was quite different - the app appeared to be doing one thing, but was actually doing a very different thing. and from my experience, facebook permissions are so broad as to be useless (which allowed me to make a kinda cool app but is scary)

wouldn't be surprised if there are bad apples in this ecosystem too - google can't take their policies too far or it will turn into a walled garden, but for the most part it's just users choosing convenience over sanity

> Objects are not data

this is not true. the jvm may choose to make serialization more complicated than it needs to be, but an object is nothing more than a collection of locations in memory

what's fundamentally wrong is sun/oracle's insistence on running constructors, not serialization itself

there's a huge difference between supporting the version that they sold you for a specific version of ios and writing a new version to work with future changes to ios (which they don't in any way control)

the author manages to blame the egg for the chicken

not a great article in general based on the lack of statistics, the failure to address the influence of non-hetero relationships, and the lack of a disclaimer on the reliability of survey data. but the kicker is the author ignoring the inherent connection between the ability to find sex partners and the ability to find marriage partners

and instead blaming the knowledge economy with nothing to back it up

one interesting tidbit from the article: the slow steady increase in celibate married men that doesn't appear to be matched in women

"the moment they decided to name themselves"

this isn't really a choice these days. the modern mind doesn't have time or attention for something as unwieldy as "involuntarily celibate". even comintern seems a bit long. we live in a world dominated by memes

the only other likely moniker this group could have ended up with today is "involuntarily fucking celibate"

huawei matebook x is 3:2 and runs linux nicely

surface book appears to as well, but i don't have one of them to vouch for

junk implies zero value, which is very far from accurate

this was how i wrote matlab - stub out a function, set a breakpoint, run the app, manipulate the variables in the debugger till the algorithm is working, copy and paste back into the editor, save and run again

all without touching the mouse

you're not even close to correct

searching whoishiring for java with a filter of contract returns exactly 1 result in the usa. the same search on just upwork gives 120 results, and there are 80 other sites listed

the list is very much needed

would you be willing to pay for a proxy service that took a url that used non-free JS and rendered it to pure dom that you could then view without JS ?

any sense of whether other people that care about such things would be willing to pay ?

> Personally speaking, I think running RAM at an overclock at 3200 MT/s is more fair to both systems

at that point you're comparing a system that AMD doesn't sell to a system Intel doesn't sell

is there a public server we can join to try this out ?

eg, my mattermost clone is https://mm.nqzero.com

just use a fake email (it's unused) and try it out. every time there's an announcement in this space i go to the landing page and am disappointed that trying out the product appears to be semi painful

when i've done similar stuff (with java and node), i've used node because nodejitsu can proxy websockets

the qualcomm terms sound like none of the above

for laptops, dell seems to love 16:9 aspect ratio, which makes them inappropriate for development. for workstations, every dell i've seen uses custom cases that prevent upgrading the motherboard with an OTS component