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pebb··on On Being Not Dead
I also noticed that most people actually want to be dead. It really surprised me...

But then, most people live crap lives.

pebb··on Yang Jisheng: The man who discovered 36 million dead
Pretty much all famine are caused by government policies.
pebb··on The last day
Sure, and I bet you buy your food with stock options.
pebb··on A Better Twitter Bootstrap Modal
Not without heavy js code
pebb··on How I went from $100-an-hour programming to $X0,000-a-week consulting
Or banks
pebb··on NVD3 is back
Looks like they got owned by this:

QUOTE

  I'm one of the 30 other individuals that acutally patched and commited changes for Bob to include in nvd3.js; I'm looking for contacts for the other 29 contributors.  (Please contact me at using the feedback form on congocart.com or master-technology.com) I would like one of us (I'm willing to volenteer) to contact Mr. Qunibi of Novus partners in a position of consensuses from those who actually have code in the product.

   My thoughts that would I believe be amicable (i.e. win/win) to both sides is that they can have our permission to take ALL of our changes closed source in the own future versions as long as we also (the community) may use the last release under the open source (Apache) license it has been under since shortly after it was released on there official novus github account and go our own separate way.   I know my changes were really early to the library and some of my code may not even exist anymore (lol).   

    But I believe the cost for them to audit the whole library and rip out all of our changes and rewrite it all could be major -- I believe Bob could legally remove all of our code; but for the actual re-implementation Bob would have to hand it off to someone to do a fully clean-room version to make them legally safe from being sued.   And that could be very costly in time and resources.   Cost wise for them It might even be cheaper for them to ditch the last 6-7 months of changes and to just revert to the version before my patch/commit (which was issue #3  <G>).     So I think we might be able to make this a win/win proposition if I can get the consensuses of the other 29 contributors.   
 Nathanael A.
pebb··on Cisco Acquires Enterprise Wi-Fi Startup Meraki For $1.2 Billion In Cash
Interesting, never realized they offer a free MDM (MAM) solution.
pebb··on Malware Uses Google Docs as a Proxy Server
Now we know why China blocks Google Docs
pebb··on The High Cost of Free Office Snacks
Yes.
pebb··on The High Cost of Free Office Snacks
You wan greek yogurt. So Good!
pebb··on NVD3 Erased From Existence
Time to sue Novus Partners I guess.

QUOTE

  I'm one of the 30 other individuals that acutally patched and commited changes for Bob to include in nvd3.js; I'm looking for contacts for the other 29 contributors.  (Please contact me at using the feedback form on congocart.com or master-technology.com) I would like one of us (I'm willing to volenteer) to contact Mr. Qunibi of Novus partners in a position of consensuses from those who actually have code in the product.

   My thoughts that would I believe be amicable (i.e. win/win) to both sides is that they can have our permission to take ALL of our changes closed source in the own future versions as long as we also (the community) may use the last release under the open source (Apache) license it has been under since shortly after it was released on there official novus github account and go our own separate way.   I know my changes were really early to the library and some of my code may not even exist anymore (lol).   

    But I believe the cost for them to audit the whole library and rip out all of our changes and rewrite it all could be major -- I believe Bob could legally remove all of our code; but for the actual re-implementation Bob would have to hand it off to someone to do a fully clean-room version to make them legally safe from being sued.   And that could be very costly in time and resources.   Cost wise for them It might even be cheaper for them to ditch the last 6-7 months of changes and to just revert to the version before my patch/commit (which was issue #3  <G>).     So I think we might be able to make this a win/win proposition if I can get the consensuses of the other 29 contributors.   
Nathanael A.
pebb··on Non-hiring Practices
This situation is very common. See Microsoft's treatment of employees (and how after they left, they decide against using Microsoft technologies)
pebb··on Non-hiring Practices
We need a system similar to doctor and lawyers for programmers. Control the supply.
pebb··on Ask HN: Why don't people talk specifics about money and salaries?
It is illegal to forbid discussion of salary. Federal law.
pebb··on Ask HN: Why don't people talk specifics about money and salaries?
Because most people are insecure. (By talking salary, I helped a co-worker raise his salary at the company by 40%, matching a new hire. It's unbelievable)
pebb··on Chinese government blocks Google.com, Gmail, Google+, Maps, Docs and more
Sounds just like the mass media in the United States...

(Go ahead downvote it)

pebb··on High blood pressure damages brain long before old age
Check out the articles at lef.org
pebb··on Colorado measure legalizing marijuana passes
Bingo, someone gets it.
pebb··on Reddit user captures video of 2012 voting machines altering votes
He who casts a vote decides nothing. He who counts the votes decides everything
pebb··on Quantum entanglement shows that reality can't be local
There is another explaination: http://discovermagazine.com/2010/apr/01-back-from-the-future

The future causing the past.

pebb··on Wikipedia Is Nearing Completion, in a Sense
Yup, from now on all edits done by outsiders shall be reverted with extreme prejudice.
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