If you're saving 100k per annum and getting a 10% ROI, 20 years brings you to 6.3m. Obviously even in SV "most people" have not already finished doing this.
I worked at a publisher back around 2010. The unit cost for the publisher to put a $20 AUD book on a shelf in a book shop was about $2 AUD. The bookstore kept quite a bit of that margin - $10 or so - but they had to pay…
"Found no evidence" doesn't mean it didn't happen, it means the incident response firm didn't find it.
Knowing what TV you own, what phone models are used in your house, and what other devices you own tells advertisers about your spending patterns and income.
Meanwhile in Australia, it’s illegal (misleading trading) to display a price lower than the customer pays, and has been for a long time. It’s fine; fees etc are disclosed up front.
VB6 the language was a hostile mess. The form builder approach was also in Delphi, and it was equally great there while having a far better language behind it. Form builders don’t work for responsive design. That’s it,…
Long before then (Millenia earlier), the voting public can adjust civil timezones to accommodate the drift.
Right? Imagine how badly it could go if a disease known to cause brain damage became widespread and was circulating in the population.
If you have pens in the building, and staff need a pen, they will use the pen that is available, even if there’s a sign saying “not for purpose x”. If you want to stop that happening, you need to not have limited pens…
Open the effects submenu, 81% y-scale, 2% y-offset, papyrus on the left, comic sans on the right.
The two challenges there are firstly - that analog design has been a separate electrical engineering school for most of a century, so there are few who could design it - and secondly - that every single chip will have…
Arguing in court over whether the details in question were functional or copyright is time-consuming (thus expensive), and risky. Once it's established that person A has given _any_ details to person B, the upper bound…
Functional details can’t be copyrighted, but once you’ve seen a copyrighted implementation, it’s an argument in court over similarity and function. A clean room implementation by people who haven’t seen the original…
Person A has failed to secure private material, and person B can hardly claim their implementation is “clean room” if they based it on other work.
> what if person a and person b are unrelated and person b found it on their own That's what's referred to as a "clean room implementation" further up the thread. However, this specific thread is about the scenario…
> NDAs apply to all of humanity The NDA doesn't apply to people who haven't signed it, but copyright law does. If you know the material you're receiving is under copyright (eg proprietary source code), and you publish…
I'm seeing people who _used to be_ like that losing that understanding without realizing it's happening - they have a superficial idea of what the code is doing, enough to feel like they understand it, but the change is…
Apps built with a toolkit which ships its own filepicker will immediately attempt to enumerate directories in `/`, `/home`, and probably a few other places.
Does that prove you didn't photograph a display showing the digital image?
One particularly interesting (to me, at least) approach using progressive decoding was described by Jake Archibald ( https://jakearchibald.com/2025/present-and-future-of-progres... ). If browsers extended `srcset` with…
Most useful code comment I have encountered read: “”” After you give up on trying to refactor this code, increment the following line accordingly. HOURS_WASTED_HERE=26 “””
Loneliness is hard. Maybe believing that it was real was the only thing keeping him going.
They may well have used suppressors.
Also, promotions can be a different job. I've seen a few senior developers who weren't great programmers, but could communicate effectively, manage up and down, etc. So long as they were willing to defer to others on…
IMO it's because they don't get burnt out by a lack of results. After 5-6 consecutive approaches fail, I need a reason to think the next one might work out to stay motivated. Claude will keep burning credits trying new…
If you're saving 100k per annum and getting a 10% ROI, 20 years brings you to 6.3m. Obviously even in SV "most people" have not already finished doing this.
I worked at a publisher back around 2010. The unit cost for the publisher to put a $20 AUD book on a shelf in a book shop was about $2 AUD. The bookstore kept quite a bit of that margin - $10 or so - but they had to pay…
"Found no evidence" doesn't mean it didn't happen, it means the incident response firm didn't find it.
Knowing what TV you own, what phone models are used in your house, and what other devices you own tells advertisers about your spending patterns and income.
Meanwhile in Australia, it’s illegal (misleading trading) to display a price lower than the customer pays, and has been for a long time. It’s fine; fees etc are disclosed up front.
VB6 the language was a hostile mess. The form builder approach was also in Delphi, and it was equally great there while having a far better language behind it. Form builders don’t work for responsive design. That’s it,…
Long before then (Millenia earlier), the voting public can adjust civil timezones to accommodate the drift.
Right? Imagine how badly it could go if a disease known to cause brain damage became widespread and was circulating in the population.
If you have pens in the building, and staff need a pen, they will use the pen that is available, even if there’s a sign saying “not for purpose x”. If you want to stop that happening, you need to not have limited pens…
Open the effects submenu, 81% y-scale, 2% y-offset, papyrus on the left, comic sans on the right.
The two challenges there are firstly - that analog design has been a separate electrical engineering school for most of a century, so there are few who could design it - and secondly - that every single chip will have…
Arguing in court over whether the details in question were functional or copyright is time-consuming (thus expensive), and risky. Once it's established that person A has given _any_ details to person B, the upper bound…
Functional details can’t be copyrighted, but once you’ve seen a copyrighted implementation, it’s an argument in court over similarity and function. A clean room implementation by people who haven’t seen the original…
Person A has failed to secure private material, and person B can hardly claim their implementation is “clean room” if they based it on other work.
> what if person a and person b are unrelated and person b found it on their own That's what's referred to as a "clean room implementation" further up the thread. However, this specific thread is about the scenario…
> NDAs apply to all of humanity The NDA doesn't apply to people who haven't signed it, but copyright law does. If you know the material you're receiving is under copyright (eg proprietary source code), and you publish…
I'm seeing people who _used to be_ like that losing that understanding without realizing it's happening - they have a superficial idea of what the code is doing, enough to feel like they understand it, but the change is…
Apps built with a toolkit which ships its own filepicker will immediately attempt to enumerate directories in `/`, `/home`, and probably a few other places.
Does that prove you didn't photograph a display showing the digital image?
One particularly interesting (to me, at least) approach using progressive decoding was described by Jake Archibald ( https://jakearchibald.com/2025/present-and-future-of-progres... ). If browsers extended `srcset` with…
Most useful code comment I have encountered read: “”” After you give up on trying to refactor this code, increment the following line accordingly. HOURS_WASTED_HERE=26 “””
Loneliness is hard. Maybe believing that it was real was the only thing keeping him going.
They may well have used suppressors.
Also, promotions can be a different job. I've seen a few senior developers who weren't great programmers, but could communicate effectively, manage up and down, etc. So long as they were willing to defer to others on…
IMO it's because they don't get burnt out by a lack of results. After 5-6 consecutive approaches fail, I need a reason to think the next one might work out to stay motivated. Claude will keep burning credits trying new…