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Countering that you only stole his wallet, not his car might not have been the best response though.

This post makes your company look considerably less professional than it otherwise would have, even leaving allegations about code theft unanswered. I might have been unsure if you…

Are you claiming that there is a difference in the class of problems that can be computer between an 8 bit processor and a network of 1 bit processors?

If only we could replace eye witness testimony: it's notoriously faulty.

Wouldn't a properly formed DMCA complaint in this case be one of the few times you could commit perjury with one? There's no way they have any good faith belief they own the copyri…

All being a "functional language" means is that it's easy to write with a particular paradigm in the language. You certainly can write similar code in ML, Java, or C - or whatever …

Your analysis ignores the key point that bacteria operate on simple rules based entirely on local concerns, which is not the proposed case in the sci-fi story.

I do work in Haskell. At the end of the day, you still write some stateful, imperative code. It's just that your utility/work functions are pure, which means that you have predicta…

There's a distinctly 21st century flavor to being able to store all the banal life mistakes indefinitely, to dig them up later if we ever need dirt on a particular person. Before i…

Except that the particular beams of light being discussed are intentionally meant by the broadcasters as resources for the public as part of fulfilling their deal to license the sp…

The military and government in general makes extensive use of contractors for specialized tasks, but manages to audit and limit their behaviors to the degree that they're performin…

Haskell has a very neat interface for this, in that you build a special type which remembers the dimensions of a matrix as you build them, and then return either the result or a fa…

Except the water is almost entirely less than 5 miles deep, which is a sliver when we're talking about something with a radius 1000 times that.

"We're almost certainly not trampling over your rights, citizen. Now why don't you mosey along and stop asking about it?"

What part of inviting a criminal you've gathered significant recorded evidence against (eg, their own telephone confession) to a place you can arrest him do you think violates due …

The harm from the pervasive monitoring is greater than any benefit proposed: there's no need to run the trial to see if the benefit proposed is actually there, we already know it's…

My bank insisting on a hard-to-remember 8 character password isn't make it more secure than letting me pick a longer passphrase.

I think there's a second element to why a gallon of milk isn't $20: Walmart relies on not upsetting too many people, who collectively wield enough local political power to harm Wal…

There are markets with no real viable alternative to Walmart, because Walmart used their scale to crush competition, and no has made it uneconomical to start a rival business, sinc…

Except that the hurt is widely distributed at the higher price, but not at the lower price (where it's felt by a few large publishers). This kind of unequal distribution can cause …

The point of my quotation is merely to show that as part of work activities, research on VR was being done at id (ZeniMax) prior to contact with Oculus, and that Carmack's work on …

ZeniMax was working on VR technologies before Carmack began interacting with Oculus, and has a reasonable claim to the fruits of his work on that (being that it was an assigned R&D…

See my other reply for page cites and details, but it seems that ZeniMax was actively pursuing VR technology and that Carmac was part of that project prior to his work on Oculus. I…

According to the lawsuit filing (page 8 of the PDF linked above), Carmac was researching VR at id under ZeniMax. So yes, I think projects you undertake at work for money belong to …

> Their behavior is not unreasonable, but it is only possible because a prolific developer was not concerned about nuances of copyright law while collaborating with multiple compan…