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An Unbelievable Demo

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Re: An Unbelievable Demo

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Post by toyg »

anderskaseorg wrote: post #26
na85 wrote: post #17

As much as I think RMS himself is an utter embarrassment of a human being, stories like this are why I also believe the GPL is one of the most important contributions to computing, ever. MIT/BSD-style licenses are practically begging large billion-dollar corporations to rip off your work wholesale and use it to generate profits while contributing only the occasional patch or two. I used to see this phenomenon on HN,…

The BSD license doesn’t allow you to delete the copyright statements from someone else’s code and claim it as your own.

Yep, that's literally the only thing one can't do.

Sadly a lot of people don't even respect that.

Re: An Unbelievable Demo

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Post by edwinyzh »

_2d30 wrote: post #94
TeMPOraL wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's like your mouth was full of water - in contrast to British Received Pronunciation, which is like a mouth full of down feather. Also compare to "Hollywood Soviet English", which is like a dry mouth, but the tongue is filled with helium so it floats up, and then 'r' sounds like this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/Alveolar... .

I have absolutely zero ability to take your descriptions and convert them into an understanding of what you're trying to convey. Like what could this possibly mean??? > ...which is like a mouth full of down feather.

But to me they are good analogies! And I laughed!

Re: An Unbelievable Demo

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Post by nix23 »

rubicon33 wrote: post #63
cperciva wrote: post #49

Reminds me of when Apple started providing "smaller size updates" to OS X. I was curious about the details since my doctorate had touched on the topic, so I worked my contacts (I had a few in Apple engineering from the FreeBSD / OS X relationship) and after a few months I got back as answer: "We're using a tool called bsdiff, are you familiar with it?" I was indeed, since I was the author of said tool. (Just to be cl…

I don't understand what bsdiff does, or is. I am a software developer and I frankly have no clue what I would ever use bsdiff for! I've read what it does (libraries for building and applying patches to binary files) and still don't really have a sense for what the purpose of this tool is. What are some real life use cases for it? When does a developer need such a tool?

Chrome and Chromium used bsdiff for updates:

https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/softwar...

Re: An Unbelievable Demo

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Post by throwawaye3735 »

brendangregg wrote: post #107
throwawaye3735 wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am not saying it's factually incorrect. My point is that it includes a lot of Gregg's personal feelings (and maybe was informed incorrectly about the situation) and I'm just not sold that the guy who was assigned to show off Dtrace was the bad guy here

In the article I included my guess about real cause for this: Sun's assumption that any good work had to be from a Sun employee. I'd guess the sequence of events was: - DTrace is the new hotness, we need it in our UI. - Everyone's using Brendan's tools, let's add them (so far, so good). - Oh, why do they say copyright Brendan? He made a mistake: Sun employees should be putting copyright Sun on them. (THIS is the mist…

I worked for a government research lab and it was the same, only work coming from inside the lab was respected and contractor work was looked down upon.

That's really interesting, since you were so close to Sun they actually thought you were a Sun employee!

Re: An Unbelievable Demo

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Post by Rapzid »

toyg wrote: post #130
exidy wrote: post #110

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For me, if the speaker uses two syllables for "and", it's a strong American accent.

To me it's when water and wider are pronounced in a very similar way. Also, Americans abuse awesome .

You can't have too much awesome.

Re: An Unbelievable Demo

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Post by peterkelly »

mpermar wrote: post #123

Awesome story. I'm not sure if this is just my personal feeling but I would say that stealing intellectual property was sort of common at that time. Open source was not widely known, knowledge was scarce, communities were just ramping up and really anyone with lack of principles could pretty much steal anything and get away with it. It happened to me a few times with online content I wrote. Essentially tutorials, art…

The article says the story was from 2005. Open source was very much widely known at that time. Linux was 13 years old by then, and Sun themselves open sourced both DTrace and Solaris that same year.

Re: An Unbelievable Demo

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Post by oblio »

throwaway2037 wrote: post #108
BrandoElFollito wrote: post #37

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See, at least you realize you are a tiny country with a small population and the ego adapted to that. I am French and we are a country with a great past - but not looking ahead. We still assume that we radiate across the world and that our voice counts. It does not, and this has to be clear. There are countries that can influence events, but this is not ours. A typical example is how angry we were after the recent pi…

To offer some off-topic support: France is indisputably a cultural giant -- tourism, food, TV/film (Canal+!), the arts. Do not underestimate that!

TV/film - is there something new even remotely popular across the world that's French?

It was the case up to the 2000's, I think, but I can't even remember the name of a new French director since then. The last one I remember is Luc Besson. Kind of similar story for actors/actresses, are there some major French stars popular across the world?

I feel most of the influences are leftovers from a different era, folks like Depardieu.

Re: An Unbelievable Demo

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Post by brendangregg »

rurban wrote: post #135
Timothycquinn wrote: post #11

I wonder if @bcantrill was aware of this at the time it happened?

The VIP can only be Bryan himself, caught with his pants down. Amusing

No, it wasn't, I don't even remember the VIP's name. Met him that once and never heard of him again.

Re: An Unbelievable Demo

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Post by codeulike »

nix23 wrote: post #144
rubicon33 wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't understand what bsdiff does, or is. I am a software developer and I frankly have no clue what I would ever use bsdiff for! I've read what it does (libraries for building and applying patches to binary files) and still don't really have a sense for what the purpose of this tool is. What are some real life use cases for it? When does a developer need such a tool?

Chrome and Chromium used bsdiff for updates: https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/softwar...

The page says they use something called Courgette which is similar to bsdiff
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