I once was an intern in a company that wanted to rewrite the whole Reddit code in .net. The founder was a charming person and managed to raise a huge pile of money. "We can redo this with current technology and elegant design! We will run circles around Reddit!". We had a great time. Free snacks, lot's of parties, luxurious office furniture, skateboarding in the hall... In the end, the company ran out of money before…
He was obviously obsessed by .net and circles. But what do you mean by "circles around Reddit" or "circles around something"? Like... g+ circles?
It is an eye sore for me as well. The CakePHP project has done away with yearly update by replacing the year(s) with '(c)'. https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/commit/7b860debe4731a9cbc... I remember watching a Stephen Fry interview who mentioned that placing the Copyright symbol once on your piece of work is sufficient to claim Copyright. But is placing the symbol once on a book, the same as placing a Copyright/Licen…
As a matter of fact, you do not need to even declare copyright anywhere in the text to claim copyright (at least in the US). Copyright exists from the moment of the work's creation. [1] And placing a copyright notice does not afford you any other benefits without registration anyway. Once you've registered with the US Copyright Office, you may place a copyright notice if you want, but your work is still protected eve…
I'm dating a lawyer. According to them, what you've written is true, however, speaking practically, there is a significant advantage to be gained from presenting evidence. If two parties show up to a dispute with identical source code, the one that has a copyright in it has an advantage. Sure, it's easily faked, and that could be argued, however, it would be trying to argue away evidence that exists which is much more difficult than arguing in favor of something that does exist. So if you want to lock in a victory and reduce court time, use copyright notices (and other legal notices like trespassing signs, etc.) liberally.
I once was an intern in a company that wanted to rewrite the whole Reddit code in .net. The founder was a charming person and managed to raise a huge pile of money. "We can redo this with current technology and elegant design! We will run circles around Reddit!". We had a great time. Free snacks, lot's of parties, luxurious office furniture, skateboarding in the hall... In the end, the company ran out of money before…
That’s odd. As if the programming language itself is what makes Reddit what it is :)
Unfortunately from my experience, people thinking that background technology choices can give them a consumer advantage is not that uncommon.
Well, they're right pretty much by definition - otherwise it wouldn't matter at all what technology you use. You could code your CRUDs in Brainfuck connected to MongoDB. In real world, you gain consumer advantage by e.g. chosing right database for the problem, or playing to language's strengths (which is what pg done at Viaweb).
Unfortunately from my experience, people thinking that background technology choices can give them a consumer advantage is not that uncommon.
Well, they're right pretty much by definition - otherwise it wouldn't matter at all what technology you use. You could code your CRUDs in Brainfuck connected to MongoDB. In real world, you gain consumer advantage by e.g. chosing right database for the problem, or playing to language's strengths (which is what pg done at Viaweb).
I do this too and so why do I do it? In essence it's because there is a very large number of lazy programmers who live by cut and paste. We're not just talking the "I've found a solution on Stack Overflow and will use that", but more "I've searched Github for keyword + language and this file does what I need". The files are copied into their projects in its entirety, sometimes whole libraries are, and those programme…
> In essence it's because there is a very large number of lazy programmers who live by cut and paste. I've had programmers copy and paste GPL'd code into proprietary projects I'm responsible for. It's not laziness it's ignorance. "What's a GPL?"
I've shipped hard product with GPL onboard and in use. Its great! I've also complied, 100%. Also great!
To be fair, you can build a decent social site out of .net; e.g. Stack Overflow does quite well. But its not a main factor.
To be fair you can build a decent anything out of any language / framework / environment; the point is, technology doesn't matter that much if your product is good. Look at Twitter or something for example, they built a product in a language they were comfortable with, and evolved from there.