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Re:The terms of the AGPL are pretty easy to comply with on Monday July 27, 2020 @05:24PM (#23969550)
> A company which sells that much software can certainly afford to re-implement an AGPL component; or at least implement a good enough stub implementation to make the software run acceptably.

If you ever work at a software company, you'll understand that you never have enough time to do what you want, and you have to pick and choose the most valuable tasks and go with those. Rewriting perfectly working code is never valuable.

Re:GitHub is now free for teams on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @07:47PM (#22872830)
No, your comment just doesn't make sense. Lightbulb manufacturers are not responsible for wars because tanks have lightbulbs in them, and GitHub is not responsible for all the harm in the world either because some bad actors use GitHub.
Re:China Detains Former U.S. Air Force Pilot Flying for FedEx on Monday September 23, 2019 @03:26PM (#21052605)
Your example shows that you fail to understand how it's inaccurate to compare.
There are dozens of models that various companies use. When applying for a mortgage, there are different models used when applying for a car or an apartment. Credit Karma gets their scores from the credit bureaus with some particular model, which probably isn't the same one when you go try to get a car. It's not _wrong_ it's just different.
Re:Abandoning Gitflow and GitHub in favour of Gerrit on Friday April 08, 2016 @08:58PM (#11459337)
> By squashing the who and the message are lost. But we think that's okay because it's a lesser evil than having a bunch of commits in trunk. Which is bullshit.

Well, don't erase the message when squashing. My policy is that we take the pull request and use the message title and description as the actual message of the squashed commit, which works great.

Having a bunch of commits IS really bad. One idea = one commit is so much better than some bullshit three commits of "refactored" "made mistake" "back to normal" those are just as worthless to keep in the history as recording your typos+backspaces+fixes into the history.

Anyone who is glorifying hunter-gatherers needs to look at the hard evidence, of which we actually have. There are plenty of recorded evidence of hunter gatherers societies and there are still many that exist, such as in Papa New Guinea for example.

Their lives are full of incredible violence and murders happen all the time. There is a reason that the populations do not exceed a certain capacity. Because they kill each other. (Sometimes it's because there is only so much food in a certain area to support them) There are plenty of sources. Guns, Germs, and Steel is a great book that can explain some of this.