Shicholas

how is PACER wonderful? charging exorbitant fees to access the laws that govern me is a complete racket.

I'm with you, but today most sr. attorneys & judges still print out all emails/documents to then redline. the legal field will need another 10-20 years before the foundation is present to even discuss removing Word.

if only lawyers used git, sigh. fighting word is almost like fighting the system itself - some courts require filing in .doc!

yes, to take this a bit further, I love the idea that no matter what db is best, Postgres can be the starting point for all queries.

I hope this goes to a jury trial lol, and I hope some of the commenters below are called as expert witnesses.

Another comment to piggy back off the ruby > python love. RSpec is a million times better than any testing library in python and bundler solved package management issues years ago that python still hasn’t solved. Glad to see I’m not alone!

This is the best solution for today’s world. I wish I could upvote this a million times.

this is very awesome, I’ll find a way to use it soon. Nice work!

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another lawyer here, happy to talk [email protected]. I do not have bandwidth to take your case, but I will do my best to provide any information I have that may be helpful.

In our adversarial judicial system, you really don't have to disclose that until discovery. A lawyer may want to keep some of those similarities "close to the chest" to see how the other side responds first to some discovery requests. (this system is far from perfect).

even if I don't know what I'm talking about in the least, a judge would still have to assume everything in a pleading is true and imo Repl.it would have done enough to get there w/ trade secret allegations had OP not taken the OSS down.

Unpopular opinion, IAAL and frankly Replit has a case that will pass the "motion to dismiss" stage when litigation starts getting expensive b/c of discovery. The OP worked for Replit and therefore had access to private source code or "trade secrets" before creating his project. It'd take expert testimony for the OP to prove in court that his OSS project was not influenced in any way by Replit's closed-source code, which imo is unlikely.

I agree, imo the biggest change would need to come from governments themselves. This is why I think I get more altruistic "bang-for-my-buck" by donating to Bernie Sanders, Andrew Yang, the Squad, and other progressive candidates b/c we really need to move beyond capitalism.

Monoliths are even easier to manage in 2021 because of workspace dependency management (e.g. yarn workspaces, cargo workspaces) etc. You can have your cake (microservices built as separate packages) and eat it too (a monorepo workspace w/ all your code).