dtrailin
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Comment · 2 years ago
Unless it's a 1 for 1 replica I don't see how it's a substitute in the copyright sense.
Comment · 3 years ago
Chroma runs on Windows since I believe it's just a python package: https://github.com/chroma-core/chroma
Comment · 3 years ago
Having a waitlist was a smart approach for Bluesky. Gives them an opportunity to scale and polish the user experience while building hype for people without an invite.
Comment · 5 years ago
Interesting, so your argument is not about parroting but specifically about the novel code Copilot generates. My sense is that it would be fine for all licenses except for AGPL as this is an online service and is not "distributed" per say. That is if you don't buy the argument that machine learning is a transformative work so it doesn't matter what the license is, which is the position of current US caselaw.
Comment · 5 years ago
It's not clear why it would need to be if it runs as a online service. I would say this is analogous to a search engine index. Google for example likely has lots of GPL code in it's index in some transformed form and yet there is little dispute that this is legal.
Comment · 5 years ago
There some interesting writing from Joel Spolsky on these types of FAQs : https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2018/04/23/strange-and-madden...
> When Jeff and I were talking about the initial design of Stack Overflow, I told him about this popular Usenet group for the C programming language in the 1980s. It was called comp.lang.c.
> C is a simple and limited programming language. You can get a C compiler that fits in 100K. So, when you make a discussion group about C, you quickly run out of things to talk about.
> Also. In the 1990s, C was a common language for undergraduates who were learning programming. And, in fact, said undergraduates would have very basic problems in C. And they might show up on comp.lang.c asking their questions.
> And the old-timers on comp.lang.c were bored. So bored. Bored of the undergraduates showing up every September wondering why they can’t return a local char array from a function et cetera, et cetera, ad nauseum. Every damn September.
> The old timers invented the concept of FAQs. They used them to say “please don’t ask things that have been asked before, ever, in the history of Usenet” which honestly meant that the only questions they really wanted to see were so bizarre and so esoteric that they were really enormously boring to 99% of working C programmers. The newsgroup languished because it catered only to the few people that had been there for a decade.
The modern equivalent would probably be sorting StackOverflow questions by votes.
Comment · 5 years ago
How does this feature work on Gitlab? Can you link a doc? Is it VS code as well?
Comment · 5 years ago
I would bet on AWS in this case as they will also likely have the support of anyone who wants to make a hosted service of those products. It will be interesting to see if eventually AWS starts making new APIs that diverge from the Elastic or if they chose to keep the product maintenance mode.
Comment · 5 years ago
Where can I see a list of DMCA requests that Gitlab has received and which ones Gitlab has chosen not to comply with?
Comment · 5 years ago
It's also not that uncommon to see people go from Amazon go to Microsoft especially in teams like Azure. There's more difference between teams within the two of them than there is between the two as a whole. Although, people generally go to Microsoft for better work life balance and benefits. Going from Microsoft to Amazon to boomerang back to Microsoft is also quite common.
source: work at MS