shawn-furyan

There's probably some price where it's worth the hassle. I feel like every OSS project starter should have at least a firm notion of where that line is before they publish. On one hand, maybe you'll get it, but mostly it helps clarify what your time is worth so that you don't feel guilty about rejecting requests on your time that don't meet your own standards for value.

Everyone took this VERY literally. Interesting.

> MOST people can remember all their jobs

indeed.

As a possibly former employee (who among us can recall every place they've worked in the past?) who may not have looked at any number of prior employment agreements in an awfully long time, and completely apropos of nothing, I just want to note that endemic is such a good and relevant vocabulary word for current events. I mean, there's the global pandemic, and other things people are talking about, all kinds of uses! Very relevant!

I like this because it's a really off the wall take, but it also feels a little bit like the sort of reasoning that gets you tangled up with a Bernie Madoff type figure.

It's true that unscrupulous people are often very effective. But it's also true that they are unscrupulous. Leaning into lack of scruples probably isn't the most stable of pro business strats, but I imagine it works out sometimes.

I was recently having a conversation where I speculated that with how bad some programmers are at naming things, some code reviews might actually be easier if you ran them through a code obfuscator first, so you can focus on what the code does rather than being tricked into making invalid assumptions by misleading names.

Get that newfangled SVGA outta here. VGA (640x480) is the One True Resolution™.

Would that it were so simple to assess the value and integrity of individual voices vying for attention among the roaring cacophony that is the internet.

I would be very careful about considering any actions that Facebook, in particular, takes to be accidental. From the very beginning, intentional recklessness ("Move fast and break things") has been their credo.

When you're being reckless on purpose, none of the damage you create is accidental.

What's you're point? This is a normative discussion. The presence of NDAs says nothing about what is morally correct. For example, Harvey Weinstein systematically used NDAs to silence his victims and cover up his violent crimes.

> This system also makes it hard for marketing and spam to get a foothold

> You’re certainly familiar with another federation [...]: email