Tomte

> As they say: a language is a dialect with an army and a navy

As opposed to a country, which needs an airline and a beer: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/09/16/beer-airline/

The Common Lisp Object System disagrees with functions being attached to data.

It‘s my first FOSDEM, and I just learned that queuing up half an hour beforehand doesn‘t necessarily mean you get inside.

But enough negativity, it really is awesome!

Do the Java talks in the video recordings have audio?

The mic in the room isn‘t working (and I find the room too warm), so I have given up. But maybe they are recording a separate audio track using a smartphone or so for later post-processing, so the videos will be good?

The best titles are the ones that don‘t gratuitously include the site name. It‘s a real annoyance when using the HN bookmarklet.

Of course it doesn‘t. You get either a header link or text, bot not both. So pretty much all Show HNs have the latter.

A bit downthread:

> This special relationship and this special event can be destroyed by the actions from just a few.

That's so true.

At our university in the 00s student protestors (they were against some fees, I think) posed as the student council for electrotechnics and got PA equipment from the university administration. Which they used to disrupt some big welcoming ceremony for foreign guest academics.

Now the electrotechnics parties had no PA equipment anymore. Because the administrative employee pointed out that technically the equipment was never for such use. Over decades(!) he had always handed it out because why wouldn't you support a big student party and the organizers had always been very responsible with it and returned it in pristine condition.

But now the risk for him personally outweighed any goodwill. Tough luck!

Sure, if your future boss loves idiosyncratic applications, the HR department is really keen on running strange programs from outside (and their IT policies even allow that), and then nobody ever wants to pass you resume around, it‘s all fine.

In short: nice HN submission, never use it for real.

David Friedman is an anarcho-capitalist, so of course markets are the solution. For marriage, fire brigades, national defence, everything.

But don‘t write him off so hastily. He has genuinely interesting articles [1], and his text book „Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life“ is a more rigourous version of Freakonomics, the Landsburg books etc. This book explained to me the little economic theory I know.

[1] http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Course_Pages/legal_sy...

> Sure, paper is white, but it's not glowing white

It‘s your fault if you set your display to glowing. My displays, depending on the model, have their brightness setting between zero and thirty.

And the read/unread state of posts syncs, as well. Between MacOS, iPadOS and iOS.

In the netherlands I have seen green street lights with motion sensors. Only on smaller streets and pedestrian paths, though.

> enables people to become voting members of the NGO.

Only if the current management approves. You can keep control over the club, if you wish, you just need two or three people helping you.

Swift Playgrounds is Apple‘s preferred answer.

It‘ almost certainly Hacker News‘ automatic title rewriting, and not the submitter‘s fault. A missing word at the start is a sure sign.

I‘ve recently joined a group of professionals in a compliance role that operates under Chatham House Rules.

The idea is that you can sound off ideas and your understanding of legal issues without people from other companies turning around and blabbing about publically how you are wrong.

A "termination for convenience clause". Cool.

> Are you saying they actively remove ISBN numbers from scans?

No, he‘s playing the pointless „well, actually a scan of a book is a different thing from the book itself“ game.

It‘s not just a different URL, bit a different domain altogether than the earlier submission. The dupe detector is very simple and gets it wrong all the time. It‘s a hard problem, admittedly.

Not the real title.

I have it explain Emojis to me.

People constantly message me Emojis that I cannot even describe. Paste into ChatGPT, „explain this Emoji“, done.

I‘m so happy the Lurker‘s Guide (http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/) is also still online.

And licenses are the easiest part. Scanning for occurrences of copyright notices deep down in the directory tree is usually more burdensome, because every singly file could contain a new copyright owner.

In theory, it could also contain a new license, but after your project has seen n license texts, it is increasingly rare to see the n+1th license text. Because there are far more people and combinations of people that license texts.

I‘m currently trying to get a mechanism established at my employer where developers can (optionally and voluntary) show their „private projects“ and get an official statement that the company does not consider it company property. Parallel to how the company can release inventions it does not plan to patent.

It‘s not supposed to change any legal rules, but to document a usually silent agreement, if the employee wants that peace of mind. Obviously, nobody is under any obligation to show what they are doing in their private time, but especially when there can be a question if it is „too close“ to what the company is doing, it should be valuable to establish that line early and give the employee something tangible.

> I used to think that copyright is always assigned to the creator, like in Germany, and it appears that I was wrong: according to Wikipedia, at least English law actually defaults (no contract clause needed!) to assigning your copyright to your employer if the contribution was done as part of work for hire

It‘s basically the same in Germany. Urheberrecht is not the same as copyright, but comprises personal rights and exploitation rights. 99% of questions about Urheberrecht in commercial settings are about exploitation rights, so ~ about copyright in an American sense.

Personal rights (mostly the right to be named) stay with the author and can never be transferred, exploitation rights default to the employer in employment situations (and are usually explicitly transferred in work contracts, to be safe).

> because the source code disclosure requirement makes you a third-party beneficiary of the copyright license

Isn‘t this an open question and a main point in the Vizio case where trial is still a few months off?

Against Bad Gear? They have chosen badly. This will blow up in their face.

You can use your web browser, as well.

I tried exactly that, a simple Todo-like app, without SwiftUI or Swift knowledge, and Sonnet 3.5 only gave me one syntax error after another. Now I‘m watching Paul Hudson‘s intro videos.