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dsimms··on When Patents Attack
Also, there's value in sticking your head in the sand since if you know a patent exists but don't think you're infringing but then lose an infringement case, you're liable for treble damages (IIRC, IANAL, etc).

Every employee handbook I've seen that has mention of patents has said ``thou shalt not go patent surfing, and if you do, only ever talk to your patent attorney. Oh, but do file lots of patent applications!''

dsimms··on Bash on Balls: an MVC web framework for Bash, powered by netcat
I wonder what would sed's framework should be called? Sed on Sails?
dsimms··on Team Fortress 2 now free forever
To answer StavrosK's question, they're two separate things: the monthly fee gets you access to the "playpack" set for the duration of the subscription, while buying (the "Full PlayPass" in the jargon) the game gets you the game (approximately) forever. There's no base fee to be "a member".
dsimms··on ActiveMQ: Not ready for prime time
Two years? Why'd you stick with it so long? ;)
dsimms··on The most ridiculous job interview questions
Is this Glassdoor's way of pranking CNN?
dsimms··on The Netscape Dorm (1994)
Personally, I had forgotten most of these stories, so it's interesting to see how much everyone changed (and stayed the same).

No, it's not unique to hackerdom, I know.

dsimms··on Rich Hickey stops Clojure funding appeal from 2011 onwards
AFAIK, he'll still accept paypal!

But, he had changed the paypal link on clojure.org/funding to go to clojure/core instead of himself. This was reflection of the changes to the clojure team, which seemed fair IMHO. I'm sad to see that pointing the donate link at clojure/core had unintended consequence of creating some sense of entitlement on the core group.

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