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Tech hiring is a such a cluster____. Why are they screening for degrees anyway? They clearly don't respect what a CS/SE/etc degree represents because at the end of the day, regardless of your experience or your credentials, you're going to be subjected to the programming interview nonsense that won't reflect your day to day anyway

Its like requiring a degree in mechanical engineering to be a racecar driver, and being told to assemble an engine during your interview.

I'm not a lawyer so don't take any of this as fact.

Its not an attribution issue. Its more that if the data is mixed into the database in a certain way, that data must also be made available under terms similar to the ODBl. So if I have the locations of the best Thai restaurants in a city, and I add this data to OpenStreetMap data, refine it based on the existing OSM data and present it, I must make my restaurant data available under the terms of the ODBl.

If you are just overlaying data on top of image tiles generated from OSM data I think you are okay, but once you mix the data it becomes weird. For example if the OSM data has a few of those restaurants in it, and you modify your data set to remove them so there's no duplicates, I think thats a case where you must share your data back with the OSM project. You can check out the OSM (non-dev) mailing lists for more discussion on this.

Neat project. I haven't signed up and tried it out yet, but I see that this allows you to upload map data on top of OpenStreetMap stuff and share it. Depending on how the data is mixed in, the OpenStreetMap ODBL might require users to share their data back with the OSM project. Are you aware of this? Do you notify your users of this as well?

The ODBL is kind of like copyleft license for databases (gross oversimplification)

Just to clarify, Unreal Engine's model has changed; there's no longer a $20/month fee to access the source code or use the engine. Its now just a % of revenue starting after you earn a certain amount. And the option to negotiate the license is always there.

The reason I like this model is it encourages use in areas where you have multiple users but you aren't using the software to make any money like in schools.

Does 'number of users' include downstream users? Say I use fair source in an application which I then sell to a bunch of end users. It doesn't seem like that falls under "For determining the number of users, “you” includes all affiliates, meaning legal entities controlling, controlled by, or under common control with you."

Also what made you decide to go with 'number of users' as the determining factor for payment over a democratization model like with Unreal Engine?

For C++: Logging, gdb and valgrind

I don't really see whats interesting about this either way. Lots of places you interview at tell you what the interview is going to be like and what you are expected to be familiar with. This is just 'write code and we'll be testing you on data structures and algorithms!'

There's some flowery language there about having a genuine desire to want to hire you unlike those 'other evil companies!'... sounds like the same shit pretty much every other company does to me.