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gumpt 3 years ago | link | on: Updating Our Open Source Patent Grant

The diff.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, if Facebook or any of its subsidiaries or corporate affiliates files a lawsuit alleging patent infringement against you in the first instance, and you respond by filing a patent infringement counterclaim in that lawsuit against that party that is unrelated to the Software, the license granted hereunder will not terminate under section (i) of this paragraph due to such counterclaim.

IANAL. Is this good enough for me to be able to stop thinking about the Patent Grant included with React?
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  BruceM 3 years ago | link
  
  Did a lawyer tell you to be worried in the first place?
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    gumpt 3 years ago | link
    
    Never said I was worried, just that I don’t want to think about it anymore. :-)
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    haxor 3 years ago | link
    
    Yes, DannyB, open source lawyer at Google said to be worried.
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      craigstuntz 3 years ago | link
      
      Here’s his thoughts on the new version.
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  pepijndevos 3 years ago | link
  
  So this makes the patent cold war even colder. Some companies might start using React now, but anyone using React will think N+1 times before filling a lawsuit against Facebook.
  
  I think companies like Google will still not use React because they might want to fill a lawsuit themselves, and it appears only counterclaims are exempt from termination.
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  haxor 3 years ago | link
  
  Here’s a wdiff version that makes other changes somewhat more legible.

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pepijndevos 3 years ago | link | on: What are we working on this week?

Trading Pokemon over the internet http://pepijndevos.nl/TCPoke/

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pepijndevos 3 years ago | link | on: Some LCD monitors will emit tones when appropriately spaced bars are displayed

On my previous laptop I could hear some tone when scrolling my terminal, I wonder if it’s related.

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pepijndevos 3 years ago | link | on: What is the URL to your technical blog?

http://pepijndevos.nl

It seems common that people want to write more than they do. I wonder if there is a solution.

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pepijndevos edited 3 years ago | link | on: What sort of allocation rates can servers handle?

But it’s too bad they have to shoulder the responsibility for badly behaving garbage collectors. When they can choose (and there is a choice) to use collectors that don’t pause.

Which collectors is he talking about? AFAIK there is Azul with their special hardware, and Rust, which does task-local GC.

[edit] Oh, he is CTO and co-founder of Azul Systems. So that explains that. Though I’m not sure where I got that hardware part from, Zing seems to be just software.
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  lucy 3 years ago | link
  
  Rust doesn’t and has never had a GC. It might get one in the future (likely after 1.0).
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    moses 3 years ago | link
    
    I remember there was a big discussion around Rust removing GC around a year ago, and sticking it in a library. It looks like recently they got rid of the GC managed pointers too. From the description, it sounded like managed pointers worked by doing reference counting, and then were also able to free cyclic references through a similar mechanism. Are you drawing a distinction between reference counting GCs and tracing GCs?

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pepijndevos 3 years ago | link | on: Thinking Forth

I love this book. Timeless. While I like Forth, the book is much more about designing and engineering than actual Forth.

I persuaded the maintainer to make a Kindle version at the time.

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pepijndevos 3 years ago | link | on: Question: What languages/paradigms lead to readable AND maintainable code?

I think functional programming (even in non-pure langs) leads to easy to read code. Thinking of a function as returning something rather than doing something makes it easy to reason about.

I don’t think this has any relation to efficiency. You can still use local mutable state.

Although in some cases using immutable state is actually faster, as can ben seen in Om, a ClojureScript wrapper for Facebook’s React.

As for languages, I think Python is very readable. Maybe I could get used to Haskell, which is very maintainable, but… at some point I feel like keeping monad transformers in your head is not much different from keeping mutbale state in your head. I think Clojure strikes a good balance, although parens take getting used to as well.
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  bitemyapp edited 3 years ago | link
  
  I feel like keeping monad transformers in your head is not much different from keeping mutbale state in your head
  
  Not even close. I know what ListT and an EitherT are at any given point in my program and they don’t add that much for me to think about. Partly due to parametricity.
  
  If I have untracked mutable state I have as many possible program paths as there are discrete values of my state combinatorially exploded by the number of sequence points in my program.
  
  They’re not even in the same order of magnitude.

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pepijndevos 4 years ago | link | on: Offloading unused Dropbox files to deepfreeze.io

I assume this uses AWS Glacier?
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  moses 4 years ago | link
  
  Good call, it seems to use a combination of S3 and Glacier. It’s interesting how many businesses there seem to be in providing nice APIs to AWS. Cf heroku, docker, dropbox, vagrant.