digismack's comments

On: Apple countersues Epic, seeks punitive damages

[digismack]

WaPo is paywalled as well.

[jayd16 → digismack]

You can read wapo in incognito mode but not the wsj.

[gpm → digismack]

It is? That link isn't paywalled for me either.

On: What Heartbleed Can Teach The OSS Community About Marketing

[digismack]

Bugs should be named after shitty politicians. Especially those which oppose or act against net neutrality.

On: Seth Vidal, creator of yum, killed in hit and run accident

[digismack]

What jurisdiction do you live? Everywhere I have ever lived if a vehicle hits you from behind, it's their fault, period.

[danielweber → digismack]

Yeah, it's extremely hard to set up a circumstance where the person in behind is not at fault.

If you get hit and get propelled into the car in front of you, it's your fault you hit the car in front of you (although this may vary by state).

If the manual transmission car in front of you shifts into neutral on a hill and slides back into you, it's your fault.

The person behind is usually in control of the space between cars and they are held to be responsible for it. You can possibly make it not their fault if you shift directly into someone's lane at speed right in front of them and then hit the brakes.

On: A Change in License for Berkeley DB

[digismack]

If you change a software license, are users of that software bound to the new terms if they don't "update" to the version of the software released with the updated terms?

[schrijver → digismack]

No, you can’t apply licenses retroactively—if you have a version with the old license it is still under that license.

[vorg → schrijver]

But you can stop supporting the older versions, say, by only applying fixed bugs to the newer versions.

On: Boxer Curtis Woodhouse Deals With A Twitter Troll By Tracking Him Down

[digismack]

This is the closest thing to the old adage "I wish I could punch you through the monitor". Love it.