Going to be interesting to see how this affects Uber prices in Colorado. afaict Uber heavily engages in surveillance pricing but claims otherwise, deferring to 'discount' terminology.
Discord would have never gotten to where it is today if not for the Mumble community never shipping a decent fully-featured web UI. There were multiple efforts throughout the years but iirc they were not coordinated and didn't gather much momentum.
It's not too late to make another tool that can fit this niche. There's currently nothing that checks every box for me, especially when it comes to UX and security/privacy. I started designing an open source comms framework with a friend to fit this niche a decade ago and feel somewhat motivated to try again in the future.
I'm planning to eventually launch an open source platform with the same name (peerweb.com) that I hope will be vastly more usable, with a distributed anti-abuse protocol, automatic asset distribution prioritization for highly-requested files, streaming UGC APIs (e.g. start uploading a video and immediately get a working sharable link before upload completion), proper integration with site URLs (no ugly uuids etc. visible or required in your site URLs), and adjustable latency thresholds to failover to normal CDNs whenever peers take too long to respond.
I put the project on hiatus years ago but I'm starting it back up soon! My project is not vibe coded and has thus far been manually architected with a deep consideration for both user and site owner expectations in the web ecosystem.
This feels somewhat hypocritical coming from Addy.
Addy Osmani plagiarized my code and 'apologized' years later by publishing an article on his website[1] that he has never linked to from his social media accounts.
I cannot accept his apology until he actually syndicates it with his followers.
Seems relevant to note this behavior in light of points "6. Your code doesn’t advocate for you. People do.", "7. The best code is the code you never had to write.", and "14. If you win every debate, you’re probably accumulating silent resistance."
You posted the code to a public blog page, with no attribution in the code or request of attribution from others, no license, and seemingly intended to share it freely with the world.
Then you got an apology, and a second apology.
I'm confused about what you think you're owed?
The explanation makes perfect sense, the headers were obviously just copied with no malicious intent. What is it that is still bothering you about this?
> no license, and seemingly intended to share it freely with the world
No license means you don’t intend to share it “freely”, since you didn’t share any rights. By default, you don’t own things people shared on the internet just because it’s there.
That being said I’ve even seen people with licenses in their repos who get mad when people used their code, there’s just no telling and it’s best to just treat random sources of code as anathema.
I think GP is referring to the fact that an author’s work is copyright protected by default, and a license is needed to permit others to use freely [1]. StackOverflow posts are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 [2].
(Disclaimer: Just commenting on GP’s statement about “no license”, not on the specific disagreement or apology mentioned above which I am unfamiliar with.)
It's worth noting that the code in question was also open sourced and permissively licensed by the original author as he stated in the thread[1]. I guess this isn't really about licensing at all, just the original author seems to think it was rude, and also doesn't want to accept any of the apologies that have been offered.
> with no attribution in the code or request of attribution from others, no license, and seemingly intended to share it freely with the world
The bottom of every page on my blog has a copyright link that you can follow. I dedicated the code to the public domain. I never made a copyright claim. I simply asked Addy to not claim to authorship of the code.
Not to make excuses for plagiarism, I am looking at the code itself and somewhat scratching my head since it seems quite...trivial?
I don't mean to belittle the effort but at least in terms of volume of code and level of effort, I wouldn't recognize it as mine if someone had copied it from my work and passed it off as theirs.
Regarding the charge of plagiarism, is it possible that the PR attribution reflects someone eager to contribute something to a larger effort as opposed to simply trying to "steal" someone else's work?
One could reasonably interpret the PR and attribution as "I integrated this code into this project thus I am taking credit for it". In other words there is probably a stronger charge for misguided clout-chasing than plagiarisms.
LOL! Who writes these things about themselves with a straight face?!
It also shows that taking credit for others' work is 100% his MO.
> Osmani’s team created Workbox, a set of libraries for generating service worker scripts that handle caching and offline functionality with minimal fuss. Workbox simplified what used to be a complex task of writing low-level code to intercept network requests.
No, Jeff Posnick (who I suppose technically was on addy's team) created workbox and it has been basically abandonned since he left Google. Or was it Sundar Pichai's team who made workbox? Or does Brendan Eich deserve the credit?
I have to assume the rest of the bio, and his career, has been built off of usurping credit. He always rubbed me the wrong way, and this vindicates that sense.
That is not what I posted. My original post, accessible via the GitHub comment version history is
"@addyosmani No problem; just remember that modifying someone else's code does not grant you any copyright to that code. I don't agree with your opinion that inserting existing code into a template (the API) for a framework (Modernizr) warrants a notice of credit, even with a few changes to the code being inserted."
If you run it through originality.ai, you'll see that bits of it are his writing, some is mixed and some is just ai. This blog post everyone is discussing is also written with ai.
I tend to see my code in these terms as well, it's not dear to me. But I'd never presume to tell someone how to feel over having their work stolen (and I'm using that term because that's how I'm sure Mr Grey felt).
Plagiarizing code is kind of a redundant concept nowadays in the era of LLM coding engines. It's a safe bet there's always copilot plagiarizing someone's code on one of its users' machines, both being oblivious to it.
That's a bit different from knowingly taking a friend or former partner's code and putting "by Your Name" on top of it before sharing it with outsiders
you got a written apology already, what else do you want?
a post of this in all of his socmed accounts? him telling this story to his kids at dinner table and bedtime stories? at his eulogy, obituary, and his grave?
what's your life mission now, to post this little drama of yours on each and every content he puts out?
was that code your best achievement to date? did it stole millions from you and ruined your life?
I don't see any mention of HTTP 204 or multipart/x-mixed-replace. Those are both very helpful for implementing rich JavaScript-free HTML applications with advanced interactivity.
Throwing in my anecdote: I acquired aphantasia after a viral infection as a child. This also slightly impacted my speech. There can definitely be a fundamental difference.
In my case, I can distinctly remember my experiences from before the infection, and recall a clear difference in visualization capabilities before and after.
Third-party cookies, and presumably Privacy Sandbox are both enabled by default. I can't find any controls to disable Privacy Sandbox, and I see the presence of Privacy Sandbox attribution APIs in JS.
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