While yes a lot of music is based on prior art there are levels of that and there is a lot of case law on what doesn’t break copyright. There is a lot of music that steals from classical but that is public domain. There are rules about how much of a riff from a copyrighted song you can borrow before it becomes copyright infringement and you owe the original writer royalties. Music also has a lot of standard conventions that lead to similar conclusions at least if you are using western music theory since that is based on western classical music.
So an amount of this deals with scale and the copyright status of the prior art.
A lot of the APIs that allow for things like starring projects have been around for a long time. Before GitHub introduced an official mobile app there were a number of unofficial mobile apps that used those types of APIs to give users a “fully functional” GitHub app.
I would say though that if GitHub is allowing requests like that through the API then they should be banning the API token and the account it was issued to if it uses the API maliciously
Ping Identity is heavily enterprise centric. Have on-premises and cloud offerings. Great for SAML Single Sign-On. Ping Identity does not do anything for infrastructure access. You have to have a separate product for that.
I hear what you are saying, but I think this comment in conjunction with the parent comment speak to the bigger issue which is how do you make something easy for both IT and the end user? Yes, a solution like this may make it easier for IT to set things up and support their users but I have had the same experience as OP with similar products at companies I’ve worked at. Logging into a system now means I have to find my phone, unlock it, open the app, scan the code, and provide a biometric (or passcode) again. That’s if everything goes smoothly I might be prompted to change my phone’s password if I’m using a company phone with a password change policy, something might happen with a redirect or the app. Now I’m completely out of the zone of what I was working on.
Or I can have SSO or a password manager and be logged-in in less time then it takes me to grab my phone. As an end user I would much prefer the latter.
> I greatly appreciates knowing just how bad things can be, sometimes for no reason.
How do you know that the people posting about problems they had for “no reason” are being honest and not disingenuous? They could be leaving out key facts or straight up making up a story that they feel will gain enough traction for it to end up on the front page.
A Stripe employee replied elsewhere that they have been looking into the poster’s case for the past 24 hours and it isn’t straight forward. So either Stripe is lying or the poster was getting support but they didn’t like the way things were going or maybe they felt they weren’t getting support because Stripe was taking a few days to respond because they were investigating the situation.
We have no way of knowing the truth. Stripe and/or the poster could be lying or they could be telling the truth or the truth could be somewhere in between. And we will never know what the reality of the situation is.
I’m really not trying to be provocative, I’m just trying to figure out why in situations like this HN seems to take the complaints at face value. At least that’s what I’ve seen. If people have examples of complaints like this not being taken at face value by HN I’d love to see them.
It is precisely because I use it every day that I use VSCode. As much as I like some of the features of JetBrains IDEs I have also had more headaches with them than VSCode. For example at my previous employer our dev machines weren’t great and I routinely needed to have multiple projects open at once. If I tried doing that in IntelliJ it would make my computer basically unusable. When I gave up and used VSCode for all of my projects I was able to have all the projects I needed open without any issues and without really losing any productivity. If JetBrains IDEs were lighter on the system I would consider switching back to them, but honestly at this point I don’t see a benefit in switching back.
I had a similar experience. My cryptography professor regularly linked to Wikipedia articles in his assignments as the reading to go with the assignment. Honestly, the last time I had a teacher really say something against using Wikipedia was in high school.
Apple has stores so they would be subject to state taxes unlike Amazon and other online only retailers years ago.
You are 100% correct about software sales. Georgia law says since there is no property being exchanged it’s not subject to sales tax. I didn’t know this until today. The law is kinda weird.
There is a lot of weirdness around what's taxed and not taxed at the state level. You'll see things like books being taxed but magazines not, clothes not taxed but only up to a certain price point, food not taxed unless it's prepared, etc.
There is no Federal sales tax in the US. As it is a lot of US states don’t tax software. I have seen companies handle this in a couple ways. Some have actually moved to collecting tax for the jurisdictions where they need to pay it, others just pay the taxes out of their revenue.
In part that will depend upon its ETOPS capabilities, i.e. how far it can be trusted to fly after an engine fails. The Great Circle mapper is fun for playing "what if" games with potential routes: e.g. here's the direct Seattle-Tokyo routing with dark shading showing parts where flying for 60 mins at 410 knots wouldn't reach an airport. So if that was the ETOPS performance for a Boom aircraft (and I've no idea; I just picked a B777 as an example) then the route would have pass a little closer to Alaska and Sakhalin to keep the possibility of a safe diversion at all times, and that in turn might make the route too long.
So an amount of this deals with scale and the copyright status of the prior art.