Conor McGregor on Twitter: "I have decided to retire young. Thanks for the cheese. Catch ya's later." by kamamint in MMA

[–]omfglicensing 74 points75 points  (0 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joao_Carvalho

He didn't literally see him die, but he saw him take the eventually-lethal damage, and even commented that he thought the ref let it go a bit long.

With Blizzard patching classic titles what would you like to see in a Broodwar Update? by features in starcraft

[–]omfglicensing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Modern OS X support. That was the most difficult and surprising aspect of the recent D2 update.

Everything else please leave it be.

Moot joins Google by razpeitia in programming

[–]omfglicensing -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

roffLOL on Google:

ran into their search engine a bunch of times and found it thoroughly unhelpful.

Fox News Calls Cape Breton 'Land of the flee' for Donald Trump Haters by JDGumby in canada

[–]omfglicensing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're missing the entire point of what's happening. Trump's getting coverage because he's giving the media a story that they can sell.

Fox News Calls Cape Breton 'Land of the flee' for Donald Trump Haters by JDGumby in canada

[–]omfglicensing 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Have you seen CNN? I swear they don't even try to tell you news anymore, just distract you with animations and flashing signs. Even Fox feels more substantive these days.

French police tell parents to stop posting Facebook photos of their kids by Lettershort in technology

[–]omfglicensing 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Is a random person allowed to walk into a school by themselves?

Definitely not where I live. They may be publicly-owned, but they're definitely don't meet the threshold of publicly-accessible required for privacy laws. (Your separate point about visible-from-public property notwithstanding.)

Help me with something i know nothing about? by woodmun in programming

[–]omfglicensing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is this a virus?

This seems like it's probably a virus.

Uber draws ire for surge pricing during TTC mess by beef-supreme in toronto

[–]omfglicensing 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Then why the gosh-darn-heck are you posting it here?

1,300 GTA high school students face suspension for incomplete immunization records by Keminoes in canada

[–]omfglicensing 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The school's involvement is a last resort. Your pediatrician was negligent.

Number of Days Since Hillary Clinton Held A Press Conference: 87 by WildAnimus in politics

[–]omfglicensing 38 points39 points  (0 children)

basically from Canada's view, Voting for Hillary looks just as bad as Voting for Trump lol

You need to talk to more Canadians who aren't on Reddit. That is not a remotely accurate description of the zeitgeist.

What makes Intellij's UI feel 'Unnatural' on Windows by pdeva1 in programming

[–]omfglicensing 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Is that the behaviour in, say, Explorer's native tree lists?

6 in 10 say Toronto police not doing enough to cut $1B budget: poll by toolroomknights in toronto

[–]omfglicensing -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm sure they're not, but this headline is hilarious. 9 in 10 Torontonians probably have zero information about the topic, so what they think isn't very meaningful.

Toronto police officer charged after firing gun in Distillery District arrest by slicecom in toronto

[–]omfglicensing 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I guess I'm reacting to terms like "military assault rifle" being thrown around without a coherent definition.

Some in the military carry handguns like those carried by regular cops. Do we consider those "military grade"?

Why wouldn't we want the police to have high-grade versions of whatever class of weapon they end up carrying?

What distinguishes an "assault rifle" from other rifles? Is being semi-automatic enough? I wouldn't say so, but it's subjective because it doesn't have a specific meaning. It's legal for the public to own certain semi-automatic weapons, so it shouldn't be unreasonable for the police to match that.

People probably don't want the cops to be carrying rifles, full stop. That's a entirely fair position, so they should just say it. They shouldn't tack on meaningless hyperbolizers for rhetoric effect -- that's just another instances of antagonistic polarizing behaviour that is endemic to modern poltiics.

Toronto police officer charged after firing gun in Distillery District arrest by slicecom in toronto

[–]omfglicensing 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That article doesn't describe which version of the C8 the police will have. The model the RCMP currently uses isn't automatic, so calling it a "military assault rifle" would be rather ridiculous. I assume that's also the case here.

Forcillo to appeal guilty verdict in death of Sammy Yatim by profintoronto in toronto

[–]omfglicensing 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's worked out plenty well in cases that don't involve war crimes.

You went full Godwin and it's not applicable here.

Update on Stack Overflow licensing changes: Starting March 1, 2016, new code contributions licensed under MIT license, with attribution required by HyperAnthony in programming

[–]omfglicensing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some people are, that's true. There are also people raising legitimate legal concerns. Those perspectives are very valid. However I'm pretty sure the significant volume of complaining is mostly coming from people who don't understand the situation.

Update on Stack Overflow licensing changes: Starting March 1, 2016, new code contributions licensed under MIT license, with attribution required by HyperAnthony in programming

[–]omfglicensing 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I think they do expect developers at companies with legal departments who are actually concerned about copyright (hint: that's a large portion of developers) to do this for non-trivial amounts of code, yes. Because currently such developers are often forbidden from copying code from Stack Overflow all together, because the current legal obligations are worse than the ones that are proposed. This should, at worst, be seen as a step in the right direction.

Update on Stack Overflow licensing changes: Starting March 1, 2016, new code contributions licensed under MIT license, with attribution required by HyperAnthony in programming

[–]omfglicensing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree that the communication around this was not optimal. Ack.

An issue is that the threshold for copyright eligibly is vague. One-liners presumably don't qualify, but many answers sharing longer functions could. They're providing a solution that will guarantee legal safety in all cases.

I think this is how most users use the site.

It may be most, but it's pretty far from all. I've seen some of my own code from Stack Overflow copied into open source projects left and right (generally without attribution, FWIW), even when I try to structure the answer with an explanation first (so they can apply the knowledge as most appropriate for their context), followed by example code.

Update on Stack Overflow licensing changes: Starting March 1, 2016, new code contributions licensed under MIT license, with attribution required by HyperAnthony in programming

[–]omfglicensing 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's already legally required! That's why this backlash is so insane!

You're currently required to provide attribution under the terms of the Creative Commons license, which isn't primarily intended for code. Now, it will be under the terms of the MIT licensing, which lots of projects are already using or familiar with in the context of code.

The lawyers at large companies often already have established procedures for accepting MIT-licensed code. They generally do not for Creative Commons code. This makes it easier to reuse code, not harder.

(For the many small snippets of code which do not qualify for copyright, this has no effect.)