What’s the current licensing mode? Can they fork their own version at that point in time and develop it open source ?
Chromium uses the BSD license. Google could take Chromium closed source tomorrow without needing to change the license.
Readit Newscpeterso commented on Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo blog.mozilla.org/en/mozil... · Posted by u/recvonline
cpeterso commented on My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020) jeffhuang.com/productivit... · Posted by u/simonebrunozzi
I used Notational Velocity for years. I loved its free form approach to note taking and searching, but I needed a cross platform solution with files that could be shared using Dropbox.
I now just use three text files open in Sublime Text: todo-today.txt, todo-this-week.txt, and todo-later.txt. I review them daily and promote todos to the next file when appropriate.
cpeterso commented on Scala 3 slowed us down? kmaliszewski9.github.io/s... · Posted by u/kmaliszewski
> There's an important behavioral difference between Scala 2 and 3: in 2, @inline was merely a suggestion to the compiler, whereas in 3, the compiler unconditionally applies the inline keyword. Consequently, directly replacing @inline with inline when migrating from 2 to 3 is a mistake.
This reminds me of a similar lesson C/C++ compilers had to learn with the "register" keyword. Early versions treated the keyword as a mandate. As compiler optimizers became more refined, "register" was first a recommendation and then ultimately ignored.
The C++ inline keyword is treated similarly as well, with different metrics used of course.
EDIT:
Corrected reference to early C/C++ keyword from "auto" to "register".
Do you mean the ‘register’ keyword?
cpeterso commented on 30 years ago today "Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript" web.archive.org/web/20070... · Posted by u/donohoe
There are millions of intranets but only one Internet, that's the whole point.
Yep, we write "the Internet". When was the last time someone wrote "an internet"? :)
cpeterso commented on Coq: The World's Best Macro Assembler? (2013) [pdf] nickbenton.name/coqasm.pd... · Posted by u/addaon
I have a postit note idea that says simply "typesafe macro assembler".
I've not fleshed this out yet, but I think a relatively simple system would help deal with all the issues you mention in the first paragraph while allowing escape hatches.
Check out typed assembly languages like TALx86.
cpeterso commented on The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia cnn.com/2025/11/12/busine... · Posted by u/andrewl
Just take a zero out of everything and change the name from dollar to something else!
Decadollars
100 dollars = 10 decadollars