The article says "Sidecar’s inability to compete in the arena it helped create demonstrates the market power and tenaciousness of Uber...".
What it doesn't say is that Uber is headed by a white guy, whereas Sidecar was run by a couple of Indian guys. It is clear why they weren't funded more.
No. I noticed it too. In the license he revealed his possibly real name and email id, but tried to be anonymous in the blog by using an ID looking like a Bitcoin address. Or maybe he just wants you to send him more Bitcoin for the code.
Talk to the person who says you're condescending and ask them for situations where you were. Then analyze whether you were or not. The problem with a lot of developers/scientists/"people who have been told they are smart all their life" is that they may think they're making a point or describing something but most of them can be condescending because they think they are always right. It is an attitude change.
If you cannot confront your critics, you cannot correct yourself if you're in the wrong. Also it will help you maneuver social situations better.
To be or not to be condescending - that is a situation that needs to be understood, before you actually act it.
Great article outlining how disconnected the startup culture is from real life and empathy towards its employees and contractors. If this is the direction these startups are going, it will be no surprise that they will all shut down soon. Same fate as Homejoy.
Saudi Arabia criminalizes adultery which is "having an affair". Polygyny means you're legally married which is allowed in Saudi Arabia but having an adulterous relationship is criminal.
So if you don't exercise your options, then why take the pay cut and work twice as hard for a startup ? The whole thing reeks of a scam against early employees.
>>I think some people get so combative because their identity is wrapped up in being right. It's unfortunate, given our capacity to collaborate and build, that we still struggle with these scuffs.
Unfortunately, that is very typical of Western (USA/Europe) nerds as they always claim to be right. I cannot make that claim for nerds of Asia.
There are users who are pirates and then there are corporate pirates whose businesses are built on copying and pirating popular games and making them look professional. They are the real danger to indie devs not end users in their mother's basement with no money in their pockets.
This can easily be bypassed by the application itself if it checks that the DLLs or .so files loaded in memory are the approved and check-summed ones and only then progresses to doing anything. This is a non-issue. Applications that are worried about their IP already do this today. Many encrypt even their DLLs and only load then as necessary based on when they feel they are not under a debugger or a malicious DLL or .so is not loaded.
From what I understand when I read the blog, they're trying to demonstrate that you can use encryption/decryption on the GPU to create some form of DRM unique to your application. Their previous blog cites they are into researching some form of copy-protection systems.
As a once-upon-a-time iOS game dev, I can see it being used to handle In-App purchases where your game will only progress after you have purchased something and you get a key to decrypt the next level stuff. I can see it being used in that way. That's why I posted it here. It seemed interesting.