Reading some of the reactions to this internationally I feel some folks are missing the point. Norway isn’t expressing support for Hamas or animosity towards Israel. Norway is saying that the Palestinian people should have democratic, lawful, self determination within a state of their own. And so should the Israeli people. This isn’t about any faction. This is a hope for a future.
The absolute best way to learn how to program in a language is to try to do it next to someone who knows it well and who takes the time to tell you about the thing you need to learn right now.
There is no war that can be fought with a trapped civilian population. That is not war. If you destroy all infrastructure, bomb the hospitals, ban all media, disrupt the food supply and corral the remaining population into a tiny area and then go after them. That is not war.
Usually when I think about web copyright I think of the contents of the page, not the html tags. I could also maybe think that you could copyright CSS, because I think you can argue it is artistic expression. But just plain html tags?
Copyright folks: I scraped (tbh downloaded the pages) of an official government website, where each page represents publicly available information (due to transparency laws). However, the site has been shut down for some financial reason. This is a public record that is now gone.
My question is: What is the copyright law on html? Because the contents being presented is public domain, so it’s only the html (I didn’t fetch the css or js). Can I republish all these pages to make the info available again? I’d make some new CSS and possibly tweak the html, but is there copyright on page layout? If so, I need to figure out who has those rights, I’m hoping it’s the government agency (and not the private contractor), but tbh I don’t know how they rig their contracts.
Me trying to explain modern development practices to normies: Me: yeah, we don’t know how long it will take, or how much it will cost, tbh we don’t really know what we’re going to make. We need to figure that out. Get a feel for the people and the problem, make some stuff that seems useful and see how it goes. Them: What kind of hippie bullshit is this??? Me: You should’ve seen the crap we made when we thought we knew what we were doing… Them: Who would go along with this nonsense? Me: … the people who had to deal with what we made before…? Them: What part of this even partially resembles Engineering??? Me: so… the thing… that we’ll figure out is the thing we should make? Them: yeah? Me: Well, we’ll do that… But At Scale! Them: what on earth does that even mean??? Gimme my money back!!!
I’ve been keeping the fire going in the fireplace lately and that reminded me that a Norwegian guy wrote a whole book on fire wood called “Hel ved” and so I looked it up and it was published in 2011 and is the most sold nonfiction book of the decade.