Repeatedly since at least 2020.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/tesla-said-it-would-sta...

Gitlab started in 2011. Which, granted, is still after 2007.

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/gitlab

A developer wrote a paper in 2020 about how to make Python substantially (5x) faster.

Microsoft then funded a 'Fast CPython' team that included Guido, to realize that goal. They disbanded the team in June.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/python-311-faster-cpyt...

That is a common misconception.

> Next, we've got more than just two tables. The quote/paraphrase doesn't make it clear, but we've got two tables per thing. That means Accounts have an "account_thing" and an "account_data" table, Subreddits have a "subreddit_thing" and "subreddit_data" table, etc.

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/z9sm8/comment/...

And the important lesson from that the k/v-like aspect of it. That the "schema" is horizontal (is that a thing?) and not column-based. But I actually only read it on their blog IIRC and never even got the full details - that there's still a third ID column. Thanks for the link.

"insufficient data for meaningful answer", one might say.

Small in terms of team size, not impact.

SQLite is developed by 3 people. They don't accept outside contributions.

It should (also) serve as a reminder that OpSec is important.

When did he sell heavy drugs to children?

When did he sell drugs?

Leaving out ‘When did he pay to have someone killed’ from your question is disingenuous, because he directly did that.

He facilitated drug sales. If you setup ‘clucks brick and mortar Silk Road’ you’d be just as guilty.

I don’t think that was ever rosses ethical objective though, I’m pretty sure he felt that drugs should be less illegal and safe. I’m under the impression that Silk Road had rules on what could be sold, and that post SR markets do allow those things, but I could be wrong.

Allegedly. The charge that he paid to have someone killed was never brought into court and never ruled on. Federal agents had access to the site at that point and could have posed the chat. Not really provable one way or the other.

Not defending him, but clarifying that it's not proven "he directly did that"

There are search engines that sell api access to their index. Pretty sure Bing, Yahoo, and Yandex all do.

Blekko also did, 10 years ago. When they still existed.

I think Brave Search does too?

We do: brave.com/api

The OSL was transformative for my career as a budding CS student in Corvallis many years ago. I can’t say enough good things about the positive impact it has on the Open Source community and the students it employs.

In my experience, there isn’t a great on-ramp for learning to be a SysAdmin (or devop, etc) in a practical sense. Learning what it takes to support systems in “Production” with actual users, and all that entails, at some point requires a hands-on approach. Finding entry-level opportunities to do that isn’t easy until you have /some/ experience. The OSL provides that, and supports countless FOSS projects in the process. It’s really a great arrangement.

Obviously I’m biased, but the Open Source Lab should be viewed as one of the Crown Jewels of OSU.

iirc, Library of Alexandria's collection grew from making copies of books brought into port by sailors.

So, there are definitely some loose historical parallels to draw.