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@mikeal
mikeal / gist:9242748
Last active June 23, 2020 05:17
Response to Nodejitsu NPM Trademark

I've known people at nodejitsu for years, since before the company even existed. I still consider many of them friends. That said, somebody over there has lost their mind.

Trademarks are an important part of open source. They protect the integrity of the trust that is built by any project. A classic example of why this is the case is Firefox. Suppose that a malware producer takes the Firefox codebase, which is free and open source, packages up their malware with it and then releases it as "Firefox". Then they buy search advertising and suddenly their bad and malicious version of Firefox is the first result on search engines across the web. This is clearly a bad thing for Firefox and open source everywhere, but what can Mozilla do to protect their community of users?

They can't enforce a software license since the use is permitted under the Mozilla Public License. They can, however, enforce on these hypothetical bad actors using their trademark on the word "Fi

@mikeal
mikeal / gist:8947417
Created February 12, 2014 00:27
NPM history.

[In reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7219005]

Here's the history, hope it helps.

I wrote the original version of the npm registry in a day or two on top of CouchDB. I built it quickly and didn't think much about scale.

Isaacs continued to improve and maintain that code. At one point he even wrote up an open standard for generic js package registries for CommonJS but they didn't seem to care (they were too busy arguing about promises).

At the time I wrote the initial code I was employed at CouchOne and we had a small CouchDB hosting platform operated by Jason Smith which is where we ran the registry free of charge. Later on, after CouchOne was aquired by Membase and became Couchbase, it decided to break off the hosting company and give/sell it to Jason Smith, which became IrisCouch.

@dmitshur
dmitshur / gist:6927554
Last active December 29, 2024 12:06
[Legacy GOPATH mode] How to `go get` private repos using SSH key auth instead of password auth.
@desandro
desandro / transition-scroll-to.js
Created December 4, 2012 16:50
Use CSS transitions to scroll to element
( function( window, undefined ) {
'use strict';
// helper function
function capitalize( str ) {
return str.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + str.slice(1);
}
// ========================= getStyleProperty by kangax ===============================
@piscisaureus
piscisaureus / pr.md
Created August 13, 2012 16:12
Checkout github pull requests locally

Locate the section for your github remote in the .git/config file. It looks like this:

[remote "origin"]
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
	url = [email protected]:joyent/node.git

Now add the line fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/* to this section. Obviously, change the github url to match your project's URL. It ends up looking like this:

@jordansissel
jordansissel / foo.md
Last active February 6, 2021 22:08
logstash message format

logstash json format

{
  "message"    => "hello world",
  "@version"   => "1",
  "@timestamp" => "2014-04-22T23:03:14.111Z",
  "type"       => "stdin",
  "host"       => "hello.local"
}
<!doctype html>
<!-- http://taylor.fausak.me/2015/01/27/ios-8-web-apps/ -->
<html>
<head>
<title>iOS 8 web app</title>
<!-- CONFIGURATION -->
@voxpelli
voxpelli / gist:1758401
Created February 7, 2012 08:59
Convert base64 data to png
pbpaste | base64 -d > file.png
@jimbojsb
jimbojsb / gist:1630790
Created January 18, 2012 03:52
Code highlighting for Keynote presentations

Step 0:

Get Homebrew installed on your mac if you don't already have it

Step 1:

Install highlight. "brew install highlight". (This brings down Lua and Boost as well)

Step 2:

@geddski
geddski / nesting.js
Created January 14, 2012 05:08
helper function for nesting backbone collections.
function nestCollection(model, attributeName, nestedCollection) {
//setup nested references
for (var i = 0; i < nestedCollection.length; i++) {
model.attributes[attributeName][i] = nestedCollection.at(i).attributes;
}
//create empty arrays if none
nestedCollection.bind('add', function (initiative) {
if (!model.get(attributeName)) {
model.attributes[attributeName] = [];