When you copy other people, they know that you copied them, and you don’t know how they know. Whenever you copy something, you copy features its creator knows are random. You don’t know which those are, but the creator knows.
Nov 16, 2019 · 2:26 PM UTC
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It seems to apply only to objects/behaviors complex enough to contain that additional randomness.
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To contain it without losing its own structure/meaning.
Gary Kildall claimed there were bugs in Microsoft DOS that were copied from his OS (CP/M).
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I feel like this relates to understanding as well. To truly understand means you can distinguish the accidental from the essential. And once you truly understand, there’s arguably no need to copy anymore.
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Right. I think this is also why someone with a deeply thought idea that appears original will say, Well this is basically just X person’s idea put differently. To those who haven’t understood, the ideas seem very different.
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Feels like you read my tweet from yesterday 😂
When your copy is so blatant that you include legacy code, leave empty states for lack of filling, and charge for features you don’t support… @EF_company you are also grabbing @Sketchfab content without properly observing the @creativecommons licenses, please fix that 🙏
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Fake it until you KNOW HOW to make it.
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Reminds me of some things I’ve recently seen about catching forgeries in a fake Galileo book and fake Dead Sea Scrolls, in both cases the fake was identified because the copy included incidental typographical details from the specific version of text they copied from
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Reminds me of the non existent island “Sandy Island” falsely documented in 1700s and copied many times until finally appearing in Google Maps 😅
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Google copied my idea for Google Cardboard VR. Yep.