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I know a very intelligent software engineer who told me he had never used Exercism (despite him using other similar tools) simply because he’s a practicing Cath

by wincy 6y ago

I know a very intelligent software engineer who told me he had never used Exercism (despite him using other similar tools) simply because he’s a practicing Catholic and thought the name to be in poor taste. You definitely alienate people at the fringes by naming things something even slightly risqué.

webmobdev 6y ago
And do you really want Apple to be the arbitrator of such silly things?
- canjobear 6y ago
  For their own app store, of course.
  - izacus 6y ago
    Even when their AppStore is mandaded to all your hardware by DRM with you not having any choice of opting out? You want all your possible business speech, products and content you consume dictated by a corporate decree with no accountability?
  - webmobdev 6y ago
    The app store is a closed environment where they can dictate some terms. But don't forget that the developers PAY THEM to use it, and as such their terms cannot trump the consumer laws that exist to protect against abuse. (By the way, "my shop, my terms" have already faced legal scrutiny, some of which were found to be illegal - popular judgements include that shops cannot refuse to serve people of colour or gays.)
    - colejohnson66 6y ago
      Those “popular judgements” were because the laws on discrimination say so. There’s no law saying a store has to sell what they don’t want to. If Target (for example) decides to stop selling Pampers because they don’t like the name (for whatever reason), that’s their choice.
mbreese 6y ago
You could argue that this is also why we now have system services instead of daemons.
- tsm_sf 6y ago
  There are a surprising number of Christians in CS, but they're generally of the more contemplative kind. I definitely remember people being uncomfortable with that but big enough to not make much of a fuss about it. I'm guessing it's been slowly changed by people big enough to realize the name doesn't matter.
- saagarjha 6y ago
  /Library/LaunchDaemons disagrees ;)
- yongjik 6y ago
  Twenty-something years ago, I've seen some Christians legit freaking out on Netscape's Book of Mozilla[1] easter egg. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Mozilla https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Mozilla

by wincy 6y ago

webmobdev 6y ago

And do you really want Apple to be the arbitrator of such silly things?

canjobear 6y ago
For their own app store, of course.
- izacus 6y ago
  Even when their AppStore is mandaded to all your hardware by DRM with you not having any choice of opting out? You want all your possible business speech, products and content you consume dictated by a corporate decree with no accountability?
- webmobdev 6y ago
  The app store is a closed environment where they can dictate some terms. But don't forget that the developers PAY THEM to use it, and as such their terms cannot trump the consumer laws that exist to protect against abuse. (By the way, "my shop, my terms" have already faced legal scrutiny, some of which were found to be illegal - popular judgements include that shops cannot refuse to serve people of colour or gays.)
  - colejohnson66 6y ago
    Those “popular judgements” were because the laws on discrimination say so. There’s no law saying a store has to sell what they don’t want to. If Target (for example) decides to stop selling Pampers because they don’t like the name (for whatever reason), that’s their choice.

mbreese 6y ago

You could argue that this is also why we now have system services instead of daemons.

tsm_sf 6y ago
There are a surprising number of Christians in CS, but they're generally of the more contemplative kind. I definitely remember people being uncomfortable with that but big enough to not make much of a fuss about it. I'm guessing it's been slowly changed by people big enough to realize the name doesn't matter.
saagarjha 6y ago
/Library/LaunchDaemons disagrees ;)
yongjik 6y ago
Twenty-something years ago, I've seen some Christians legit freaking out on Netscape's Book of Mozilla[1] easter egg. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Mozilla https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Mozilla