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by bww 6y ago
This guy apparently offended some fellow presenter at a conference. Then he wrote an article about how he is offended by being accused of offending this person. Is this whole thing starting to seem ridiculous to anyone else?
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by bww 6y ago
This is clearly a pretty lame thing for Spotify to do. The context of this particular article, however, is that John Gruber is obliquely attempting to use Spotify’s bad behavior to excuse Apple doing the same or worse on a much larger, much
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by bww 6y ago
A thing can be good and also not bread (or beer or whatever). You can even eat a thing with cheese and it may still not be bread – shocking, I know. Crackers are not bread. Coffee is good too and it’s not bread. It would be strange to insis
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by bww 6y ago
It seems to me like Apple has created the appearance of a new exemption without actually changing anything. All of the example transactions in the guidelines (“tutoring students, medical consultations, real estate tours, or fitness training
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by bww 6y ago
This is a very bad look on Apple. Regardless of the enforceability of their agreements, the sense of entitlement that underlies Apple’s position is shocking. The claim that Epic has “lined [its] pockets at Apple’s expense” implies that Appl
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by bww 6y ago
The fact that Apple seems to think it is effectively responding to the mounting discontent with their stewardship of the App Store by offering developers a form to complain into demonstrates how far out of touch they’ve become. We know from
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by bww 6y ago
Not that I support a wealth tax – I don't – but the article doesn't seem to appreciate that this kind of gradual redistribution of idle wealth is not an alarming side-effect of such a tax, it's exactly the point.
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by bww 6y ago
Is there really a plausible world in which Apple, the world's most valuable company and one of it's most recognizable brands, might be determined by a court to have neglected to affirmatively defend its ubiquitous trademarks merel
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by bww 6y ago
I’m aware there is demand for this sort of thing but I’d suggest that almost nobody actually needs it. This strikes me as a feature in search of a problem – especially considering how many of the examples in this document relate to static w
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by bww 6y ago
Setting aside the obvious PR opportunism, how would something like this actually work? Does Uber currently collect data on the race of the people who own restaurants they deliver from? Is data like this publicly available somehow? Is this d
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Restaurants and bars will be closed in New York City(nytimes.com)
2 points by bww 7y ago|0 comments
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by bww 7y ago
Your company should provide enough of a given amenity that everyone can enjoy it as much as they like or it shouldn’t provide that amenity at all. Offering an insufficient amount invites this kind of behavior and the animosity this kind of
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by bww 7y ago
You may recall that Google dramatically pulled out of the mainland Chinese market about 10 years ago on the basis of exactly these principles (at least ostensibly). That didn’t exactly last. And China is a much more important market now tha
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by bww 7y ago
tl;dr "Bill clearly aimed specifically at us doesn't apply to us."
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by bww 7y ago
I can understand why a cloud platform would proactively disable workloads that appear to be acting dangerously. At the same time it seems quite unreasonable that there's no mechanism for a customer to get their data back when their acc
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by bww 7y ago
It’s worth remembering that engineers don’t get paid to write tests, they get paid to produce software that supports some business need. In most circumstances, some amount of automated testing makes it faster to reliably meet those business
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by bww 8y ago
Has anyone ever recommended Kubernetes to anybody as a production environment for an "unprofitable hobby project"? In the context of the article we’re discussing, the suggestion that $30 is an unreasonable operations overhead for
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by bww 8y ago
I’m a fellow generics pessimist. Having come to Go from Java some 6 years ago I initially found the lack of generics a curious, sometimes frustrating omission. After years of using Go daily and reading a long succession of posts on the go-n
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by bww 8y ago
Air rights.
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by bww 8y ago
You don’t say. Great insight, guys.
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by bww 8y ago
This program sounds like a huge, irresponsible waste of public resources. However I don’t exactly see how merely being observed in public amounts to the dystopian surveillance state this article seems to imply. Is going unnoticed in public
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by bww 8y ago
Based on all the reflexively negative comments I’ll assume that most the participants in this thread write SQL for a living. Notwithstanding certain ridiculous assertions on the part of the author attempting to correlate the value of a tech
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Occu-pi: The Bathroom of the Future(medium.com)
2 points by bww 8y ago|0 comments
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by bww 8y ago
You're only supposed to send the first 16 characters of the hash, not the whole thing.
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Scientists Made Snails Remember Something That Never Happened to Them(nytimes.com)
1 points by bww 8y ago|0 comments
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A Taxi Driver Took His Own Life. His Family Blames Uber(mobile.nytimes.com)
2 points by bww 8y ago|0 comments
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by bww 9y ago
Easy access to guns in this country means it’s plausible that anyone the police encounter may be armed. As a result all the police also have guns and are reasonably concerned about being shot themselves – especially in tense situations. Tha
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by bww 9y ago
The medallion system pretends to regulate the taxi industry, but in actuality it’s a scheme that allowed people to buy into a monopoly. This unusual arrangement has insulated the taxi industry from normal market forces at the expense of pre
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by bww 9y ago
More importantly: I would argue that holding up Peter Thiel as some kind of moral representative of the entire technology industry is pretty ridiculous. Has he been a prominent figure and thinker? Sure. I think that most would agree, howeve
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by bww 9y ago
This is how the civil courts system works in Canada? Agents of a corporation are permitted by law to search a private citizen's home, seize property, detain him against his will, and deny him access to his lawyer for 16 hours? Even if

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