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by cflewis 9y ago
Important: IANAL and I am commenting from my personal reading In the case of Fuschia, I don't see any more restriction of end-user rights than Apache 2.0 would give you. The only real difference is this line: > This grant does not i
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by cflewis 9y ago
I think you hold very reasonable viewpoints :) Re: dark patterns and being muted: a) If it was too impassioned, it wouldn't have read very scientific. b) From a purely self-interested standpoint, I honestly did not want to taint my abi
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by cflewis 9y ago
Of the eight dark patterns you identify as such in your thesis, Facebook implements at least two, possibly three - I could swear I've seen reports of what you describe as "hellbroadcast", but I don't have a cite to hand
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by cflewis 9y ago
No, not really. Drugs aren't inherently meaningful, they mask needs that aren't being met, hiding pain or sadness temporarily. They don't meet the underlying need.
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by cflewis 9y ago
It's in my profile. I work for Google.
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by cflewis 9y ago
I wrote my thesis on this stuff: http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~ejw/dissertations/Christopher-Lewis... which I turned into a book: http://a.co/3uR0koj I find these sort of articles annoying. I've n
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by cflewis 9y ago
I'm a Googler. I've reported this internally.
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by cflewis 10y ago
"It happens" is the only reasonable takeaway you can get from a postmortem like this. My worry is that people read it and go "I am aghast that such a command can be run!" without knowing that little commands like that ar
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by cflewis 10y ago
Hey ho. So I'm on Google's open source team. Rosehub was driven entirely by rank-and-file Googlers who saw the MUNI hack and thought "This sucks and it's so simple to fix and it shouldn't happen." I remember Ju
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by cflewis 10y ago
My experience with depression is that it does what it can to feed itself. Whatever triggers it (for me I am certain it is brain chemistry) doesn't really matter. Depressed people detach socially from their support network because that
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by cflewis 10y ago
You'll never get that evidence; the type of people who are willing to fill out a survey are not the same type of people who don't care and are just Getting Things Done. FWIW internally the Go team has a survey of all Googlers each
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by cflewis 10y ago
Honest question: Lyft has just started up in my area. Uber appears to be done with the shady nonsense that dogged them at the beginning. Why do I choose Lyft over Uber?
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by cflewis 10y ago
I find it hard to imagine. Personality issues aside, Carmack is one of the greatest programmers of our time, and arguably the greatest video game programmer ever . Why would he need to copy anything ? All of his value is in his head. If y