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by cmsj 8y ago
I see arguments like this a fair bit, and I'd like to explain why I'm not at all convinced. Your position is entirely predicated on the assumption that we must protect Open Source companies above the freedom of users/develope
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by cmsj 8y ago
I think the idea there is that one body shouldn't have a proprietary lock on what counts as Open Source and what doesn't. OSI/OSD as the loudest voices of what is OSS, is helpful, but they shouldn't be the only voices. (
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by cmsj 8y ago
By that argument they should also prohibit people from playing competitive chess outside of work, because it's mentally challenging.
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by cmsj 8y ago
I like your description of separating flow from actions, I try to do that too. I want my functions higher up the abstraction stack to read like they are orchestrating black boxes of functionality.
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by cmsj 8y ago
I would make no claims to being an exceptional programmer, but fwiw I don't like nested functions - it always takes me a lot longer to reason about what a function is doing, when it has functions defined inside it.
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by cmsj 8y ago
> is willing to use his giant pile of money to pay other people to litigate FTFY. It's easy to be an asshole for an extended period of time when you can outsource all of the assholery to professional assholes.
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by cmsj 8y ago
or just make vaccines mandatory for every child able to have them?
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by cmsj 8y ago
The second issue is definitely a personal one, but it's also an important one. Not everyone is built to work remotely (just as not everyone is built to work in an office) and it's important to recognise that. I've worked rem
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by cmsj 8y ago
Hi, Red Hatter here. Red Hat is not just a corporate job for many/most of us. I'm here because the culture is fantastic and the deep understanding of remote working is vital to me.
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by cmsj 8y ago
Google Pixel 2: $649 Google Pixel 3: $799 hmmm ;)
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by cmsj 8y ago
I think that depends how you define "behind". HomeKit has some functionality gaps at the moment, and less hardware supports it, but what it does do, it does tremendously well and with higher security bars than some of the competin
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by cmsj 8y ago
Two brief points: 1) Just because the Ubiquiti founder came from Apple, doesn't mean that Apple should be in the quasi-enterprise networking space that Ubiquiti is. Apple's networking gear was always aiming to be simple, plug-and-
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by cmsj 8y ago
For historical context, the iOS/Android Snapchat quality thing was because on Android they would take a screenshot of the preview screen of the camera. As of earlier this year, they're actually using the proper API on Android and
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by cmsj 8y ago
ASP is rising in the last couple of years, but it's only recently crossed the level it was at a decade ago.
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by cmsj 8y ago
FWIW Lua is somewhere around 15,000 LOC these days.
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by cmsj 8y ago
for Hammerspoon, we ended up building a fairly large abstraction layer that takes care of all of the repetitive/fragile stack operations for us, and it's improved our productivity significantly. Wiring up new Objective C objects t
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by cmsj 8y ago
Shameless plug: I maintain an open source Mac app called Hammerspoon that opens up a ton of OS frameworks/events to a Lua environment for your scripting/automation pleasure :)
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by cmsj 8y ago
They might look pretty, but they're annoying - the drive bays pop out when you press them, which is annoying if you knock the front of one by accident.
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by cmsj 8y ago
I've heard it said that they have a farm of Mac Minis for build servers.
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by cmsj 8y ago
https://github.com/ipfs/notes/issues/37 is one possible solution to anonymous IPFS.
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by cmsj 8y ago
Indeed, a more fair comparison is to compare GNOME Terminal to xterm. You should see that xterm is way faster, but it's also uglier and has far fewer features. Overhead isn't always about worthless bloat.
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by cmsj 8y ago
Of course Apple has data, we know that, but there are at least two key differences: 1) Apple tries a lot harder to not collect data at all, and when they have to, they try to aggressively anonymise it. 2) Apple doesn't leverage your da
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by cmsj 8y ago
You could maybe make an argument that something like iMessage is a platform lock-in.
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by cmsj 8y ago
I wanted to be a programmer from the age of 8. I noodled around a bit in BASIC, and then taught myself C at around 15 or 16. I was easily into my 20s before I could even reasonably claim that I understood C. I've turned 40 this year an
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by cmsj 8y ago
No. Beta hardware is being tested, but this whole project is driven in the spare time of the folk building/testing it, so it's slow going.
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by cmsj 8y ago
This post makes absolutely no sense, and reveals nothing.
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by cmsj 8y ago
No, it's not wrong. Samsung is allowed to add its own Calendar/Calculator/whatever apps, and their own App Store, but they are not allowed to remove Google's ones without dropping every non-AOSP Google app/service f
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by cmsj 8y ago
Correct, but Apple doesn't have an overwhelming market majority, so under antitrust laws it isn't capable of inhibiting competition.
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by cmsj 8y ago
In the EU, Android has about 75-80% market share if you look at the whole market, or nearly 100% if you look at the lower end of the market where iOS isn't available.
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by cmsj 8y ago
Android the project is open source and lacks those apps, but Android the consumer branded product without those apps is not very appealing to customers.

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