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by cmsj 11y ago
I don't want you to hug me, or otherwise violate my personal space, thank you. I don't know you, it's completely inappropriate. Textual descriptions thereof also make me feel weird and uneasy. (And if you don't think tha
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by cmsj 11y ago
Your username is not inspiring confidence in your opinion on these matters ;)
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by cmsj 11y ago
(The difference being that if you accept that there are deep cultural problems in STEM environments wrt diversity, anyone who isn't a white male starts further behind)
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by cmsj 11y ago
"[S]He who starts behind in the great race of life must forever remain behind, or run faster than the man in front"
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by cmsj 11y ago
You only do what is right, if you get praised for it? interesting.
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by cmsj 11y ago
Yes yes so much yes. FWIW he does a podcast with Merlin now, called Irreconcilable Differences, but it's not primarily about tech.
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by cmsj 11y ago
Analysis with a very poor sample set (a set of USA online buyers of unknown representativity, who happen to let some company read their emails). Even Slice themselves cautioned about extrapolating from their data.
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by cmsj 11y ago
On an infinite timescale, that analysis will be correct ;)
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by cmsj 11y ago
Also, "I want to apologise" is different to "I apologise". It's understandable that people want to put as much self-sparing language in an apology as possible, but it's the worst time to do it.
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by cmsj 11y ago
I'd like to hear more about their bad track record. Also, Apple profits from selling hardware, not user data. They're just not structured to profit from user data. They could change that, of course. It'd be similar to Google
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by cmsj 11y ago
I don't get the 17", they were insanely big and heavy. The 15" rMBP can run in the same effective screen resolution, while also being significantly smaller and lighter. Wins all round!
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by cmsj 11y ago
I'm not sure if I'm responding to exactly what you said, but I would say that Apple has been anything but silent about user privacy. Tim Cook has said on multiple occasions that he values user privacy very highly, that Apple does
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by cmsj 11y ago
I have heard it said that putting MailRoute in front of your Fastmail account, clears up the spam problem to the same degree that Google does.
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by cmsj 11y ago
Yeah, it's weird. My sons (2 and 4) absolutely love the first Cars movie, but they won't be watching the second until they are a bit older. It's quite a step up in menace and violence, sadly.
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by cmsj 11y ago
An interesting experiment to try is to say "girls"/"ladies" instead of "guys" for non-gender-specific uses, and see how weird it feels.
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by cmsj 11y ago
FWIW, as a counter-anecdote, every time I have been to see my bank about a big life decision, I have come away feeling that I might as well not have bothered, because they just wanted to push me their most valuable products.
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by cmsj 11y ago
So, I get that you want to make the accounts free, but frankly, for the kind of service you're talking about, I would very gladly pay a monthly fee. I say that a) because I agree that all of the current UK banks suck and I'm willi
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by cmsj 11y ago
FWIW, I tend to substitute the word "user" there, for "software". I see permissive Open Source licenses as giving developers all the freedom, and copyleft licenses as giving the software itself, all the freedom. I choose
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by cmsj 11y ago
Absolutely, I hope I didn't convey a message that I think the licenses aren't without justification. I do think that they have gone too far though, and I think that is somewhat supported by the (as I see it, at least) lack of inte
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by cmsj 11y ago
Sure, but they are so tightly integrated with Xcode. It would be very hard to open source anything meaningful there, I suspect.
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by cmsj 11y ago
Thanks, I'd not seen all of that detail before. I can certainly understand that the anti-Tivoisation clauses are concerning to Apple.
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by cmsj 11y ago
A good point, thanks!
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by cmsj 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#His... has some coverage of the changes that various versions of the GPL introduced. tl;dr is that v3 places a much broader burden on entities releasing GPL soft
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by cmsj 11y ago
What kind of sugar do you mean?
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by cmsj 11y ago
They didn't claim it is open source, they said it's going to be . So, again, who is Apple combatting by announcing their intention to open source a language?
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by cmsj 11y ago
By the same token, it might also be nice to see FSF advocates taking on board the notion that they have brought some of this on themselves with newer versions/variants of the GPL.
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by cmsj 11y ago
That's such a defensive position to take. Who/what is Apple combatting by announcing that Swift will go open source? It's just one more language in a huge sea of options. It's expected that any language, if it is to be t
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by cmsj 11y ago
I don't think you have any evidence of such a pledge. Personally, I think Apple doesn't give a fig about software freedom. I don't think they are in favour of it, or against it, they simply want to ship their products. For a
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by cmsj 11y ago
That is really a separate question though. Open Source is simply about licensing of a software release, it says nothing about the nature of the development community that produced the software. An open, collaborative development community i
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by cmsj 11y ago
FWIW, I don't think Bradley is claiming that they are under any obligation here.

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