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by gress 12y ago
The academic study of economics is no different. There is not a science of economics.
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by gress 12y ago
I agree that this alternative might be valid. I was merely responding to what you actually said - which was not that you were putting your resources elsewhere, but that you simply didn't want to donate to the individual.
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by gress 12y ago
I think criticizing the US Healthcare system is perfectly reasonable. But it sounds as though you think that not donating to this individual will have some indirect effect on improving things for other people in the future.
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by gress 12y ago
Android is AOSP + GMS. AOSP is open source, and GMS is not. What do you 'know' about Android, that people 'like me' don't?
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by gress 12y ago
Please provide a link to the GMS source code. There is no hate, but there is cyncism, and a desire to not see the future of computing be controlled by a cynical company or misleading statements.
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by gress 12y ago
AOSP is open source. GMS is not. Samsung required GMS to make a commercially viable Android handset that consumers recognize as Android. Therefore the Android that Samsung (and the other Android makers outside china) licenses is obviously
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by gress 12y ago
Some kind of platonic ideal of economics may be about experienced utility, but in practice it's just more politics.
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by gress 12y ago
You don't have to move to Europe. Just Oakland.
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by gress 12y ago
What Amazon forked is not the Android the licencees like Samsung use. That Android, the one that most people use, is exactly as 'open' as Windows.
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by gress 12y ago
What openness exactly are you talking about? This is all closed source code being shared between some of the worlds largest corporations under secretly negotiated contracts. Also you make it sound as though they somehow made peace rather t
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by gress 12y ago
Code injection for swift would be great, but there is no reason it would have to be done using either eval or message passing. The debug symbols are enough for the compiler to do hot code replacement, either directly or through trampolines.
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by gress 12y ago
I honestly think you're wrong about message passing not being a bottleneck. I think there are things that people simply avoid because they'd be slow in Objective-C, and C isn't powerful enough. I am personally looking forwa
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by gress 12y ago
Has this version been submitted to ECMA?
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by gress 12y ago
This seems more like a case against message passing. The reason iOS is smooth and fast is that a lot of the heavy lifting is done by optimized pure C code called from objective-C. A major goal for Swift is to let people achieve that kind
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by gress 12y ago
Specifying invariants via tests before or during the writing of code is a great technique. Making your whole development approach blindly revolve around one technique is self-evidently a poor idea.
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by gress 12y ago
You don't voluntarily engage with police or prisons whether they are government run or private corporations.
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by gress 12y ago
How did you afford your iPhone?
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by gress 12y ago
The point is that you also are far from perfect, so it's better for both of you to find ways to be kind to each other despite one another's flaws. Kind doesn't mean pretending to like everything - it just means not creating a
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by gress 12y ago
The original point being debated is the idea that you don't 'own your own phone', and the answer is that nobody is preventing you from owning your own phone, and such phones are available, but we also have the option to choos
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by gress 12y ago
Agreed. It really just tags a particular version of the language. It gives zero commitment from Google about how the language will be evolved or deployed. Unless they do a lot more to make the language into a commons, it's really ju
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by gress 12y ago
The politics with Swift are well understood - it's simply an alternative to Objective-C that is technically superior in. A bunch of ways. Objective-C is effectively proprietary, so if you are willing to program Objective-C, you are pr
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by gress 12y ago
Whoever else values an open device, and through your own store, just like the way most desktop software is sold.
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by gress 12y ago
Ah, so this has nothing to do with owning your own phone, and everything to do with being given access to an audience. It seems to me that I'm not the one who's being disingenuous.
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by gress 12y ago
"At Google we say, focus on the user and all else will follow." Presumably they are talking about cameras.
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by gress 12y ago
Google Glass does not have an LED on it when it is recording. And yes, it is possible to make a surreptitious recording with any camera, but there is no comparison. With other cameras including cellphones, it takes a tricky and intentional
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by gress 12y ago
This seems like a moot compliant. You can always buy a rootable android phone, or a Firefox phone. This is like complaining that your newspaper already has ink on it stating someone else's opinion. If you want it to be blank, buy a p
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by gress 12y ago
Was it heavily functional? I've found the compiler works great for regular OO stuff plus heavy use of closures. Most of the reports of compiler problems seem to arise when people use more functional idioms.
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by gress 12y ago
Looks like they've improved support for shadows, too. I hope they've improved their svg importer to match.
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by gress 12y ago
You can see what people are doing with phones.
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by gress 12y ago
Do space elevators make it ok to invade people's privacy?

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