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by gress 11y ago
So this, as usual, is false when it comes to Apple, and that destroys the credibility of the whole piece. Any musician can put their music up on connect.
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by gress 11y ago
"Acting like you need his expert lessons" is not the same as "wanting to help in any way they can".
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by gress 11y ago
Most people do OSS to pad or establish their résumés or increase their professional profile. Additionally, most of the high profile OSS projects now have massive commercial support.
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by gress 11y ago
The key is that you have to qualify it by repeatedly stating the word 'material'. There can be arbitrary amounts of psychological suffering that we trade for this material benefit and these are typically just discounted.
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by gress 11y ago
In no way does this stop people being 'the product'. For that to be true it would have to stop google amassing personal data on you, and stop them deliverering advertising to you everywhere. This goes nowhere significant towards
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by gress 11y ago
Many of the other recommendations on this list are similarly 'conservative'. Basically it's an attempt to reduce surface area as much as possible.
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by gress 11y ago
Yes, all forms of monetization of content on the web should belong to Google. /s
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by gress 11y ago
Not responding to the parent but these links: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect http://www.npr.org/programs/invisibilia/378577902/how-to-bec... Might shed some light
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by gress 11y ago
> Almost the entire OSX API is built on the Objective-C object dispatch model. False. Cocoa is a significant part of OSX, but there are C api's for most of the frameworks. > Swift and Objective-C are built for this model specific
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by gress 11y ago
I'm not sidetracking. I'm pointing out that you are affirming the consequent by simply declaring statements about what emotion 'is'.
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by gress 11y ago
Objective C plays nicely with any C and C++
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by gress 11y ago
It's tied to the objective-c runtime to the same extent that other dynamic languages e.g. Ruby, are tied to their runtimes. That hasn't stopped them. I agree that the poor state of GNUStep and indeed the fact that it even tries t
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by gress 11y ago
Actually not. This is your explanation for what emotion is, based on your scientific framework. It is not some kind of absolute truth. Given that you have no explanation for consciousness, there is a limit to your framework when it comes
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by gress 11y ago
Where do you think contingenics is getting their information if not from the local press?
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by gress 11y ago
How does the contigenics 'see' the lack of zombie factories? Are they flying in a helicopter to fact-check the NYT? I think not.
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by gress 11y ago
We do have driverless trains.
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by gress 11y ago
Except that that is self-evidently false, and we're not talking about some meaningless argument in a vacuum, but one between humans who have experience of the world.
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by gress 11y ago
You're right but Google continues to maintain that they are operating in a vigorously competitive environment. The minute they drop this assertion they will be the focus of antitrust investigations around the world.
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by gress 11y ago
It's fairly obvious that things like pedestrian detection systems with automatic braking, lane departure warnings, tiredness detection, etc. will make a significant difference as they become widespread. These exist in production today
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by gress 11y ago
Self driving cars are not available to us right now.
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by gress 11y ago
That's for self driving car advocates to state, rather than simply raising the bogeyman of road deaths every time there is any commentary that detracts from their position.
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by gress 11y ago
Surely this matters only if Google's priority is to avoid criticism. If you guys believe in keeping end-users safe, it's a straightforward decision.
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by gress 11y ago
Self driving cars are by no means the only solution to road deaths.
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by gress 11y ago
Citation: http://bfy.tw/1Vpt
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by gress 11y ago
That just goes to prove that there is no tie.
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by gress 11y ago
By your logic, anyone who ever runs into trouble with a patent troll should never be trusted again. Clearly this is absurd.
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by gress 11y ago
FaceTime was prevented from being open sourced by a patent troll. Continuing to repeat misinformation about this in threads like this is not a reflection on Apple, and is clearly irrelevant to whether Swift will be open sourced. Pay attent
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by gress 11y ago
Totally false. Not only is there no such tie, Apple is preparing a Linux open source release.
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by gress 11y ago
It doesn't need multitasking/multi programming as a language feature because these are provided by GCD as a library.
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by gress 11y ago
Nobody is talking about conspiracies here - just that this decision demonstrates Google's priorities. Isn't your willingness to throw your colleague under a bus like this just as much a statement about Google culture as the origin

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