inimino

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by inimino 7y ago
Samsung, Xiaomi, or Huawei will catch up on features eventually.
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by inimino 7y ago
You're unlikely to get rushed to the hospital due to your watch asking you if you're OK while you're consciously engaged in strenuous activity. It's a sign, not a diagnosis.
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by inimino 7y ago
It's good to look out for adverse side effects, but let's not jump to full-on post-100% deployment dystopias when we are still talking about a product < 1% of global population can even afford.
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by inimino 7y ago
If you have useful data, you might as well get a big research grant to publish it. If the buyer (in this case the government or university) were to demand reproducibility, this would cost more, because reproducibility takes work, and it wou
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by inimino 7y ago
Yes, if you publish, you're required to release everything necessary for a practitioner reasonably skilled in the art to reproduce your results, without undue effort. For example, releasing a tarball of source code missing the Makefi
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by inimino 7y ago
> Stallman's conception of free software says that you should be able to charge as much as you want. Yes, once. After this your first customer is now free to undercut you and bring the price as close to zero as they like, as is thei
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by inimino 7y ago
> Open science people generally want people who publish papers to be required to publish the data. Free software requires that if you publish (or sell) binaries you MUST release the source as well, with full rights to modify and redistri
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by inimino 7y ago
This one: https://github.com/tc39/ecma262
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by inimino 7y ago
No, it just moved their existing customers from trash level hosting at luxury prices with "Fanatical Support"(tm), to trash level cloud services at luxury prices with "Fanatical Support"(tm).
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by inimino 7y ago
The environment selects the users.
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by inimino 7y ago
Fortunately, most people aren't like you.
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by inimino 7y ago
Your #4, by the way, is basically the "bounty" model of open source funding, and is not unheard of. For example, Blender was open sourced this way.
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by inimino 7y ago
You're not wrong, however... if you sell the software, you're obligated to provide source. A better analogy would be if you publish the paper, you're obligated to release your data. Nobody ever suggested that individuals
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by inimino 7y ago
Or it could have been an example of the well-known effect that women are generally peacemakers and men and generally the ones who start wars.
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by inimino 7y ago
Lesson is sometimes sitting on a dude works when talking doesn't?
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by inimino 7y ago
> incredibly sheltered. > privileged I'm coming to realize more and more—those aren't the same thing.
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by inimino 7y ago
> Free software isn't about making data openly available. You must be allowed to redistribute the software, and you must be allowed to get, modify, and redistribute the code. Binaries and code are data. Maybe what you mean is that t
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by inimino 7y ago
Yes, this is true. I don't mean to say better software wouldn't have helped--I think OLPC was killed by a combination of factors. (Not least the early trajectory of its hype cycle.) But better software alone ... I don't thi
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by inimino 7y ago
The thing about this age group is they grow up.
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by inimino 7y ago
I disagree. Access to understandable technology is more important than content. These are not mere content delivery devices. Unfortunately, decision makers are poorly informed, and people are lazy, and prefer something already polished over
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by inimino 7y ago
Also not so good in a blackout.
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by inimino 7y ago
What do you mean by "modern"? Expensive and poorly understood?
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by inimino 7y ago
Because most people with strong opinions aren't experienced enough to justify them from direct experience. Instead we have religions, tribal affiliations, camps.
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by inimino 7y ago
Some tools are't the right one for any jobs we actually have.
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by inimino 7y ago
> most people choose it for reasons other than hype [citation desperately needed]
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by inimino 7y ago
Fortunately[1], those annoying birds and insects are going away[2] like never before! [1] for you [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollinator_decline Are humans starving to death also something you'd be re
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by inimino 7y ago
And you expecting it to be read straight shows yours.
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by inimino 7y ago
If I consistently don't use all the features, I pretty quickly start looking at simpler languages.
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by inimino 7y ago
If the textual interface is hidden, you at least lose scriptability, aka the (near) sufficiency of performative skill in a task to automate that task.
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by inimino 7y ago
And the one percent of the five percent that understand that open source is not a business model.

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