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by jpttsn 6y ago
If I want to be on “Survivor”, I don’t have much choice but to apply to CBS to be on “Survivor”. They control the whole show, I’m literally a pawn in their game. I wish I wasn’t born into this. Oh woe.
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by jpttsn 6y ago
No, though it’s invalidated for other reasons, the enumeration of which would here seem only to cause a resounding whoosh passing overhead. It’s child’s play to orchestrate this. It amounts to getting thrown out of a bar for not wearing pan
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by jpttsn 6y ago
Off topic but okay, let’s specify Definitive Edition.
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by jpttsn 6y ago
It’s easy to accept that you have a right to complain. But after ten years of perfect clarify about how Apple intends to play this, your supposed outrage that the iPhone is still a walled garden seems willfully thick. I’d be so impressed if
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by jpttsn 6y ago
Your fridge is compatible with any food. Your iPhone is not compatible with any software. Some things are compatible and some things are not. Edit: “Compatible” is not about the tech in this case (the binary would theoretically run) but abo
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by jpttsn 6y ago
Only if you want them to carry it in their store. But you don’t want to do that, or at least not pay for it, so don’t. Make a web app or something.
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by jpttsn 6y ago
So don’t sell iPhone versions. Sell software for platforms that support arbitrary software. Or pay Apple for distribution in their walled garden. It’s totally up to you. The parameters have been clear for over a decade, and it’s really time
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by jpttsn 6y ago
Implication being “there’s an app for” a number of needs, but not that “there’s every app” for every need. When the case in point is an email client this argument seems especially facetious. Is any customer really being defrauded because “t
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by jpttsn 6y ago
Did you return it, or did it not matter enough to change the purchase decision?
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by jpttsn 6y ago
Apple is not tricking people into buying iPhones, believing every app is available. “There’s an app for that” doesn’t mean “every single app for that is available”. It means there are many apps, all of which found 30% to be acceptable. If A
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by jpttsn 6y ago
It’s totally optional; if you don’t want to participate, don’t. Sell your software any way you want outside their store. Take out ads in local papers or something.
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by jpttsn 6y ago
No, the other option is to not fork over 30%. If your app is so good that Apple needs you more than you need Apple, they’ll come to the table.
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by jpttsn 6y ago
When you bought the device, did you expect it to run “Hey”? If Apple promised that, sue them. If not, you’re just confused about what you bought and probably shouldn’t handle your own money.
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by jpttsn 6y ago
It’s obviously intentional. I’ve never heard about Hey. Then today, first they post something else and now someone defrosts this tired whine about Apple monetizing, and Hey (whatever it is) tops the list. Sigh. Good work marketers, people s
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by jpttsn 6y ago
You’ve seen through it, congrats: they are pricing based on value, not cost. McDonalds, Nike and Gillette do this too. Hey, maybe you’re doing it yourself: is your salary really the cheapest way for you to produce the work you get paid for?
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by jpttsn 6y ago
I can’t relate to this. Some vendors sell me hardware, and I can bring my own software. Apple sells me more expensive hardware with the software only from their “partners”, which is “curated” and subject to a steep 30% distribution cut. App
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by jpttsn 6y ago
Had this debate when we bought monitors for the firm. Some in management said high DPI, good color etc. are not worth the money (which you clarify is what your really mean). But after splurging, the effect on productivity was measurable. If
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by jpttsn 6y ago
I agree that this is how most legislation does work: dream up something that would be great and ignore the facts on the ground and live with a predictable shitshow of implementations. To me it's a stretch to say legislation ought to
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by jpttsn 6y ago
If a client/muggle asks me to build an “AI” I’ll be wary that their “spec” is sometimes just examples of what the “AI” should be able to do: play chess, write a poem. In their mental model, the AI is far from defined by these capabilit
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by jpttsn 6y ago
In Swift `let x = things.first` won't compile but `let x = things.first ?? "empty"` and `let x = things.first!` will. Does that count? (Probably mangled the Swift, doing this from memory)
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by jpttsn 6y ago
Thought provoking, thanks. I’m not asking you to accept anything: I don’t evangelize. In particular I have no theory that generalizes over nations. It seems very limiting. Like ignoring a mechanism I see work in my apartment because it does
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by jpttsn 6y ago
My overarching point here is that it’s pointless to debate Switzerland v Germany as if they exist in some sort of vacuum without interaction. Without Germany, there is no Switzerland. Without Switzerland, there is not Germany. A theory wher
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by jpttsn 6y ago
Yes, my belief is that 1) nations outsource violence to the superpower 2) the superpower’s military prowess comes at the cost of a warlike culture at home. Your belief is (?) that the US aggregate violence/whatever is in no meaningful
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by jpttsn 6y ago
The point is that the study participants interact; it’s misleading to compare nations by the stat. The extent to which China is a military superpower interplays with other participants.
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by jpttsn 6y ago
But was it the “capability” that qualified as AI in the 50s? Or was the capability just one example of what the AI could do? Suppose we said we’ve invented Jesus because we’ve invented ways to walk on water and turn it into wine.
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by jpttsn 6y ago
Nations also interact, muddying the “compare” waters further. Where I live, we drive cars, but we don’t fight the overseas oil wars. We’ve outsourced all that brutality to the US. That lets us smugly reap the benefits and point fingers at A
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by jpttsn 7y ago
To play the devil’s advocate, I think time.time() is more vague than intuitive. What value does it have? 0? Current time? In what time zone? Is it monotonous?
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by jpttsn 7y ago
Lotteries do this all the time, so there’s plenty of data.
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by jpttsn 7y ago
Sounds like the participants knew the study was temporary and invested the money in a job they knew they’d need after the study.
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by jpttsn 7y ago
Cool. Mixed message: your site starts with a loading spinner for me.

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