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"I've been a Google fanboi for years and defended them in the public square when they've been accused of nefariousness. But these revelations of intentionally ignoring users' priva…

Is "Google does evil shit and violates users privacy" even news-worthy anymore? Isn't that the default? Yeah you heard me Google-tards. Down-vote me like you always do, I got karma…

Waiting for the inevitable DuckDuckBro spin-off

Frankly I think that spending half the intro talking about how sexy they are and then essentially giving an update on what the person in question has been doing lately with their g…

It's okay, the risk of being massacred by the horrible Australian wildlife probably exceeds the reward anyway.

Well, the good news is that even if you're a big company, the Apple App approval process is just as annoying for you as for everyone else. The bad news? That's where the herpes com…

Quick! Alert the people selling software that it's just pixels! It's pixels all the way down!

I have a new favourite word

he suffers from Gruber-syndrome. Which is to say, that he will argue till the cows come home that market share is udderly (sic) irrelevant... ...right up until Apple gets a market …

Man up, move to Australia, and sue the bastards.

If you think Google wouldn't spend some considerable time with a lawyer in preparation alone, then I have a contract to sell you..

Technically it mioght not be theft, but Google certainly has a clear fiduciary repsonsibility in this case, and violating that is generally a lot more serious than mere theft.

It seems like the equivalent would be to go to small claims court. In any case, the likely legal fees involved in Google fighting it vastly outweigh the actual benefit of screwing …

You did read the bit about how Google was arbitrarily with-holding the advertising revenue his site had generated? Sounds illegal to me. If my bank decided they didn't want me as a…

Yes, but they're much happier making budget hardware, handing over the majority of their profit to Microsoft and fighting tooth and nail over bread crumbs than they would be otherw…

Oh noes! I almost cared about the virtual thumbs up! Call me when I can spend karma on caffeine and maybe I'll start caring. ;-p It's a quote about war - in a thread about war. The…

Today I remembered what was the most tantalisingly interesting thing about XCode back then - the distributed compilation. The idea that you could have a team of people and my compu…

The Americans will always do the right thing - after they have exhausted all other options. - Churchill

Universities also teach philosophy, and it isn't science either. Of course, as we can see from the Philosophy of Science courses, that philosophy is actually more important than sc…

A simple but sad explanation would be that it is dependent on the reviewer, or more likely reviewers, over at Apple. E.g. if Sandeep finishes reviewing faster than Nikolai, then th…

I believe there's a free (as in freedom) version of Objective-C out there, I think it runs on Windows and Linux. Check out the book by Stephen G. Kochan The caveat of course, is th…

Focus on gameplay rather than graphics. Which is to say; make a game with compelling and interesting rules that doesn't rely on performance

The claim has been made that it is easier to move from a formal education in maths to functional programs. E.g. if you've been dealing with things like f(x)->g(x) in math class for…

Of course it makes sense, Baseball and Football are both sports, why not compare them? Because as different sports it isn't really relevant. Are you going to say that cricket is be…