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I don’t think I’m missing anything. You’re just saying “I prefer prescriptivism. Mine.”

Maybe. A lot of people will truly believe Sierra Club to be “left” without understanding what that (used to?) mean. A descriptivist would say maybe that suggests the words’ meaning…

In my experience in the US people use “left”, “liberal”, “socialist” etc synonymously (and mostly pejoratively). Same for “right”, “conservative”, etc.

Indeed. I can’t imagine doing native desktop development unless it was absolutely required for my project, and then I’d ask myself if maybe I shouldn’t just work on something else.…

I think calling it scamming is incorrect. They are competing — successfully!

I don’t know, all the comments in that thread seem to think the story is bullshit. So I don’t think I’m too swayed.

It kind of sounds like you’re saying “as a representative sample of people in the US”. If this is the case you are wrong — plenty of people use these services. If you’re just sayin…

You linked the wrong comment. I should like to read the right one.