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What the heck kind of take is that? We should be fighting tooth and nail today to not let that kind of future come into existence.

No, this doesn't solve the problem for anyone. They need to cancel it immediately, or make it opt-in, again immediately.

The vast majority of software companies are not producing things that matter beyond the scope of capital accumulation.

Is this a form of mechanomorphism, where we try to reason about how human cognition might work by drawing an analogy from how computers work (specifically, overfitting in ANNs) and…

That's sad friend. Your community failed you when growing up. This makes me want to weep.

"Well they'll just hire someone else to do it if I quit. Might as well keep doing it myself."

Spot on. To quote Marshall Rosenberg quoting Hannah Arendt: In her book Eichmann in Jerusalem, which documents the war crimes trial of Nazi officer Adolf Eichmann, Hannah Arendt qu…

But it is most definitely not the shareholders. Definitely just the users and employees. Yup. ;)

You seem to be confusing small businesses with corporations, as if they have the same economic and power imperatives.

Or, why are so many of our current politicians ex-executives or ex-lobbyists?

According to the founder of Co-Star's linkedin profile, they raised "$6 million of investment from the venture firms behind companies like Glossier, Allbirds, and Everlane". On Co-…

Power companies do charge different rates depending on what electronics are used. Energy utility rate structures are both complex and unique to the individual company, but at a hig…

Because it's easier to garner clicks for ad impressions by making bold claims about the amazing (unproven) future benefits of a minor scientific discovery than by presenting reader…

"Now if Spotify were to be banned from the AppStore, how else would you receive its service?" The Spotify Web Player works perfectly fine on iPhone's mobile Safari. No, it's not a …

That's disingenuous. How well would it scale for a musician to personally handle depositing checks from millions of fans? There is a very good reason that many musicians become inv…

To use XCode in a single window, switch it to the All-in-One layout in the preferences: http://iphonedevelopment.blogspot.com/2009/03/xcode-single-w... Also, in any OS X applicatio…

Is it on Android, or on an "Android-based operating system" as mentioned in the article?

If Apple blocked fart apps of third-party developers for the sake of... I don't know what, quality or decency, then people would complain Apple are being censors. Regarding Shoemak…

No it is not. The status quo is that no one has yet made any binding decisions, and the telecom operators will try to get away with what they can until the FCC slaps them down. Goo…

No they didn't. This is the same thing that happens any time anyone gets riled up about a patent. Someone glanced at the title or an image (in this case) in a patent application an…

Objective-C 2.0 does have garbage collection. It can be enabled for an application in the IDE. However iOS apps do not support use of garbage collection.

Other than printing, yes. And I recall some email from Jobs where he said printing on iPad would be solved eventually.

At what point does Apple need to sue AT&T so they can break their exclusivity contract on iOS devices?

The lesson I took away from Panic's Audion story is that they got gridlocked while trying to play two potential buyers (AOL and Apple), and Apple ended up moving forward with a les…

Looking at the app in question ( http://www.groundhog.com.au/myframe/ ), it is pretty easy to see what is so "widget"-y about this app, and the way in which it "creates its own des…