Apple agrees to settle potential class action suit by U.S. developers

Post by Someone » Fri, Aug 27, 2021, 2:19 PM UTC

mananaysiempre wrote: post #189

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Unicode also documents its mistakes in technote 27 “Known Anomalies in Unicode Character Names” ( https://unicode.org/notes/tn27/ ), with remarks such as “U+034F COMBINING GRAPHEME JOINER The name does not describe the function of this character. Despite its name, it does not join graphemes” “The use of the spelling lamda derives from ISO 10646. This does not mean that it is more correct than lambda, merely that the…

I’ve heard Greeks insist that lamda is indeed correct (as a non-misleading approximation of something like [lamða], not necessarily as an English spelling), so that part might have been a deliberate result of the ISO process. (There’s also the name caron for the haček, apparently not used by anyone before the 80s; per the official FAQ: Q: Why is the haček accent called “caron” in Unicode? A: Nobody knows. )

Post by bluedino » Fri, Aug 27, 2021, 2:33 PM UTC

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Lol, few things trigger my OCD more than misspelled words in identifiers. I legit missed important use case while amending legacy system just because someone decided to have “priveleges” in the variable name. I hope all those ways to spell number 90 are part of the joke.

In a triple A game I worked on, the PlayStation button enums were CROSS, SQUARE, TRIANGLE, and...... CRIRCLE. Would drive me absolutely livid. But of course no one was allowed to fix is since it was already in a few different games, countless script files, network-controlled configs etc.....

  You may notice that a lot of the code in Allegro spells 'palette' as 'pallete'. This is because the headers from my old Mark Williams compiler on the Atari spelt it with two l's, so that is what I'm used to.

Post by diggernet » Fri, Aug 27, 2021, 2:47 PM UTC

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At this point I think it may be question whether the problem lies with English itself. Such an error prone language.

You don't know the half of it. Many contemporary and common words are the results of misspellings. “a nickname” was originally “an ekename” (eke being an old English word meaning also) conversely, “an apron” was originally “a napron.” English is a weird agglomeration of different languages, with things like the application of French-style plurals (-s) to Anglo-Saxon words (but not always, cf. ox -> oxen) and a genera…

Post by allwein » Fri, Aug 27, 2021, 2:56 PM UTC

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At this point most students learning about that number assume it's misspelled when first introduced and incorrect the teacher.

>>incorrect the teacher. Did you just use incorrect as a verb?

Post by collaborative » Fri, Aug 27, 2021, 3:03 PM UTC

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At this point, I don't think it's an economic calculation anymore, if it ever was. I think it's moreso that Apple genuinely believes that third parties shouldn't have access to their platforms without prior review. Everything else has an explanation from that: - We need to monopolize control over who can publish software for our platforms, so we can enforce our security guidelines. (This includes banning third-party…

>- Thus, we can't have third-party billing, because that would let developers evade payment for our software review. Except for having to buy a Mac to do development in the first place. And the developer registration yearly fee.