1–10 of 16 posts
I will admit to using what I think are the best tools, even when I worry about where they're coming from. I'm split though if this is necessarily bad.
Sure I'm supporting Facebook (who does bad things) but I'm also supporting Facebook open-sourcing their code (which is a good thing).
Thoughts?
Anything from Walmart Labs. I just can't bring myself to use any of their open-source projects. I know it is a separate entity, but it just makes the code.. smell bad.
There are a lot of otherwise appealing jobs that I don't apply to for ethical reasons. For example I have experience with C++ quantitative investment work, but I won't do it anymore as I came to regard it as immoral - that kind of code is used by those who understand finance, to take money from those who don't.
There are a lot of otherwise appealing jobs that I don't apply to for ethical reasons. For example I have experience with C++ quantitative investment work, but I won't do it anymore as I came to regard it as immoral - that kind of code is used by those who understand finance, to take money from those who don't.
It's a similar group behavior to how towns can form a hate for the opposing town's soccer team. In that case, it can get so carried away as to lead to physical violence between the groups. This is the same level of backing as there is for some of the things Reddit and HN are constantly repeating that they hate. Pure emotion, basically.
Google Charts. Not comfortable sending my data through them because I don't trust them.
Enabling the location services on your phone in example, asks you only once to "increase" the precision by using using cellular, gps and nearby WiFi SSIDs. That's because Google lost a lawsuit for illegaly collecting a database of all SSIDs. Now they let you do it.
But think about it, how can they improve the precision of your phone's location services, when GPS + Celular already are accurate within 1-2m? I mean nearby SSID's won't magically give you military precision and more precision than what you have with GPS+celular alone is not even required.
I'm using https://swisscows.ch instead of http://google.com, because it's more secure, faster, less personalized, equally strong in features and provides me with more accurate results than duckduckgo.com + it has semantic filtering tiles that I really started liking.
For non-compiled software (e.g. Javascript, PHP, Python, Perl, Shell), license doesn't matter to me since I can just see the damn code. Unless it's obfuscated.