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No, it doesn't.

No, because we have judgement. (And any given conference has its own rules regarding inclusivity and anti-discrimination).

Presenting it at a conference like this reinforces the image of the industry as dominated by white men, and being exactly the sort of really uncomfortable app that can put women off of being a part of the industry.

Even if all things were equal, Tits and Sixpack apps would still be all about objectification, and I for one would be fine with that not being encouraged either.

Or, just maybe, you should care about the sort of atmosphere and culture that this app contributes to just that bit more.

Freedom of speech exists in the public, not private spheres.

In this case, apps such as Titstare being presented at an event (aimed at all ages), such as this, only reinforce the perception that such events are boys clubs for 18-35 year old guys who like staring at tits. Presumably, you want that image to change: isn't it worth imposing restrictions to reduce the amount of "offence" caused to people in order to bring this about?

Something can be a parody (and I'm unconvinced parody was their intent) whilst also being offensive, sexist, inappropriate and awful.

They posted a screenshot to Twitter: https://twitter.com/HateYouCards/status/376735190434840576

Does HN Search only have content from the last (time period)?There's definitely some stuff that seems to be missing.

The BBC article on the deal has more details and quotes from those involved: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23926938

I've not tried to, but Android surfaces an option to disable Play Services.

Yes, there's a permission to install apps silently (android.permission.INSTALL_PACKAGES), but this isn't a permission that can be granted to a third party app. Other bundled app stores can if they're signed appropriately, or if the device is rooted.

Normal apps can't install any APK without explicit user consent. The Play Store auto-updates in a similar way.

I'm not sure what drivers you refer to, but Play definitely isn't mandatory to use the AOSP. Barnes and Noble presumably had all the drivers they needed to make the Nook functional without Play?

Moving some functionality into the Play Services package is a direction that Google have clearly been going in for at least a year: last year both Google+ integrations (understandably) and an updated Google Maps SDK being released.

Android Community's original description of Play Services as "In a nutshell, Google Play services allows app developers to integrate other Google services, like Google Plus, into their apps" is still accurate today.

On the other hand, Google Play Services largely encompasses those features that were /always/ closed source in Android: maps, google+ and GCM. The Google applications that are core to the "standard" Android experience for most users have also always been closed source: Maps, Gmail, Google Calendar.

There are still a lot of new features being introduced to the core Android APIs, with fragmentation issues being mitigated by a provided support library [0] which essentially backports the newer APIs to older versions of Android (some new features are only in the support library).

Android as it's sold in most consumer devices obviously isn't entirely open, but Google still seem to be attempting to strike a balance between supporting the open-source platform on the other, and building up a suite of closed userland features on the other. You might disagree with their judgement on where the balance is, but I think it's unfair to say it's being developed as a completely closed product.

[0] http://developer.android.com/tools/support-library/index.htm...

And whilst a vanishingly small percentage of people were using Mozilla, why not? If Mozilla wanted to get people to use it, it had to be compatible with (most) of the existing web.

Similarly, I won't be testing my websites in Soguo or Yandex until more than a vanishingly low percentage of people are using them on those sites.

Going back to the semantic movement, strictly speaking em and strong should be used to encapsulate text with stress emphasis (when spoken) [0] and strong importance [1] respectively, and these properties would not necessarily be represented by italic and bold fonts (though, by default, they are).

A better choice for bold text that you don't think qualifies as "strong importance" would probably be the <b> tag, which denotes a "span of text offset from its surrounding content without conveying any extra emphasis or importance".

[0] http://dev.w3.org/html5/markup/em.html [1] http://dev.w3.org/html5/markup/strong.html [2] http://dev.w3.org/html5/markup/b.html

Isn't slightly confusing to see the article was written by "Timothy B. Lee".

Just theoretically: Why shouldn't we want our postal services to just be a dumb pipe? Isn't it basically a slow internet?

I don't receive 30 a month as the guy in this article does, but absolutely get one or two a week (usually from recruiters or people "from Microsoft" who've spotted an issue with my computer).

This pay structure makes sense to me. If I'm calling someone's mobile and don't necessarily expect them to be in another country: it would be crazy to be slapped with a massive charge for that call. Makes far more sense for the receiver to make up the difference.

I take it you don't use xcode then...?

But seriously, what are you demonstrating here by providing an anecdote? I've got some of my own: I use osx and windows 7/8 extensively every day, and (except xcode!) neither of them crashes with even the slightest degree of regularity: they're both great operating systems.

But of course, neither are evidence of any form to support the claim "x is better than y". Which is good, because it's a stupid debate anyway.

This was formerly the correct title of the BBC's article, but the source article has since been modified.

Why not pick up the bundle and only use the Steam keys? It's still a great deal...

There's already Streetview: http://oculusstreetview.eu.pn/?lat=25.196966&lng=55.27379900...

I assume that was the point?

Some OEMs include Facebook in their system image.

Theoretically it could, definitely. I don't know if anyone's done the packet sniffing for it.

Sorry, but what's that got to do with iOS7? Parent wasn't saying that the dev centre being down isn't a bad thing, just that iOS7 incompatibility errors aren't high on the priority list yet.

The argument would be that he wasn't wrongly convicted.

By modern standards it's obviously a stupid, unjust and immoral law that he was convicted under; but if he was correctly found guilty under the laws of the time, then it was a sound conviction.