rickmb

> If Rodrigo wants to hit deadlines all he needs to do is increase his estimates. It's usually easier to teach someone how to game the managerial system than it is to teach someone to code.

This is what so many developers don't seem to understand. This isn't "gaming the system". This is just giving better estimates which leads to better (or at least less annoying) management because they won't be breathing down your neck when you're far from done.

If you don't do this, you're not a cool hacker who doesn't care about management stuff and politics, you're just an idiot. Unless you are a masochists, in that case, enjoy your self-imposed agony....

I have one suggestion for you: stop blaming everyone else.

The law itself is just fine. It's insufficient in itself, but so is the law making theft illegal.

If you use Google Analytics and third party social widgets, you're aiding and abetting, you're aiding and abetting companies that violate people's privacy rights on a massive scale. You choose to do so, so you should accept the consequences and the responsibility instead of pointing the finger to everyone else.

As an industry, we've had over a decade to fix this problem until the politicians finally took action. We, Silktide include, have not only done fuck all to solve the problem, we've participated in making is massively worse by putting Google Analytics and Facebook like-buttons on every site we put our hands on.

The politicians you're ridiculing are at least trying to fix the mess we created. We took a dump on privacy rights, and are now bitching about how bad politicians are in cleaning it up.

You really think they're going to listen to us as long as we keep acting like spoiled children with zero sense of responsibility?

I nearly stopped reading after the second sentence, and I definitely stopped after your first "argument".

I don't want to be stalked, period. Not turning cookies off should not mean I immediately relinquish my rights, just like I don't relinquish my right to privacy by stepping into the street.

Yes, cookies server a very valuable purpose in website development, and guest what: for those purposes the so-called cookie law (which btw covers all forms of tracking, calling it the "cookie law" is sheer propaganda in itself) doesn't affect any website in any fucking way.

This underhanded tactic of spreading deliberate misinformation in order to justify the massive violation of privacy caused by commercialized stalking disgusts me.

It's like the mafia bitching about how it's so unfair and stupid that politicians have made racketeering illegal.

And this illustrates exactly why I haven't taken most of the attacks on Apple seriously up to now.

Hatred an bigotry aren't "purely political". The fact that certain sick fucks leverage those sentiment for political gain doesn't change that. You can ban apps that are hateful and bigoted for that reason only, without it being a political statement.

This is very different from the drone strike app, which is not objectionable in any way if you remove the political dimension.

As an Apple fanboy, I've been able to rationalize everything Apple has done concerning the app-store up to now, even if I personally would have like to have seen a way more open and liberal approach. And the overblown anti-Apple FUD, using misplaced terms like "censorship" and "monopoly" whenever an app was thwarted by Apples opaque policies has made it easy to ignore the objections of detractors.

But I find it impossible to justify what is quite obviously a politically motivated rejection.

I still believe this is Apple's store, and they can admit and reject what they like. But if politics comes into it, than that changes my personal perspective on buying Apple products.

Just imagine if the subject would be "places that legalize gay marriage" instead of drone strikes. The only "objectionable" part of the drone strike app is that it may have a political agenda. That should never be grounds for rejection.

And we have a huge bike theft issue that's been going on for decades. Keep looking...

Seriously, the only things that have somewhat alleviated the problem is better locks and guarded bike parking facilities.

The problem once again is copyright. If copyright hadn't been in the way, there would no DRM, and plenty of neutral services to solve this problem.

Right now, if you can't even freely share stuff between the living in your own household, you don't really "own" it, and you can forget about a way to pass it on to your heirs.

You don't own stuff you merely rent, and you can forget about passing it on.

Not really. Take the patent system away, and all Apple has is a nice market share, a fat war chest and it's own ability to produce interesting products.

Apple has taken the posture of the 800lb gorilla with a questionable legal maneuver, leveraging a patent systems its competitors were happy to support to keep smaller players down until it was used against them. And Apple can still lose the next move in this legal chess game if Google takes them on.

This is very different from for instance the Microsoft of the '90s that had so much market power of its own it could dictate terms and kill competition simply with money and threats.

That was a real 800lb gorilla. Apple is playing a very dangerous game by faking it through dubious legal tactics. But one court decision that doesn't go their way can completely kill that.

This illustrates exactly why PHP projects often become such an unmaintainable mess and security hole. This looks like an example collection of PHP worst practices.

I mean, what could possibly go wrong with untestable code and unfiltered input...?

Looks exactly like a common recruitment event.

Emotional? I have absolutely nothing invested in this, and I can objectively observe that Twitter are being dicks.

Also, the apologist's response "it makes business sense" doesn't offset the fact that it is a dick move.

I find it odd and somewhat worrying that so many people seem adhere to the logic "if there's a business reason for it, it's okay". The way Twitter treats the ecosystem around Twitter is quite definitely not okay, no matter what the rationale behind it is.

Agile attacks are almost always clueless, ill-informed and incoherent rants such as this one.

There's a lot of valid and interesting criticism of particular Agile methodologies and practices, but full frontal attacks on Agile in general are usually just malicious link-bait such as this one.

Come on, most users outside the US are perfectly used to a plethora of international TLD's. It's something they are quite familiar with.

Also, they either use the English version of the OS and browser, or the one in their language, and both come with the default correct preferred language settings.

The same goes for company systems. You don't give someone who can't handle English an English language system, and the idea of setting up a system in language X but pre-configuring that in some what that English becomes the preferred browser language is a really odd edge case.

Even if such scenarios are more common, it still doesn't excuse telling people that make explicit choices to go fuck themselves, especially in multi-lingual countries where such explicit choices are common.

Japan may be relatively homogenous, but most countries in Europe are either formally multilingual or have large immigrant populations. Many thousands of people are regularly being confronted with misplaced assumptions about their preferred language.

You can't assume language from geo-IP databases, it is the most unreliable and inappropriate method imaginable, and you are 100% sure to regularly piss people off.

Really? The country I'm visiting from says nothing definitive about my language of choice. Absolutely nothing.

Choosing google.com instead of google.nl however is a clear choice. Setting the preferred language of my browser is an even more explicit choice.

How can honoring explicit choices be more offensive than assuming the visitor is an idiot who can't think for themselves?

> Google is making the (accurate) calculation that over 99% of people coming from a Japanese IP address whose computer says "Accept-Language: en-gb;q=0.9, en;q=0.7" are actually Japanese speakers of Japanese

Google is making the (completely wrong) assumption that those people cannot type google.co.jp instead of google.com and make their own choices.

But at least in Japan they're probably right about the language. Google pulls the same crap in multilingual countries, and gets it wrong a lot of the time. This isn't Google being smart, this is Google being lazy and insensitive.

This kind of thing pisses me off regularly. Google is one of the worst offenders, completely ignoring browser language preferences.

But American websites in general are awful at this. They completely ignore local diversity and sensitivities and simply assume "one country, one language", so they will for instance happily present Flemish users with French interfaces.

It's fucking offensive. If I type google.com instead of google.nl or google.de or google.co.jp and my browser preferred language is English, I have made it pretty damn clear what I want.

You both realize you're only emphasizing one of the main reasons why the US educations system isn't well regarded?

> Now the entire world is participating

The entire world has been "participating" for centuries, long before the US even existed.

You may have picked up on that in your life outside the US.

Wow.

If I were Pad, I would at the very least get legal advice the minute I saw that.

It may be without the bounds of what is legal, but it is certainly unethical, and it pretty much voids anything the OP wrote about this. This isn't a brave little start-up, this is a bunch of cheap-ass copycats with zero originality.

This is the one reason why I will always continue to take RMS very seriously, no matter how annoying he gets.

Also, since he is not just a prophet of doom but has spend a major part of his life trying to turn the tide, creating and inspiring stuff most of us have profited from, he deserves a hell of a lot more respect than he usually gets.

There are no charges yet either.

We're deep into "if you repeat it often enough people will believe it's true" territory.

$5.74 in The Netherlands.

Still a steal, but the painful part of this kind of opaque discriminatory pricing is that I would have bought it if it was $6 everywhere, but now I have to start wondering if I'm getting screwed (again( for being in/from "the wrong country".

For those unfamiliar with it, being confronted with the "you're from the wrong country" thing feels really, profoundly wrong and insulting, even if the difference is only 3 dollars.

The title is completely misleading, given that Wozniak concedes:

“Every freedom we have in the United States, every one of them, was given to us by congressional regulation. It’s called the Bill of Rights. That is what gives us our freedom and yet it was from the government. It was government regulation.”

Bottom line is that there will be regulators. The choice is between regulation by those that own the infrastructure or by a democratically elected government.

This whole thing can be reduced to "people who engage in idle gossip are generally speaking not the sharpest pencils in the box".

Most people with half a brain just kept their mouth shut, so there's really no way to draw any conclusion about the Apple community as a whole, unless you can produce an accurate number on the people that ignored the whole thing.

I'm not sure if this has anything to do with alcohol specifically.

As a European, I've always gotten the feeling that corporate America has been trying to ban almost any kind of potentially disruptive but generally perfectly normal social activity from the workplace. Take for example how uptight many American companies seem to be about people forming intimate relationships in the workplace.

Maybe this has more to do with American fear of legal liability. Whatever the case, the strict separation of social and professional settings seems to go well beyond just booze.

So basically the argument is that if you are the "when all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail" kind of developer, you should use Go as hammer instead of PHP.

I don't think so.

Not to mention the unfounded and insulting assumption that "you PHP guys" are all the "everything looks like nail" kind of people. Methinks the author is projecting too much.

Providing payment services to structural crowdfunding efforts is a legal grey area when it comes to financial regulations.

Amazon is not the first to suspend taking on such accounts until they have better grip on the regulatory implications.

"Do Not Track" should not be a default in a browser.

It should be the default for every individual in a free country, from birth.

The fact that I'm living, breathing human being with a right to privacy should already be enough to imply that no corporation has the right to track my movements with my very explicit, informed and legally verifiable consent.

Browser manufacturers should not even be a party in this.

You don't start with using a lock either.

You start with the general consensus that stealing is socially unacceptable, and you make it illegal.

Which is exactly what will inevitably happen with tracking unless tracking with permission becomes the exception rather than the rule.

It might even take a few decades, but being tracked by corporations anywhere you go online is socially untenable in a free society.

Microsoft understands this, although their enthusiasm is probably more inspired by the fact that a certain competitor that has a major part of its business model depending on it than by ethical considerations.

I think it's slightly ironic that you present the "know it all" complex as trait that hackers suffer from, given that the OP refers to a post made by a designer that is a prime example of such behavior.

This trait is far from unique amongst hackers, and neither are the negative reactions to it.