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Isn't that maybe where proportionality comes in though?
It seems like they did indeed put on enough pressure to crush his spirit but maybe what they needed to do was give him a little wake up call/warning.
I know there is his manifesto from a couple of years ago but we can't be sure what he was going to do with them.
"It happens that the appointed lawyer was someone of considerable reputation and experience, but the feds neutralized the appointed lawyer’s skill by pouring more than 360,000 pages of disorganized documents onto him"
That would put anyone under a massive amount of pressure, and does seem pretty unpleasant given his "crime" was so small.
To me its not the transparency that's the issue, its the fact that they so many of their ideas are duds.
It isn't very different that moving from Android to another OS. Just to be clear I'm not criticizing Apple specifically, I'm just saying that the process of moving is not quite as painless as you might hope for.
I do think it is in the big players interest to consider making it easier to move. I know why they don't but I do think a company like Apple, confident in their hardware and software, would stand to benefit as much as lose out from such standardization. People like me might give up on ITunes for a year or two until the retina airs are more reasonable then switch straight back, where as right now if I do take the pain of switching I'm unlikely to be back any time soon.
They do charge a premium and they do make mistakes so they must have users moving to other platforms.
Right now the move to another platform is painful, but obviously anyone who goes ahead and moves despite that pain is going to have far less chance of ever moving back.
"Lining those pluses and minuses up against those for the Nexus 7 – which garnered four stars – there's no doubt that this is indeed a five-star device. The 70% difference in comparative price is more than made up by the difference in build quality and software selection" (http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/oct/31/ipad-mini-r...)
Not arguing one way or the other but this and a few other recent reviews have made me wonder why tech reviewers seem to pay so little attention to price.
I haven't had time to use TS much yet but the combination of structural type system (not needing to inherit from IFoo, if you have the members it's enough) and optional typing look like exactly what I want.
Hopefully this pays off in terms of not only self-descriptive code but also greater support for refactoring tools.
"We require opt-in to avoid future-hostility against custom iterators for collection objects. Such objects probably do not want any kind of general property iterator default, which if left on Object.prototype, might be object-detected and prevent installation of the correct custom iterator factory."
I can see the sense in that but I find all the little caveats in JS are one of it's weaknesses which makes me dislike this idea. Am I wrong to think they should have just put in a default iterator but made it easy to spot it so that you could replace it with a custom iterator where appropriate?
I do understand what you are saying, had read similiar on Dart forum in past. Just to be dear I am not in any way saying I think the interop would have been easy, I do think without it Dart was a dead end for most people. It will be interesting to see how things proceed, whether the interop story that is now available lets Dart finally take off a bit in terms of usage and mindshare.
Contrast Dart and TS. Dart announced a year ago and they're only now dealing the JS interop issue, so to most people its still only really interesting as a play thing. TS announced and from the looks of if we choose to we can immediately start using it.
I know Dart is more ambitious and maybe long term their focus on issues other than interop will be proved to be correct, but I doubt it.