superflyguy

That's true of all companies and has been for years.

Why? Let's be honest, the main use for most of this new ai tech is going to be military.

A startup's customers panicking? Not sure that's on twitter's radar.

I think potential for reputation damage, on an activity they don't do very often, and where they will justify it, will be weighed up against the financial benefit now, and disregarded.

I think it's possible to overstate the relevance and importance of people typing furiously on internet forums about things like this. Twitter is what it is - most people aren't using APIs, third party clients etc and will never notice this.

Why would Twitter care? They make money from ads, right? APIs and legacy deals are going to be time consuming and boring for them. Stuff like filtering hate speech etc is something which can be done globally and in a way which doesn't require highly paid employees, APIs etc. Hasn't Twitter repeatedly show that third parties aren't really that interesting to them?

Or blockchains, or 3d printers or whatever next year's exciting buzzword is.

Why compare them to NES sales at all?

I live there.

We already look at them that way - heavy and obsolete.

Selling 3d TV to stores was briefly popular too but that dried up once the stores discovered that they were having a hard time selling them.

I'm unsure how comparing sales of hardware vs a few years sales of a console 30 years ago is of any use whatsoever!

You're both right. The origins are racial ("Chasing the scream" by Hari is another good resource here) and the brainwashing was successful so for a while now we're stuck with the consequences. When the old stupid racists (who voted for Brexit) finally die (not so long hopefully) younger people (more likely to use or know someone who uses) will legalise it. Politicians just reflect society; it's not true that a clear majority of UK voters want cannabis legal so it's not worth May going against the old farts and the media etc.

Those 8 people must work really hard to have earned all that money.

On sites like this I "sign up" a bunch of times with sarcastic made up email addresses at their domain like calmdownneedysiteletmecheckitoutfirst@theirdomain.com.

I disagree. As long as the embargo is purely related to this or that company profiting over another, as opposed to being potentially a matter of safety (see the UK D Notice system, for example), it's laughable to describe breaking something covered by someone else's optional embargo as a "dick move". On the contrary, it's generally highly amusing, and at the very least informative.

Nintendo sued them for bypassing their protection. Often people caved; Nintendo/Sega controlled how many games a developer could get published; the genre etc. Codemasters was like "yeah, right" and reversed engineered it, and got sued. Apparently they thought they were going to lose and agreed with Codemasters to call off the lawsuit as long as Codemasters maintained publicly that they had done a deal with Nintendo to end the case.

Source: common knowledge in the small West England game dev community.

Eh? An embargo is where you share information with someone on the grounds they don't release it until a certain date. If you come by the information some other way then clearly you're not a party to the embargo.

The ST was not as good as the Amiga, that's why. The only advantage it had over the Amiga was the slightly higher CPU speed, because the Amiga's was reduced to keep in sync with the hardware it had. The hardware being what it needed to trounce the ST. You only have to look at the range and quality of games for each to see what I mean. ST ports always had that muddy look to them.

This seems somewhat pertinent:

https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks

Am I really the only person who creates and uses new accounts for every online site/service every few months? Different email addresses (on my own domain) too or mailinator for the sign ups, using tor on occasion in case they want to note the country/IP I'm signing up from.

What might have happened had you waited until you were off the phone?

Gnome, Debian and gimp have all left.

Right, I mean it can't continue at that rate forever - the numbers don't support that hypothesis.

Shitty OSes, naff late to the party phones and music players, convicted monopolists, tend to have arseholes running the company and are now paying 7 billion dollars to buy a company purely for the reputation, and it's people who are leaving GitHub who are not rational?

Interesting, and also...a lie? Or he thinks the 250,000 projects migrated to gitlab within 24 hours of the news that Microsoft was going anywhere near GitHub is a small number.

The desire to take photos and/or video of them, obviously.

Not searchable by name. There's a description like "video game developer says he won't take down had reviews but does" but you'd presumably have to watch the linked-to video to find out who.

I guess this is for legal reasons. "Hey, we didn't mention anyone". Means that the page needs to be monitored for dead links when the videos/articles get taken down.

Yes but where are the ones who have already learned and are answering other people's questions? And why so many silly questions? That was the question. There's a similar situation on Quora. You can look up just about any question and find multiple low quality answers from Indians. On both stress I there seems to be no attempt to do the hard work of diagnosing/debugging the problem to produce the minimal example scenario required by the site; instead it's just "fix my problem here's the code". It's just a different way of handling development which only works if other Stack Exchange users are prepared to spoon feed lazy developers. It's easy to see why many of the original Stack Exchange users have given up.

Yes but the ratio is different. Americans produce most of the most popular services even if most Americans consume rather than create them.

Who's saying you can't see the repo?

I don't. I use jira at work. It's shit.