Seriously. You can't be a thought leader with a generic blog template. It's almost like he's not even trying to promote himself and impress the digerati. Your thoughts mean nothing if you don't take the time to customize the trimmings around them.
First off: you're responding to someone saying "he knows what he's doing," and you saw an opening to insult Rob Pike so you took it. That's the entire point of your post. For everyone else:
The whole fucking point isn't that he's a genius and can fix computers, it's that he called Apple and repeatedly trusted them to take care of him and they failed. That's why he's contrasting their support against the electrician in the story.
He trusted their backup solution to be satisfactory for backing up his machine. For trusting that when he called Apple's Pro Tools folks for a license key, he wouldn't just get bitched at for not doing something he actually had already done.
If you're calling him a moron for trusting Apple to do these things for him, say so. We'd probably all agree with you.
Oh wait - you're hate on him because he works for Google on Go, because you're a notorious anti-Go, and in general an anti-Google troll. (Others: see the same username on Reddit.) That's why you ignored context, the electrician story, the whole point of the blog post and instead just wasted a few sentences calling Rob Pike incompetent.
If this is an important part of the user experience, why can't Canonical provide an "Advertisements" or "Amazon" settings UI that can turn these features on and off by a checkbox?
My guess is because they know if they make it too easy to turn off, and the ads aren't actually improving their users' lives (ads for books when you search for apps?! Might make sense for technical books I guess...) everyone will just turn off the ads.
Making it this hard to turn off a new feature because you don't trust it will help the users... must be heartbreaking to sell out your users like that.
Are you kidding me? It's SO much easier and captures far more useful debugging data. How many typical computer users do you know who can submit as detailed of a bug report without Google Feedback vs. with it?
Hint: if you think a "typical computer user" knows how to take a screenshot without looking it up, you're ridiculously out-of-touch.
The idea is that if you reuse a formal parameter name and have not used _, then you more than likely introduced a subtle bug. For example x and y can look similar enough next to each other, so missing that you instead wrote `x, x` might take you way longer than necessary.
> Far more often, the person slinging the word "fanboy" is the person who refuses to accept new ideas, to accept that other people's differing opinions may be just as valid as their own.
Go read an Apple enthusiast forum. Or an Android enthusiast forum. You want to pretend fanboys don't exist, go ahead. But there are people who have no interest in evaluating how they have formed their own opinions and will spout anything they are told is the "party line."
These people exist in politics, they exist in technology, and they are the ones who need to be filtered out, because they add zero value to discussions. Call them "fanboy," call them a "party hack," but suck it up and admit that THEY EXIST and giving them any time is a detriment to people who actually think.
Are your feelings hurt because people are arguing? People use different tones in different contexts. Sometimes people need real pushback and not precious little snowflake coddling.
And yes, there's textures available for those maps too, assuming those were what helped you so much in your navigation and not the 3d models. Of course, Google has 3d models all around the world, including the small college towns Apple has completely failed at, since Google has been encouraging contributions to their maps data for years now. Why not pull up Google Earth and trivially take a spin around your favorite city in the world right now?
Also, I genuinely don't believe this:
> It's fantastic for trying to navigate around a city while travelling, which I used today.
Oh, I'm sure you used it today. Definitely believe that. But I genuinely don't believe that a 3d, angled view of a city gave you a better navigational experience than a traditional accurate map and directions. Which you definitely didn't have if you were using Apple maps.
It's probably nice to be able to get a view of the major, tall landmarks in a city and orient yourself around that. An overall pretty user experience for orientation. But navigation? You used the relative height of 3d buildings to navigate around a large city instead of GPS and a map with correct POI data, streets, directions, and transit information and found using the pictures and heights of buildings superior?
I think you're lying. Either to us, or to yourself. Or both, I guess. Yeah, definitely both.
> The project wasn't a failure. It just didn't take.
A social network with no users isn't a failure! It just didn't take! It's just like when you take antibiotics but they don't do the trick. Definitely worth the 200k in the end!
So the word "fanboy" is not an accurate term to describe anyone or the level of discourse about a subject?
You think that everybody on this website is engaging in rational, high-minded discourse?
It's easy to assume every mind is a willing convert. It takes a realist to understand that many minds are already made up based on bullshit and bad logic and you will never change those minds.
You're just as closed-minded as the "fanboys" I decry. Don't take the easy way out.
You seem to have misunderstood "mere accusations."
Takedowns due to "mere accusations" to me means that I can fire off an e-mail if I see a kickstarter project that looks sketchy and have it taken down post-haste.
> Some level of proof is still necessary, though. Not just an accusation.
Is anyone arguing that mere accusations should result in kickstarter takedowns? You make a good point... just a sort of obvious one.
This is clearly a hard problem, and neither extreme of "proof beyond reasonable doubt" or "accusation = takedown" works. Maybe that's why this space is so unexplored! That doesn't absolve Kickstarter from having to discover the palatable middle ground.
Hard work is hard, and I think today's announcements are part of that hard work. So I say: keep it up, Kickstarter!
Proof beyond all reasonable doubt is a lovely standard for a criminal justice system. Note that it is not used in civil suits in America - only criminal cases.
We're not talking about taking away people's freedom here. We're talking about an investment website.
> Can we actually prove fraud in any of these cases, though?
Is this the standard we want?
If you used an investment service which said "we require proof beyond all reasonable doubt of criminal endeavors before taking down [some UGC]," how much would you trust those investments? What if the standard for takedowns was a bit higher?
If you think iOS 6 maps are in any single way an improvement over Google Maps, or anything other than a power play in general, you're pretty damn likely to be making a worthless fanboy comment.