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Because Apple itself wrote it with square brackets.

“only inexperienced engineers in a language would make such a mistake” — famous last words…

Same here. I wondered how TDD could be more open than it is already...

So true. In the end, any truth is anchored in a beliefs system and you have to chose yours (or ignore that you've chosen one). Better chose one that helps you live a good and happy life...

Read the article ! As it says : "We explain these concepts below."

If I invest pocket money (the same amount as you, or even more) into founding a startup with you and it fails, I lose pocket money. The engineer we hired together to help build the company loses his job and may find himself with serious problems because of that. Risk is in the eye of the beholder...

I don't see how. You said that engineers can take risks if they want. I say that: 1. a lot can't take any risk at all, even if they'd be willing to, since they have no money. 2. the level of the risk you take depends enormously on your initial wealth. Wealthy founders take a lot less risk than founders who invest their life savings. And when you get to the other side of the investment, when you win, the money you earn does not depend at all on the level of risk you took. But when you lose, it totally depends on it. the risk is not the same for everybody.

There is usually another reason (and I share it) : they don't have enough money to start their own company without it being too big a risk. It is an order of magnitude easier to take risks when you already have enough money so that your family is not at stake...

Rails + Phoenix dev here who loves both. Elixir is far from having the conciseness of Ruby and Phoenix is super far from having the tooling of Rails (and Rails from having the tooling of Beam and OTP). From my point of view they are two very different beasts, each one being great in its own domain. The similarities are mostly syntactic and superficial.

Strictly speaking you’re right. I mostly intended to highlight the idea that making huge social changes was possible with a lot of collective determination; but still : IBM is only 31 years younger than Elsevier...

> Have you ever outcompeted a cartel that has 100 years and billions of dollars on you? Me neither. Maybe it's possible, but it's certainly neither easy nor as simple as you suggest.

Been there, done that! In the 90s, very few believed that Free Software / Open Source could ever become what it is today. I was (a super tiny) part of it. It was hard and took long, for sure. But possible it was. I'd love to see a similar movement in the academic world.

For me, sending SMS messages on your behalf (without you even knowing) or dialling premium rate numbers is definitely hijacking.

Definitely not (I'm french).