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by dhimes
5856 days ago
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Proprietary platform vendors doing stuff that is not in the best interests of one, a few, or even many of their symbiotic developers is not a new and interesting phenomenon I find it interesting. Feel free to skip those articles. Nor do I consider "data" to be the plural of "anecdote." Seeing one, a few, or many such posts doesn't add value to a decision I might make about developing for iOS Cute and oft-cited phrase, often used as in "my sciene-fu is stronger than your sciene-fu," but it misses an important part of science: early phenomenological and empirical data are important to show people where to look. An anecdotal episode of anthrax being inhibited by bread mold indicates to the intelligent mind that there might be something worth pursuing. When I see these articles I absolutely start looking in that direction for irregularities. I suspect a lot of us do. |
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Note the expression "_new_ and interesting." I find articles about JQuery programming interesting as well. That doesn't make them Hacker News, and that's why I don't post them here and then tell you to skip them if you don't find them interesting.
> early phenomenological and empirical data are important...
Whose case are you arguing here, yours or mine? Early suggests new. These posts are not new or early, they are old and I do not see anything new in this one. And again, this is not empirical data.
I welcome someone investigating the matter and posting data such as a comparison of the number of new apps in the app store to the number being withdrawn, the number of new android developers vs. the number of new iOS developers, and so on. I would find such things interesting and useful.
If there is something new or early in this post, please point me to it so I may retract my objection. My mind is open to the possibility that it adds something to the myriad of similar rants posted here and elsewhere in the last year or more, I just need someone to show me what it is.
p.s. I disagree with your conclusion with respect to this post, but still upvoted your reply. I agree that when such things present a new direction for investigation, they are Hacker News as I prefer it. But at the end of the day... I am only one person with an opinion on how to interpret the guidelines.