You now know Joel Spolsky's attraction to coding... control.

I'm sure that desire would in no way entice him to superimpose his personal experience and motivations on to other people.

That's why no one comes here anymore.

Comic books are one of the few uniquely American art creations, like jazz music. I'm glad to see them come back to the places where kids and normal people frequent. Though comic stores have their place, comic books should never have been relegated solely to specialty shops. They are meant to have mass appeal and enjoyment!

I don't go to stack overflow to be welcomed. I go there to get answers to esoteric library and build errors that make no sense, or to copy pasta code that I could figure out myself but I don't want to.

I don't care in the slightest what the color, gender, or sexual persuasion of the person answering the question is. I don't even much care if they are nice or condescending so long as I get an answer.

Stop "white knighting", Jay Hanlon EVP of Culture and Experience of Stack Overflow. Your rhetoric won't get my questions answered more correctly, will probably lead to a degradation in the overall quality of the site, and your job title sounds made up.

Thanks, Fake Tim Cook for your definitive analysis. I'm sure we're all smarter for having read your non-misleading analysis.

As detailed by the article, this shop was non-authorized. In other aftermarket situations, like many other manufacturers, Apple does nearly everything in their power to make it hard for consumers to repair equipment on their own terms -- everything from using stupid special screws to refusing to publish board schematics (even to authorized shops) so customers are forced to make full board replacements. I wouldn't be surprised if they routinely pull this shakedown practice on other non-authorized shops.

Talking about Comey and Trump on an article about Apple?

Did he or did he not have secret, politically motivated meetings with Obama (be it alone or with others)?

It's hard to tell because the FBI won't let us know when they met.

Such information is not "a matter of widespread and exceptional media interest in which there exists possible questions about the government’s integrity which affects public confidence"

He does not operate an authorized repair shop.

Apple, if you want the general public to care about "counterfeit" parts, make your production operations completely domestic.

Don't sue the little guy for your IP leakage problems in China. He's just trying to make a living, and there's no reason you should control the repair market.

No

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Your statements might persuade me if Twitter operated like other normal businesses. I'm skeptical they even are a business. Twitter has enough cash reserves to lose money for centuries. So do you have any other evidence to disprove my hypothesis? Unfortunately, lacking some kind of third party polling of current and ex Twitter users, I suspect all arguments will be based in anecdote for the foreseeable future.

Try it on for size, though; imagine the people running Twitter do have ulterior motives. If you wanted to control or direct the cultural zeitgeist while masking your intentions, could you come up with a more effective, sneakier, or addictive way to do so?

The 24 hour news cycle was bad enough before Twitter existed, but now it is steeped in the platform -- both as a source and outlet. Twitter can tweak who can participate in the conversation, the size of their audience, the topics du jour, etc. with no worry of going out of business. They have no concerns about competition because no VC firms bother funding a competitor against a war chest of that size, and even if they do (like gab.ai), there is a duopoly of gatekeepers that conveniently share the same cultural stances to lock them out (Google, Apple).

My understanding is that it was not just a bot purge, it was also an ideological purge to a non-trivial degree. Anecdotally, a number of conservative users were locked out, some with no recourse and others allowed back in if they provided additional identifying details like a phone number.

It defies logic to believe the company's reaction to events in the political sphere could in any way be apolitical.

Maybe this case of protesting in a shopping mall? http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12...

What is this? It looks like news, and it comes from a business that has reported on news in the past... Can slashdot guarantee this is actually news, please?

I doubt that random negative price days offset the ~50% rise in electricity costs for German households over the past 10 years. They are paying even when it's "free" via the government funded subsidies paid out to green energy providers funded by their tax dollars.