Posts by jmccabe 5 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Jan 2010
It's irrelevant how long he's been doing it; the fact is that shouting at volunteers, in particular, is a bad move and will stop them from contributing as well as making people think twice about that being a project they would consider getting involved with.
You claim he must be doing something right, but you have no way of knowing how much better the project may be doing if he wasn't such a d1ck about things like this.
Bizarre, and sad, that you still have people appearing to claim that named arguments are A Bad Thing! Software engineering isn't about how quickly you can type in your code; it's about long-term understanding, reliability and maintainability, and named arguments help achieve that. As far as the list of languages PHP joins is concerned, named arguments have been in use in Ada since before any of those languages were even a twinkle in someone's eye!
I've had a look at MyTracks. The big issue for me is that, compared to nearly every other [sports] tracking app in the Android Market that I've looked at (e.g. Endomondo, RunKeeper, SportyPal Pro, Sports Track Live and [soon] Sports Tracker - the one that used to be Nokia Sports Tracker) it doesn't support the Polar Wearlink+ Bluetooth Heart Rate Monitor.
Apart from that, the displays look like they come from an Open Source app (which, of course, they do); no one has actually gone to the trouble of actually making the UI appealing.
You may be right about it being the best if it's really accurate, but I expect that's more down to the device it's running on than the app itself.
I'd be interested in knowing how Bonio has become such an expert on file sharing and its effects. There is, of course, the possibility that, if file sharing is suppressed, it will help to increase his own income so it is very interesting to see that he has come up with an angle on this one whereby it looks like he's being sympathetic to others despite the obvious (potential) benefits to himself. If he's that worried about fledgling songwriters then perhaps he should devote more of his time and vast wealth to helping to develop them instead of coming out with the same old U2 style songs again and again.
I'd also be intrigued to know if anyone has actually surveyed file sharers to determine their habits. I'm aware, for example, of people for whom file sharing is a way to see whether they like something, much like in the way that, when I was a youth, we would swap LPs at school. If we liked it, it would be added to our list of things to buy, but there was seldom any intention to just rip it off and keep it. Maybe it's different for the youth of today, but someone really ought to be looking at this angle since, if this is common, suppression of file sharing could make things even worse for the music industry.
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