The Earl of Samwich

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Apple’s Three Laws of Developers

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  1. A developer may not injure Apple or, through inaction, allow Apple to come to harm.
  2. A developer must obey any orders given to it by Apple, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
  3. A developer must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

— I. Developer

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petervidani: “If Robocop ate nothing but All-Bran and tyres, this is what his turds would look like . . . It’s so burdened with superfluous nobbly bits that it’s positively baroque. If this shoe was the only artefact to survive the nuclear apocalypse, what would future civilisations make of us? Possibly that we imbued walking with shamanistic significance, or that we used to plug ourselves into our mainframes by our feet.” — Justin McGuirk, Why is outdoor gear so ugly? The weird world of performance outerwear

petervidani:

“If Robocop ate nothing but All-Bran and tyres, this is what his turds would look like . . . It’s so burdened with superfluous nobbly bits that it’s positively baroque. If this shoe was the only artefact to survive the nuclear apocalypse, what would future civilisations make of us? Possibly that we imbued walking with shamanistic significance, or that we used to plug ourselves into our mainframes by our feet.”

— Justin McGuirk, Why is outdoor gear so ugly? The weird world of performance outerwear