• @JustARaccoon
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    118 days ago

    Don’t let a word have that much power over your life

    • @[email protected]
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      7 days ago

      Corporation? I’m not anti business, far from it. But I have an interest in economics as well as technology. We need effective markets. CUDA is an example of a market problem caused by a corporation’s own language. It has screwed up competition.

      • @JustARaccoon
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        37 days ago

        I mean if anything, look at Velcro and how generalising a term makes it untrademarkeable. Overusing words can and will screw companies.

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          7 days ago

          The funny thing with that, I haven’t seen a term taken like that from a tech company though.

          Xerox is the only one I can think of that came close, Googling at this point…

        • @[email protected]
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          177 days ago

          He means programming language. Don’t use programming languages that are controlled by a single company. Not “don’t say CUDA when you mean any general purpose GPU programming language”.