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Me too - it's a really insightful statement. I'd never thought about it before, but in social settings, the actual film watched is frequently an afterthought; it is secondary to the plan of 'going to the cinema'. Plans changing because someone is late is another factor. I really enjoy when this website makes me think of something obvious I'd never considered!

While I take your point, the very act of uploading the video is akin to "going down to the library with a copy of the tape for anyone to rent" in this analogy, which does mitigate the degree of upset to an extent.

It's worth noting that a lot of major car manufacturers have raised concerns about this:

- Nissan cited Brexit as a reason for not building one of its latest models in England

- Jaguar/Land Rover is cutting jobs citing 'geopolitical reasons'

- Toyota has warned against Brexit

All taken from: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47225787

As an expat, I'm fascinated to see how Brexit will play out.

I'd agree with this. I don't recall backlash against Apple products to the extent I've seen in places like this over the last two years, ever. I don't think anyone can argue against the notion that the quality of hardware and software is much lower than previous models of basically anything in their range and I don't think I'll buy another Apple product outside of a replacement iPad, so presumably there's some sort of change afoot. It'll be fascinating to see how this plays out; so called 'techies' are often the people family and friends consult for advice on new purchases, and if we're not recommending Apple products, will that make a difference? I don't think they care - they're rich enough not to worry, perhaps, but it's still odd to alienate a demographic this way. I'm sure they know something I don't!

I think it's handy for people who have never used a framework before to have all the tooling set up and available immediately. If I've never really worked on a JS project before, it's perverse to wade through docs of a bunch of orthogonal tools just so I can play about with the tool I set out to learn.

I don't know that that's necessarily a fair characterisation. I've never seen any Coq syntax before a moment ago but it doesn't look wildly dissimilar to Haskell or Idris.

I try to wean myself off Google search every few months but I've never managed to stick. What do you like for an alternative? I'm probably due another attempt.

This happened to me just this week! I was trying to find a specific Onion article, so I searched various permutations, many of them including "the onion" which wasn't respected in the result output. I was absolutely furious that the one escape hatch I have to ameliorate bad searches was taken away from me.

Give it a try - I run CookieAutoDelete so it is 'theoretically' a clean search each time if that makes any difference.

Twitter has one I learned recently, but it's pretty enfeebled. It's as far as I can tell, exact matches only, which sounds fine perhaps in the design phase, but was deeply frustrating in practice. There's a new political candidate in America generating lots of buzz who has several permutations of their name (abbreviations and hyphens were my undoing here), so I ended up having to add several entries just to not hear about politics in a country I don't live in!

I've a similar problem on Twitter. I don't follow anyone for their political views, so I typically unfollow as soon as I read some but it's far from an optimal solution.

I resisted setting an account up for years on Reddit, but you're absolutely right - it's the only way to effectively filter things you don't want to see.

I appear to have independently parroted your comment! I do apologise. It's nice to know that I'm not the only one who feels that way though!

While I think this is a little extreme, I understand fully the sentiment behind it.

It's lamentable considering how simple the site is but there exist currently, no good alternatives! I suppose we can attribute that at least partly to the Network Effect. I've been tired of it since the front-end redesign; I grew weary of the dark patterns, the constant nagging to use their app when on mobile, the fact that my back button took me to the top of the page and (most of all, in fact) the overall quality of the threads, so my usage has decreased dramatically over the last 3 months. I suspect I we are no longer longer Reddit's target audience and they will do very well going forward but it's a shame for me at least, that something I've been using for over a decade is fading into background noise.

It'll be interesting to see if there's an upswing in PyPy usage over the next few months, for the explicit reason that they're not slated to drop 2.7 compatibility. I would imagine a noticeable percentage of 2.7 codebases without the available resources for a rewrite (that has by definition, no business value) would welcome anything close to a drop-in replacement. I'll be very interested to see if I'm wrong though!

I'm currently enjoying Goaccess [0]. It's command-line based, works on my nginx logs and tells me exactly the things I want to know. Might not be for everyone but I thought I'd share in case someone else found it useful.

I wholeheartedly support Fathom's endeavour and will definitely use them if I go back to JS-based analytics.

[0] - https://goaccess.io/

One oft-overlooked externality is the time taken to migrate. If I maintained a Python 2 codebase and can use Pypy as a drop in replacement after 2020, I'd certainly be tempted to do so.

It's worth noting that only the reference implementation (cPython) is slated for deprecation. To my knowledge, Pypy and others have no such plan.

I would dearly love to use Clojure more professionally but the problem in every country I've worked has always been the talent pool; I struggle to hire because Clojure devs are comparatively much harder to find. Clojure is a wonderful language and I was firmly on the hype-train back in 2011 or so but I'm not convinced it has much of a future outside its current niche. I would be very happy to be proven wrong though!

I had a similar epiphany to you in that coming from a Python background, Clojure radically changed how I thought about and approached problems. Rich Hickey's work is fantastic and I'm very happy to have spent time in that particular corner of the tech world.

Just ordered The Age of Surveillance Capitalism based on your appraisal. Thank you.

I ditched NoScript when I realised that it wasn't blocking inline JS. I landed on uBlock with Advanced Mode, which allows quick toggling of inline, 1st-3rd party and a few other things. uMatrix deserves an honourable mention also; it's been illuminating to see the sheer scale of trackers that are loaded on certain pages.

I assume people with much more data than me have ran the numbers and concluded this is a good move, but with the rise in people using ad-blockers [0], this seems myopic from the outside.

The GDPR situation and this week's 'fine' for Google certainly suggests that the current model of surreptitiously harvesting outrageous amounts of data from unsuspecting service-users is untenable (as well it should be), so I'll be fascinated to observe the next stages of the data collection vs privacy skirmish.

[0] - https://marketingland.com/survey-shows-us-ad-blocking-usage-...

I didn't realise this either but it looks pretty widely known: https://theintercept.com/2014/05/19/data-pirates-caribbean-n...

Package management is a hard problem, but we know that good and adequate package managers do exist. I'm not sure why more effort hasn't been expended by the Python community, particularly since it's often the first thing a new user will encounter when picking up a language for the first time.

I use Pipenv currently, but only because it's the best of a bad lot and would jump in a heartbeat if a serious competitor came along. It has its own set of problems (slow, young and idiosyncratic) but offers me at least two things its predecessor didn't: separation of production/dev dependencies and seamless integration with different versions of Python, both of which have been available in Ruby since I started programming in it.

This is a perfect exemplifies my experience with both languages: I have found while Python might be better at a lot of things, the user experience is invariably superior with Ruby efforts and I wish the Python community would put more effort into this area.

This is fascinating - thank you so much for replying. I used to have input speed back when we had physical buttons on phones but with the advent of touch-screens, that has deteriorated for me. I hadn't considered how useful it would be to have when a small laptop isn't available. Another commenter mentioned working on a train; I can certainly see the use-case. Thanks for the insight!

I imagine if you coupled that with a stand of some sort, it'd be pretty close to a netbook or something. Thank you so much for the insight!

I'm struggling to work out why anyone would want to do this. Leaving aside the other concerns, I personally find input via touchscreen pretty painful and can't imagine being able to program at any real speed. It's entirely possible I'm missing something though!

I've been blocking JS for the last 6 months or so and I've found it to be a greatly improved experience overall. I can enable at the click of a button JS for a website that fails to load properly but the majority of sites I view are fine without this. It was refreshing to learn that not as many websites as I suspected are JS abominations!

An interesting point - I hadn't at all considered the trend of slowly growing an engineering team. I'd bet you're on the money with this.

Thanks for the insight. I've experienced British, Australian and New Zealand contract markets and contracting is far and away the only way to get even close to Bay Area salary levels so I'll be watching this trend closely. I really appreciate you commenting; thank you.

This is fascinating. What do you think possible causes for that might be? Is this an America/Bay Area thing or do you suspect it to be more widespread? Would be interested in other people's take on this also.

Not directly comparable of course because it's WiFi only, but my iPad reports 3% over the last 10 days (much of which would have been Wireguard being open and exporting logs when I was debugging whilst setting it up) and 1% over the last 24 hours. I was also concerned about this but it's been fine.