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I suspect I've had my time wasted on some of these as well. Whether it's H1B or some "policy" that requires the company to go through the motions of publicly posting a job and interviewing, when in fact they want to do an internal hire or something.

People need to recognize that wasting your time is STEALING. No matter how it's done. And they need to respond accordingly.

What is "BYD" supposed to mean?

I absolutely support the free availability of research papers that were funded by the public, but is there some justification for making the materials in question here free to all? Or is the "library" here simply stealing from authors?

Is what?

That's ONE incident that was known to be incipient, and into which you would never send children. As I said, there are typically 364+ days a year of riot-free peace prevailing. The "riff-raff" in my neighborhood consists of girls' softball players, people walking their dogs, and bicyclists. Cowering at home in fear because they might explode into violence at any moment would be a pathetic way to live, but hey... that's your choice.

What "destruction and violence" are you talking about? No neighborhood I visit or have lived in is rife with "riff-raff," and kids are still mollycoddled door-to-door.

Did anyone claim that?

L.A. is a giant county masquerading as a city, spread out with many areas' density being that which is generally called "suburban."

Nobody is advocating sending kids out into a riot. So that leaves... I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say probably 364.8 riot-free days a year suitable for playing or moving about outside.

Why? What rationale is given?

If your job doesn't allow you to get your kid to school at 8:30 and no earlier, you need a job that treats you like an adult.

+ Sad that some downtrodden drones try to bury this sentiment instead of demanding better treatment.

I don't know. It seems to be getting worse. Entire neighborhoods now come to a standstill because hundreds of giant cars converge on a school to deliver or pick up one kid at a time.

And this is in L.A., home to probably the least-challenging weather in the country. We have entire generations of junior-high and high-school kids who are apparently too feeble to ride their bikes, walk, or take the bus to school. Pathetic.

But starting absurdly early presumably means kids get OUT absurdly early, so it doesn't solve the work problem.

Understood. Just wanted to bring this up because the article ignores most of the possibilities of push notifications.

the REMOVAL of this feature from Google…

You used to be able to do this right on Google’s search-results page.

Taking it away was just another “up yours” from Google to you.

Don’t assume that a push notification is going to be shown to the user. It may be for consumption only by the app, to avoid the need for polling a remote server.

I expected this article to discuss push-notification payloads and use cases, but no… it’s about spamming the user about products. It’s as if the author doesn’t even understand what push notifications are.

I was just pondering what kind of push notifications I’ll need for an app I’m writing, so I was pretty psyched to see this title.

How disappointing to find that the title is BS, applied to an article that’s focused entirely on spamming.

Push notifications might never even be shown to the user. They may be for the application’s consumption, to avoid polling a remote server.

Thinking it through, I assume it's on the client side. Maybe something is wrong with the JavaScript that's doing the validation... but do Safari and Firefox use the same engine?

I don't know what else could vary based on platform. One thing I can't control for is browser and OS versions, because the older Mac I have (the one that works in this case) can't be updated to the latest.

It must be sending garbage characters. But the vast, vast majority of sites work. It's really mystifying.

As far as other sites are concerned... I just remembered one that's not quite as clear-cut. Zoro.com complains that my credentials are wrong, but if I reset my password it complains that I'm trying to use my current password... so it's obviously not wrong. As usual, they just threw up their hands... and sent me a 10% coupon... which of course I can't use because their site is broken. Just tried it again, and it's still unusable. Didn't try the older computer yet.

So far so good. I'll try using this first from now on, and see how it does. Good luck!

More incorrect usage of "hallucinated" for simply made-up or inaccurate results.

Which, to be fair, is really the correct thing to teach since in the vast majority of cases that's where the fault is!

On the other hand, I find a lot of bugs. Not in things as refined as compilers, usually, but if I had a dollar for every time I've heard, "Well, nobody else has reported this before," I could probably buy a tank of gas. And that's saying something today.

Latest example: Amazon's Web site rejects all phone numbers entered on an Apple Silicon Mac. I was setting up a new address, and it said "remove invalid characters from phone number field:" https://i.imgur.com/mjwiCqc.png

This happened in both Safari and Firefox. Amazon support couldn't figure it out in 1.5 hours of chat. I went to an Intel Mac and entered the exact same number, no problem.

I don't know why you should feel bad about that. If anything, you should feel good that you independently recognized a problem so significant that it was given a name.

I assume most problems I face are solved, and that I just don't know shit. So I scramble to research the solutions, and I'm shocked when what seem to be widely-encountered problems are NOT, in fact solved.

One recent example I encountered was API definition. I was tasked to define a new API for my company's products, and celebrated when I discovered OpenAPI. I was a bit surprised to find that only the very latest version of the standard (3.1) was competent enough to be useful.

And despite 3.1 being ratified for years, today there are still no usable code-generation tools that support it. I wasted weeks studying and trying to fix various tools, after studying reams of redundant and conflicting documentation in different repositories... thinking it was my problem. No. It's just a hideously broken mess.

Today I'm dealing with the same thing in SwiftUI... and again have reached the conclusion that the programming paradigm it pushes has not been thought through. Its rushed and immature state shows in its kitchen sink full of overlapping and rapidly-deprecated approaches to problems that were solved in traditional application structures a decade and a half ago.

Just typing that out, I wonder if I failed to learn from my first example and wasted too much time on the second. But if you're a thorough person, you have to satisfy yourself that you've been diligent in trying to inform yourself of best practices.

No one has ever stated any other reason (even on the very, very few occasions when someone even bothers to make an excuse).

I've heard enough reports about more than one of them that I'm willing to condemn them all without specific examples.

My girlfriend works in restaurant management and has seen the douchebaggery first-hand. Oh, and drivers taking customers' food into the shitter. Yummy.

If you complain about headlines on HN you'll get attacked. Or even you mention this fact.

Flag away, infants.

Reportedly a lot more people became aware of ad-blockers than ever would have without Google's hissy fit.

How much follow-through and ad-blocker installation that translated to, I have no idea. But it's fun to mock Google anyway.

But... I am one person Google drove away. I finally installed an alternative YouTube application simply because Google introduced never-ending ads that must be manually canceled every few minutes. I was OK with watching normal, TV-style ads. But Google crossed the line by basically halting playback of a program every few minutes and forcing you to herd it along over and over and over. I can't do that while I'm cooking.

"the color scheme: green for residential, blue for commercial and yellow for industrial."

Meanwhile, a boatload of the map is red.

The sad reality is that consumers are ever more spineless. This particular kind of rip-off started years ago when cable companies got away with charging for ad-riddled channels that used to be part of "basic cable."

Amazon will probably get away with this, just as Apple got away with removing the headphone jack from its best-selling music player. Watch apologists fall all over themselves to excuse it, and attack those of us who decry rip-offs like it.

"You're posting too fast. Please slow down"

Then WHY WAS THE REPLY BUTTON ENABLED? There is no excuse for this rudeness. Why are we expected to put up with it, year after year after year? Deliberately stealing from users is NOT OK, EVER. Why does HN do it?

I hope this backfires as did Google's crackdown on YouTube ad-blockers.

I already have a VPN and BitTorrent trackers I can rely on. I'm willing to (and do) pay for content. But I will not pay to watch ads. Amazon are scumbags who steal from small enterprises anyway; I almost welcome this motivation to deny them more of my money.