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I think for the layperson, with many potential ports available, one that colour matches the cable in hand seems a fairly obvious first choice.

And even if that fails, it's at least something "support" can add to their check list when a customer calls with issues.

"N.B. I also recall BT redirecting requests for non-existent domains to some partner of theirs, I assume experimentally as I haven't seen or heard of that for a while"

They are still doing this. I ran into it just yesterday. They do however make it very easy (click a couple of links) to turn it off.

"Stoic philosophy. Accept that you have control over nothing (only the chance to influence)"

You have control over your reaction to things. And I think this is a key component of Stoicism, especially in the modern working world.

If you are acting (and reacting) true to yourself, then it is other's reactions to your actions that are failing. This goes a long way to reducing the amount of stress felt.

Thanks for the insights.

Tell that to WebSQL..

All vendors implemented (essentially) the same API, then the W3C subsequently abandoned it due to lack of independent implementations [0].

0: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_SQL_Database

You don't take VC money if you want to build a lifestyle business.

True.

So a helping hand doesn't taint the DDG brand, buys good will, and provides competition to the defacto monopoly. Good move.

How much is a 4 letter domain worth these days? 10s - 100s of thousands?

Interestingly transferred, not bought.

Does Google buying DDG at this point make sense?

Given their stance on privacy, it would allow Google control of the narrative..

Github hasn't always used a seperate domain for user sites [0]. They do now to directly address the GP's concerns.

http://homakov.blogspot.com/2013/03/hacking-github-with-webk...

Presumably we're ignoring Identity Fraud when we say banking is doing pretty fine?

Obligatory Mitchell and Webb "Identity Theft" link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E

You sure about that?

Facial Recognition systems are out in the wild, busy profiling [0]

0: https://twitter.com/GambleLee/status/862307447276544000

It would be remiss at this point not to recommend websequencediagrams[0].. been using it for years (and convinced multiple workplaces to shell out for the self hosted version..). It's great :)

0: https://www.websequencediagrams.com/

The Mini is pretty much all that is left of BMW’s acquisition of Rover [0] in 1994 - there is no chance VW is making a Mini.

I love the irony that the GP touts the Mini as being more likely to be owned as a “big vehicle”, yet in it’s original shape and size it would be perfect as a small electric vehicle!

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rover_Group

Just a note to say your link 404s..

Not explicitly mentioned elsewhere is the digital audio connector (TOSLINK/optical out) on the Audio.

This allows it to be connected directly to a half decent amp, rather than relying on the onboard DAC.

We're Agile, why do we need spend time on requirements and architecture? That's so Waterfall </s>

You do realise you do actualy need some form of requirements, otherwise what are you doing, just writing code with no goal?

Granted it doesn't need to be a big up front document, but some of those slack/confluence/in person meetings will ultimately be around "so, guys/gals for this next proposed , feature, story (requirement), w/e, this is how I'm achieving it". Oh, and as for non functionals..

Having spent years working remotely with office focused teams, the nuances of these discussions are the ones that get missed by the remote attendee unless everything is set up correctly.

At least you know where you stand with supper, right?!

"Once you give it permission, an active app keeps on having access to your face”

Isn’t the definition of an active app, one that is open and in the foreground?

The minute the phone sleeps, or the app is put into the background, access becomes more at Apple’s discretion.

I’d expect an app running in the foreground to be able to keep using the camera as long as needed..

Or is your point more: allowing once allows it every time the app opens, with no option to repeatedly prompt?

Android aside, the flaw with scrolling caught me initially, but once you get your head around it, it is actually a very intuitive way of illustrating the points being made.

It's not just the 2D polygon, all of the illustrations use the same technique. The gradient descent works especially well.

Yes, the same could be achieved with a slider, but I personally don't think I'd have tried it when scanning through.

I'm not condoning this technique for general use..

For most Google SPAs I use an appify tool, that contains the site in a single app webview with no shared cookie store. Then in my main FF browser I have cookie crushing on, so that when I navigate away from a domain, all cookies that were created are destroyed.

Ok, I spend my life filling in captchas, but to me that’s a signal that it is working and Google aren’t overly sure who I am.

As with much of this, I can see amazon eating it all [0].

They have the marketplace and the tooling already, just artificially limiting scale.

0: https://merch.amazon.com/landing

Dennis hope [0]

I do recall buying an acre as a fun present back in the day..

0: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2654045/Id-buy-moon-...

1st google hit, but seems fittingly trash..

There is a bit of an arms race between get a few $/c extra CPM by spoofing the geo location (the app needs to ask for this, and have reason to from App Store perspective, so not always available), and the data aggregators detecting said spoofing (all clients having the same geo / patterns in geo etc).

Reverse engineering will get you a PoC, but you can buy the cleansed data fairly easily (apparently..)

Sorry, I don't understand the overriding sentiment here..

Are we now asking Google et al to be the gatekeepers of what is deemed correct and useful because they have a preferred alternative that fits with our view on the world?

W3Schools may not have the best historic reputation, but it still has a place in relevant search results.

I have personally used MDN extensively over the years, and love it for what it is.

Non spring, memory foam mattresses compress surprisingly well. Bigger than a pillow. Still weighs the same regardless of dimensions though.

Anecdotally, I had a fantastic experience ordering one through Argos (UK brick and mortar catalogue store that is finally getting its act together online), same day delivery on a Sunday, fit the bill of "I need a cheap mattress tonight".

If I didn't need it same day, then there is no way I'd buy something as subjective as a mattress online..

Hardware (and firmware to a lesser degree) almost require waterfall. Moving fast and breaking things doesn't really work well when you have to throw away the physical product you broke as opposed to iterating it to a fixed state.

I can actually see the merit in waterfall for elements of the backend.. though how do you avoid pre-optimisation or even complete wastage building out APIs that end up never being needed?

And even the scrums have reduced contact nowadays; arguably this has resulted in them becoming rather difficult to execute well, and they're becoming a bane to the modern game. Tweaking these things does have knock on effects.

I'm surprised they don't run into CDN issues.

Have run into more than one issue with the vary: Accept being ignored, resulting in everyone getting the result from the first man in regardless of header variance.

Especially noticeable when we tried supporting both JSON and XML via the accepts header, with the version in the mime.

I'm thinking Breq in ancillary justice..

A large scale ship's AI reduced to a single ancillary, having to deal with humans on their level

"This is the furthest back that the ice front has been in recorded history."

I'm curious; in the context of the ice front, when does recorded history begin?

Are we talking, 10s, 100s, or 1000s of years?

They wait for the signature?

I thought it was always "in the bag, last couple of redlines to get sorted, but that'll be sorted by the end of the week, no worries."

But yeah, 2 weeks to implement, then it sits there whilst they sort out some overlooked complication