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Google should pay me a 8 figure salary as a product manager to tell them to add phone number login to their existing app and put it behind a region restriction if required rather building a second parallel app since apparently no one there is willing to say it. And before people point out the benefits of having a clean slate I'll point out all the cash they burned doing it this way, which they could have saved by just giving me 10 or 15 million dollars.

DMs open for anyone else who wants my genius-level advice.

It's not just that they greenlit this change, it's that it's far from the first time they've pulled something like this. It is utterly baffling to me that there isn't someone in senior management who can say "What? No, that's utterly stupid, you can't do that".

:) I'm completely aware that smaller companies are using Google. My last two companies used it! (Right up until we were acquired by a large enterprise and got moved to MS).

> I don't know anyone still using Excel.

I suspect that is very much just the crowds you move in. Every vaguely large enterprise I know is still 100% Microsoft. A huge part of Microsoft's profit these days is their Cloud department, which is really just printing money selling Office 365 licenses to enterprise.

> it might sound OK for Windows people

Windows users might be accustomed to having infrequent OS version releases, but they're used to their _apps_ being current.

Exactly, they could have just refused this guy bail and nobody on hacker news would have ever heard of it or cared if they did. But mention the word encryption and the world is falling down.

I think it's manual memory management, but with effort made to make that easier to handle and easier for tooling to check. With a plan to have a memory safe subset at some time in the future but not as part of the 0.1 designs.

I'm left handed but hold my phone in my right.

Meh, Microsoft is enormously different than they used to be. They still might not be what you want, but they aren't the same.

Are you missing out by just not drinking diner or airplane coffee? I just drink something else in those situations.

Having a $1500 (or any dollar) machine is absolutely no measure of the quality of coffee it is able to produce.

If the alternative is store-brand beans then it is absolutely about the quality of taste of the thing.

So if they are looking at calendar data does "five fewer collaboration hours" only mean five fewer hours in meetings?

Some of the funnest and most productive work I've done was a project with three others where we were all in a single office. We were completely ad-hoc with working alone, pair programming, having quick design discussions, whatever was needed at the time. There was an enormous amount of collaboration (and an enormous amount of deep, solo work), but there were no meetings in my calendar.

Meanwhile in pretty much any job I have had my happiness has gone down the more full my official calendar becomes.

As Gerald Weinberg said on consulting "It's always a people problem". People expect Slack (or whichever tool) to solve problems that are people problems. If your company expects you to be glued to Slack and respond instantly, that is a culture problem at your company, and needs to be addressed as such.

I have a friend who lost about $5k in the Terra crash. So not a lot, but he'd rather have $5k than zero. And when he was telling me about it before putting money in he was talking about the 15% thing and that it seemed like easy money, and I said something like "well unless the whole thing just goes to zero". And you could tell he just didn't see that as a possibility. Like he's not completely blind, he knew he could lose money, although mainly he was thinking about them not paying 15% and him being able to withdraw at any time. But he hadn't given any thought to the whole thing just collapsing.

If you look at desktop os share from tracking general web use rather than surveying people on a dev-focused site windows is 75%.

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide

I'm shocked they had 1100.

Visual Studio used to (or maybe still does) have an issue where it wouldn't hit breakpoints after the 65,536th line in a source file. It wasn't something I ever encountered, I just came across the issue in the docs somewhere, but I pity the person that ran into it.

I'm considering getting an M2 Air even though I very much don't like OSX.

This is local only over a pretty simple communication protocol. Hammerhead had previously licensed that protocol, but Shimano cancelled the contract when Hammerhead were acquired by Shimano's largest competitor.

I'm not a lawyer so don't know if they _need_ to have a license for the protocol, but presumably they think they do.

Not anymore they aren't. SRAM sell far more high end groupsets than Campy these days.

Apple could have just stuck the touch bar above the f-keys instead of replacing them. I didn't mind the touch bar, but given the choice between it and f-keys I'll take the keys.

I doubt it, bike thieves will just use a battery angle grinder with a cutting wheel on your bike lock, and everyone will absolutely ignore them doing it in the middle of the day.

Every time I see the templated yaml used widely in devops (see helm charts for example), I'm reminded of this sort of XML used for declarative programming. It was terrible then and it's terrible now.

I spilled half a pint of beer into my kinesis advantage (cherry brown switches) and it worked fine after opening it and giving it a wipe down and letting it dry. Switches failing just isn't on my radar. I'd be more worried about the extra failure mode of the sockets needed for swappable switches. If it comes down to it I can solder in a new switch.

Exactly. I went along to see Avatar because I hadn't seen a 3D movie and figured I'd go and watch the best version of the technology. I enjoyed the experience, and also didn't bother seeing any other 3D movies and haven't seen Avatar a second time.

I've got a friend who is a long-time embedded C developer, about 20 years of experience. Really knows his stuff. I just hired him to write python and he got a massive pay rise to come over, because all the embedded shops in our area pay shit.

My whole team has moved from 50/50 macs and linux to 100% linux to escape a recent jamf roll out.

Yeah, they were illegally distributing Google's copyrighted source code this entire time. It's just easier to prove the trademark thing, so Google lead off with that.

WSL2 is just a Linux VM running on HyperV.