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Are you saying that the highest standard you’d hold a company to is mere compliance with the law? Hope I never have to work somewhere where that’s the best we can do.

While occasional humor is welcome, if we reward it too much, then the comments will be full of low-quality jokes. I think most readers here aren’t looking for that.

You’re right, and I think this is a good point against the root comment. Nobody can argue against the claim that we are all just resources to politicians, corporations, and law enforcement because it is vacuously true. It’s like saying we are all just atoms. It doesn’t tell us whether many or most in those industries are good people who are in it for the right reasons. And of course, this story about a particular repugnant act can’t prove such a blanket statement.

It’s already widely reported that race is a major risk factor for COVID-19. I doubt fears of looking like a racist are holding people back from reporting that non-racial identifiers contribute to the disease.

I don’t believe this to be the case. The root cause is that company exposed the product’s internal workings to developers via APIs 20 years ago. Tons of companies built their whole business on it, and those APIs will never be deprecated. Most of those companies don’t employ any software engineers, so migrating isn’t viable. I’ve been in the room when complicated new APIs are developed, and we definitely weren’t making things hard on purpose. Every new feature needs to work with whatever our customers built out of what came before. We did our best given the constraints.

Of course these opinions are my own, I don’t currently work at Salesforce, and I can only tell a tiny part of the story from my own perspective, and it’s probably unfair to people who did a lot of good work.

It just depends how much capacity they provision. You could overprovision by 10000% like you suggest, or 50%. You can scale based on demand but it’s normal to have a lag.

As an ad-supported service, I wouldn’t be surprised if Reddit refuse to serve clients that don’t show ads. On the other hand, I don’t think their API that Apollo is using includes ads. Same deal with third-party Twitter clients. I wonder if their are examples of similar ad-supported services that included ads in the API, and required the developer of the third-party client to implement ad support?

The website is smallpianokeyboards.org, not letsonlyletwomenusesmallpianokeyboards.org, and there’s nothing sexist about mentioning that women are more frequently affected by this. Pointing out the intersectionality helps create a larger coalition of people who can help fix the problem, and doesn’t in any way prevent men from also benefiting from the solution. Piano players, women, men, and people with small hands can all be on the same side whether they are part of just one of those groups or all four.