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Halted economy and overflowing hospital facilities are likely to contribute to general mortality.

Rename the project to VideoDrive or something. With the current name Google can get GitHub to take it down on the basis of trademark infringement.

Define normal

2,331 million

You know the right thing to do is for Workspace to honour the user's choice for all services, and the European Commission does too. This could end with a huge fine for Google.

Not all speakers talk at the same rate and with the same information density. Some forms of content aren't worth listening to at the default playback rate.

Lost a channel that was in good standing for 14 years in a similar way. I would have appreciated being able to download the hundreds of playlists and the watch history I built, as is guaranteed under the provisions of the EU GDPR legislation. Unfortunately the export tool didn't produce any data.

The private sector might disregard long term risk for short term profit, as they did countless times with the environment. This was mentioned in the article.

This article is from 2014. Have the rules not changed since? This article indicates otherwise: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/your-re...

I disagree. The article author is likely referring to the period when IE version 6 was the major browser on the market (from 2001 to 2009), a time many of us fondly remember as the web development ice age. It absolutely did lack features present in other browsers, such as SVG support, transparent PNG support, the full scope of CSS 2.1, countless standard JavaScript APIs (remember jQuery), etc. Rendering bugs added insult to injury, but the lack of features was real. Microsoft didn't release IE7 until 2006.

Interested in what value $FB ends up at when Instagram, Whatsapp and possibly Messenger are split away. For some reason, individual companies used to appreciate after being spun out. How much value past Events is left in Facebook? Marketplace? VR? Workplace? Metaverse?

> Word actually offers a solution with the “paste without formatting” but it’s lost behind the million features of word.

Yes. The Tweet was advocating for making that the default paste logic.

Regarding the "paste without formatting by default" opinion:

- Pasting a body of text with multiple headlines between two documents would require using a special paste command that explicitly preserves formatting.

- Some benefits of "convention over configuration" are only present if you stick to your existing conventions. Millions of people are already used to explicitly pasting without formatting.

Other remarks:

- Opinions need to be informed by facts and customer-facing research.

- There is room for divergent (Yes AND) thinking, as well as convergent (Just say no) thinking in product design. See "Double Diamond"[1].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Diamond_(design_process...

The default was opt-in (telemetry off).

YouTube will not give out data after suspending an account, which is likely a violation.

Great app! If you want to keep distributing it, you'll have to find a less "Bose-sounding" name. I am not a lawyer, but as far as I can tell: a) they can't prevent you from implementing a reverse-engineered protocol, b) they can take legal action against you for trademark infringement / damages.

Oh, wow. I can confirm that said "feature" is still live. People's names and profile pictures show up after entering their email address in the login form shrug

Like when they used to show your name & profile picture after a failed login with just an email and empty password. Aside from being another inadvertant information leak, it would have been tragic if that was part of an attempt to decrease the (deliberate) login failure rates.

Switching the language to German also has interesting effects.

Ha, good question. Generally, everyone switched to HTTPS. But that doesn't protect against situations like with Yahoo, where the agencies were tapped-in after the SSL termination. I guess it's not a stretch to assume it's still going on.

This reminds me of how Linkedin and many others used to upload entire phonebooks to unecrypted endpoints, making it simple for US agencies to analyze social networks of foreigners with impunity.

The cost of storage is marginal, 1 subscribing user subsidizes 100-1000 free users. The encryption computation is offloaded to the client as well. That's why this service is a profitable recipe for freemium. I'm sorry you're sorry about the parent commenter's experience.

AppsFlyer, Google Analytics, Segment are in there.

I was looking at the recent crop of products like the Comfy app, and Envoy's addition of safety features. How big of an issue is this for companies, really? What's your size, rate of growth at this stage? I've seen the basic requirements for legal compliance effectively solved with regular surveys & spreadsheets.

Their advice was highly effective in bringing the company to bankruptcy, if that's the metric you were aiming for. Aside from destruction of private and public equity.

Occiasionally it feels as if hurdles are placed specifically to make Google and Apple integration a pain. They're waging war and consumers are paying the price. We should hold them accountable, but the decreasing expectation of interoperability will make that harder and harder to do. The antitrust proceedings could help improve this situation, but consumer-protection organizations will have to fight to prevent the outcome leading to an even more hermetic oligarchy.

> The last 10 years of JavaScript on the client have been an utter shit show

A fair number of people would disagree. I'd say it's advanced a lot, considering the limited role of JavaScript on the client in the past.

Interesting to contrast the outcome with discussions under the Unity S-1[1] and similar threads. Some engineers outside of AAA game dev complain that certain core tenets of software engineering are hard to come by in Unity & Unreal projects, while insiders claim that the kinds of stringent quality controls being proposed are untenable, and in themselves demonstrate a profound misunderstanding of how things work in the industry. Could a launch-flop like Cyberpunk 2077 cause the pendulum to swing the other way?

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24261559

You might prefer the 6-inch Joan Home device[1] (€ 249). It runs a productivity app[2], but the hardware and software stack is by the same company.

1: https://getjoan.com/shop/joan-home/

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lRFsbLFUKk

There's an old saying that goes something like there are countless way to fail, but only a few ways to succeed. Perhaps there's more complexity in modeling failure?