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These types of people confuse the ease of pooping on something with the viability and worthwhileness of that thing.

Well, people had been using hosted email from their ISPs, AOL, Hotmail, etc. long before Gmail.

Gmail came out and offered an insane amount of storage, basically toppling the regime.

So surely Gmail wasn't the one that surprised you. That ship had long sailed before then.

http://lite.cnn.io/es times out for me.

What's with forks of adblockers just lightly modifying the name?

uBlock -> uBlock Origin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin#History

Adblock -> Adblock Plus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adblock_Plus#History_and_stati...

Is the temptation of skimming off existing branding worth the mass confusion?

Feel free to email them and offer them money to improve their free service.

Ever since my late-20s, the thing my idle mind likes to fixate on just as I'm trying to fall asleep is my parents' mortality. Not the best sleepytime fodder.

I hit that figure quite a bit back in my stimulant abuse days.

But your blog post specifically refers to chronic sleep loss.

I think we're just in the age of "if you have an opinion on anything, no matter how shallow, you should share it and suggest it's self-evident, universal, and the only thing that matters."

I feel like we're diluting the atrocity of shitty ads when we refer to anything and everything as an ad.

Netflix's above-the-fold, skippable "Now Showing" preview on the homepage can't be compared to the unskippable videos that Amazon and Hulu force you to watch. Hell, it even remembers that you muted it. And it only plays if you sit there staring at it.

Since almost all of Netflix's competitors force you to watch ads after you click play, I'm pretty happy with what Netflix does. Seems like a perfectly fair trade-off to me.

If you don't like it, just add ".billboard-row" to your content blocker. I bet you haven't. I bet you kinda like it. ;)

At the same time, how many cheap Windows laptops are only so cheap because they come with a lot of pre-installed bullshit?

Also, 5 year old Air for $1k? That's almost how much they cost new. I'm seeing half that on Ebay/Craigslist. My sister has a new $450 Toshiba and my 5 year old Air runs much better. I got a new battery for it and gave it to her.

Unfortunately you went way too far with your rant and buried your point about Windows' real competition being more expensive. But the low end of Windows laptops is pretty atrocious. Someone stuck buying those aren't doing it because Airs lost their SD card port. They're doing it because they can't afford anything other than a computer that serves them ads, has 3hrs battery life, and struggles to buffer 1080p video on Youtube like my sister's new Toshiba.

I don't think so. Let's substitute balk:

> The more enjoyable a job is, the lower the salary the boss can offer before people [hesitate to] take it.

> Seriously, it's the only decision that makes sense if one has the chops to get into one of those places.

For you, sure.

There are better ways I can think of spending my 20s and 30s than just setting up for retirement in my 40s, because when you're in your 40s, you're not in your 20s or 30s anymore.

You can't even do a tiny lateral transfer in the US medical industry without reschooling, so how would it work with foreign degrees?

What's the "logical basis" for concluding that they think it's good for anyone to collapse economies?

I don't think this weak "gotcha" rhetoric is conducive to good discussion. You're trying to disarm their point by putting words in their mouth. And you're taking it off topic.

For example, since you only mention banks and large corporations, can we assume you're okay with every other possible way economies can be collapsed? No, that would have no "logical basis."

Or because it's still one of the best ways to keep in touch with people, like all the people I'm not close enough with to call (so, almost everyone).

Notice how easy it is tell others what to do.

Reminds me of ex-presidents/ex-leaders who have regrets about decisions they made when we depended on them. Now when they're washed up and have zero clout, they're suddenly on our side again.

Well, those people will need healthy people in their health insurance pool to fund their lifestyle, so maybe not.

Well, yes you do, because the thing that makes this complicated is all the various out of process dependencies like the database.

You can check your rating from your app.

The browser's Javascript console also only runs code locally, but getting people to copy code into it is a serious attack vector.

Not saying that's Apple's reason, but being limited to local execution doesn't mean it's safe.

Then you end up with a system where someone can arrive at the right answer via AST that you didn't expect, which was a frustration when I helped students with a service like (IIRC) CodeCademy.

Agreed, this flippant attitude is more toxic than people trying to look out for themselves in a world where even the Food Pyramid is bullshit.

Well, since subsidized pricing depends on you giving real information, then you make things worse for everyone else.

If you can only enjoy something (like a lower price while giving fake information) because everyone else doesn't, then it's usually a hint that your position isn't so defendable.

Like how the only reason the guy on the bus can enjoy his music without headphones is because everyone is courteously using headphones. I mean, sure, he doesn't care. "I'll never see these people again, why would I care?" But it's weak justification for taking advantage of a situation and I think we can do better as a society.

> Knowing that I'm resistant to noroviruses also makes me more comfortable about traveling.

This seems like one of the major downsides of these services. I think you would've been better off in life if you, say, did the traveling you wanted to do instead of let some genetic markers drive your apprehensions.

Though to be fair it's not obvious where to encode validation. You're saying it should be intrinsic in the parsing rules of ipv4. But there are reasons why you would want to validate in a separate pass.

For example, the more errors you parse, then the better error messages and introspection you have (structured data) when you want to validate.

It's a classic trade-off.

You're right though, doesn't make a very good example.

I've seen criticism online related to how soon the beta happened before release.

But gamers are such a childish (usually literally) and entitled bunch that I've noticed it's hard to take most of their criticism seriously about anything. The only criticism I've agreed with lately is the rise of lootboxes. Everything else just reminds me of a non-technical manager trying to tell developers how easy something should be because it was easy to write it down as a Trello card.

For example, there's a common meme on /r/gaming about how lazy/selfish Bethesda is by not include a single-player mode. As if it's some trivial undertaking. Same with Bethesda reusing its engine instead of "just" building a new one.

What gamers never seem to realize is that their demands are no different from the ideals of the developer. There probably isn't a single person at Bethesda who wouldn't want to work <40hrs/week incrementally improving the game to perfection for a few more years, or working on a cool single-player campaign with fresh ideas.

Meanwhile, criticism is easily squished when the financials come out. If enough gamers bought and enjoyed the game to make the venture profitable, then criticism is exposed as nothing but a wishlist, not as the damning evidence gamers like to think they're circle-jerking over.

They're saying it's a better experience. I'm saying I'd rather have it in the browser that I already use. Good example being that I want to keep the article open or accumulate them in Safari instead of have this weird modal article-viewing system in the app.

Various Reddit apps inline articles and I think it's just a worst experience.

I find it similar to arguments that try to scare me with "but then we won't be able to eat meat for every meal."

"Well, good," I think, "sounds like exactly what we need."

Their eggs aren't!