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I wouldn't say this is "reinventing the wheel", it's more like applying the same design/architectural pattern to solve a common problem.

Ad budgets are much bigger portion of acquisition cost than content marketing. Do you have an equally emotional reaction to people who decide to use ad blockers?

Like many similar problems, it's a cat and mouse game. For example, it's equally easy to detect adblockers, but they are still really effective.

You can always use a disposable email address like 10 Minute Mail: https://10minutemail.com/

Maybe the authors don't mind if their ideas get incorporated in other projects? Maybe they are more interested in spreading their ideas than owning them?

It's not just about literally selling the product. It's more about selling the company vision to employees, convincing investors, delivering talks and arranging interviews, which are really just high-level sales pitches. For example, Steve Jobs spent a huge amount of his time on preparing and rehearsing his keynotes.

With product development it's not about having "enough people" to do everything, it's about having the right priorities and choosing what to focus on.

We could discuss if this feature should have been prioritised or not, but claiming that Twitter is this little understaffed company that cannot be expected to implement something like that is a bit disingenuous.

You underestimate the tricks online marketers use to source positive reviews. I guess Apple just cannot be bothered to game them since their success is not dependent on their contents.

One example is the classic dark (or at least grey) pattern many mobile app use: Showing a popup with a question whether you enjoy the app or not. If you don't then you are asked to send private "feedback" by email. If you do then you are encouraged to leave a public (likely positive) review and redirected straight to the app store.

HN itself is a good example of a site with up/down voting with no counters (unlike reddit). It would be interesting to see some research on how that affects user behaviour.

Sure but how would that work for Stadia?

I feel no emotion for the investors since these are professional VC funds which should be fully aware of the risks involved. However, the situation would have been very different if they pulled out the IPO, cashed out to (among others) individual investors and then folded.

I don't think priorities shifted away from tech, they just moved up the value chain. Tech companies should focus their limited resources on building their core product, not managing "plumbing" like email servers or chat.

This is a good description of the default 40% layout and function layers on MiniVan keyboards: https://drop.com/talk/115/where-did-all-my-keys-go-a-look-in...

Of course you can reconfigure everything to suit your needs and flash directly to your board using open source QMK firmware: https://docs.qmk.fm

Custom keyboards are a great hobby for people who want to control and hack their own hardware.

I guess just blocking ads and trackers gives a significant performance boost they leverage in their marketing. I bet benchmark against any of the other browsers with ad-blockers installed would give a different result.

Something doesn't look right in your numbers. In fact the Wikipedia page you quoted includes a "Gun-related homicide and suicide rates in high-income OECD countries" chart that doesn't match your conclusion.

I checked the ONS statistics[1] for England and Wales (including Scotland and Northern Ireland shouldn't make a huge difference) and it says: "There were 29 homicide victims killed by shooting in the year ending March 2018, three fewer than the previous year. The number of homicides by shooting has fluctuated between 21 and 32 over the last six years."

Are you sure that you aren't comparing apples to oranges, so gun deaths in the US against all homicides in the UK regardless of the method? Another quote from the same paper suggests that might be the case: "There were 726 homicides in the year ending March 2018, 20 more (3% increase) than in the previous year."

[1] https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeand...

Have you heard about Unicode and non-Latin alphabets?

Not the same way. The dot would be filtered out, but the part after the dot won't get removed, so john.smith@gmail.com is equivalent to johnsmith@gmail.com.

AWS Docker registry (ECR) is a good middle ground since you don't have to maintain your own registry and you can take advantage of IAM to improve security.

I wouldn't assume up front that any action is hopeless. There are many Googlers on this forum and issues like that get forwarded and discussed internally. Google has Open Source Programs Office which used to have a lot of clout inside the company, at least at the time when I worked there.

I strongly disagreed with them on this particular thread, but I don't get why having pro-China views should be automatically considered "extremely suspicious"?

I'm not convinced that, as you say, decreasing cost of land is the main reason. A simple counterexample would be London which has great public transport and ridiculous prices of land. On the contrary, public transport projects like Crossrail actually increase prices of land and property in affected areas.

Your comment would be much more interesting and constructive if you actually took the time to refute the individual points instead of just saying that it's not a problem for you.

This is one of the niches where (S)FTP and batch processing is still alive and kicking.

Scholes & Merton also joined a hedge fund that traded based on their models and cased a financial crash after the Russian bond default in 1998 which their models didn't take into account. Great example of a black swan event.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-Term_Capital_Management

Sounds pretty much like the Theranos pitch?

This effect does exist, but changes to indexes are public, so this information is mostly included in the price already.

Are you really trying to argue that companies which for example use Slack (or a similar service) are "not professional"?

> With a rigid import system, each library would be forced to declare what it's going to import (including any system libraries), and then you could e.g. enforce a warning + confirmation any time an updated dependency changes its import list.

Which means you would get warnings on pretty much any functional upgrade of most dependencies, which would make the whole system useless from a security point of view.

Norway population seems to be just 5 million over an area slightly bigger than Germany which has 82 million people, so it's very sparsely populated.

Not trying to defend a legacy protocol, but it's one of these cases where basic infrastructure is not newsworthy when it works just fine, like with plumbing.