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I got a Google survey this week.

Which of the following are the reasons you chose Google Play related issues as one of the weaknesses?

The second option, written by Google was:

- Sudden account termination without actionable feedback or clear restoration guidance

They know they're killing accounts without due process, they don't care, why would they? They're the only game in town now the Android Developer Verification Program is in force.

Not needing 30MB of JS probably helps.

Enterprise security in depth.

I probably incorrectly read

> we provide that customer’s connection to the internet

as providing the DNS infra for their customers.

> There was no unauthorised access and no compromised systems. This was an overload attack, not an intrusion.

Hopefully your logging infra is rock solid and nothing has been dropped in the flood. It wouldn't be the first time a DOS was used to mask the actual attack by overwhelming the monitoring infra.

> Use a CNAME or ALIAS record instead of an A record. An A record ties your domain to one specific IP address on our platform. That fixed binding was exactly the problem during the attack: wherever we could change the address on short notice, availability could be restored, wherever we could not, only the blunt measure remained.

I don't understand how this helps. CNAMES have TTLs like A records and they eventually have to terminate at an A record somewhere so why pay for an extra hop?

> They did have a self-service app store you could use to install things.

We had this too. The apps were years out of date because they needed to be manually packaged for the internal store. The one person who was allowed to run the recorder to monitor the vendor installer (because that requires admin level to monitor other apps) to create the store install script has 1000 other package requests ahead of yours.

> Why on earth wouldn’t the respective government spend money to modernize a critical infrastructure like a nuclear power plant?

Same reason they don't modernize health care infrastructure. It's too expensive, people die if they get it wrong and they get voted out of office for their troubles.

> Stopped reading here. Author has little idea of the industry.

Which industry? The shopping affiliate industry feels just like the kind of industry to cut any corners it can to make a few more cents per transaction so they can offer "free" shopping agents and make their money off the commissions.

> Look, I don’t know where we are going.

As honest as it is I can't risk using this anywhere near production if this is the attitude.

> I sent an email to my friends with a link to the location and said, "check this out in a couple of months!"

This is an example of behaviour I personally find frustrating.

My internal thought process: There's nothing I can do with this email when I first get it, will I remember to check months later? Probably not.

> We had a slightly stupid moment when we thought we'd got it wrong, and the clock was running backwards - only to realise we were inside the clock and so were looking at it the wrong way.

I can heavily relate to this when debugging something that builds bottom up.

That's some nice cbf spelling of always and recognition on that slide.

> Also you want to reuse code via package management systems.

I thought everyone was on monorepos to "solve" that.

I was on a project trying to migrate off Oracle and they wanted to just dump all historic data to CSVs.

I pointed out they'd lose a lot of the integrity and audit features built into a database.

I get wanting to be free from Oracle but go to another database.

> The PRO version lives at tmog.store

https://tmog.org/pro.html

> When it went to flip into the backup, we discovered that the backup fiber had a break

Pretty grim that a life critical system wasn't designed to report that the backup fibre was unserviceable until they attempted to switch over to it.

I wonder how long it was down? Days, weeks, months?

Sorry, lost the last digit, fixed now. This restored PDP-11/83 project is Dave Plummer's

He also edits bug titles to reduce the appearance of the severity while not participating in the discussion to explain why.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48948656

While probably it's legit because I've seen Dave discussing the process on the YT channel (which I no longer watch) he unfortunately does have form https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39813625

Having TMOG on a .org when it sells commercial licences doesn't sit well with me given the history.

> You didn’t really have one big app that you could open and order it to entertain you. Instead, you had a few dozen of bookmarks to websites, each with a specific idea in mind.

This overlooks how common custom homepages such as Lycos, Yahoo! and MSN were and how the browsers pushed these as their default home pages.

While they may not be as addictive as "the algorithm" of today, they were still packed with clickbait images/links to attract your attention and ads to drain your wallet.

MSN: https://web.archive.org/web/20021108094511/http://www.msn.co...

My MSN: https://web.archive.org/web/20021107081016/http://my.msn.com...

If the driver wants you out, being unable to cancel the trip on the app won't stop them throwing you out.

Louis founded the Consumer Rights wiki and also wrote the article that's the subject of this NH thread.

Another frustrating aspect of forced arbitration is Uber can now avoid ever using that arbitrator ever again.

I can't say I agree with forcing your team to use your own personal "framework" of approaching a problem or else you'll get "feedback".

> Sometimes I will give feedback to people when they are missing steps in the framework, or are poorly executing some of the steps. I expect the same feedback in return.

I also don't like that urgency is built in as the standard process either, no wonder everyone is burnt out.

> 6. Act with urgency to achieve the goal

If they're no longer using that model they may not be willing to continue using their storage for it.

> You’d spend all your time managing the money and associated stresses.

That's what your personal executive team is for.

Not sure any chairman has their ear to the ground to fully understand the culture within their organization.

I never saw our CEO in person, never saw our chairman even on a webinar.

And yes it's not their job to be that low level, but they can't have an idea of the culture either.

Author needs to decide which end of the stratum stack they want as the top.

> This design from 2010 had at the top stratum 1 sources at Australia's National Measurement Institute (NMI)

> Among otherwise comparable candidates, the lower stratum carries more weight.

Depends on the library.

If you appear to be sleeping, staff will check on your welfare, and wake you up.

https://www.spl.org/about-us/policies/community-use-agreemen...

21.37.42-SECONDARY is an interesting version number, don't they like final-final2 in their version numbers?