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Basic Question - What is the problem that they are trying to solve?

Ask someone from China for an Invitation to WeChat, it shouldn't be the case (Not sure if they have made it mandatory in last few months)

> Also, everyone in China still accepts cash but you generally need correct change.

They do. But fake currency is very common in China. I was advised not to use cash. But since I'm not from China, I wasn't able to setup wechat pay account which is very common .

Most of the restaurants I had been to had currency checker machines.

So is Net Neutrality. Ensures that random sites (new sites) doesn't distract you.

This is also interesting - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths

I had the same thought.

This was fucking absurd update. My firefox profile was not compatible, and all my extensions were removed (And resynced). I was using Containers to manage all my work/personal/work2 sessions, and they are all gone (Again; first happened when firefox addon outage happened)

> People want good health care. If they don’t trust systems to provide them good health care, if they don’t trust their providers to understand their priorities, then choice is the fallback.

Applies to any settings page with too many options.

Update - Container data is lost post addons recovery (I installed Nightly build). This is ridiculous.

My Firefox usage will be so unproductive for few days. I had around 6-8 containers for different purpose, and somehow I'm habitual to using shortcut to launch a container and open whatever I'm supposed to (e.g I've access to 3 different AWS account, and I tend to press shortcut key to launch the relevant container tab)

The Container extension is no longer working. I'm logged out of mostly everything. There are few sites I don't want to open without container.

Is it not similar to how YouTube killed IE6 and Chrome is killing Mozilla Firefox?

A separate questions. Are their any common practices for recovering the system from message bus failures (such as SQS in your case).

Seeing your post made me realize if SQS goes down, a lot of random things will be happening in my application.

This is my favorite interview question.

If you have to make N (not fixed) requests, and only want the result of successful ones discarding failures, how will you do it with native Promises only?

You can build a simple webpage for yourself using the APIs

Here is the start point -

https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/showstories.json?print...

More - https://github.com/HackerNews/API

This could be a plain html page, which you can bookmark and check daily.

Wait!

It is this easy to run a web-based app? No heavy Electron dependency?

Is it the same everywhere?

I also feel that spending a lot of time reading Uber/Netflix blogs (or similar stuff) is not what I should do, for an hour, first thing in the morning.

Yes, a lot. I feel that I'm doing it more often now. I'm 5-year exp. now, and the unexpected expectation of ensuring that it should be self-sustainable in the future is making me spend more time in even small thing, which is definitely over-engineering.

Often meeting goes like,

Person 1 - this should do it

P2 - But if we do that, that will also cover that2 in future

P1, P3 - Make sense, let's do it.

P4 - We should also do that3.

All - Lets put up our points on a Doc, and discuss it again tomorrow. We shouldn't build something which we have to revisit in the future, it will be a waste of time otherwise.

All agree, adjourned.

(P1 to Pn are interchangeable)

I would be able to stream DRM content (e.g Netflix)?

MacBook is supposed to be a no-trouble-device. You just buy once, sit back and enjoy for rest of the life.

Removing USB ports certainly didn't help. What's the point of a good battery life. If I've to carry connectors everywhere, I'm okay with carrying charger as well.

I've done the same, few months back. And yes, sometimes (well most of the time) results are not satisfactory if I'm looking for a specific thing (e.g Expecting a relevant result from StackOverFlow).

I'm using Firefox Containers, I hop on to Google Search with a temporary extension

For Maps -

Well, I don't trust Apple either.

Waze was good, but now Google has it.