goguy

Navigation and entertainment are moot points IMO. Practically every care has android auto/carplay these days.

I'd expect even a junior to at a minimum test and view the response payload, see the token and think "bad idea".

I personally see this as a weak move. Surely a bundle of software can include whatever they desire to include.

What next a law suit for bundling Access? Don't get any ideas Oracle...

The new Strava feature is pretty good IMO

Nothing stopping them doing that the other way either.

I have to disagree. Realistically my only job opportunities for good pay are in cities, you couldn't pay me to live in one of those.

I'll take the commute for the luxury of living in the countryside away from the noise, overpopulation and dirt.

Agree with a lot of that especially this part:

> Major version changes require source-code level changes in all files touching the package

I've always thought the tooling was half baked but would get there eventually. The introduction of modules has caused a split and put the tooling either further behind IMO.

Chinese spyware that doesn't even show as an "app"

No absolutely no chance, it won't happen. Oh wait...

Source? I have a Chromecast which works fine, Google DNS servers are blocked on my network.

Here in the UK sky recently pushed out an update to their firmware which made it impossible to use another DNS server other than theirs. There was a decent amount of push back, I managed to get them to downgrade my firmware but who knows how long that will last before they "accidently" update it again.

"Gets to number one in random video games"

Genius

I've had the same thing happen with wahoo multiple times.

Isn't that all done on the client? Soon as you require a HTTP response on potentially a slow connection it's no longer instant and a poor user experience.

I'm not a fan of this RFC but how can you make such as drastic decision at such an early stage?

The fact you visited the link would let them know that company x has an current employee named y.

Whilst that information might not be sensitive it could be used at a later date to extract sensitive company information.

Personally I would prefer it to be a foreign government rather than the one in charge of the country I reside in...

How many calls are you actually getting? Even if it's one a day, who h seems extremely high, is it really that much effort to lose the 5 seconds it takes to answer and hang up straight away?

As a family living in a rural area with a large commute (driving) to a major UK city I still see it as a net benefit even if you factor in large cost for vehicle maintenance etc.

I get to live away from the hustle and bustle of the concrete jungle for one.

Yup, I just don't participate. I miss out on some things but it's worth it for avoiding the distraction IMO. If anyone needs me they can email, Skype or god forbid speak to me in person.

Totally agree, most of them are hard assed companies with no morals and very loose practices.

One place I used to rent from tried to swindle my deposit for "repairs" of things that were clearly just standard wear and tear over the years.

I argued till I was blue in the face and they eventually agreed with me on most of the things and agreed to "refund" me. They messed up somehow and transferred me 2x my initial deposit, normally I would absolutely let them know about their mistake but as they messed me around for months I didn't say a word and kept it. Suprise suprise they went out of business a few months later

Holy shit that is depressing - as a senior engineer in the UK working at one of the largest UK tech based companies I struggle to earn even $100k.

If you aren't then I hope your pay is above average, otherwise your bring taken for a ride.

They absolutely exist. A previous company I worked for had the same system as a legacy product but it still got plenty of traffic.

We also had fax -> email. Believe it or not there were plenty of accounts sending email -> fax which they had configured to forward using fax -> email. ‍️

They incured costs on both ends rather than just sending an email. Stupidity knows no bounds...

TIL, they should be geared up to take advantage then. We had PCI compliancy but like you mention the big players will take most of the pie.

I worked on a very similar product a few years ago. There were a few companies battling over patent rights for similar implementations of DTMF tone suppression in the payment space.

Not sure what happened with that but looks like essentially the same idea here. Always thought it was pretty niche now everyone has a browser in their pocket.