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I've been off Google for the past 4 years. Only exception is watching YouTube videos time to time. My digital life has been just fine.

> Everything else is much, much worse IMO.

I wouldn't say it's much much worse. Lot of the digital service I use, I pay for. And they have human support when I need it.

I don't miss Google services at all.

Maybe platform that's impossible to moderate shouldn't exist?

While I understand the good that YouTube brings, it has such a huge negative side that I wouldn't miss it if it were gone.

Joker's take on the issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK0UxenfV4Q

One of many controversies: https://www.techworm.net/2020/06/brave-browser-cryptocurrenc...

I personally like Ribbon over rows and rows of small icons without labels. I think of Ribbons like tabs that organizes the buttons that makes sense together.

But I'm not a power Office user and that's just my preference.

These days lot of 2D animation look is achieved via 3D/CGI tools.

Different perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL6hp8BKB24

According to [0] the quote is attributed to Rabbi Hyman Schachtel.

According to [1] the quote is by Garth Brooks.

I wonder which one is right.

[0] - https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/461438-happiness-is-not-hav...

[1] - https://taddasfitness.com/blog/100932/Happiness-isn-t-having...

I used to use 1Password when they just sold the application at a fixed price and I handle all the synchronization between machines. That option is no longer available. I'm one of the users who left because of this.

Because small to medium business that are not in tech doesn't care.

I checked the death rate and the same pattern arises.

I just checked the data from https://covid19.who.int/ and Austria had 93 cases per 10,000 last week where as USA had 164 cases per 10,000. Which seems like a significant difference.

I don't know if Austria mandates masks but your last sentence doesn't seem to hold up according to WHO.

I know South Korea mandates masks and they had 5 cases per 10,000 last week. :)

I once wanted to download a calculator app on an iPad. (After being dumbfounded that there wasn't one included.)

But I couldn't find a single quality calculator app and got really frustrated.

This was more than 4 years ago though.

I feel like 10 years from now we will look at thread like this and laugh akin to 64kb being enough.

What's the malice here? Maybe I missed it.

Does anyone remember the days when we used to call the entire web application frontned? :)

If you buy a product from a company where their revenue comes primarily comes from ads, you should expect to see ads on their product.

What makes Google Docs a better product than MS Office? Can you provide some examples of features that are better in Google Docs?

Only argument I heard, not that I agree but, is future proofing by abstraction. What if a simple getter evolves into something more complex. Then You'd have to refactor all the places where it was using the fields.

I personally never had to do this so I'm not sure if this is a real benefit.

Why does it need an endgame? As long as it has enough interest to keep it going, then they should make whatever they like.

Not everything has to be #1 to be sustainable, interesting and/or worthwhile.

Yeah, I gave up on my subscription after I couldn't figure out how to list all the songs by a given musician. It's a simple feature that's part of all the music software that I've used before: Winamp, iTunes, Amarok, Gnome Music. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

At that temperature it's almost meaningless to compare the numerical value of C and F. But it's 180M F for the curious.

> Most people who believe in climate change have never read a single scientific paper regarding it nor know the name of a single climate scientist.

Source?

My experience is total opposite. I had horrible hardware experience with MacBook Pro. Battery being blown up, broken hinges, keyboard skipping... My XPS has been working amazingly fine. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This reminded me of days where we used <table> to do layout.

From my experience, only people who prefer open offices are junior devs who need lot of help from peers/mentors and managers who often likes to check on team's progress. I personally hate open office for the similar reasons mentioned in the article.

I'm posting this because fans used the Twitter's password recovery process which reveals only part of the account owner's email to determine that several Twitter accounts are owned by a single entity. Can this be considered security or privacy flaw? Lot of my apps doe not expose any part of the email during the recovery process and I've thought about doing so, but now I'm reconsidering it due to this use case.

(Can someone come up with a better title?)

Mozilla tried that once and failed. I really miss it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Persona

Biggest thing that needs to be taught as one of the fundamentals for software engineering is approaching problems with scientific method.

Design, testing, and debugging (which takes up more resources than writing code) require skill in forming good hypothesis and methodical way to test that hypothesis.

These type of courses should be designed more towards those skill sets than just learning to write code.

I belive I said the first quote many times during my college years.