That's one exception to the rule. A big one, being the most important election that happens every 4 year, but that doesn't negate the importance of money in campaigning.
It seems like add-ons are still mostly Ok if they use the narrowly defined scopes, instead of say "gmail.readonly" which is a blanket permission. Minor heart attack, but we might be ok.
It is, but it's an inferior proposition for our business (and for users) without access to the Gmail store. In fact we used to have our functionality as a Chrome extension but Google aggressively marketed the native approach when they published the "New Gmail". And we went for it.
The thing is a bad actor with deep pockets is going to sail by this review because their security systems and practices might be top notch, but the moment they're rubberstamped, they can turn on evil mode and start doing whatever they want with your data. Small players get cut off if they can't afford the fee, even if they're honest and secure.
Well, that's a no-go. We're a small startup that's scraping by and only recently we're starting to get some traction on our GMail integration. If we're asked to undergo such a review, we don't have the $15k+ to spare, so we'll likely say goodbye to the ecosystem. Like someone else said in this story, we're probably just going to focus on Microsoft which is much more developer friendly.
Worst of all, this won't stop intentional bad actors from stealing user data for whatever purposes they have in mind. Big pockets are going to laugh even at a $75k fee.
Coming from a place with proportional distribution, I can see there's value in a winnner-takes-all policy. For example, alternance is more likely (in Andalusia it took 37 years for a non-socialist government to have a chance at power). Also, representatives respond to their district's specific needs, which is good because you have one specific person to go talk to, and to boot off their seats if necessary (unlike a system where the politicians at the top of their parties ranked lists are pretty much guaranteed a position). There's no perfect system, and the grass is always greener, etc.
Two that come to mind: Microsoft's "Seller dashboard" for managing Office 365 extensions, and Google's "Cloud Platform" console for managing their services. Also, Apple's "iTunesConnect" is pretty glitchy unless you use Safari (and probably Chrome too). I guess you can see a clear reason why each of those pages behaves like so :).
Edit to add that I prefer Firefox in general for philosophical and practical reasons: I'm used to the dev tools and have a hard time navigating the Chrome/Safari alternatives, not to mention Edge/Explorer.
On the flip side, consider the time you spend looking for parking. Depending on where you live, that's also a big time sink. I'd rather be checking Twitter on the sidewalk than cursing the parking gods looping around, but that's just me.
This is very true. I remember around 2005-06 when they publicized black Friday as a proof by fire of their technology, pretty much daring the internet to bring their site down with huge deals all at the same time. And it was amazing that their website kept working. After that it seems like they realized they could sell the idea of automatically, infinitely scaling infrastructure, but it wasn't at all obvious from the outside.
In 1980 Richard Stallman found out that he couldn't fix a laser printer they just installed at MIT. That [and other events](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman#Events_leadin...) led 4 years later to the birth of the GNU project. Maybe the tide is finally turning, at least in some aspects.
Interestingly in the latest StartX session there are more single-founder companies than not. Not sure if it the first time this happens, but it definitely didn't used to be like that.
Exercise to the reader: How do you slice the bagel so that you can spread cream cheese continuously along both sides. In other words, can you make a Möbious bagel?
We do have a car and a toddler. The car sits idle most days, maybe once a week we get on it to go somewhere where it's inconvenient by bike or transit. For his first year we didn't have a car. This is in SF and Berkeley. A lot of people, even those with kids, could perfectly ditch their cars, rent occasionally and come out ahead in terms of costs (and lifestyle).
I hate how governments do that. It's as if they're interested in not letting people know how much things cost to run, and making them feel that they're getting a lot for their (seemingly) low taxes.
This sounds like a good idea at first, but I'm sure you would run into issues of large disparity in the importance of each vote. Not that it doesn't happen right now, but this would exacerbate the problem by introducing a force granularity level (beside the state level).