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In the safety perspective, dormant accounts might be prone for exposed passwords (reused passwords, exposed via other services etc.) and easily an attacker can hijack your account. I had similar experience where a dormant apple account was hijacked and unable to recover. Apple also follows similar philosophies to sign in from a real device for recovery. Have you tried recovery options?

As described in the article, I believe it's more on the advertising side than beating the monopoly for a great cause.

I always had given Firefox another choice, but throws me out of websites, unoptimized websites and font issues etc. stopping me from using it. I really wish Firefox tighten up their game.

The privacy aspect of Firefox is great. The containers also a great thing and help us to a great extend. Beyond the privacy aspects, I really wish if Firefox pays attention to little things that can make the life of a user a bit better.

- The Firefox sign in process is considerably improved, with a link based sign in with email. The fact is that you will not be singed in to email on the first time usage. So you are behind a wall to start browsing and the cognitive load not to leave the tab before completing setup. This experience with Google Chrome is far far better, as it’s one time setup using your Google Account . Even if you discount the google’s ownership and single account sign in, there are considerable improvements to be made in the onboarding process

- The Pocket integration is substandard to the Pocket extension.

- The Top sites and highlights are too big for my aesthetics. It could be little cuter in the way it appears.

- Moving a video to full screen makes your blank for a second and not a smooth transition as in Chrome or Safari

- Lack of certain platform specific integrations such as Look Up on macOS to get the dictionary triggered by selected word. It works across all the other browsers well. On Firefox, I need to make a google search.

- The tab bar is ugly and has lot of blank spaces

- No default support for dark mode which works beautifully well on Chrome and Safari in a very early stage. More than a feature, the slowness in picking up platform specific features.

- The containers concept is really great but not for most of the general users to make use of it. It’s still a bit geeky in nature.

- I’ve to go with standard privacy settings to make my sites work including google. Making the privacy settings strong doesn’t help much and get signed out of the sessions very frequently. - I use an app called Magnet on Mac to snap my windows easily by dragging to corners. The snapping works great on all browsers by dragging a tab to one of the corners. But Firefox just releases the tab once it’s pulled out from the current window. We need to drag again this to the corners. More than a third-party workflow, it’s about how these windows are defined and behaves in a standard way

I was skeptical about going for subscription. I started when I travelled abroad where I followed Basecamp’s travel tips (handbook). Things have changed when I started using 1Password 7 and 1Password X. The apps is very polished and pretty handy. I use Linux a lot these days and 1PX and CLI is very helpful. Never regretted the cloud update upgrade.

iOS projects with Fastlane automatically looks for vulnerabilities with the gems installed.

I have been a Paw user for 3-4 years now it's super fast and the team delivers new changes without leaving behind the existing user base.

Insomnia is good and better option than Postman and a free alternative. The OSS looks promising as well. It doesn't really matter if it's packed as a web app but electron based apps have decent quality across platforms.

I have homegrown aliases like 'tags' 'rdel' (git push origin --delete) 'ldel' (git branch --delete) and many more combined with Zsh's (Oh my Zsh)'s several aliases (e.g ggpull, glog, gp, gc) etc.

I also find "thefuck" is interesting but I love to control my fate :) (https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck)

I remember reading the story of an ex-twitter employee who was not very happy about innovating with "140 characters". People learned the art of crafting content with 140 character. Many of the reply-to-self and 1/2 tweets are going to be history. So does people write on the notes, screenshot and share. I believe it's more about building a better graph with more content intake, than giving voice to express. Twitter is always a tool polished by its users and several inventions made due to constraints. Let's see how people are going to take the 2x tweets.

When we say 2%, are we talking about 200 million users world wide and 15 million in the U.S alone? It's worth putting an engineer to fix the codec, IMO. I think it's more of a strategic move over a technical choice in the view of Safari new ad control.

What press always talks about are the problematic part. In fact these are true too in many cases. Apple has larger goods in it, inherently part of every product. These are getting polished on upgrades and everything else becomes secondary.

Quip is a great product. I don't use it these days. I like everything about Quip except it's unconventional formatting shortcuts. I have tried various markdown based tools both mobile and web and finally I found Paper is appealing and strikes a balance between visual appeal, share and collaboration. Paper also syncs very small chunks of text (sentence level?) and it reduce conflicts a lot. Though I have used multiple tools for collaboration, the current version of Paper and Google Docs tops the list with my team.

Initially when Paper was launched I tried and left the product quickly. I was using Quip a lot for my work as it's more developer friendly and easy to manage.

I use Paper more and more these days with my team though we are into Google for Work. Google Docs is a tough cookie and an office replica.

Those who are in to markdown, they would hardly go back to anything else for formatting. The only catch with markdown is about creating tables Dropbox paper has nailed it pretty well.

The product is more pleasing for eyes with better typography, cleaner design and user experience. There's no friction to write. The people who collaborates are more productive easily review and feedback. Also it's more developer friendly with quick emojis with ":" shortcut.

Finally nothing beats the simplicity of Dropbox Sharing.

The product has lot more opportunities to grow. Expecting more integrations in the coming days.

It's good to see a powerful server platform available at $19.99. Where do I install this? Mac Pro was last updated Dec, 2013. Existing customers would find this cool, but it's high time to build professional hardware with truly professional standard.

This is absolutely a sad news and points towards the sad state of Mac for pro users. The investment on Apple desktop hardware is super expensive and often we end up with under powered hardware but macOS works well. These are for a regular user but pro users wants more. I recollect Oculus comment on why they stay away from Mac. There are lot of consolidations happens to make the devices seamlessly getting connected but unlike iOS walled ecosystem, Mac has a large third party developers heavily invested on the platform. They're sadly left here without anything!

Should I go for a fresh install, considering structural changes?

Should I go for a clean install, considering the structural changes?

Linode is a cost effective solution comparing to AWS. But the security and DDoS issues could raise eyebrows and bring confidence issues with customers. This has happened even after they posted about enhanced DDoS mitigation strategies like procuring more bandwidth etc.

If you look at the history of Linode discussions under HN, most of them were related to DDoS attacks and service downtimes. https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=linode.com

I hope they will recover soon and make the service stable.

Plus will have lot of potential if they move away to make it as n identity service and a social network. They should invest more to create something similar to Google Now to streamline Google products experience.

In Malayalam we say "Vallabhanu Pullum Ayudham" - translates to "For a wiseman, even grass is a weapon". Loved the creativity and the technical perfection behind this!

Recently I am in to SourceCode Pro. Nothing great but just for a change.

BitSansVera, Inconsolata and Consolas are my other favorites.

He's a fat boy. Walks really slow :) I expected WebDirectX!

Are you working with WhatsApp for this? Or reverse engineer?

The excuses are on an on. I admire Github guys. They give a super cool impression to the other outside world and they're doing a great job. But the recent outages and the problems are giving high attention to Github. It's giving negative sign for the people who are interested go for Github way of hosting code. Either their own premise or on github. giving detailed analysis is a good tech thing... it fires developers heart and we are still going admire what they did to resolve this issue but definitely this isn't a good sign for github.

It's good that you're not satisified with what you've now and reailze some of the important things missed out. Everyone feels it in the same way at any point of time in their life.

This question reminds me of another interesting post I came across Quora. Must be worth reading - https://www.quora.com/Life-Advice/I-am-in-my-late-20s-and-fe...

mainnav element is unnecessarily wide. Also too much of spacing between the elements in top-bar.

The margin to "About" in the mainnav looks a bit odd. Is it required?

The contents of the mainnav is oddly placed. I feel it can be organized from left to right in terms of usability to users. Like Downloads and Documentation first rest should follow in the respective orders.

The latest news can be placed somewhere in the first page itself for better visibility. Users has to scroll down now to see it.

This is a great news! I love you guys for this...

iOS isn't MacOS but Windows 8 is just another Windows! The inefficient disk space usage is quite infamous with Windows. They managed to fit the physical memory by memory combining but failed how to manage the files on storage.

Don't be surprised it's Microsoft!

They did physical memory compression but forgot how to optimize it well on the dedicated storage.

Yet another one. It depends on hardware manufactures how they're going to use and market the products. Though android is open source, it's heavily driven by Google. It's hard to leave their clutches.

Excellent. Although his dad is a wise chap, that ended up in a beautiful story. Excellent LEGO because all these naughty innocent cute kids are your assets...