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From the post, I wasn't sure if you knew, but JS also has regular default parameters if that's all you want.

I'm guessing you haven't traveled much. American is a virtually ubiquitous term to describe someone from the United States worldwide, no matter which language you're speaking. Countries which have a problem with calling yourself American are a minority, and even then it's usually a small minority of the younger generation.

Read the Arstechnica article linked in the parent. It was not pitch-black. The pitch-black video was PR.

I'd also suggest that another factor is that the author assumed that his reader base would have basic statistical knowledge, which I'd suggest would not be true even among software engineers. Just erase any reference to distributions or averages and you'll see what most people see. This just adds to your points.

I received zero notifications. I'm assuming they selectively decided to notify users based on how recently they had logged in perhaps, meaning that there may be a large amount of cumulative bitcoin whose owners were not notified. I only heard of anything from being on Hacker News.

It's interesting that's the connotation that was brought to mind for you. In the context of this thread, Google, Facebook, and Amazon are the definition of enterprise infrastructure. Google laid the ground work for much of the enterprise big data infrastructure. They've also developed buzz worthy software such as kubernetes, and spanner. Facebook and Google both are known for big data machine learning. Amazon brought the cloud to the mainstream, and offer many popular big data services through AWS. In general, there are few companies in the world who operate near the scale, with the reliability of these giants.

I think you're conflating enterprise with old and stuffy, and non-enterprise with bright colors and cutting edge technology. When I think of enterprise I think of software that needs to operate at scale with strict requirements on performance and uptime.

Apple loses a lot of the talent to other companies, and has never really been known having strong technology, so I understand that.

I somewhat agree, however in I don't think the parent should have been down voted. If someone doesn't regularly follow tech news then it is completely reasonable for them to have never heard of any of these incidents. In addition, the original comment was ambiguously worded as to whether he/she was talking about Netflix or acts done at other companies.

Same here. It's been a bit disappointing. I've been considering canceling my Prime membership, especially since I don't use any of the other Prime perks. But I'll wait this year out to see if it improves.

In the context of students, Prime Student is 50% off. It appears to still be that way. This built up a lot of loyalty for early Prime members who were students. That loyalty appears to have continued for close to a decade for many people.

Remember that way back when it was business as usual to pay $10+ for shipping if you bought online. This meant that if you bought online more than 4 times throughout the course of an entire year, you were ahead. It also allowed you to buy at any time without worrying about the minimum purchase total, increasing buying frequency.

For me, I don't care if Amazon has my shopping preferences. I don't see a list of every item I've ever bought or viewed as particularly sensitive information. If you use Chrome, Google search, Gmail, and maybe have an Android phone, then Google knows everything. Private conversations, every service you have ever used (assuming email is used for login), every thing you've ever searched for, every url you've ever viewed in your browser, basically everything of everything.