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There is no canonical bad experience. The best estimate is the ratio of good to bad reviews, and most will be from a single experience, unless people suddenly start volunteering to visit restaurants that treated them poorly the first time...

With so many good restaurants, why would I go back to one where I had a bad time?

How do you bcrypt at an appropriate difficulty client-side? Consider that it probably needs to work on a mid-range Android phone from years ago.

> What do you do if you're lying in bed watching a movie when you remember that you need to schedule a meeting with X for tomorrow at 11am?

Carry your work phone to bed and use the calendar app.

> If someone made an easy to use alternative with OSX

Psystar did.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psystar_Corporation#Legal_issu...

What's the battery life like on Linux laptops these days?

If they read 3 articles a day, they've decided that quality journalism across multiple publishers should cost 50 cents a year.

If they are always overruled when they want to try something new, they will also lose confidence and motivation.

Here's the quote (possibly edited by The Verge):

> Even if they’re clicking our competitors button when they’re logging into sites, that’s still way better than typing in a bespoke username and password, or more commonly, a recycled username and password.

There's a site like this. Have you heard of Yelp?

3 anecdotes and a single untargeted statistic isn't much. Reuters should dig deeper.

I don't understand the criticisms in this thread. Why would anyone trust Mozilla's code but not their preferences configurations?

If it failed open, anyone unlucky enough to update their extensions could end up having a malicious version installed. It also would have taken longer to notice.

> They continue to drop in value day by day as they’re traded openly.

Pinterest has been going up in value day by day.

Wow, their interview question (in the hands of the wrong interviewee) could have caused a data breach.

Which production-ready options do you see for frontends without JavaScript?

Sounds like a failure of the type system...

Intrusiveness depends on the ad's relevance and value:

An ad for a product you don't care about is disruptive.

A 30% off promotion for a rarely discounted product you've wanted for a few years is amazing.

Is there a market to sell these to funded startups or do most of them cut corners here too?

Many companies are happy to pay for IntelliJ, Docker, and GitHub. I think it depends on which tools you choose to build.

If you need a kidney, would you count on them leaving a voicemail?

Does Chrome or Apple saved passwords work as a workflow for you? I find Apple's integration quite nice.

> Why can't they offer it for $8/month?

After a price drop...

> Why can't they offer it for $5/month?

Another price drop.

> Subscriptions are expensive. Why can't they offer a free plan?

A free plan is released, with ads.

> Why can't they offer it for free with less ads?

Ad density is reduced.

> Why can't they offer it for free with no ads?

> I don't want all these songs. Why can't they have an a la carte option?

A la carte option has existed for a while, but company gives it a marketing rebranding.

> These a la carte songs are kind of pricey. Why can't they be $0.80?

> $0.50?

> They're just bits. Bits want to be free.

> Why are you ignoring your loyal potential customers? I'm going to stop pirating your product and tell everyone I know to avoid you.

What would (1) look like?

I was assuming laptop for some reason. For desktops this makes sense.

Saving like that on computers is a difference of about $60/month. I think most developers reading Hacker News can add more value than that with the faster hardware.

Google helped me grow as an engineer. I learned how to:

- design software that can be incrementally rolled out

- design software interfaces before building

- build secure, internationalized, and accessible web frontends

- write pull requests that are easy to understand

- work across multiple teams and codebases

It's a really good opportunity, congratulations on your offer!

You're now the dictator of the industry. Which 50% needs to go and how do you identify them? How do you prevent your metrics from being gamed?

> my attention, a resource that I consider very valuable

How much would you pay for a browser?

I agree that "show more" is not the right form of interaction for a documentation page. Have you considered measuring engagement in other ways (tracking search results, link clicks, anchor clicks, short "is this page helpful" inline surveys, etc.)?