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Doesn’t Google just ignore paid users too?

You’re falling into the trap Europeans normally do that imagine that companies want to do the right thing. You want something to stop? Ban it.

American companies are adversarial actors who always do the least effort to continue on.

Software gets worse as it gets bigger. The classic measure is 15 or so bugs per 1000 lines of code. Most software companies have career ladders that reward building broad abstractions that affect most of the product / company. So people add layers of complicated middleware to have “broader impact”.

So over time, you aren’t just subject to bugs in feature A. You’re subject to bugs in feature A and library B and framework C and injected monitoring D and so on for the same user action.

Is this what passes for university these days? Just random personal beliefs without any sourcing? Lol

I use Adblock and pirate things, but I’m under no illusions about what that represents. You don’t have to modify your credit card to pay it in advance.

What counts as “obligation” to you? You can also generally walk out of a restaurant without paying.

I’d file that under pirating. I don’t judge folks for pirating, but I think it’s a little rich to be like “why does anyone pay for things they could steal”.

Do you just pirate all video? Or endure YT ads?

Just think of this moment as a great interview question during the next upcycle

Apple. They blocked an email client for adult content. Y'know, the place where you have a spam folder full of unsolicited offers of sex and drugs. sigh

Lol by this reasoning any possible moderation decision is consistent with freedom of speech. Dude came in guns blazing on team “any legal speech will be allowed” and is at this point banning all references to perfectly legal competitors.

We’re paying a ton of money in America and have worse results.

I thought the principle of DevOps was “the person who wrote a service should be required to perform the ops duties for it” to force people to learn why these behaviors are necessary.

Lol if you don’t know these things, your company has Ops, not DevOps

It’s an automated account that only makes one type of post lol

Google has a chatgpt-like model internally. The moment someone figures out the UI paradigm they’ll just copy it.

Lol of course they could. Netflix does. But like you said market rate includes the cost of interviewing, which is usually enough to deter 80% of folks so why would you overpay.

In theory that’s what Wander is up to. https://www.wander.com/

Brands help consumers make reliable purchasing decisions. Amazon fucks this up all the time by trying to homogenize products and force you to discriminate on ad placement and price. Look at any category of consumer packaged goods on Amazon. If I search for “stroller rain cover” I get back 1000 identical products with identical fake ratings. Making a choice is hard, and if I make the wrong one my baby gets lead poisoning.

Branding lets me use my past experiences to make that decision process easier. I don’t want to have to look at technical specs and try to SAT solve for the optimal choice in my head or play secret hitler and read 1000s of ratings.

Props to them for taking risks and making the hard call to pivot. We need people building useful tools.

That’s not how it works. Meta (like many large employers) issues refresh stock grants yearly. So everyone’s current comp is down.

Until recently the 12.9 was the only portable TV with good HDR and strong battery life.

Are you reading digitally or on paper? I’ve found that I’m much better at reading deeply on paper. Even e-ink seems less effective.

Combo of Apple’s insistence on Metal and biz model mismatch. You can either make gambling for children or have apple throw pity money at you. No one is buying $70 apps.

If it’s truly a choice, I have no objection. Outside of the tech industry it doesn’t seem to be.

> And all this is before you add in the further complication of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) that more employees are using — you’re trying to deploy Zero Trust on a device that doesn’t belong to the company.

Yeah, this is a pretty impressive technical solution to a problem created by the company. “We’re too cheap to buy equipment for our employees to use, so instead we need to spy on all of your personal data.”

What was the topic?

> It's unfortunate that they also have their own advertising agenda so any steps they take will always be scrutinzed as being anti competitive

Right? If they actually cared about privacy they’d forego revenue for it. Sadly it’s just for marketing.

Eh, if they're going to do that I'd rather they just force developers to use normal Safari for external links. It'd be easier to verify and I'd get to finally keep my cookies and not log in to news sites for the 100th time.

> I am literally forced to use this app at work...

Exactly. You are not the customer. Your IT admin is. And they have to convince your security team while managing spend. Why wouldn’t they pick the “free” option that your company has already approved for deployment?

Then don’t use it?