yousir

Time to diffuse this.

> I respect that you have a position here

Thank you. I appreciate you saying so.

> but frankly its a silly way

Yes, I was being silly. But only because if you bundle South America and North America and then go on to call the south of that super-continent "Florida", well, a globalist such as myself has to object.

>America refers to The United States of America.

Well, that might be true for people living in the US but, and I might be going out on a limb here, it might not be so true for others.

As you are fully aware you are well within your rights to not approve. But if you call the whole continent America then surely its very southern part will not be Florida.

> South of south America, more or less equivalent to Florida

Are you calling North America "America", and then go on and call Florida "south America", as if there isn't such a place in the world as South America? I do not approve of this North America-centric view of the world at all.

Your ideas are intriguing to me and I need someone/something to reinforce the feeling I got from reading them.

A jet fighter is a computer with wings. I don't think we should expect pilots to be computer literate the same way a software programmer needs to be.

> but it could be fixed if the market demanded it.

The market (my mom for example) is unaware there is a fix.

> there is no pressure from anyone to maintain backward compatibility.

You and your manager are both part of the problem. And the phone makers, because they invented a market place for shit companies that wants to ship unfinished software and push daily updates to their users to eventually reach a point where their API is stable.

There used to exist software developers who took great pride in (API) backwards compatibility. These days, where are they? My guess is they have been overrun by the a huge crowd of new people who have never maintained a backwards compatible API and who don't know how to. Management love fast-moving people who say "yes sir" and "not a problem sir".

I've been looking for an approachable read on waves and so I like this very much. A nice touch is the retro visitor counter at the bottom of the page. Made me nostalgic. When I got to it it said ~1600. I reloaded the page and it was almost at 3000. The power of HN I guess.

> you can set "Document user activation" in chrome://flags/#autoplay-policy & relaunch.

That won't fix the problem of auto-playing video on CNN or other sites that are not YT. Trying to read news from CNN is still a matter of waiting for the page to load, then wait for the video to load and start playing, then click on the pause button, and voila you can read in peace.

Creating an app and calling it "protection" when it is in fact spying on you to give FB a glimpse of how you use the internet, this is something you are defending?

And also, did you just call the gizmodo article "fake news"? It this [0] then also fake news to you? Seems to me you are getting your true news fix from a news feed somewhere.

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebooks-onavo-gives-social-me...