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Will take this opportunity to point out the following: - Almost all sites worth reading where an RSS feed makes sense... has an RSS feed - The Old Reader is basically Google Reader. No weird design stuff going on. on iOS Reeder is a good app to hook it up to. If you missed RSS, it's not cuz it went away. It's there waiting for you
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Google Reader was a lot better than an RSS client. I went away on vacation once and left Thunderbird running to capture RSS feeds. When I came back, my computer had shut down. That didn't happen with Reader.
You are comparing a managed service running on a server to a locally running app on your computer that somehow malfunctioned? That's a very apples to oranges comparison. If you want to compare that you'd have to compare it to a service also running on a server like Feedly, Miniflux or any other managed service.
No, that was you. Take a look at your comment:
>>> Which part of Google Reader was the one that no other tools came close to?
>>> There's almost as many good and different RSS reader clients as Todo list apps
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I haven't heard the phrase "more wood behind fewer arrows" before, but I am pretty sure that never in the history of the evolution of projectiles was that tradeoff ever taken in that direction.
F = M * A Raise the mass of the arrow and it'll hit with more force. There's a sweet spot for piercing heavy cloth armor. If the arrows are too light, they'll bounce right off.
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I'm usually one for blaming the big company and arcane processes, but this squarely your fault. You missed emails asking for verification, and had your account suspended because of it. This will happen to you again on AWS or any other provider. Stadia was disappointing, but they refunded everyone everything they had ever spent. Short of keeping the service running for free forever I'm not sure what more they could ha…
"You missed emails asking for verification" Did you saw the title of the email? "Important Information for your Account". It reads more like an informational email. How many important emails you've received this week? Could've been worded "[Action Required]", "Account Suspension Notice" etc. And they didn't even drop a notification when my servers were shutdown. "This will happen to you again on AWS or any other prov…
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Remember Stadia? Google doesn't give a fuck about their users or customers. I would rather trust my money with Bernie Madoff than Google. I'm a 4 yrs customer with Google Cloud and they shutdown all my servers last friday. 3 days now and they still haven't gave me a resolution. Context: https://www.onvoard.com/blog/our-production-servers-was-susp...
I'm usually one for blaming the big company and arcane processes, but this squarely your fault. You missed emails asking for verification, and had your account suspended because of it. This will happen to you again on AWS or any other provider. Stadia was disappointing, but they refunded everyone everything they had ever spent. Short of keeping the service running for free forever I'm not sure what more they could ha…
The main thing is how they "react" to help a customer get things back to normal when something goes wrong.
Verdict: Never ever trust Google Clown Platform with your business
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You are comparing a managed service running on a server to a locally running app on your computer that somehow malfunctioned? That's a very apples to oranges comparison. If you want to compare that you'd have to compare it to a service also running on a server like Feedly, Miniflux or any other managed service.
> You are comparing a managed service running on a server to a locally running app on your computer? No, that was you. Take a look at your comment: >>> Which part of Google Reader was the one that no other tools came close to? >>> There's almost as many good and different RSS reader clients as Todo list apps
In my case I'm using Reeder and it's just talking to the Miniflux server. So the server keeps all feeds refreshed all the time and the client app just fetches them from there. Just like Email being fetched from the server over IMAP.
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Despite the prior “more wood behind fewer arrows” announcement, it might be the first time Google killed something that was popular with Googlers. I think it was an “Elves leave Middle-Earth” moment for my friends on campus. Memegen was full of “we can launch (ultradoomed project) but can’t keep Reader alive?” snark, less good-natured than usual. I’ve heard it blamed on Vic and G+, actual security issues from scrapin…
I haven't heard the phrase "more wood behind fewer arrows" before, but I am pretty sure that never in the history of the evolution of projectiles was that tradeoff ever taken in that direction.
Is there a proven evolutionary advantage to birds rising earlier in order to catch the worm?
The meaning is clear as you got it, despite you never hearing it before, so it undeniably works.
It's a saying. I've heard it so it could be a britishism?
I imagine there's a small but significant overlap between the people who are still annoyed about the Google Reader Shutdown a full decade later and the people who are today making large scale cloud computing purchasing decisions. I doubt Google took into account how damaging for their reputation is would be to shut down a product that had an audience that was small but extremely online and influential, both at the ti…
Not everything is numbers and loss centers. Don't lie and do the right thing. Treat people with honesty and respect. It's not that difficult.
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Despite the prior “more wood behind fewer arrows” announcement, it might be the first time Google killed something that was popular with Googlers. I think it was an “Elves leave Middle-Earth” moment for my friends on campus. Memegen was full of “we can launch (ultradoomed project) but can’t keep Reader alive?” snark, less good-natured than usual. I’ve heard it blamed on Vic and G+, actual security issues from scrapin…
I haven't heard the phrase "more wood behind fewer arrows" before, but I am pretty sure that never in the history of the evolution of projectiles was that tradeoff ever taken in that direction.
In videos I've seen of tests of arrows against armour the shafts usually break, so that the weight of the shaft does not fully go into the penetration.
Stiffer shorter arrows have, therefore, a better chance. Thus the men fighting heavily armoured troops may choose crossbows, which with their long reloading time would literally trade number of shots for heavier shots.
I literally stopped reading literature the same way after that. With GReader I used to consume the ToC of 15-30 journals without missing a single abstract. I just gave up on reading that way after that, no other tool came close.