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It's. Lazy. Programming.
Yes. And folks have been trained to think that everyone not coding for en-us is double lazy.
However, blaming the user for doing what makes sense is not helpful.
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I think that for some time now Google's services are mostly crap. Few people are willing to pay for quality web services which leads us on this cyclical path of new more friendly services coming out followed by monetization or shutdown of said services. These changes never benefit the users (i.e. product) of the services. I think an example of this outside of Google is imgur.com. It started out as an extremely lightw…
Google puts out free or cheap services and devices because they're trying to draw users to their platform, which gathers metrics about usage. These feed into the services, but they also feed in to Google's need to be a better advertising platform. Although we think of Google as the company behind the eponymous search engine and Android phone, it's actually an advertiser. I'm not sure if it's still in the 95% range, b…
Don't forget about Play Store revenue. They're making money hand over fist by taking a cut of app sales, which is enough to financially justify Android. Oh, and the media sales too, which don't even require Android.
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well .. that bugfix have associated a few risks.. 1. let's suppose a user have a password: (note the space) " 123" 2. also you store the password using some hashing function, which prevents you from knowing the password. 3. two weeks later the bugfix goes live, the user cannot longer access the service. Also, you cannot easily estimate how much benefit/annoyed users your _fix_ will endup having .. which makes it a hi…
This is going to sound a bit horrible... Fixing the space issue will help more people than it hurts. People that have spaces at the beginning or end of their password can simply reset their password or call customer support. Users forget or mistype passwords all the time.
I think that for some time now Google's services are mostly crap. For example when I upgraded KitKat to Lollipop they fucked up my calendar. No month view? Seriously? Plus it always vibrates since silent mode is gone. I found this out the hard way. My phone is always in silent mode and after the upgrade one day it just vibrated off the desk and the display broke. I should sue Google for this. Anyway back to your issu…
i dont have kitkat yet, but are you serious? what good is a calendar without a month view?
I think that for some time now Google's services are mostly crap. For example when I upgraded KitKat to Lollipop they fucked up my calendar. No month view? Seriously? Plus it always vibrates since silent mode is gone. I found this out the hard way. My phone is always in silent mode and after the upgrade one day it just vibrated off the desk and the display broke. I should sue Google for this. Anyway back to your issu…
Lollipop is just a bad, bad update. Tap the square button and close two apps at the same time. If you did everything right, now your phone says that Android UI failed. This has been going on since day one. Day one. Which was sometime in November. Their Hangouts app sucks. I don't know how people in the U.S. use it, but here people use it only for SMS, and they crammed everything in that so it's hard to do the main fu…
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The definition of Agile is the Agile Manifesto. It doesn't change.
It's sort of like religion. The definition of Christianity is the Bible. The amount of Christian religions that actually care about what's written in the Book is minuscule.
- why believe in god? because the bible said so..
- why believe in the bible? because god wrote it..
The fact that this post is currently #3 on HN homepage and has ~100 comments in support is a strong indication to limit investment of time and effort in HN as a source of knowledge and HN community as a source of rational discussion. EDIT: 50 -> 100 comments. That rule about avoiding gratuitous negativity is obviously not working.
Lighten up, everyone likes a good rant once in a while (especially as good as this one). Not every link on HN can be to a white paper or similar.
The fact that this post is currently #3 on HN homepage and has ~100 comments in support is a strong indication to limit investment of time and effort in HN as a source of knowledge and HN community as a source of rational discussion. EDIT: 50 -> 100 comments. That rule about avoiding gratuitous negativity is obviously not working.
Or maybe, just maybe, it suggests that the author is right and said out loud what many of us secretly think.
If that is so I don't want to be a member of a toxic community that lacks meaningful perspective on the evolutionary, path-dependent origins of problems with "web technologies".
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It doesn't work with SaaS startups. The goal of a typical startup is to get bought. The so-called "exit". Which basically means they don't give a crap about their users. They'll lie to you on their front page that the want to create an awesome service, but it's all a trick to get you to sign up - because the more people sign up, the bigger growth they have, and the better chance of getting bought. And when the buy of…
It might not hold always, but it is a very good rule-of-thumb. Normally, a company (either startup or not) cares most for its clients, because they are the ones that pay its topline and ultimately its workers' salaries. Other parties (users, providers, government, whatever) also have power and can also influence the company's behaviour, but clients normally have it easiest. That does not always hold, as I said. Anoth…
I still don't buy that rule though. Let me illustrate it by a graph:
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