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You speak like if you were any kind of authority. Nowadays anybody can be an Android developer, India is full of teenagers doing it.
I was a teenager doing Android Development in 2010. What difference does age make in this discussion?
Blockada has a nice Hostlog view to show requests in real time. Have caught websites I thought I had blocked this way. Wish it would tell me which App made the request.
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I was a teenager doing Android Development in 2010. What difference does age make in this discussion?
What I mean is that it's not a valid argument to establish the authority of the speaker.
I'm not taking their post completely on faith. It matches up with my previous experiences, including the article we're currently talking about and related articles I've read.
Is there a specific issue you have with their point, or did you just want to point out that they're not special for making apps?
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If you are fine with sending the camera stream to Google for analysis...
If not you wouldn't use a Pixel.
Better to be screwed by google, than to be screwed by both google and samsung/whatever.
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http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
TL;DR
"Saying that an author lacks the authority to write about a topic is a variant of ad hominem—and a particularly useless sort, because good ideas often come from outsiders. The question is whether the author is correct or not. If his lack of authority caused him to make mistakes, point those out. And if it didn't, it's not a problem."
But in general, Paul Graham isn't saying anything that is novel to this site's comment guidelines:
Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.
Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
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Older Mediatek platform phones let you read/write the entire internal flash (eMMC) directly, which is AFAIK the full extent of persistent writable storage. That is the true "factory reset", as it's how they were first loaded with software in production. I believe the more widely-known and generic Android reset is merely restoring from an internal partition.
AFAIK since android uses read-only system partition, there's nothing to restore. It just wipes the data partition and that's it.
If you look at the storage requirements of an app, you can see it's split between "App Size" and "User Data" (along with a cache).
AFAIK there's no way to actually backup/move the user data without rooting. Now I can see why Google might not want to store all that (and why I might not want them to) - but it's somewhat silly not to have any options.
> Listing the apps installed on my phone should give me the option to sort them by “Latest installed”. I am pretty sure that if I had had this option and I had seen a QR Code Scanner installed just a few days ago, it would have immediately grabbed my attention. As it is, the way Android lists the installed apps is pretty useless for this purpose. I was able to find it pretty quickly by going to: Settings > Battery >…
That shows you the most recent app used, but he needed the most recent one installed.
The lesson here is not "oh look the author is stupid because they installed a shitty QR scanner app and didn't notice the obvious mistake". The lesson should be; even very experienced technical people fall onto the malware trap. We all have day-to-day problems, unexpected stuff happening, in short life doing its thing. We'll inevitably end up being victims of a scam that happens just the worst possible day of them al…