Had a friend lose hundreds of posts after he complained on Twitter about the company's annoying popup. They deleted his account within hours.
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That is similar to the stupid IANAL preface people insist on including. Quite frankly you can literally make a post stating you are a lawyer and the following is legal advice and there would not be a single repercussion.
That's not why people say "I am not a lawyer."
why do they?
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That's not why people say "I am not a lawyer."
why do they?
Usually, it means "I believe this is accurate, but you should check with an expert before doing anything that might have consequences."
It's not about covering your ass, it's about trying to be a decent guy and not accidentally mislead people.
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It's the same as those who believe that if you ask the person selling you weed if they are police, they are under obligation by law to tell you so. They are not.
How about "I will sell it to you only if your life depends on it"?
What would that accomplish?
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If one ever makes the mistake of giving Medium a valid email address, one's inbox will be 78% Medium article recommendations until one gets quite aggressive with the spam flags.
It's quite easy to disable the daily or weekly digests if you don't want them. Not saying I think medium is perfect, but there are better ways to approach the problem then training a spam filter.
If I've tried to turn if off once, and either it hasn't worked or it later reverted, I'm not wasting any more time on it. I can press the spam button without even leaving my mail client. I don't work for these spammers, and I don't owe them anything.
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That feature has serious bugs on iOS, and that's probably why it's not the default as Apple can't get it to be stable. Don't ask him to add it, ask Apple, it's their fault. It's not a production feature. And since it's Apple, you can't just use another browser as it's all the same crap on iOS. You're stuck with something worse than the 2019 equivalent of IE6. iOS is a joke when it comes to web browsing.
Same flag is required for Chrome.
No, it's not, it's the default in Chrome.
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That feature has serious bugs on iOS, and that's probably why it's not the default as Apple can't get it to be stable. Don't ask him to add it, ask Apple, it's their fault. It's not a production feature. And since it's Apple, you can't just use another browser as it's all the same crap on iOS. You're stuck with something worse than the 2019 equivalent of IE6. iOS is a joke when it comes to web browsing.
It's probably not the the default because it disables the scrolling behavior used everywhere else on iOS. The "Safari is IE6" meme was briefly valid a couple years ago, but they've done a much better job more recently. (Check out the release notes for the technical previews.)
The default isn't touch(which is momentum scrolling), so it's by default NOT like it's most places in iOS.
Technical previews is for Safari on Mac OS, and that browser works quite well. It's safari on iOS that is a huge shitshow.
Its more unstable than ever before and far behind everyone else on features, and it's freakishly unconsistent. Heck, Apple can't make up their mind if they are having a click delay or not, so now they have it only for standalone.
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>It's not exactly rocket science. YouTube is convenient, but what it is doing from a technical standpoint isn't that difficult to do on your own server. You've left several comments in this thread talking down to people as if they're ignorant about how to write an HTML5 tag on their own web server. I wasn't the one that downvoted your comment but for some reason, a lot of technical folks like you misunderstand Youtub…
Do you have a trustworthy source for MS "switching" to Youtube? Their self hosted videos of Build 2019 [0] is what they directed me to when i was searching for sessions. I later found Youtube versions through some other source as well (probably a link on HN), but this seems more of a PR move ( "we don't do evil walled garden anymore" ) to me than a technical necessity. I do agree with your core message, that video is…
https://www.YouTube.com/MicrosoftDeveloper has all the Build 2019 videos (and 2018 as well.
We still self-host for countries where YouTube isn’t available (or if something goes down), but for Channel 9 anyway[1], we’ve moved to YouTube because that’s where the audience is and it makes sense to be where our users expect us to be.
This isn’t about video being hard; our internal player is pretty good and works everywhere (which is not true for YouTube). This was a conscientious decision to go to where our audience is. We still have a self-hosted backup for each video, complete with captions in a variety of languages. But we’d heard repeatedly that our users preferred using YouTube to discover content and not being there didn’t make sense. This isn’t true for all Microsoft content, but for our developer focused videos, we want to be where the community is.
[1]: https://channel9.msdn.com
(I was directly involved in the decision to move our developer content to YouTube.)
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>It's not exactly rocket science. YouTube is convenient, but what it is doing from a technical standpoint isn't that difficult to do on your own server. You've left several comments in this thread talking down to people as if they're ignorant about how to write an HTML5 tag on their own web server. I wasn't the one that downvoted your comment but for some reason, a lot of technical folks like you misunderstand Youtub…
Do you have a trustworthy source for MS "switching" to Youtube? Their self hosted videos of Build 2019 [0] is what they directed me to when i was searching for sessions. I later found Youtube versions through some other source as well (probably a link on HN), but this seems more of a PR move ( "we don't do evil walled garden anymore" ) to me than a technical necessity. I do agree with your core message, that video is…
>But saying video is to hard even for Microsoft seems a bit of a stretch.
I actually said the opposite of that. I emphasized that MS had both the technical skill and money to host their own videos and yet they still moved channel9 videos to Youtube. I wanted readers to pause and think about why they did that.
By using Microsoft as an example, I was hoping to break the mental loop of always referring back to "technical issues" as the reason creators choosing Youtube. It's not technical.