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Google Pixel 3 has serious customer service quality issues.

The problem here isn't the call quality, it is the customer service. This is typical Google. They might have many boffins working for them but they do not put the customer first and they don't appreciate the benefits of a customer first attitude. For a product that costs $$$ they should do it right, if they promptly dealt with customer service problems with real staff instead of outsourced 'ninjas' then they could turn customers with problems into their greatest brand ambassadors. In so doing they could convert a small army of people who prefer Apple but have ended up giving Android a spin into brand converts, spreading by word of mouth 'how much better Google is' and converting die-hard Apple fans into Google fans. But Google just don't get it. It is also cheaper to do customer service correctly than it is to have people left out there exasperated with the service they get.

Right now my sister is having trouble with their landline phone. They are cussing their broadband provider and blaming them. They have a retro 1980's phone that has 'always worked' but, after a house move and with a small child around, with unknown wiring in the new house it has to be the broadband provider that are to blame. Chances are that there is something wrong with the phone or the cabling inside their house. They are not willing to try a different handset (one with neat features like caller ID and no cord), they want to persist with the retro phone because it looks good, like the ones they grey up with. Sweet. They too have gone online and decided that the broadband provider are useless and that their services are off the mark. Yet there are many people with the same provider who have phones that work remarkably well, but, they have decided otherwise. Again, as per the Google problem here, there is a perceptual issue due to the poor quality of customer service.

Getting back to the Pixel 3, I had a phone with some stupid wallet style phone case that made it so I couldn't be heard on the phone. I was able to work out that it was the case and not the phone (or an app) but I too was grumbling about the quality of the phone before I realised that the problem was quite simple and had everything to do with the case and not the phone.

I wouldn't be surprised if the Pixel 3 problems were due to obvious but not so obvious problems in the majority of the cases and not some fundamental quality problem with the device. However, Google don't pick up the phone and talk to customers, they leave them to gang together on forums and make all their problems Google's fault, which it is. When will Google learn that in hardware the customer comes first and that customer service has to be done properly? It is such a shame as Google do put the customer first with their search and other software services, plus their design principles do a good job of embodying that.
document.querySelector is still amazingly similar in use and form to the Sizzle engine on which it is based. Either way they have to parse into the standard DOM methods, because strings alone will not navigate or access anything.

Here is a summary of the standard DOM for mere mortals:

https://prettydiff.com/2/guide/unrelated_dom.xhtml

> What GP is advising against is doing direct manipulations on the DOM outside of an application's normal control flow.

I have been doing this work long enough to see all manners of excuses and justifications. It is amazing how they change over time, but at any given time they are wonderfully uniform centering on the most popular understanding of the technology at the time. They are all unoriginal clichés that people mindlessly echo.

The excuses that stuck with me over the years:

* Its too hard. You cant do it without jQuery.

* It has to be further abstracted. Without the necessary abstractions you are essentially working in assembly code. (JavaScript is never close to assembly).

* You are reinventing the wheel (never mind that frameworks do that frameworks reinvent the wheel)

* You have to maintain state and you cannot do that without a framework. (unit test your code)

* If you don't use a framework you will end up writing a framework anyways.

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In the end all the stupidity comes down to behavior. Developers don't trust the technology, don't trust their management, and especially don't trust each other or themselves to get it right. This behavior is called invented here syndrome and it isn't limited to the dom, the web, or even software. I frequently speak with lawyers and medical professionals who are frequently forced to mitigate this very same set of stupidity.

The cure for this foolishness is:

* Don't hire incompetent people, which are people lacking the proper desire and potential.

* Train your people. This technology isn't hard.

* Have the proper test automation in place.

* Have strong leadership in place. It is only a matter of time before people get frustrated or desperate and differ to really bad decisions. Bad decisions aren't limited to stupid people. Strong leaders are capable of withstanding the tired pleadings and big tears. Bad decisions are almost universally motivated by a perception of convenience without regard for risks or future expense, the easy versus simple paradigm.

Of course most organizations aren't willing to invest in any of this and would rather push the debt out to be a future failure for somebody else.
I wish they had called the police. Apparently they chose not to because the penalties are severe? That's ridiculous, she deserves a hefty jail sentence.
My default position on parsing anything more complex than a couple of comma-separated non-string values these days is to write a grammar and pick up a tool. I wish more programmers felt this way.
Try feeding them dust.
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True though that may be, I think some people only want to buy the flagships because they can be assured of a certain level of quality (no shovelware, to start with) without having to go through hoops installing/uninstalling this or that, or potentially void the warranty with custom ROMs.

For those people, the alternative Android offerings just aren't on the radar.
> Last time I checked, Google Authenticator only works on Chrome.

Google Authenticator is available for Android, iPhone, and Blackberry, and not for any browser; there are a number of third-party implementations, however, including a Chrome/ChromeOS one.
And on demand. When I come home from work at night there's nothing on television but I can watch an episode on Netflix before going to bed.
I’d personally favor both — funding Mozilla as well as non-Blink/non-Mozilla browsers. We need stronger contenders for the present (like Mozilla) and stronger contenders for the future (others, assuming they’re still nascent and aren’t on the radar for most people). Though I support Mozilla for various reasons, I see value in supporting smaller competition that could ultimately help everyone (including Mozilla).

Please share your project and other independent browsers/engines. It’s been some time I’ve checked this space out (and I do know that I could also go to Wikipedia to get some information on this).
Indeed. If iPod touches had cellular radios in them, I wouldn't need an iPhone — but then they'd probably also cost the same, so I'd just get an iPhone anyway.
I believe this is actually Scott Encoding.
do not mix diversity with fragmentation
I've found that it's important to discover whether the other party understands the word "argument" to mean "disagreement" or "logical reasoning".

If you don't agree on basic word meaning, then it's hard to hold a rational conversation.
You seem to miss the most salient point!

The Rothschilds are still investing, and you can join them. RIT (Rothschild Investment Trust, London listed) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIT_Capital_Partners

(not investment advice)
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You may mock, but making good old fashioned phone calls is still the standard is business.

Do you really think every businessperson from every business on the planet is adding each other to each others' Skype lists or Facebook friends?
LED screens use less power than old CRT TVs.
> If I git clone software covered under the Confluent Community License, who owns that copy of the software?

> The copyright to the software resides with Confluent, because of the copyright assignment clause that all contributors must sign.

“who owns it when I fork it?” - still not answered by Jay nor this account that seems to work for Confluent.
That is another country that I believe nobody should have anything to do with. Unfortunately it's not up to me. For governments economic considerations carry more weight
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> The problem of this whole discussion is that they try to confuse as much as they can by using terminology that surely sounds like they're doing "Open Source".

Dunno, they are very clear about this in the FAQ (https://www.confluent.io/confluent-community-license-faq):

"Is Confluent Community License open source? -- Strictly speaking it is “source-available.” Many people use the phrase “open source” in a loose sense to mean that you can freely download, modify, and redistribute the code, and those things are all true of the code under the Confluent Community License. However, in the strictest sense “open source” means a license approved by the Open Source Initiative (“OSI”) which meets a particular set of criteria. The Confluent Community License is not approved by the OSI and likely would not be as it excludes the use case of creating a SaaS offering of the code. Because of this, we will not refer to the Confluent Community License or any code released under it as open source."

I totally see how people have different opions on whether that move is good or bad for the community and/or Confluent themselves, but I don't see where they are being confusing intentionally; IMO it's the opposite, the announcement is very clear and open what it is and what it isn't. Compare that to "Commons Clause", which indeed is a super-confusing term.
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Why do you doubt that people disappear for no reason? It is happening right now.
im surprised this is not banned in EU yet
Fun fact: This is not supported by historical evidence, and was likely simply anti-Semitic fake news which got out of hand... https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/the-rothschi...
You'd think / hope - but those kinds of rare throws seem to happen at peak disruption (think the 70's), instead we get Avengers 5.
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Yes. That's exactly my issue. Often they also only have English in Stereo.
The Powder Toy wouldn't simulate the vacuum required for it to work. It'd get closer than most other falling sand games if you turn on water equalisation though.
And he literally didn't like and hacked his own product as a consumer?
Doesn't really come across as arrogance to me, just interest in the project.
This must be it; Hydrocis: http://www.lemonamiga.com/?game_id=4277
Law enforcement/National security are exempt from GDPR. Furthermore the right to be forgotten has been replaced with the more limited right to erasure.
If I want to watch a specific movie or TV show I'll let my Plex server handle it. If I just want something on the background, or browse around, I'll fling on Netflix. I don't even bother searching around on Netflix anymore.
You might have played one of Burning sand II, WXSand, or danbal. There's a fairly rich history of these games, but The Powder Toy basically ate everyones lunch at this point.
Did no one try to make an open source QNX clone? Because the kernel at least is rather minimal I would have thought this was very achievable, probably easier than the initial version of Linux for example.
Well to be fair if “Millenial” is used in a caption then it’s probably about a man, halving the number of possibilities who it could be to just, dunno, a billion people or so? Because if it’s about a woman, she’s likely to just be called “woman” in headlines the same way, regardless of age. WaPo just titled “Smithsonian names woman to top post at American History Museum” a few days ago. Same nonsense. How hard is it to just state a person’s name/age/whatever the relevant characteristic is? Because is surely isn’t gender or a very vague age group statement.
Russian invasion of Ukraine?
In the cult of the individual, any confrontation is heresy. To be tortured for the comon good in the public plaza, by having your opinion attacked, that is pure evil.

Rather fan out and form a thousand little new countries, within the country, declaring independence from washington or the rust-belt.
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Dated 2016.
Almost exclusively build stuff https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/squoosh/blob/master/pack...
Localization issues are one of those things that cross the border of insanity. Yes, dear distributors, I understand that you want to make moniez by translating movies to local languages. But in every country, a good chunk of population can speak English, and many of us actually prefer to watch in English. That chunk of population usually also has money to spare, so why won't you let us pay you and watch the original material?
Minor correction: In English, we have two different words around remembering:

- "remember": This is when you think of a memory all by yourself, like "I remember when I was a child" or "I remember that I have to buy some milk"

- "remind": This is when something else makes you think of a memory, like "this lullaby reminds me of when I was a child" or "my phone reminded me that I have to buy milk"

In this case you want "remind".

(Thought I'd let you know because I know in some languages, these are one word)
Also, I doubt that many of the allegedly million people in the camps are involved in bombing anything.
I met him a few times, his daughter went to my high school in Scottsdale. Always such a nice guy, even though freshman were always collectively losing their minds.
I get the exact opposite, interestingly enough.
"Fun" fact.
It doesn't have to be that way. You could have multiple providers like Netflix and traditional TV stations competing on quality of delivery, whilst licensing content from each other.

Exclusives are by definition anti-competitive. Some sort of compulsory licensing might work. Or it might lead to no-one producing anything...
>If I give you a cryptographic representation of my interests you can serve me ads without having to know the intimate details of my life. You only need to know how to deal with the token.

>What’s more I can compartmentalise my interests by sending different tokens at different times.

I'm really perplex. People who care enough about their privacy to make use of something like that are probably those who don't want ads or tracking at all anyway. The rest of the population obviously doesn't care.

I personally can't imagine ever willingly enabling ads in my browser. You want me to pay for your service? Then ask for my credit card number, I may give it to you. If you prefer to beg for me to turn my ad blocker off then be my guest but I won't do it.

The idea of installing Brave, curating several "tokens" containing my interests and selecting what to send to which website is frankly preposterous to me and of dubious value for the advertisers.
You could only interpret it that way if you believed that every step in the process was a necessary progression from the previous one. That is a very big stretch over the time scale of the 1850s to the 1940s. At every stage there were possible alternative choices that would have resulted in different outcomes. Don't make the mistake of believing that what actually happened was set in stone at the beginning like a row of falling dominoes.
I'm not particularly convinced by the risks stated here.

Yes Bill Gates could buy 65% of the Turkish stock market, but if he wanted power, there are surely cheaper and easier ways to do it.

And regarding stability, you could make the case that these funds could increase stability. If you're in the 0.001% then surely you have the money to have a long term out look, which means they aren't going to worry about that short term blip.

I think the last paragraph headline sums it up for me. They've rediscovered DIY investing.
I don't get why are these weirdo licenses needed

If you want to prevent Amazon to use your software for SaaS, just license it with Affero GPL, it was invented for this usecase (as far as I know)

edit: okay I was wrong, see replies.
I spent a lot of time making maps on a ZX81. This involved re-mapping the 64 characters in the character set that could be displayed to my own custom characters in shadow RAM and editing the pixels of each character. This needed an extraordinary amount of tracing paper, graph paper and effort. In those days work had to be saved to cassette tape and any surge of electricity such as turning on the kettle would result in all work lost.

The source of the maps was my school grade atlas, there was also a resource limit on available characters so the end result could have half of Madagascar looking suspiciously like the tip of India (since one of those 64 characters would have to be used for both).

There was just the one TV in the house so everyone else had to put up with no hot beverages or TV whilst I busied myself getting a monochrome 'artists impression' of a map to show on the screen in the living room. There was no commercial ambition involved, no notion of getting my completed code in a magazine, no possibility of sharing my ZX81 maps with the wider world, not least due to the non-standard memory mapping of my ZX81.

As a consequence of this formative childhood experience I truly appreciate these typewriter maps, although I consider the use of online maps and these Adobe products as tantamount to cheating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81_character_set

(Yep, there were only 64 characters, incredible.)
When my daughter was 3 years old, she racted really well to stories that described sort of ecology. I.e. we watched together one of the how-to-train-your-dragon cartoons on netflix, and she really liked the stories where several fragons had either symbiotic or adversarial relationships. Dragons as a pecies in HTTYD make no sense, but many of the relationships do (symbiotic relationships, food-chains, migration for better nesting space, e.t.c.) and served as good conversation starters :)
I wouldn't be surprised if the "owner" was on it together with the account manager or that other dodgy things are going on that would have been discovered by LE.
I remember not long ago some of those Bonds from Chinese companies with Interest Rate of 13- 17%, and they were in USD. I was thinking that is too good to be true. As it turns out there is a high chances you don't get anything back.

The thing is I don't understand why and how there is a lack of liquidity in China. It all changes within 18 months, from they have too much money and starting buying even more overseas to literally scrambling for cash.
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> It will keep a clearly marked lane better than I can (it’s very precise with staying in the exact middle of the lane and doesn’t cut corner like humans tend to).

Anyone have experience with the lower Westchester County section of the Taconic Parkway? There are some serious curves, and the lanes are very narrow. In the left lane, you're maybe 2-3 feet from the box-beam center divider.
> It becomes overwhelming and exhausting

> It becomes harder for users with genuinely new insights to participate because they can’t tell if their insight is new or not and may decide just not to post it.

> Working groups need a toolkit

I wonder if that toolkit might look something like: https://www.kialo.com/

Structuring and organizing discussions like this might make them more scalable.

One difference is Kialo only seems to support binary arguments. There may be more than two design options.
Probably not exactly what you asked for but one of the few times I fell out of my chair in a colloquium was when Erik Winfrey presented his Sierpinski gaskets grown from DNA.

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou...
Just be aware it's an incredibly old, feature-reduced, and limited version of Minecraft made especially for the Pi. If your kids are into Minecraft, it won't be that with which they're already familiar.
This is clearly an opinion piece, not really an attempt at an objective evaluation of the browser's "trustworthiness" using objective metrics:

>There is probably no corporation that has fooled its userbase more and for longer than Mozilla. Pretending to be your friend, it has for years ruined the customizability, privacy, and usability of its browser. The marketing team was, and still is, in full swing trying to spin every one of its shitty decisions positively. [...] The amount of spyware in both these browsers is massive - FF has the most, but it can all be disabled through an user.js script

There's no denying that there have been some fuck ups in Mozilla in the past but it seems to me like the author has an axe to grind here. If they don't then they should at least reference their claims.

I mean they call IE, Chrome and Opera "Botnet web browsers". I suppose they're referencing the 4chan meme and not actually saying that these browsers contain botnet code but I'm not sure if that makes it better.
I doubt that the parent is talking about the out of the box experience.

Installing uBlock Origin takes less effort than installing Brave and probably does a better job at blocking ads than Brave, as it is the most aggressive ad-blocking engine available right now.
I used to get bad acne as a teenager. I remember thinking it was some kind of cruel joke that I’d look in the mirror on Sunday night and see a fresh spot emerging, just as the others had cleared up, just as the school week was about to begin. Looking back, I think I understand what was happening. On Fridays I’d always eat a lot of sweets. They were banned in the household except for Fridays, and so we’d gorge on confectionary and fizzy drinks. Then, like clockwork, I’d break out in spots a couple of days later. So the culprit would seem to be refined sugar or some other common ingredient, taken in high concentration.

I can’t believe I didn’t figure it out at the time.
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0.001% of the world is about 75k people [1], there are about 2200 dollar billionaires [2], so only(!) ~3% of these people are billionaires.

Not a real point to make, but I was wondering, and it might save someone else time.

[1] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=0.001%25+*+world+popul...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World%27s_Billionaires
The fact they've willingly decided to work for free? I feel like higher education is even worse than this where they've convinced people paying for a 3-year degree is the only option.
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How we stopped making art when we started making money
Baked in subtitles that you can't turn off, drives me damn near insane.
The word can be used in both ways, depending on the context?
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When I read the title, I immediately thought of Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne (1864). The flora are described as consisting of "...surrounded by a rocky coastline covered in petrified trees and giant mushrooms".
Correct. IIRC,Cosmetic adblocking is also not possible without adding uBlock.

I guess one advantage with their approach is that they’re doing their network filtering “closer to the metal” from what i’ve seen from a recent look at their codebase. If they’re able to block requests by bypassing the extensions API, it’s likely faster. They can probably also achieve some parallelism here since requests are done in multiple processes. If you can simply hook in and block a site, you likely eliminate several layers of IPC messages to the extension.