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> I only read the first part of the article Don't you think it makes sense to read the whole article before dismissing it so completely? This forum should rea

> I only read the first part of the article Don't you think it makes sense to read the whole article before dismissing it so completely? This forum should really have a rule to discourage shallow dismissals to somewhat counteract the negative effects of the whole "don't talk about RTFA" rule.

mvdtnz 2y ago
Not only does this forum have no such rule, you are in fact in violation of the website's guidelines for pointing out that this chap didn't read the article. Which is bananas.
- throwaway314155 2y ago
  Yeah it's maddening.
hn_throwaway_99 2y ago
I didn't "dismiss it so completely". It was clear to me from the first half I read that the author completely misunderstood and was unaware of the Drive API scope changes that Google made. There is nothing I wrote that would have been contradicted by the rest of the blog post.
- reichenstein 2y ago
  The definition of a well informed, happy, modern man: He reads a couple of lines and goes, "Yep, I know how this article ends. I'm right, he's wrong." Then he watches the first half of a game, switches off the TV, pumps his fist, and says, "My team WINS again." Writes the match report, gets in the shower, soaps himself up, and walks out, unrinsed, fully lathered, super clean.
  - hn_throwaway_99 2y ago
    Happy to have you point anywhere my assumptions are wrong vs. your random bullshit of a creating writing exercise.
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    - reichenstein 2y ago
      Drive.file scope is not some secret sauce, it's the standard file picker loaded with UX trouble and bugs. Implementing it would lead to a flood of angry Play Store comments. We know because we talk to our users for 14 years. We know their needs and their use cases. And we have the numbers to verify. We built this. You're an anonymous guy with a throwaway account on the Internet playing the expert. Your comment history shows that you have a lot of time to show that you're an expert on a wide range of topics. You say that "we" shouldn't get access to Google Drive. It's not about us, our users demand Google Drive access. They want to decide what to do with their files. We couldn't care less about what is in their drive. But what if we're hackers or if we get hacked? Yeah, that all or nothing access is not the best engineering from Google, is it? CASA is trying to tape over that bricolage with the usual security theatre. Because guess what... after paying KPMG for a superficial scan, "we" still would get access to the Full Dive. Until recently we could have done the CASA scan in house and get full access. That's what's bullshit. It's bullshit like almost all of Google. Bullshit Search that only gives you ads. Bullshit Maps that has become an unusable circus. Bullshit YouTube that is now just as ad infested than 80ties TV. Bullshit "log in for security reasons".
  - bloppe 2y ago
    This is funny but he actually was right

mvdtnz 2y ago

Not only does this forum have no such rule, you are in fact in violation of the website's guidelines for pointing out that this chap didn't read the article. Which is bananas.

throwaway314155 2y ago
Yeah it's maddening.

hn_throwaway_99 2y ago

I didn't "dismiss it so completely". It was clear to me from the first half I read that the author completely misunderstood and was unaware of the Drive API scope changes that Google made. There is nothing I wrote that would have been contradicted by the rest of the blog post.

reichenstein 2y ago
The definition of a well informed, happy, modern man: He reads a couple of lines and goes, "Yep, I know how this article ends. I'm right, he's wrong." Then he watches the first half of a game, switches off the TV, pumps his fist, and says, "My team WINS again." Writes the match report, gets in the shower, soaps himself up, and walks out, unrinsed, fully lathered, super clean.
- hn_throwaway_99 2y ago
  Happy to have you point anywhere my assumptions are wrong vs. your random bullshit of a creating writing exercise.
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  - reichenstein 2y ago
    Drive.file scope is not some secret sauce, it's the standard file picker loaded with UX trouble and bugs. Implementing it would lead to a flood of angry Play Store comments. We know because we talk to our users for 14 years. We know their needs and their use cases. And we have the numbers to verify. We built this. You're an anonymous guy with a throwaway account on the Internet playing the expert. Your comment history shows that you have a lot of time to show that you're an expert on a wide range of topics. You say that "we" shouldn't get access to Google Drive. It's not about us, our users demand Google Drive access. They want to decide what to do with their files. We couldn't care less about what is in their drive. But what if we're hackers or if we get hacked? Yeah, that all or nothing access is not the best engineering from Google, is it? CASA is trying to tape over that bricolage with the usual security theatre. Because guess what... after paying KPMG for a superficial scan, "we" still would get access to the Full Dive. Until recently we could have done the CASA scan in house and get full access. That's what's bullshit. It's bullshit like almost all of Google. Bullshit Search that only gives you ads. Bullshit Maps that has become an unusable circus. Bullshit YouTube that is now just as ad infested than 80ties TV. Bullshit "log in for security reasons".
- bloppe 2y ago
  This is funny but he actually was right