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A couple of things: That is expected behaviour, email address in reminders applies coordination. It's basically parsing your command correctly 'email this addr
by ritikk3 13y ago
A couple of things:
That is expected behaviour, email address in reminders applies coordination. It's basically parsing your command correctly 'email this address'.
Second, the zdnet post you link to towards the end is full of inaccuracies:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7107554 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7107554
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- amirmc 13y agoIt's evidently not 'expected' behaviour from the point of view of the user. Just because you happen to put an email address in the title of a calendar event doesn't imply that I expect the software to go and send messages on my behalf.
- ritikk4 13y agoThen we disagree. Especially if it's in the title it indicates you want to coordinate with the email you just entered. A proper way to do it is, Title: "Email Alice", Description: "alice@example.com".
- ColinWright 13y agoWhen the user gets unexpected behaviour doing something that many believe to be reasonable, telling them they're doing it wrong is really bad user interaction. You can't change the behaviour of users, but you can make your software easier to use and more predictable in its behaviour.
- Shooti 13y agoA good UI would make it explicitly clear by highlighting the email address and/or by auto adding an explicit entry to the guest list. At present there's no way to predict the behavior until after the fact. Something with that much consequence (sending an email to an unintended recipient) should never be done silently. By all means take the initiative with autofill etc, but the user should have the final say. If the supposed design revolution within Google (http://www.fastcodesign.com/3016268/google-the-redesign http://www.fastcodesign.com/3016268/google-the-redesign) isn't just for show, the Calendar team (assuming there even is an ongoing team) clearly hasn't been touched by it and that ought to be corrected.
- fluidcruft 13y agoYou know what, reading all your desperate posts is very disturbing. Even Google Now knows to ask before auto-doing shit, but you sit here with some stupid surgeon-like "I can do no wrong" attitude. Generally, I thought Google hired smarter people than you seem to be, so possibly you're some sort of false-flag bullshit.
- nmc 13y agoOut of curiosity (and regardless of the meaning of your comment), are you completely unrelated to the author of the comment you are linking to? Except the "3" at the end, their pseudonym is identical to yours. Here on HN people do not like fake accounts.
- ritikk4 13y agoIt's mine, I just signed up to join the discussion, but evidently new users get rate-limited to only a few comments, so I've incremented the username by 1 to indicate it's still me.
- NoahTheDuke 13y agoThis probably means you should stop contributing.
- username223 13y agoSince you've been busily doing PR for Google lately, I assume you're paid for it. Care to be honest about it?
- blueskin_ 13y agoI'd bet ritikk201 will still be doing google PR 2 weeks later.
- ritikk4 13y agoNo I'm not paid by anyone, can't I just have a different opinion that yours with it being paid PR work?!
- blueskin_ 13y agoYour persistence, repeating the same point, and use of multiple accounts suggest otherwise.
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- Steuard 13y ago"Intended" isn't the same as "expected"! As a user, I would never have guessed that Calendar would do this. It frightens me in much the same ways that Buzz did. (And Buzz did leak some data that I considered very private.)
- blueskin_ 13y agoRead this guy's history (and the same usernames with lower numbers on the end (edit: ...and now he's onto 4)) for some comedy. Google employee, or rabid google fan? I can't decide.
- leephillips 13y agoI would guess rabid fan, or maybe Google employee off the meter, who's about to get in trouble. Google's HN gardening is rather more sophisticated than this, but it does leave signals.
- gnud 13y agoOut of curiosity, would a tweet/SMS also be considered "expected" by you, if I entered a twitter handle or phone number in the title?
- prof_hobart 13y agoApart from the fact that you're typing in a title, not a command.