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by methodsignature 5y ago
"Rules" often contradict each other. For example, in software development, "keep it simple" often directly conflicts with "dont repeat yourself" as it takes increased complexity to achieve reuse of code. I oft
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by methodsignature 5y ago
Probably high for them are usage issues, like broke buttons in their UI or chopped text.
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by methodsignature 6y ago
They may have noble intent, but they also have conflict of interest given Google basically signs their paychecks. [I do use Firefox regardless]
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A Note about Functional Efficiency(world.hey.com)
1 points by methodsignature 6y ago|1 comments
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by methodsignature 6y ago
Self plug / just wrote a thing.
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by methodsignature 6y ago
> but a properly security-paranoid home automation aficionado wouldn't be caught dead giving some proprietary black box power and network inside their own home. That sounds like the definition of a cell phone.
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by methodsignature 6y ago
Google Chrome UI: "We aren't tracking you". Google Terms: "We are absolutely tracking you". Google: Fingers were crossed; doesn't count.
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by methodsignature 6y ago
Sure, if data from US would be enough to understand and fight disease. Otherwise, you need to create some sort of world health organization to share meaningful data and investigate inside all country participant without the appearance of [
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by methodsignature 6y ago
I posit that it is capriciousness, not hypocrisy.
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by methodsignature 6y ago
Something along the lines barring the compilation of iOS apps with 3rd party tools or some such in TOS or blocking apps made with them from the App Store outright. Not saying the would, but if they had reason to fear they are losing contro
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by methodsignature 6y ago
Also "Frictionless sharing and collaboration" seems not valid at all when it exists in the closed ecosystem that is Apple. Probably the decision is to follow with Android and web [windows+linux].
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by methodsignature 6y ago
Software development technology is getting close. A couple few more years maybe and that problem will start to go away fairly rapidly [relatively speaking], like possible 30-40% cross platform by the end of maybe 5 years-ish. 12 year andro
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by methodsignature 6y ago
Signal seems a bit of a jerk company. They should have "stayed above the fray". Instead, they ridiculed. They were in their rights to do so but should have been the better. Throwing insults, however well grounded, is never good
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by methodsignature 6y ago
The Matrix gets it wrong. There won't need to be a war.
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by methodsignature 6y ago
> Integrating a password manager with a browser is too fragile and risky way of using both. It is best to have them fully separated so they can't communicate. They should communicate exclusively via the user. Which gets targeted mor
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by methodsignature 6y ago
A 2nd password manager for the 2nd part of the password breaks maybe the key advantage of this mechanism by putting the "something you know" into a decryptable by design storage space that is most likely duplicated in the cloud.
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by methodsignature 6y ago
An entire continent full of kitchens keeps rice in cookers/warmers for days at a time. There us just no there there.
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by methodsignature 6y ago
They all probably read Clean Code, the discussion on functions in that book may be the most harmful/costly to programming in the last 20 years.
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by methodsignature 6y ago
Sometimes you just need the differentiator in your feature set. Then you let your marketing team go to work.
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by methodsignature 6y ago
I switched my wife to FF from chrome and completely uninstalle chrome. She hates the inconvenience of any minor glitches or peculiarities - I hear a lot about it when she doesn't like something. I almost forgot she was switched over
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by methodsignature 6y ago
Yap. People ask the internet now maybe more than their techie friends, and the marketers are probably as likely to be the ones amswering.
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by methodsignature 6y ago
And how do you research for the formulation of such a law? Not really trying to defend anyone here with not much info, just it seems that asking parties for information about how the soup is made so you know how to regulate the making is p
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by methodsignature 6y ago
So maybe open source, [mostly] closed ecosystem? Add a bunch of Spyware from Google and get every app maker to add a dependency to Google services and they are golden for the collection of data on all your "smart" things Sorry&#x
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by methodsignature 6y ago
Learning is nice and all, but if you didn't document well, and regardless probably the first time the next guy needs a feature that exists in off the shelf solutions, that code will likely be ripped out pdq (given the problem space was
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by methodsignature 6y ago
The "reinvention" is primarily in the client (but also in the client service) and has to do with getting you to use email differently by having you emails behave in a non-traditional manner.
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by methodsignature 6y ago
> Because the key is in sole possession of each user, end-to-end encryption prevents everyone else—including the app maker... This needs to be redacted. If you can read it in the app, the app can send it to the app maker. Its irresponsib
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by methodsignature 6y ago
> Because the key is in sole possession of each user, end-to-end encryption prevents everyone else—including the app maker... This needs to be redacted. If you can read it in the app, the app can send it to the app maker. Its irresponsi
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Google Messages E2EE(arstechnica.com)
1 points by methodsignature 6y ago|1 comments
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by methodsignature 6y ago
The user you asked has apparently decided to pretend that particular reality doesn't exist.
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by methodsignature 6y ago
Might just be that Google doesn't test on Firefox and also maybe are "to smart for their own good" coming up with out of the box solutions that can be more likely to fail to begin with. Maybe I'm being overly optimistic

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