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What's quite annoying is how agressive most products are into forcing this method over regular email+pw / Social Logins. Let me use my 100 chars password!

Amazing

Very interesting take and definitely an article I will come back to, but in the end, the size of tasks is relative, and the author counts them. How's that better than counting story points? Feels like a lot of folklore for a similar result. In the end, like with story points, what matters is the effort put into splitting a problem to better understand it and plan accordingly.

I have a git feeling this comment was written on mobile.

are you vraiment sure?

I actually did a one time backup using Take Out, then what I do is:

- Cloud Sync to keep a copy of my Google Drive. - Synology Photo on my phone to backup every new photo/video I take.

That way I benefit from Google software and storage + backup of my stuff without worrying about it.

I recently purchased a Synology with 2 disks in raid 1 to backup all my Google Drive, all my Google Photos files continuously.

I feel much better since doing this (apart, of course, for the fact I now need to back up my Synology too to really feel good!)

And for those who think Google Takeout is there to save you, just bear in mind it can be very erratic with large volumes (I had the biggest pain to get my Google Photo despite taking out less than 200 gb, it took several tries to have all the files)

No one is safe against account issue, or as it seems to be the case in the help thread, pure data loss. Just back things up and rely on cloud for flexibility rather than storage.

Incredible! On my end I see a year as:

- Jan to June on one row - July, August September in a column under June - October to December on one row, which is on the same row or next year's Jan.

All that left to right.

Have I just described a (weird) wall calendar?

I see a couple of things.

1) Some front end needs and/or frameworks were developped by companies having a scale and pool of talent justifying the needs for new tools tailored to their use cases (extreme audience = need to address many user specificities + pool of talents means the best brains on this planet invent something: doesn't help in coming up with a trivial solution). React, Flutter, AMP.

2) During the zirp, coming up with some great tech was also a way to attract talents. Using such tech was (is) a way to be part of that group too. There is a trend effect. I am wondering whether complex front end tech stacks are justified when you can't hire the best talents and when you need to work faster to keep in business.

3) Micro service all the things leads to using API's everywhere which leads to have consumers everywhere including your front end. Coming back from this could mean using simpler apps and dropping some of the front end complexity.

Probably more :)

Okay but what's the alternative that still involves fiddling with computers?

Feels like a problem that will be solved as soon as incentives will be here, and cost of fresh water from other sources depleted or protected. The costs mentioned in this 15 years old article aren't that high in a world where we have to be careful with water.

I wonder what is the reality now.

For now the data may show difficulties, but at some point, people need a job, and if only onsite is offered, will 'talents' keep being picky? Not so sure someone laid off once or twice in 2023 will be. Remote as we've known it during the pandemic is not going to stay, and all those that have made a move to a city for a better (personal) life will be stuck in the mid term, if they are not lucky on their next job search what will they do? I know this isn't popular opinion, but if some level of hybrid will probably remain on the long run (e.g., WFH once/twice a week doesn't hurt productivity and provide a great improvement for QoL) I don't see remote being the new way of working we have enjoyed in 2020-22. This is gone.

edit: typo

I was about to say. The chat paradigm solves the issue. I nearly always get what I need after rephrasing or adding more context, which is exactly how it works with humans.

I've been with fly.io at small scale and I have always loved their approach to content (docs, blogs, forums), and needless to say, their product. They are very talented and are building something truly great. Their openness, shown in this post, is an example to follow. It's very hard to be that honest and direct when you're meant to be an infallible entity, but it's not a surprise at all to see fly authoring such a post. That's how they operate and that's why I trust them over anyone else.

I nearly considered moving to Edge on my last Windows install.

In the end, it's true that IE/Edge were bad choices before moving to WebKit. Now, why not? A more integrated browser (as Safari is for Mac) makes sense x Google being evil(er) x Firefox being left behind (for bad reasons, but still) x Bing being a good Bing x Google Search being less useful.

I agree the method isn't good, but feels like Edge is not a bad choice anymore.

Yes, true. I didn't think about that, but again, this isn't something new, relying on a more agressive than average tracking tech. West is just concerned about how it may be used.

Strava was similarly dangerous at times [0]. The difference is that the west has a strong grasp on western companies and what they do with the data, but what prevents the US to use the location data from, say, key Twitter users in other countries? From my understanding, it's legally possible for the govt to access that data. No one (really) budges.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42853072.amp

I think TikTok and similar products are garbage and will lower the average IQ, especially of younger generations. I am deeply concerned when I see kids hooked on that crack, because they are burning their potential. It's scary, and if I had one far fetched easy theory to make, I'd say TikTok is a way for China to mitigate the threat coming from the west's upcoming generations, by ensuring their collective capabilities are as limited as possible. That theory doesn't stand though, as TikTok (Douyin) also operates in China. No kid is spared.

But, two things:

- What they collect is literally nothing special. Worse things happen, and have happened in mobile apps/mobile SDKs. (remember Onavo, acquired by Facebook? Way worse). What do we think Google and Apple know about our devices (Check Apple terms, it's good fun [0])? Isn't this again about the recurring fear/shock that a Chinese company should not hold data about western citizens?

- the article isn't about how much TikTok can know by being in our phones, despite what most comments here imply. Instead, it's about how deeply TikTok taps in users minds by leveraging the unhealthy and addictive relationship we have with phones, acting as "prosthetic extension of our [my] corporeal being".

What matters is that we rely on these external tools in the way we rely on our brain; if those objects are similarly accessible, endorsed, and integrated into cognition, we should simply consider them part of the mind.

[0] https://twitter.com/mysk_co/status/1589239911219331072

The question is: how much their partner/parents/nanny is taking on? Without someone who is always available to help, it's impossible to be free and successful with young kids. Simply impossible. You can't travel, you can't work late (in the office) you can't do offsites, you can't sleep, you have no weekends to work on side gigs, because your side gig are your kids. Which is great, but soooooo costly from all angles.

PS: I love my kids, but I'm basically working/living at 50% of my capacity since I got my first, and that is really hard to swallow.

I uninstalled after the acquisition as I wasn't keen to hear the Avast siren go off every time a cookie consent banner is detected.

Sort of out of topic but this article is nicely illustrated using Excalidraw. Can't state how great that software is for diagrams, workflows, HLDs, UI concepts, etc.

The article looks 10x more approachable as a result.

Thanks for replying! Yes, that's a way. I nearly managed to pull it off a few years ago, but ended up being more relevant on the non-dev stuff, and that led me to the wrong track (as in, not the one I wanted, but the one paying me more). I got better and better as a PM and now it's hard to convince anyone that they should let me go to a less strategic role. In the sense that developers are often executing the roadmap, not defining it (at least where I am), and paying me for (slow) execution only is kind of a waste of my domain knowledged and experience. But you're right, trying internally may be the best/safest way.

Been programming on and off for 15 years +, mostly for personal stuff like websites, or scripts at work. I have a basic level. Got rejected from CS school when I was 18 because of my math level (can be relevant in my country), ended up in marketing and now product management -- pretty bored of what I do. All I really want to do is sitting on a CLI and solve problems with code all day long, yet to do that I need to make a drastic life change and quit, re-learn the basics (self-learning is good but I need interactions with mentors/experienced devs) then kind of restart professional life from scratch (with 1/4th of my current income, which will affect my family). This is so hard to make as a decision. This article definitely helps and is encouraging because I thought my time had past. Anyone else having similar 'issues'? Do you think it's worth attempting to become a developer these days, coming in with a product background, or is this a fantasy, that I should keep as is?

Can't wait for Battlefield to be f2p for Prime customers.

Guy calls current flow clumsy. Comes up with alternative reliant on mailto :)

Zapier's impact in the broader ecosystem isn't unlike AWS' in the sense that it has enabled so many orgs to build faster without the hassle (connectors, APIs, event processing, ...). I wonder how many startups got where they are now thanks to good old Zapier-based workflows built by sales ops & marketing teams keen/forced to bypass eng :)

Kudos to the team; What a success this is!

Yes, subscriptions for everything isn't good for consumers, but, if it was 'easy' to sell software as a one off before the cloud, it's a bit harder now with all the costs associated with cloud features such as everlasting storage, security, sync, compute, you name it. How do you sell something that consumes resources continuously at a one-off cost?

SaaS can only work with a continuous revenue stream because the software provider has to keep delivering the service, and doesn't know how long it will be necessary to do so. LTV predictions are based on the assumption that customers churn, but what if they don't? If you charge the LTV as a one off but got that wrong, you're out of business.

With proper software, that you install on your device, you power everything, therefore one off licences can work.

There is also the whole way to ship software that has to change for a shift away from subscription, but are consumers ready to wait for yearly releases and pay for these ? Are consumers ready to install software again? Not so sure!

It truly saddens me that we're going this route. This pseudo fight for 'privacy' is frustrating and will only bring us closer to a splinternet situation.

the data of European Internet users is therefore illegally transferred through this tool.

This isn't a devilish situation to me. We're talking about a tracking pixel, not healthcare records or trade secrets.

All that is because we aren't capable of fighting US big tech with innovation. Only with regulation. Appalling. Hopefully, Google finds a legal way around it.

30 years ago people would have said yes perhaps (American dream), but now it has become apparent the US is a very broken country for ~90% of its population. It's actually shocking how bad it is when you think about fundamentals (health, food, security, education). We have many problems in France, they look like micro problems when looking at how painful it is for most to survive in the US.

I hate them. Force me to go to my mailbox while I have a good password manager and just want to use that instead. I get the idea, but this should be an alternative, not a default. Also sends loads of single use emails that will remain for ever in users mailboxes.

I like how their register page starts with: "Login with Facebook", "Login with Twitter". Makes sense to transfer users from the bad guys to the good ones, but feels off to me. I would expect such initiative to be email registration only.