That’s not what a straw man is (it’s two words btw).
This is a known and often repeated trend in tech: make something under the guise of disruption, with no regard for safety or regulations. Complain that those things are a hindrance to progress and then spend billions and destroy lives permanently to eventually fix the problems when the regulators issue an ultimatum that professionals warned you about.
You cannot turn off Find My without entering your Apple ID password. The option to turn off Find My is disabled if stolen device protection is enabled.
If you can get the PIN (shoulder surfing, social engineering) you can reset/change the Apple ID password.
Reportedly then you can add a second face to Face ID with Set Up Alternate Appearance and get access to everything, but I have not seen that confirmed.
All three references are 10 years old (or only have a secondary reference that is 10 years old). More recent analyses give much more diverse set of TLDs---.ga, .tk, .us, .ru, .ml, .pw and so on [1]. In fact, at this point we should be much more concerned about .us than .su.
It’s interesting to note that the county restricted the amount of cars that could occupy the property, but did not otherwise control the environmental effects of running a maintenance yard.
What does the owner do with waste disposal? Various fluids and solids from the vehicles must be dealt with according to regulations. Are there any?
What about leak abatement?
Effects on groundwater and waterways?
Tires? Other hazardous waste?
Air pollution?
Startups will soon follow suit, since GS is a major investor. It's sad that none of the infrastructure was improved during the isolation/quarantine periods, and now we're going back full force and wasting billions in wasted commute time.
The infrastructure wasn't improved? Pretty much all of the video conferencing tools are much better and tools that didn't have screen sharing & video calls added it. Plus the vast majority of people have actually used those tools now. Pre-pandemic group video calls existed via Teams but a lot of people never used them.
I doubt GS's internal culture applies to any startups... not every company needs an apprenticeship culture and it would be a large capital and time expense for startups. GS's model is very different (IIRC), hire a lot of young talent out of premier institutions, then see who's left after 2+ years of 50+ work hour weeks.
> The infrastructure wasn't improved? Pretty much all of the video conferencing tools are much better and tools that didn't have screen sharing & video calls added it.
It's very HN to think infrastructure is "zoom" and not the implied: internet, housing, roads, power.
> Startups will soon follow suit, since GS is a major investor.
I don’t see this happening. GS interests in real estate and churning finance folk in and out, have nothing to do with their riskier investment priorities.
Also, GS is not a major player in the venture capital landscape.
Also, angel investors have much more influence than VC in how startup culture is set up initially. Once in the VC funding phase, it's too late to tell all key employees to move to commuting distance from main HQ.
Both of you are making valid points, I don't get why either is seen as an argument. Your original comment was one with a strong sense of anger at the rich, and it is not misplaced. People and corporations hide their wealth with many different instruments, and one step to achieving equity would be to put all of this in the open.
Do you really think they care about that reputation? It's simply binary: Product makes money, product does not make money. Did you think Google was giving away free stuff for "the community"?
Loss leaders are a thing. I've had a free GSuite account on my personal domain which effectively acted as free job training and contributed to choosing them as an email provider for two companies I've worked for and clearly contributed to vastly more revenue than it would cost to host my personal GSuite account for my next 10 lifetimes. Over the last decade I've slowly but surely stopped recommending Google for anything they offer. It's been a slow attrition but I've wound up at zero.
They've very effectively taken a good chunk of their best evangelists and turned them into detractors. I have no idea if they've done the math and decided that was worth it, but I sure hope they have and it's not just total incompetence from one of the biggest players in the industry.
Exactly. As an early adopter, I brought who knows how many souls to gmail. I set up a couple small companies on Google Apps, or whatever they want to call it this year. (Mine is called GAFYD...)
When Google gave me a free HTC Magic handset in San Francisco, I showed it to everyone. I performed tricks with it. I made people want one.
To this day, three members of my immediate family use newer models of my old Pixel phone.
I told a man with a lot of CPU heavy jobs that GCE exists.
I'm talking about "influence" a lot.. but let's be clear, that's not all.
Google knows me--or at least it had the opportunity to. Somewhere between all those referrals and the emails in my mbox files at gmail and GAFYD which pre-date the launch of those services by a decade or my bug reports, or working in one of their datacenters for a while, they should know that I helped them be what they are today.
Maybe they do. Maybe this kind of treatment is what I deserve.
(to reiterate what others have posted, it isn't about the money. It's about the major unplanned migration. Which they still have not notified me about.)
I'm not necessarily just talking about this particular instance, just in general that's definitely been the overall theme of the discussion when things like this happen. We're a paying G-suite customer so we're not affected, but we HAVE been affected by features that users adopt as part of their workflow and productivity that Google decides to axe on a whim.
It makes us as an IT organization look stupid when our users come asking us where the feature they rely on went. I just want to know if leadership at Google has any inkling that this is their reputation or not.
Haha! Just yesterday, that is exactly what Google was promoting as their first defense against antitrust regulation. That “these free services provide thousands of dollars a year in value to the average American”.
So if they’re going to kill the free stuff, then they have no ground to stand on.
This is great. I too enjoy working with Go coming from a Swift, Obj-C, Java and C# background. The problem that the latter 4 languages have is keyword bloat. For example, Swift has 23 keywords just for declarations (Source: https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/ReferenceManual/LexicalStr...)
The entire Go language has 25 keywords. That's it. That includes declarations, control, errors and multithreading.
Language design of the latter 4 along with this keyword bloat make for unfettered methods of writing code. Want a simple HTTP request to process JSON? You can open a Go file from the last 5+ years and expect that to look exactly the same. Try doing that in the other languages, and you will find every possible combination of the same thing.
Generics has so much indirection and emphasis placed on re-usability, that readability for debugging and understanding become exponentially difficult. In fact, almost every use of generics ultimately ends in type erasure or forced casting. And let's be honest: every generic has to conform to a super generic or protocol, so it's not really as generic as you thought it was going to be.
Highly opinionated, reverse compatibility and the lack of generics make Go extremely powerful for it's purpose. Type safety make for easy refactoring, and when refactoring needs to take place, your code is forced to follow the conventions laid out in idiomatic Go: https://golang.org/doc/effective_go
That is a very interesting approach to the problem. It is just a shame they didn't go with the third of February 2001 for their reference date, that would have been even easier to remember.
I penny pinch every opportunity I get. But, my application of it is probably more relaxed than true penny pinching: look on ebay, craigslist, amazon, camelcamelcamel, online coupons/codes, 0% financing and pick the best one.
However, if the effort is more than the cost, I’d rather just pick whats in front of me and move on. Sometimes, it’s just better for my mental health to buy something outright than to research every single $ or alternative I could have saved on it.
I shop at a butcher whose meat is significantly more expensive than grocery shops, but the quality is unbeatable. I’ll shop at a farmers market or eat at a boutique salad restaurant, knowing that I could be just as satisfied with a .99 McDonalds burger. Again, I’d rather optimize for health and lifestyle over purely cost. But it depends.
I documented these steps for those who want to try the AOE 4 Beta which requires a Windows 10 PC with good graphics. But, these steps can be used for any other cloud gaming needs and is cheap to try it out (.54 USD per hour + $7 monthly for storage), and you get full access to a Windows PC. I do not work for Paperspace or Parsec or Apple, I just love the idea of cloud gaming.
Played for 2 hours unplugged on the Air, battery barely discharged and entire laptop stayed cold.
This is a known and often repeated trend in tech: make something under the guise of disruption, with no regard for safety or regulations. Complain that those things are a hindrance to progress and then spend billions and destroy lives permanently to eventually fix the problems when the regulators issue an ultimatum that professionals warned you about.