Kjeldahl

My personal reason was observing the huge amount of investments into Javascript and its infrastructure (by Google and others). After Node.js was released it was a rational bet to make that Javascript would dominate, both server and client side. As someone who often does both front end and back end, it felt good to move to Javascript. It's got to be said that keeping a "common" directory around with shared code for both front- and backend is still a PITA, but still better than most other alternatives.

My point was regarding the "no censorship in Scandinavia" comment that I replied to. The rest of your arguments are just ramblings about you not caring about individual freedom. You even justify their actions using your own made up arguments (which I'm not even bother going to sensibly refute). It is your exact attitude that gets us into trouble with power greedy politicians. You're an easy mark.

You're just lucky YOU aren't affected yet. Try telling that norwegian poker player who is unable to wire legal poker earnings from a tournament abroad to his bank home. Or to any of the people who made money on crypto who they want to use as security for an appartment loan. Or to someone trying to wire gains from legal online casinos abroad. Or to someone trying to access a web site that the norwegian authorities do not like who are DNS blocked (yes, easy to circumvent for tech people). Goverment and politicians abusing authority and limiting individual freedom is already here and growing. When it starts affecting "most people" it is usually a lot harder to reverse. The norwegian goverment already passed a law that allow mass electronic surveilance. And they want to limit the public's access to goverment records. It's a very slippery slope, left side "social democrazy" (spelled "beuracratic dictatorship") like most of EU. People need to open their eyes and fight goverment overreach now.

I'm all for using free / open source where it makes sense and is cost effective. And frankly, Office is probably overkill for most of the actual needs of users. Having said that, I tried making a three page brochure a year ago, using the most recent LibreOffice release at the time. Just a mix of some screenshots and paragraphs of text. It was just too slow to be useable. On the same computer, Google Docs running in the browser was able to handle the same brochure without any noticeable slowdowns of any kind. That's a strong indication that LibreOffice is just ... not up to the task.

LG had good phones. But while most other phones allowed some minor cracks in their glass, the earlier LGs did not. One minor crack and the touch UI would stop working (they fused the touch sensor to the glass or something). They insisted on this "feature" for longer than most competitors I believe, and for every customer that experienced it we would 1) Never by an LG again, and 2) Bitch about it to others. I'm sure this was a factor to their downfall as well.

Yeah, except I guess 98% of HiDPI users are on MacOS, a platform they are currently unable to create builds for.

And I'm sure that makes sense if you have lots of users and low revenue per customer. If your use case is the opposite, tracking individual usage becomes more important. At least until you have lots of those users. After that, who cares! :P

Thanks for the tip. One of Heap's selling points seems to be that tracking events "manually" is over, everything is automatic. That might work if all "work" is defined as "stuff users do". For other types of "work" (calculation pipelines, job delegation etc) I'm sure being able to "micro manage" events can be useful. But sure, my use case might be different.

I was recently looking for a good tool that supports both web site analytics and app analytics (custom events, typically pushed by SPAs). I looked at GA, Amplitude and finally Matomo (which I ended up with). GA and Amplitude either did not offer or made it hard to work down to the micro level, essentially tracking known individual users down to the singular event level. Matomo makes this easy, although it certainly looks a bit dated compared to the competition. And the free parts are somewhat limited (you need to buy stuff or hosting).

I would have though that there would be several decent packages offering www + app analytics by now, but as I wrote, options were quite limited. Some of the options mentioned in the subject here looks like good options for just website analytics, but I'm not seeing much as far as "app analytics" (custom events) goes.

Requiring people to have a Google account or similar is probably the primary reason why competitors such as Zoom had any chance to begin with. They can call it a security feature as much as they like, though I suspect "loss leader" is more correct. But for business use, it means Google Meet is a no go. We simply can not require customers to have this or that account before they can join a video conference.

If I read it right, they still require everybody joining to have a Google account. Which means the others that don't require this will keep growing. I mean, we're a Google shop ok, but requiring our customers to use google accounts is just something that we can not do.

Per capita / adjusted by population numbers would be great, thanks. :)

Disregarding the history behind js2-mode, if it has been decided that Emacs 27 will feature a much improved js-mode, I was just puzzled that it wasn't put into 26.x as a package already.

I couldn't remember the name of Yamamoto, which is why I said the author of the railwaycat port, where the latter is mostly packaging if I understand it correctly. But Yamamoto is doing most of the heavy lifting yes, and I'm thankful for it.