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I had the same complaints and just went with the excellent ESLint plugin with a ES2016/17 friendly config instead of the default vscode linting.

You can always find ways to monetise an operating system. Some possibilities include:

* add products/referral links to os search results (like ubuntu lenses)

* add ads to the base operating system (like kindle's sponsored homescreen)

* sell spots for default search providers (like bing for siri)

And you target old phones by providing them with an upgrade path to cyanogen mod based on a more modern android version. Many devices are technically fully capable of running modern android versions but have been abandoned by their manufacturers.

This is exactly why I slowly shifted my amazon purchases to their prime-now app. With that service, Amazon seems to only offer the most successful, products in each category, significantly reducing the burden of choice it puts on me. It also does not include products of third party sellers, which decreases the risk of accidentally buying knock offs. The experience of buying e.g. Apple accessories on Amazon's main website is horrible, on prime now it is effortless and safe.

My take away from this article is that the notification center on a phone OS should really take the cues from messaging apps and experiment with providing a more meaningful thread-based way of displaying notifications with more information than red bubbles with numbers and a better way to act on them than just launching the associated app.

It's an argument that gets made over and over again:

Paris: density 55,673/mi^2

SF: density 17,246/mi^2

(source: wikipedia)

Endzeitstimmung - Feeling that the end of the world is near.

What a great word. Endzeit being composed of the nouns Ende (end) and Zeit (time) which form the word Endzeit, wich is the time when the world ends. And then composed with Stimmung (feeling).

There are probably not many tech companies who would turn down an internship applicant with this guy's résumé. So, yes, no puzzle to be pieced together here.

Same. Especially with items like Apple accessories, this is really starting to hurt Amazon's reputation. Most of the reviewers for those products complain about receiving knock-off products and have no clue that they need to select the ones sold directly by Amazon to get the original one.

I listened to a talk by Jan Koum from WhatsApp right before the acquisition by Facebook. His key point was that WhatsApp success comes from the fact that they only do messaging (as an sms replacement) and keep the app simply. He was talking about a lot of functionality that he did not want to add (desktop client, video chat, games, anything commercial or e-commerce related) and said WhatsApp wants to keep the surface are of it's app and developer team as small as possible. I don't know how much that changed after the acquisition, though.

Mozilla cares about good user experience more than money and sometimes even more than self interest and principles. Unfortunately the quality of DuckDuckGo's search results for non-english-speaking countries are nowhere close to google's, which is why google is still the default there.