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Can’t wait for the, “Elvis operator” to land. Going to remove so much code!

There also seems to be zero analysis of the winners. Simple analytics would have raised concerns early on.

I guess the company just didn’t care, as long as someone won and the marketing worked.

I expect people said this about developers that just knew about TCP/IP and not how the PHY worked.

At every level of abstraction they is a boundary that people may not choose (or have time) to pass.

I'm not saying everyone should be forced to learn about every layer, but these knowledge boundaries exist everywhere, and I'm not sure what can be done to improve the situation...

SAA(F)S?

The concept is to make you see the world though someone else's eyes, to put you into someone else's shoes.

You are highlighting your inability to do this, and proving how you only want to consider the impact directly on yourself.

I have similar stories about acquaintance IT contractors using offshore tax schemes. Are they better or worse?

These anecdotes about complex systems only fuel peoples preconceived perceptions of systems that they fear benefit others more than them.

This is (unfortunately) a huge testament to patenting technology. I remember Shazam shutting down a lot of early iOS apps that provided music discovery services. The technology it’s self became relatively simple in the last 10 years, but their ownership of the patent has kept them on top.

I suspect it’s due to end soon, and they realised once it’s gone they would just become a feature of music streaming services. Good to get out now while there is still some exclusivity for Apple to milk.

There is a certain paradox with teaching something like Redux, in that it's designed to make complex systems easy to understand and manageable. Yet when trying to demonstrate with a simple example, it appears hugely over complex and unnecessary.

I think a pre-requisite to learning something like Redux (or any micro-architecture) is to first try building something without it. Once you understand the pains of undisciplined, organically designed, spaghetti applications, the cynicism is replaced by excitement over how this will improve your job/life/application.

+1 for screen filter

Why not use a usb battery pack for your phone? Seems like one fewer thing to carry, and no extra 4G cellular contract.

This generally seems to be my conclusion when thinking about making something cool with a Pi or similar, wondering if I’m missing something?

Logging into a system that doesn't support your password manager, such as games consoles, shared computers, restricted work machines etc.

Copying over a really long generated password is much harder than an algo you can perform in your head.

Google reader highlighted this issue. I wonder how many finance apps there could have been if Google had never developed Google Finance.

I expect you could but perhaps not with a very good experience. I think a lot of the lighting modes rely heavily on doing that work in real time, rather than in post processing. It could be that it's just too laggy without the new processor.

That and Apple make their money from selling this hardware, so having software that only runs on new devices helps sell them.