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Got it, I'm a creator of comment-section content.

Create what exactly? I'm under the impression that you can hardly create anything on a phone except for cat movies and shopping lists.

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OSes may be technical clusterfucks. However, the most important thing imho is that all this shit is running on a stack that's robust against vendor lock-in. That's easier with a smaller stack since you have less vendors to worry about. LFSFS (local-first software from scratch), if you will.

Microsoft tried this with Touch Develop. The project was shut down last year. The on-screen keyboard layout was context-sensitive. IIRC you could enter complete keywords with a single key, maybe even variable names. It was pretty cool. Perhaps phones just don't have the screen estate for serious programming.

It doesn't sound to me like the kind of thing that any particular WoW is going to fix. As if it would suddenly naturally dawn on someone to do this given enough time. It's just lack of knowledge and/or discipline.

I don't believe that not setting a deadline is the solution. There are definitely software engineers who will happily change their designs an infinite amount of times if you let them.

> The testers keep running into situations where things don't seem to be right, luckily your product manager is happy to defer most issues raised unless it is a real "show stopper," as Jeff loves to exclaim.

That might have been the critical mistake. Jeff should not have done that. He should have insisted on lots of feedback loops during the project. He should have put more effort into convincing himself that the product is of sufficient quality.

As for the developers, they should have made it clear to Jeff: if he's not allocating resources to convince himself that the product is of sufficient quality, he shouldn't be mad at them when in the end the product doesn't work.

Let's go even more general: I would be unable to download PlayStore apps without violating the EULA. Did you know my apartment building's washing machines are literally inoperable without an app? For every app, you need access to the app-store platform. I wouldn't care so much if it's optional. However, we are at the point where we can't use basic household appliances without apps...

Try to use it for a while also. My experience has also been that, after a short time, you will be required to provide your phone number for security reasons.

Knuth invented a system that combines writing and coding: literate programming. Maybe you'd like that.

Yep, I wish it was better as well. The situation has improved a little bit though. For example, you can upgrade to newer builds of the same LineageOS version OTA using a built-in updater app.

On one hand, I really welcome technologies like this that empower people in a huge way. On the other hand, I really dread that in this case it comes from the company that wants to know everything about you.

The example where Google hid a microphone in Nest makes me believe they will do anything to get more information from people. I think it's not beyond Google to use people's handicaps to improve the image of Google Glass. Sorry to put it like that...

Yeah it makes sense when you think about it, but the first time you see it you're like wtf.

GT Sport has a DLC-mode where you can do time trials vs. Lewis Hamilton's lap times. On a track where he clocked 1 minute 37 seconds, I was pretty shocked to find that the top 10 GT Sport players _all_ clocked lap times around 2 seconds faster than that.

It has been for a while. I occasionally need to do !g when I'm searching for obscure errors, but it doesn't happen often.