xanadohnt

Crow are the full embodiment of "evil genius".

I did about 10 surf road trips last summer in a concerted effort to really "get" it. To provide some context - and at the risk of sounding like a jackass - I typically take to a new physical activity pretty quickly. Surfing? Nope. THE toughest sport I've ever attempted. I felt I wasn't any better at the end of the summer from the beginning.

The thing is, I eventually just accepted enjoying the experience. There's zen out there in the surf, whether you're waiting for a wave or riding one. Cold, salty water on your face, in your hair, down your throat, it recharges the body & soul. It can be very social too. Which, if I had never tried, would've never known.

It's a welcome - even "needed" - break from the keyboard. And maybe just maybe while I'm splashing around out there, I'll eventually "get" it.

I lol'd at "[...] they think I'm psychic". Nice one.

Not. Even. I felt forced to upgrade my 6 because it was unbearably slow. The battery? Excellent. In fact, at the time of trade-in, it was lasting longer than my iPhone X does brand new. More proof - the 6 was actually almost brand new itself; 3 months prior I smashed the screen and Apple replaced the entire unit (yes, generous on their part) instead of a screen swap (the body was bent enough to not allow a screen replacement). New unit, new battery, and thus not just anecdotal evidence.

Perhaps there is _some_ good intention on Apple's part. But I think it hides a just-as-motivating factor as forcing upgrade purchases. My opinion is their position is disingenuous at best. I would rather see them move toward the customer having the control to choose the experience or not instead of - as they explained - only adding transparency into the decisions into which Apple is forcing you.

Plainly, my experience was: I had perfectly healthy hardware, yet my 2-gen old device was almost too slow to be useable. And now here I sit with a $1200 unnecessary replacement.

N/m, found it in your profile. I'll be in touch!

Hi DenisM, what's your contact info? Are you hiring a lead role? The industry is very intriguing and would love to learn more.

It's "super simple". There's one pricing policy and it's hardcoded. As layers of abstraction are added in support of richer features, so too is complexity and hence "not-so super simple".

Absolutely. I was investigating this last week. Most articles have suffered bit rot where nearly all linked sites that once allowed non-verified accounts now require verification.

Signed up and ... it's a news letter. sigh

The client can hold onto the token indefinitely, the server doesn't care. But next time a request comes in with that token it will be expired. The server validates the timestamp which is part of the encrypted payload that only the server can decrypt; instant validation and no DB lookup.

Web tokens, for example, don't necessarily include just a session ID. Some include the full session details within its payload. This can be quite useful, actually, because it offloads session-lookup onto the client.

"Space race is warming up" - You verbalized perfectly what I've been feeling lately. So exciting!

Are we supposed to congratulate WhatsApp for doing something that should be expected with 1.0? Furthermore, your default is incorrect; sharing info is opt-in.

This is the same spin that Über employs themselves. It's clear the ultimate goal is to remove human drivers completely. Their rhetoric otherwise is so transparent it's insulting.

At the risk of sounding flippant ... shouldn't you be dogfooding to find your engineers?