What's their record abandoning actually used products? Sheets is literally 13 years old and is heavily used internally and externally. The odds of it going away are very small.
This "Google cancels everything" is pretty much a viewpoint I hear only on HN. I don't know what reality some people are living in.
if you google "AFLG C64" you'll see historical references to the author, one "M. Pall". I think your link indicates the exact opposite of what you're suggesting - that "Mike Pall" is his real name and that it was the "other stuff" that was published under a pseudonym.
IDK why this myth of him being a pen name persists.
As you pointed out, he publicly denied those claims.
He also put his postal address onto the luajit homepage. And it adds up with his history at the University of Karlsruhe. You can find pointers that he was actually there in 1994, from old websites that survived the decades. His Karlsruhe e-mail address is even still being credited in linux's net/ipv4/tcp.c. The best proof I found that he's an individual is him being credited as supervisor of an academic Dipl. Inf. thesis that's still available on the wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20000919224408/http://andy.rz.un...
I doubt that joking goes so far that you are mentioning a pen name on a thesis front page. In addition to the front page containing his name, the thesis also contains screenshots of websites the wayback machine hasn't caught in time that contain his name.
I don't understand the reasons. What is the actual problem in this "even-odd problem"?
How do all the other languages that have an equivalent function (Perl quotemeta, PHP preg_quote, Python re.escape, Ruby: Regexp.escape, Java Pattern.quote, C# Regex.Escape, Go QuoteMeta, Rust regex::escape) avoid or deal with this problem?
It doesn't matter how good or bad the technology is, or whether it's convenient or profitable to use it. AMP is a brazen attempt by Google to use their monopoly to take control of the web. The current version of AMP is not their intended final destination.
so I remember being upset that I could not run my javascript code in amp too... is that maybe what has you feeling it’s google trying to take control of the web... the thing is google make money selling ads not controlling your web content so I just don’t see how your assertion makes sense?
Just think how Youtube evolved from a seemingly open platform - to now where tons of people are being 'deplatformed' for not towing Google's line. That's what happens when Google gets 90%+ market share.
Remember when the Chrome team decided that certain sites won't be allowed to Autoplay videos? Yet other partner sites (and Youtube) were allowed to Autoplay. What if every single f-ing goddamn feature on your website was restricted based what Google says? If you're not "AMP-compliant" enough, following the arbitrary rules Google sets then they might restrict certain features like video viewing on your AMP site. That's the future people are buying into by implementing AMP. Free speech and the open web will die if AMP gets dominant market share.
I got a fairly explicit one of these in my calendar the other day, unfortunately it's a calendar I share with my wife, so it appeared on her phone too. That was a fun conversation.
Neither of us could delete the event, either via google calendar or ical. Nor could I find the original email I assume it came from. In the end I just deleted the whole shared calendar.
I had a similar experience, eventually I found the message in my spam folder. It's ridiculous that messages marked as spam show up on the calendar, but now we know.
One of the problems with the suggested solution in the article is that it doesn't apply to other people's view of your calendars - so my partner had an event from my calendar clogging her view but I couldn't see it to remove it!
Weirdly enough, I had an easy "Mark as spam" button on iCal as well as in Google Calendar. I never needed to turn off the auto-event feature because it went away when I marked one as spam.
I wonder if you got a different type of spam than I did.
The awesome part is the steps you take to make it not show up on your own calendar don't actually make it go away. It's still there and will appear for people you share the calendar with.
1. Yes, the ease with which attackers can take over a phone number is a big security issue in general
2. You might question your wife's request but people are far less likely to question their CEO in the same way, it might be seen as insubordination
Well, that's the rub, right? Anyway, what he did was get super into his hobbies, one of which was "urban gymnastics" (or whatever it's called), and eventually ended up on the Indonesian version of American Ninja Warrior, in his 40s (!!), which I found pretty inspirational.
Not a lot of money in that, at least for most people, so I think it's fair to call it retirement.
