A sample size of n=1 is an anecdote not data. Totally horrible experience but seemed to hinge on a particularly bad actor with knowledge of how best to exploit customers and airbnb. It is pretty shitty, I hope they make it right because it sounds like you acted in good faith, but this seems like a really complicated edge case.
I had a similar experience this week with Dashlane (a password mgnt app) where i installed it and it corrupted >70 passwords locking me out of vital accounts. This is why my HN UN is green for instance. Customer support was totally shit for a while but I tweeted them and they responded and actually read my responses. I ended up losing all the data but they[0] eventually provided some time to look into the issue deeper as well as a free 12 month account. Should they have helped me better up front, when the data may still have been recoverable? I think NO, but want to say yes. I had a free account and didnt had non-traditional settings. So while i would gladly trade the free account for my credentials back I bear some responsibility. I AM NOT INDICATING YOU(or the writer) ARE RESPONSIBLE. My point is that some situations are really shitty and are not indicative of the experience/views of an organization. If this occurs only very rarely, conpanies can still have a great business and unfortunately some people will be casualties to circumstance
[0]xavier, if you are reading this. Thanks for the account credit and making things right, Cheers!
Ruby is pretty standard and I assume PHP is as well being VERY mature. However, outside of the core things vary wildly. People using noSQL or simply using rails-api for some examples. Maybe they can manage this well and allow for variance, but Even somewhat granularly no environment is the same. I have never used Docket or containers, but this seems to be the selling point. You don't use a service to help you configure your environment, but you configure it for docker and you can run docker anywhere a bit can go.
Right, but since this is for microservices that should be not caring where your servers are coming from, just looking in your ENV or generated config, you let Otto make the noSql services and etc.
"Everyone" seems to feel like phones are distractibg additions to face to face communication. " Eveyone" admits to using their phone at social engagements. Good or bad, this behavior wasn't curbed fast enough (if that was even possible) and devices will forever be a second appendage until literally these devices become appendages.
I don't use my phone in social engagements except for rare circumstances, and it's liberating. There's so much joy and beauty that can come from engaging with other people, and it's ashame people remiss this.
Also, going on your phone disrupts the "flow" or the "way". It's like, trying to pause earth, send a text, and it still pick up right where you left off. You can't do it. And you miss all the experiences that just came and went, including those that could have helped other people. When you finally pickup your head again, you're suddenly on a different wavelength than the rest of the world.
It's also disrespectful looking at your phone in social engagements (I sound like an old person, but I'm not.) Looking at your phones usually means one of two things 1) What's on my phone is more important than talking with you, or 2) I'm bored; you're not entertaining enough. My reply to #2 YOU'RE not entertaining enough. Yet here I am, praying for you while you're on facebook.
For years it has been obvious that the web would beat apps in aggregate, but apps would have better engagement. If you wrap your website in an app using ionic and treat it like a standard site no one will use it. While soneon has noted trust (which is true) it is also fir convenience. The browser is a great app and can run many apps in parralel while quickly shifting between them, it is CONVENIENCE as mych as trust.
If your app does mot extensively make use of the hardware and can be run as a website, it has no business being an app. This is obvious, being proved now, and the app craze will pivot from shit-tier websites in iOS clothing to things that add real value and interface directly with the phones hardware because they need to provide security, access to a protocol, or leverage hatdware (accelerometer, camera, Bluetooth, etc)
I think the parent was talking about supply side. I think you are totally correct but, I find myself not satisfied with the answer. All legitimate cab companies should puf money into hiring a company to build a sinple app to connect them to legal taxis. You pay, you get on the app. Tagline, "as convenient as uber, only legal".
It would be a hell of a lot cheaper than funding lawyers and lobbyists like they have been.
That's exactly the point though, it's the entire system that needs replacing. It's awfully hard to turn a ship around when it's as large as the taxi industry (with lobbies to boot).
Take one element of it - say the taxi companies said, "OK, you're now getting rated, and if you drop below 5 stars you lose your medallion." Drivers would lose their minds.
Imagine them saying, "Also, now your trips are going to cost 50% less" again, would not fly.
Or even, "You can use your own car, because that's way more efficient" (would never happen, because taxi drivers rent their cars for $40,000/month).
The taxi industry has done a hell of a lot to entrench itself and make itself irreplaceable, no matter how awful it is. In doing so, it has created a system completely resistant to change and innovation. The industry was ripe for someone to come along and replace it with a parallel system that was better and more efficient.
Do you have any tips for performance. I use chrome and ublock, umatrix and disconnect. Disconnect is a few second penalty but worth it for a free proxy. However, I am not sure whether ublock runs before uMatrix, or how much that matters. I was hoping to find a few great regex heuristics to speed things up and procide better blocking. I personally don't use 3rd party block by default because honestly why bother, sites display so shitty you might as well just noscript and whitelist.
tldr; parent or anyone interested do you have suggestions surrounding:
> good filter configurations in ublock
> whitelist & regex config
> use uMatrix?
> how to optimize for performance?
uBlock can use disconnect's filter lists, its in the options. I'm not sure why you think disconnect is giving you a "free proxy", that doesn't seem to be a feature.
i actually view it more like the standard age old pricing model for goods with massive supply. "Content" is drastically higher in supply than demand, you are simply paying your market price for content. Ads would of course exist, but largely yahoo and early portals acted as print media companies selling advertising instead of content because 1) it was a new dist model, 2) there was nothing close to the ecomnerce and payment tools.
So basically, you are just paying for the goods you use, you set your price and this is beneficial to companies because the marginal cost of serving a webpage is almost nothing so if you opt to pay anything it is profit.
Unfortunately, taking time to pay for something has more friction than just not paying for it as well as being cheaper.
While this is likely true, do you think they can't get that data another way? I would speculate that with pre-installed root certificates and total network control they could get a lot of data. This wikipedia entry estimates that in 09 ~80% of chinese software sold was pirated. Pirated versions of windows and chrome are distributed on the black market. This software may have changes for the cracking program so the hash will mismatch the authentic software. Placing spyware on chrome and windows copies and distributing them would allow them the ability to harvest this data anyway. I agree with your appraisal. As a cynic, I assume they are trying to control data flowing out of china and this is one of many ways to control data, especially the type of people who would use this operating system which I would assume could be gov't controlled institutions like schools and research labs, as well as party officials.
