I’m not sure if this particular killing was done by India, but either way it’s not great timing.

I was a heavy user of their biking directions and those became significantly worse with a single update overnight a few years ago.

Google Maps is still better than Apple Maps (and outside the U.S. the competition isn’t even close) but Google seems to be going out of their way to reduce that gap.

Their primary reasoning for picking V8 for Edge was that node, electron etc were built on V8.

We haven’t seen anything specific to those environments in Windows yet. I expect that to probably change pretty soon.

Occam’s razor would suggest it’s because accurate documentation would create worse PR.

That’s not reassuring at all.

The whole problem with a sea of notifications is that it’s hard to identify what’s important and what’s not. Your suggested solution does nothing to solve that problem other than to relocate when the problem arises.

Ok, maybe a dev is much faster writing JS because they keep stuff in their head better. But I’m assuming they also use third party libs, or functions that other devs in their team have written that they just need to call.

Typescript makes it easy for the IDE to show you what exactly you need to pass to call the teammate’s function (and this was the originally motivation behind typescript…improving MS dev tooling) without having to dig into the code or read the documentation.

And type inference means you’re rarely actually writing out the types. So I find it hard to believe that anyone writing a relatively complicated piece of code would be faster using JS over TS.

Small scripts and the like, sure. But complete complex applications? I doubt it.

It could have been one of the many components displaying ads. And this specific component might have accounted for a small percentage of those ads.

And presumably this wasn’t the only feature deployed so any noticeable change in revenues could have been attributed to many other things before a typo in the ID would have been discovered.

Its extremely convenient that the mandated data that helps customers cut through the millions they spend on marketing and pricing schemes is the one that is completely uncared for.

You will literally have 3 packages of soda all of the same size listing the price per unit in completely different units. Some in ml, some in oz, some in pts.

It seems the people doing the “prank” intended to show that a lot of these contests are not legitimate and just an opportunity for the organizers to make some money.

It would be interesting to see whether a legitimate contest that did blind taste tests would fall for such a trick.

It was intended to be a SAAS version of the on Prem offerings MS has provided since before GitHub even existed.

This is tracking that’s baked right into the browser. There is very little limit to what data it can use to generate whatever information it does, and it follows you across the internet for perpetuity. It’s also a first party implementation so you’re completely beholden to Google’s decision to do what they want with it, and considering the IE like chokehold Chromium has on internet browsing, most people will be subject to whatever Google decides to do.

Finally, your steps only tell me what Google is telling others. It tells me nothing about what data the browser itself might be collecting and passing onto Google.

There is a substantial qualitative difference between a 3rd party tool that can easily be blocked by the first party vendor (the browser) and or modifications to it using extensions, and a first party tool doing the tracking itself.

These companies laid off a bunch of people. Some of whom were H1Bs. And they’re hiring a bunch of people. Some of whom are H1Bs.

That’s simply a commentary on large companies hiring even after doing layoffs which is pretty standard.

In the Nokia scenario, however, Elop published a memo which destroyed Nokia’s declining but still substantial business overnight (that memo alone probably cost Nokia hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars in revenue…revenue they simply could not afford to lose), torpedoed the in-house effort Nokia had been working on and had ready to go, and worst of all, when choosing the external platform to depend on instead, chose the one that was not even close to being the market leader, did not allow Nokia anywhere near the same level of control or customization as the market leader, provided Nokia no input on the future of Windows Phone, and as a result predictably made Nokia phones almost exactly the same as rhe no name Chinese phones that were the only other phone makers using Windows Phone.

In Nokia’s case the simplest explanation for all these actions was a conspiracy. There’s no good way to explain Elop’s actions otherwise without doubting his mental acuity.

The board could have already had doubts, and when he lost a Shopify contract to Amazon, when arguably Shopify sells itself as the anti-Amazon, that only served to underscore he wasn’t the right person to lead the company.

But had consensual sex with a man? Unforgivable. You must resign.

The media simply doesn’t cover this for obvious reasons.

The media is corporate and pro union actions aren’t good for them either.

Thars very different from the situation we have now where Firefox is well known and open source, and even Chromium’s open source so it can be leveraged by better stewards of the internet.

Don’t get me wrong. My argument is not that Google is better than Microsoft. My argument is simply that the situation we’re facing right now is very different from the IE era. If anything, I’m arguing that the Chrome era is worse because of how much more insidious Google’s actions are.

It was easy for the EU to essentially eliminate the IE threat by forcing MS to unbundle IE and for Firefox (and later chrome) to replace IE purely on the basis of providing a better software. Replacing Chrome on the other hand is a very different kind of problem that is possibly much harder.

It’s not the new IE. In my mind it’s worse than the new IE because it achieves similar goals as the IE abuse but without necessarily doing anything illegal.