Decision tables are nice. They hide the important part of the logic away out of view of another programmer trying to figure out a bug in the code.

Very helpful! You take longer to find and fix bugs, and potentially miss a few extra ones because of stuff like this. Increased tech debt. Highly recommended! 👍

I love how this tries to sell making your code strictly worse as something positive.

Sigh. And it’s still full of ifs.

Well yeah, but Spotify also does more than Youtube in some ways. Like, have a minimum amount of podcasts on it (I know I know, why not use a separate podcasting app, but for the little podcasts I listen to it’s easier having it all in one app that is known to shit like Sonos and stuff), or have bands that aren’t well known in the US.

Don’t get me wrong, I loathe Spotify, but compared to Youtube’s audio side they’re a much much better experience. Hence I would usually rate them on-par in what they should cost: With Spotify you get a better experience, with Youtube you also get ad-free videos.

I mean, the thing I work on hada great idea. Use microservices, because we genuinely have a need to independently scale different parts.

Few years down the line and there’s an endless list uff services, most with a single instance doing nothing all day, and having memory and CPU overhead of course. And being a nightmare to figure out what code is whereas they all communicate independently.

Ah, over here you buy phones separate, and foldables cost 4x++ what I’d be comfortable spending on a phone. (currently on a Fairphone, if I use it for 5 years that’s 130€/year of use, and that’s at the minimum use. Plus the contract costs me… I forgot, but very little per month.

Now we need people to buy these to make the tech even more cheap and better.

No, we need the tech to be cheaper and better for me to buy it. This isn’t my problem, the stuff is just not in a price segment where I can afford it.

Yeah because SURPRISE, not everyone is rich.

Is that noteworthy though? As in, it’s a 3D check, and most mobile games have graphics that an old TI 92 could render.

“Quiet quitting” 😂

Because yeah, you only do the job they pay you for, how dare you!

It has now been finalized as of yesterday, from what I understand. Previously it was a work-in-progress policy change they were still unsure about, and now it’s decided that this is the way going forward.

I reckon sadly at least part of the reason will be that they are in a partnership with OpenAI, and feeding generated stuff into a GenAI breaks the model, so they need to keep SO as non-AI as possible.

Okay, and how would you address it? The limitation is easy to criticize when you can think in a vacuum about it. But in the real world, we’d need to find a way to change things that can actually be implemented by everyone.

Which usually means transformative change.

Yeah but you can bet Apple will do their darndest to make it unlikely anybody is using it.

Man, imagine lock screen widgets. Such a product of the future. I wonder whether we’ll get those in Android 2.0 or so finally.

(They were around before, and removed in Android 5 for no reason)

🤷

I mean sure, but you could have just said you never read the article. No need to get snippy about it.

Hrm… I’m tempted to just cite the exact same line for a third time.

That connection you mention would be sensible, yeah. If that were what is happening. Which as per the article, it is not. There’s even screenshots of the setup pages.

What does that have to do with the article posted here?

What does that you wrote have to do with the article posted here?

Yeah but due to the extra indentation in the second image, the python part doesn’t work.

Betteridge’s Law

I mean it has fuck all hype except the tiniest nichey audiences, so I guess that worked out.