I wonder if the lack of capital letters is a clever trick to make this whole annoucement look more humane and natural. Surely it's intentional: only "U.S" deserves capitals, not even his own name in the signature.
This is precisely why we have clinical studies. We want to measure the efficiency and the innocuousness of drugs. You seem to imply we should just go ahead and try those directly on the general population.
Has anybody ever been forced anyone else to take any drug? The problem is not about being forced, it is about making an informed decision. When you don't have enough safety data you are effectively gambling with your health.
Same! There is a huge knowledge and skill gap between knowing how resistors, capacitors, and transistors work to the point where you can build a little light blinker, which I can do, and actually troubleshooting a (even 1980s through-hole technology) device to find the component that is broken, which is way beyond me.
> The author is clear that they're talking about "billion dollar tech companies" for an audience of those people called to them.
> We’re in an industry where burnout isn’t just common - it’s expected. If you’re not pulling all-nighters, you’re "not committed." If you’re not answering Slack messages at midnight, you’re "not a team player." This culture is toxic, and it’s only getting worse. The relentless churn of projects, the constant pressure to innovate, and the ever-present threat of obsolescence create a perfect storm of stress.
No, the author is generalizing what work at a billion dollar tech company is like to the whole industry. I've never worked for a company similar to the one described in this post, and I think that the vast majority of people in tech haven't either. Silicon valley is not the world.
Even a random Fingerprint can be used as identification since you will always have some static values between each session. The better approach would be to get in a big enough group with the same/similar fingerprint. That's how tor browser works.
This is how I work as well, and the reason I tend to write many small functions rather than few large ones is precisely because it reduces cognitive load. You don't have to understand what the canSubmit function does, unless you are interested in knowing what the conditions to submit this form are.
Ironically, the author of the post claims it has the opposite effect.
I disagree that it's an attack, I've also never heard anyone say methods should be less than 5 lines. 5 lines is an insane limit, 15 is much more reasonable. This kind of enforcement reeks to me of unnecessarily "one-lining" complicated statements into completely unreadable garbage. I mean seriously though, 5 lines? Why not 4, or 3, or 6? 15 lines of well thought out code is infinitely preferable to 3 different 5-line monstrosities. Who(m'st've) among us that actually writes code would preach such a guideline, and can i please see their code for reference. Maybe they are just better than us, i still don't think that makes it a reasonable general rule. And i disagree that calling that out as crazy counts as a personal ad-hominem attack against this nebulous entity
Brave just disables the cookie banners (they don't even load), while this fills such forms if I understood correctly. Somehow I get very targeted ads in other apps after using Brave, so I tend to use firefox-based browsers for personal (i.e. any not work-related) stuff.
I can't understand how Apple can possibly get away with this. Is there any chance for them to win if the case were brought to court?
One year ago, I had to contact Apple support because the FindMy feature wouldn't work on my Airpods Pro, which still were under warranty. It looked like they were already associated with another account, which wasn't mine. That made no sense as I bought them myself at the Apple store and only have a single iCloud account.
I went to the store and they acknowledged the issue, and immediately got a replacement which turned out to have the exact same issue. I then had to spend hours on the phone with their customer support. After trying everything without success, the person on the phone told me I'd get a call back in one week to either issue a refund or find a different solution.
That phone call never came. All my following messages to that person were ignored. I finally gave up, but found out I was far from being the only one they had ghosted like that. Reading these stories reinforces my belief that Apple is terrible in terms of accountability when something goes wrong.
Took me a couple reads to put this one together. Based on that you mention being able to see they're associated with someone else's account, you mean that you got a unit that was not factory reset before being given to you right? (And you can't do it yourself because they're Apple-locked for theft reasons.) Not that it got stolen and now you can't find it?
Then you say you went to the store, were given a replacement, and it turned out the same. You didn't try out in the store whether these ones are functional? Which makes sense because why wouldn't they be, but could have saved the trouble. You haven't tried going back to that store, perhaps even at the same time and day of week so that you are likely to get the employee who remembers that they provided support in this situation (by handing out a replacement unit, in this case)? Then you could immediately try out, before taking it out of the store, whether this unit is functional
Either way, they have an obligation to meet the claims put out in marketing statements, including features like FindMy since they say on the website it can do that. If you've exhausted the easy options, you can always take it to something like small claims and get at least a refund that way. Often, a letter saying you intend to suffices
> Based on that you mention being able to see they're associated with someone else's account, you mean that you got a unit that was not factory reset before being given to you right? (And you can't do it yourself because they're Apple-locked for theft reasons.) Not that it got stolen and now you can't find it?
The unit was brand new, however it got somehow linked to some other iCloud account the second I connected it to my phone (which is not an iPhone). Well, the message I got indicated "You cannot use FindMy because the Airpods are linked to another iCloud account" or something like that.
I discussed with the same employee who helped me initially. They called a couple of their colleagues, and because nobody there could do anything to solve the issue, they gave me a phone number telling me this was the only option left.
It was clear to Apple there was an issue on their side, and that they needed to provide a solution. This has never been disputed.
> Either way, they have an obligation to meet the claims put out in marketing statements, including features like FindMy since they say on the website it can do that.
Absolutely, and I made sure to remind them this.
> If you've exhausted the easy options, you can always take it to something like small claims and get at least a refund that way.
Indeed, that could be an option. I just gave up as I was exhausted from spending over 10 hours just for this. At some point, it wasn't worth the effort anymore. But maybe this is what they are expecting us to do.
> I can't understand how Apple can possibly get away with this. Is there any chance for them to win if the case were brought to court?
My naive understanding would be that you entered into a contract with them to supply a MacBook in exchange for a sum of money. The money was paid, but the MacBook was not delivered to the customer, so Apple are in breach of contract. I would imagine that a credit card company charge back would be the easiest solution if it was paid for by one.
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