> Physical UIs can be more intuitive and usable than screens
A thousand times this.
Not related to guitars, but I do a lot of off-roading and the multimedia system is only controlled by the big screen. In bumpy roads it's a trial and error operation to skip a song. Give me my previous/next physical buttons back.
Before reading this post I had no idea of who Mattias was and had never heard of Oh Dear! or DNS Spy. I'm happy to read about other people's finance during my lunch break, but I question what are the motivations other than cheap marketing reach.
Look from the other side as well. I doubt such transaction moves the needle enough in Oracle’s performance to mean anything to the pension fund’s investment. However, it’s almost an asset for the fund to be able to pursuit such lawsuit.
I don’t think it reflects badly on Twitter, it was simply a remark on the state of their blacklisting at the time. I’m sure they could’ve done a lot better if they chose to. Sorry I didn’t expressed myself better.
With all costs that goes into building a business (directly in $ or indirectly in hours) is it worth going down the path of saving money to this degree?
Setup heroku in <1 hour for <$100/month, forget about hosting and go build your product.
If $100/month breaks you, I think you’re in the wrong path anyways.
I agree it’s hard to really stop being tracked but I’ve been trying to become less of an easy target lately. Stopped using gmail as my main email and made duckduckgo my default search engine. Plus the traditional browser extensions.
Far from perfect? Yes. But at least I take some confort from no longer being such a juicy ad target.