I stumbled upon this article a couple of days ago when it was featured on the last issue of Javascript Weekly (19.3.21) and thoroughly enjoyed reading it. The points made in this piece are soundly argued while never hiding the fact that they're ultimately based on one individuals perspective.
Couple of days later and in line with my usual HN-reading MO (and not remembering the title of said article, it is quite generic) I'm looking at the headline of this post and my mind immediately goes «Yeah, I definitely want to read those comments, if only for shits and giggles». And boy was I not disappointed:
It starts off with «I love X because I hate Y», continues with Y implicitly being understood as a function of «Y + 3rd party Z» (and what's not to hate about bloody Z as if that's not a self-inflicted liability) and ends with library authors digressing into low-level technicalities, which, ironically, both X and Y are trying to simplify in the first place, so that ordinary product-shipping folks like the author of the original article and myself can focus on the task at hand: Getting shit done.
It really feels like everyone on here was just desperately waiting for a hook to talk about either their personal preference or their specific set of problem domains instead of adding value to an admittedly mundane but very concise piece of writing.
It probably speaks volumes about my naivety that, after all these years of digesting HN on a daily basis, I still somehow assume that both the subject matter and the tone of a given piece might actually correlate with the reactions to it. Then again, as I said, I came here for shits and giggles, so, if I'm perfectly honest, I kind of knew all along.
While technically somewhat a valid concern, vendor lock in on an OS level has never been Googles MO. Quite the opposite actually: The more the merrier.
Every Google service (Maps, Docs, Mail, Drive, Calendar, Analytics Admin etc ppt) works in all major browsers. You might get the best out-of-the-box UX with their offerings in Chrome because authentication/authorisation is handled on an app level, but other than that there's really nothing stopping you from using, say, their spreadsheets in Safari.
The fact that they kind of own TC39 while also actually owning the browser with the largest market share is not optimal on many, many levels, but, frankly, the risk of them pushing a hard lock in on any level, to me, is negligible.
They're monetising telemetry and ultimately don't care where that's coming from.
The direct consequences for Muslims are hardly the problem here – only about 30 women in Switzerland (we know about) even wear a burka/niqab and quite a few of them are Swiss converts. Back when we banned minarets, we had like three (!) of them in the whole country.
But we had ads like these [0] all over the country for months again and if that doesn't give you the most profound chills, I don't know. It's textbook right wing scapegoatism and I'm pretty sure Muslims can feel the very real consequences of that kind of propaganda.
HTML or any other markup language for that matter is very hard to translate into a well-defined and predictable data structure. When working with content editors, this, to me at least, is a hard requirement.
I stumbled upon this article a couple of days ago when it was featured on the last issue of Javascript Weekly (19.3.21) and thoroughly enjoyed reading it. The points made in this piece are soundly argued while never hiding the fact that they're ultimately based on one individuals perspective.
Couple of days later and in line with my usual HN-reading MO (and not remembering the title of said article, it is quite generic) I'm looking at the headline of this post and my mind immediately goes «Yeah, I definitely want to read those comments, if only for shits and giggles». And boy was I not disappointed:
It starts off with «I love X because I hate Y», continues with Y implicitly being understood as a function of «Y + 3rd party Z» (and what's not to hate about bloody Z as if that's not a self-inflicted liability) and ends with library authors digressing into low-level technicalities, which, ironically, both X and Y are trying to simplify in the first place, so that ordinary product-shipping folks like the author of the original article and myself can focus on the task at hand: Getting shit done.
It really feels like everyone on here was just desperately waiting for a hook to talk about either their personal preference or their specific set of problem domains instead of adding value to an admittedly mundane but very concise piece of writing.
It probably speaks volumes about my naivety that, after all these years of digesting HN on a daily basis, I still somehow assume that both the subject matter and the tone of a given piece might actually correlate with the reactions to it. Then again, as I said, I came here for shits and giggles, so, if I'm perfectly honest, I kind of knew all along.