One feature that I enjoy about AdBlock for Chrome/Firefox is the ability to toggle it on/off with the press of a button. So if site functionality is being broken by the ad block OR if I want to support a site by giving them an ad impression/click-thru I can do that easily.
Since I use the toggle on a daily basis any replacement would need to emulate this feature. My web browser can easily tell which page view spawned which HTTP request. It's hard to see how this would be done at the router level.
That being said this technique would be really useful for filtering out domains serving up malware/phishing/0-day scripts. Connection-level security blocking layered on top of browser-level ad block actually sounds really awesome.
As a straight male I guess I'm the target of this type of advertising. But I don't find it even remotely sexy or titillating. This is a shallow, junior-high level male teen deuche bag perspective on sexuality. God damn it's sad and just plain gross.
What do ads like this say to me? What impression do I get of the company (Voco)? "Are you a dull, hyper-sexualized idiot? Do you treat women like trash are rarely get laid? If so you'll love Voco! Play with our V-spot, 'cuz that's the only action you're going to get!"
Couldn't disagree more. Any sufficiently advanced platform will give developers the ability to do potentially dangerous things.
How will Google manage this risk? The same way Apple does with the app store. Google will act as gatekeeper for downloading and installing packaged apps via the Chrome Web Store.
Is this perfect? No. Will some bad apps get through? Yes. But the security tradeoff is worth it to get apps that are more powerful and more useful.
Let me get this straight. The author asserts the following:
Lesser managers will try to stump candidates with horrible brain teasers along the lines of “Describe a time you got into a bad situation and resolved it effectively?” — or crap like that.
What hard-hitting, incisive questions does the author ask instead?
Which of your previous jobs did you enjoy the most?
What do you think of our web site?
Tell me about your hobbies...
You've got to be kidding me. These are all soft-ball questions. What amazes me is that the author's company already has a hiring process in place. But he feels justified in abandoning this process at the end when an interviewee doesn't provide correct responses to an arbitrary list of soft-ball questions.
As a developer I schedule "surgery time" to avoid distractions. Blocks of 2-4 hours during the day where I go dark - no phone, no email, no chat/IM. The surgery analogy is apt. A good surgeon is amicable, knowledgeable, listens to patients and applies a deft touch to fix problems. But when he's elbow deep inside a patient he sure as hell isn't going to be taking any phone calls.
Do any major browsers have a setting to disable overriding default keyboard shortcuts
I don't know about that. When I'm using a web-based word processor or spreadsheet I want CMD+s to save the document I'm working on instead of bringing up the "Save Web Page As" dialog....
This is developer sloppiness. Google provides plenty of methods to authenticate users without persisting user credentials to disk. There's no reason an application would need to store your Google login to disk, unencrypted or otherwise.
As someone on Reddit pointed out, the minimal API version of the app is 4, which corresponds to Android 1.6, which, incidentally, does not have the AccountManager infrastructure.
I guess that's a good reason to implement credentials storage, don't you?
P.S. AccountManager stores your passwords and tokens unencrypted in a database as well.
This isn't political correctness run amok. This is simply a father trying to provide a positive female role model for his young daughter. Y'know, so she doesn't get the impression that heroism, accomplishment, ingenuity and adventure are of solely male provenance.
I'm curious - if it was a black father modding in a dark-skinned Link what would your reaction be?
Horrified. White people are better at killing Octoroks, and if telling black people that hurts their feelings, we should blame the Octoroks, not the white people.
They must have had some other differentiator. Looking at the product's home page it looks like they had support from Nike and several well known football clubs to promote and legitimize the app:
Now, obviously, they still had to build a compelling product and plan & execute a marketing strategy. They needed to be ready to succeed. Most people don't have a personal or professional network that includes access to decision-makers in large, influential organizations. Even so they still need to be prepared for that opportunity if and when their network expands.
Since I use the toggle on a daily basis any replacement would need to emulate this feature. My web browser can easily tell which page view spawned which HTTP request. It's hard to see how this would be done at the router level.
That being said this technique would be really useful for filtering out domains serving up malware/phishing/0-day scripts. Connection-level security blocking layered on top of browser-level ad block actually sounds really awesome.