and then it's also not a podcast provider. Run me through how I'd listen to Gimlet's Academy[1] audio series in Overcast, and I'll concede that point too
And if everyone cares as little as you do, Spotify will win.
My hope is that most people on HN won't confuse "caring about open standards" with "pedantry".
> It's also the only app that seems to work with weak networks.
This is non-sensical. Episodes are delivered via ordinary HTTP. And with podcast apps (again, Spotify is not one), the odds are good that episodes from your subscriptions have been pre-fetched to local storage before you even play them.
The sheer amount of salt in the medium comments because of Electron is astounding. Never had any memory hog issues with Slack. Have been using it extensively for over 2 years now. Works fine on my 2010 laptop as well!
Never used twitter. Just made an account using work email to test twitter login. Didn't do a single thing yet. And my account gets blocked for 'suspicious activity' and they want my phone as well. What a shady company.
This happened to me as well when I recently tried to make an account with an email address and no phone number. It was frozen almost immediately after creation, and when I requested it be unfrozen, twitter sent a message to my main email (NOT the one I signed up with!!) and required me to respond and say I had access in order to get the account back up.
Made me very uncomfortable and virtually destroyed any desire I had to use their service.
One way that I approached this was to start my own SaaS product business.
First, it's a good way to test whether you actually are as good and productive as you think you are, since you now have to build an entire software product all by yourself. The ratio of deadwood at your company is going to be either zero or one.
But the nice part is that when you have one person at your company, you get to keep all the profit for yourself. And there's no reason to work 40 hour weeks (assuming you really are mr rock star like you think) so you only need to bring in say $10k/month and work less than 200 hours per year (1/10 of 2080, remember) to see an hourly rate that's more than 10X your 9-5 contemporaries.
Firefox may be leveraging container functionality for private mode. Firefox containers are fully functional isolated containers of data where regular browser features function like expected.
Even if it doesn't, the Firefox temporary containers add-on would help.
I had the opposite experience. Uber has customer support built into the App. I was also billed twice and just followed the instructions in App that created a ticket. Got my money back in 2 days.
Same thing in my case. I had a few mishaps - one guy didn't terminate the trip once I got off, so I got overcharged, another failed to pick me up to begin with (!), but started a trip anyway, etc. In every case the issue was financially resolved in terms of hours.
