@fahad3267 @varundey Yeah, no... They teach frontend, backend, and even data visualization and QA...

@Condor This is a good starting place:

https://support.google.com/store/...

If the seller got it from the Google store you need the IMEI and the original purchase email. (Or likely just access to that email address.) You could probably co-ordinate that with they person you bought it from, if they are willing.

@TheOct0 Yeah, that's why I didn't specifically address what anyone said, just that general attitude. I know that some people are joking, but I also know that there are too many frontend devs who actually believe that they are God's gift to mankind and that they are better (and that their jobs are SO much harder) then backend devs (or ops guys.) Not that even a lot of them are like that, but even 1% is way too many...

To be fair, some back end devs are like that too, but not as many because they know nobody would use their API without an interface. Yet if you told certain frontend devs their awesome interface was useless because it had no data they would just respond with "No it isn't! Just look how pretty it is!" 🙄

Not to be rude, but I can't help but think that anyone who thinks web development doesn't include backend development is either extremely ignorant, or an asshole that thinks they're more important than everybody else...

Frontend is almost always completely useless without a backend to provide it with data and allow it to interface with that data, just as a backend is nearly useless without a sane way for a user to display the data and interact with it... They are both deferent sides of the same coin, and neither is particularly useful without the other...

@bittersweet Just put your mouth close to the keyboard and sigh deeply. It will probably get enough moisture in it from that to brick it real good... (J/K, but for real, Macs are SUPER sensitive to liquids...)

I can confirm that's a known issue and Google will likely replace it with a comparable Pixel XL. They ended up using my insurance to do it even though my 6P was out of warranty and insurance coverage was supposed to have lapsed a few weeks before... They also let me send the phone in first instead of doing an advance replacement, so I wouldn't have to have a hold on my card.

I would most definitely suggest contacting them and telling them the symptoms and see what they say before trying to replace the battery yourself.

Funny story, I actually had a proof of concept project I did many years ago that connected a voice chat program to a handheld radio (walkie talkie)... Whenever someone was taking on the software side it would buffer the audio for a few seconds and eject the CD tray, which had wires taped to it that would touch when it was open and cue the radio as if someone was holding down the talk button. Then it would play out whatever was said in the voice chat to the radio so everyone on a radio could hear it. It was SUPER GHETTO! Lol But, it worked well enough to determine that we definitely wanted to do it, so we bought the hardware needed to connect them properly. 8+years later they are still using using it, though with different software and some upgraded hardware. Hands down the most ghetto project I've ever done. Lol

@datawraith Unfortunately the original Lazarus was abandoned several years ago and last year was removed from the chrome web store for violating policies. (It was just never updated to comply with new requirements.)

I've heard that someone rewrote it, by I don't know who or where it is available...

@Floydian there are plugins for most browsers that save your form data as you type. What browser are you using?

@JoshBent So, whole digging around trying to figure out what the hell runs improvmx.com I found out about forwardmx.io they aren't free, but they have a 30 day trial that can at least get me up long enough to figure something out... So thanks again for that! :)

@JoshBent Not really worried so much about what their whois says. Above board or not, you shouldn't make me resort using whois to figure out if you are legit, or file a security concern, or find it what your privacy policy is, etc... Website footers and about us pages are about more then just the copyright line...

@error503 I tend to agree with you on that, but unfortunately, right now I simply can't afford to pay another service to do what a service I am already paying for is offering. Not that they are offering that anymore... :/

@JoshBent That's the plan, and thanks for pointing me to improvmx, I hadn't heard of them before. But unfortunately they are a complete ghost. No info about who they are, and more importantly, no privacy policy... :/

@bittersweet I've been playing with Bulma, and I really like it so far. It's like Bootstrap, but sane. It's literally just CSS styles that easily provide a consistent appearance and a strong foundation, that can be overwritten by theme CSS files for actual styling.

The classes are all consistent and shared (I.E. the class .is-large works on buttons, inputs, etc. rather then having a separate class for each.) and it's all really well thought out, without any client-side Javascript.

It would work well for keeping the JS separate from the design and completely optional. Then you could have the webserver and client-side JS both consume the same API and templates. You get nice, light, modern, UI components, that are backwards compatible and noscript compatible, and SPA convenience when desired.

I will say though that simple webpages are a double edged sword with data usage. If a person is visiting MANY pages, it can actually be more data hungry then SPA apps that only load new data...

@pain0486 I would argue that validation MUST always be done on the bank end, for security reasons, and SHOULD always be done on the front end, for UX reasons...

@hjk101 Yeah, but I would argue that it's just too big for a given purpose, not that it doesn't work...

@linuxxx I think that goes to prove my point quite nicely... They only kind-of, sort-of, care about their privacy, but not really.

Yeah, if you force people to make a choice by listing the pros and cons then they will likely choose the option that gives them more privacy. But only if the options are comparable in convenience, functionality, and design...

If you told them they should use Links instead of Chrome, I can 100% guarantee that not one of them would have switched... Same with Linux, since it isn't as convenient with supported applications, few people will actually switch to it for their daily driver...

When things are roughly equivalent, privacy will of course always win. But the vast majority of people, will sellout their privacy for convenience, every time. Which is exactly why they don't read privacy policies, and it's exactly why I say they don't REALLY care, it's one of their lowest priorities when making decisions...

@linuxxx Yeah, sure they all SAY that they care...

But actions are far more revealing about things like this then what someone says. Frankly, if people REALLY cared, they would take the time to read privacy policies so that they can make an informed decision. By and large the information is actually available, it's often even spoon fed to people with a link to the TOS and Privacy Policies, a check box that say they affirmed that they read them, and they can't even continue until they state that they read them. Yet they just mindlessly check the box, or click the button, without reading either...

So, maybe I'm just really jaded, but given that I don't know a single person that bothers to read those before agreeing to them, I have a REALLY hard time believing that even 10% of people actually truly give a damn about their privacy... They say they care, but their actions betray them...

@linuxxx And if you think that the majority of people actually care about their privacy, think again. All of the outrage towards Facebook about privacy issues has been driven by a vocal minority. All you have to do is look at people's social media accounts and cultural trends to see that they don't value privacy... They share intimate details of their life on Facebook, Instagram pictures of their daily life, and send nudes to friends and strangers alike on Snapchat... Whether we like it, or agree with it or not, people don't value privacy. And if they did, this never would have become an issue in the first place... #JustSayin

@linuxxx "integrated within...surveillance program" I haven't heard anything like that from any reputable sources, I would love to see some.

"would you still submit all that data?" Yes, as long as it can be turned off when I want. People generally don't care who knows whether they prefer Del Monte or Green Giant green beans...

"care about the privacy and security" Yes and no. They should care about them as long as the customers do. The problem is that while people value security, they don't value privacy... Companies should care about their bottom line most, it's the only real control we have of them. We make them care about things by voting with our money, it's not their fault if the people voting are idiots...

"Look, I'm fine with a company existing when you can *easily* stay out of that companies databases" This is a fair point, especially because they don't respect "Do Not Track" settings... Hopefully they will implement it soon, not that I am holding my breath on that...

@sharktits Quite true. However, in many states doctors report patients who are unfit to drive to their DPS/DMV and their license is suspended/revoked... This is a far more accurate and fair way of doing it as it can catch people who have very early and severe symptoms, and it won't penalize people who don't have issues until later.

A person's freedom should never be taken without actual cause. Once someone proves they can drive, they should be able to do so until that is no longer the case. And areas that have a lot of people that shouldn't be driving still on the road should tighten their rules about that, not put an arbitrary age limit.

@Wozza365 It's definitely possible, and I would be inclined to agree with you, if he hadn't said that it was an app and that it wasn't that big.

I don't think anyone that's building a browser based game that's large by website standards would describe it as "not a big app" in anything other then a game development context.

If you are making something like that, you KNOW that you are making a browser do things it was never meant to do and that it's going to be huge... lol

@linuxxx Hopefully that made sense. I had to cut it down a lot, so I hope it didn't seem curt or rude, I'm just really trying to understand where you are coming from, and explain what I see.

@linuxxx I half agree with you. Their core is collecting data in order to deliver ads, but, I don't think it's fair to say it's "fucking over people", as that would require some form of material harm. Frankly, I don't think them knowing the pages that you have visited, and using that to serve you ads is harmful. If you disagree, I would love to hear why.

"legal battles with about zero ethics" Blame the legal system for being messed up, but don't blame companies for taking advantage of it. Like accountants, lawyers must use the rules to give their clients the best result...

Google has many different divisions and they don't all have the same buisness model. GCP's buisness model is providing services for money. Often times different divisions of a company prove to be far different from the other divisions. For example, when the Xbox came out, they were doing things WAY better then the rest of MS put together. I really haven't seen a reason not to use GCP any more then Azure...

@disco LOL, I wouldn't say that those go on your head, they are more attached to your head. :P

@illegaldisease You said you were too lazy to collect FLAC files, so I was hinting at something that does it for you...

@illegaldisease There definitely isn't a program named after "the things that go on your head for listening to music" that lets you just tell it what you want to listen to and it finds it for you and organizes your library. ;)

@xewl @sharktits I know plenty of people over 60 that can still see and drive just fine, and plenty that haven't retired yet. I would be pretty pissed if I ended up living to 90 without having any serious eye issues but lost my license at 60 because I hit an arbitrary number... What's needed is simply more frequent, possibly more elaborate, tests for the elderly... Some states in the US are already doing that fortunately.

I'm really curious. Why you consider Google worse then Microsoft?

TBH, I honestly don't understand all of the hostility towards Google. Microsoft I understand as they have made lots of misteps in the past, Apple I can understand because they think they are God's gift to mankind and yet only build simple things for 80% of people, and say screw the rest. (And lately, they haven't even been doing a good job with simple...)

But I'm not aware of any huge misteps that Google has made, and they even at least try to push back on overreaching warrants and report statistics on the ones they get. I'm not aware of any other large company that does something like that. So, what's with all the beef?