I am fascinated by the concept of blood pressure as one of the foremost tools of health. Can someone recommend perhaps a book size read on the history of how we came to learn of its value and help illuminate well... what it even is?
Getting his way: The Wall Street Journal article. They said he usually got his way, but that he was so skillful at it that they were hard-pressed to explain exactly how he managed to pull it off.
Does the following thing they make you acknowledge mean you can’t use this to pick stocks?
“It is unlawful to use the information contained in these Financial Disclosure Statements for (A) any unlawful purpose, (B) any commercial purpose, other than by news and communications media for dissemination to the general public, (C) determining or establishing the credit rating of any individual, or (D) use, directly or indirectly, in the solicitation of money for any political, charitable, or other purpose. See 5 U.S.C. app. § 105(c)(1),(2). In conformity with 2 U.S.C. § 104e(b)(3), certain personally identifiable information in these reports, not required to be disclosed, has been redacted.”
I think Apple will individually reply to the feedbacks with a PR message like "we take your concerns seriously, we have a plan to improve our feedback interaction." Because the replies are individual and posted on a private channel, people who joined the boycott will not have any wider visibility, and think "Oh maybe it's okay now" and go back to using it.
It might be worth establishing an official public dialog forum and discouraging people from individually communicating until a resolution is confirmed there in public. Right now it's on individuals to confirm that Apple improved things, which can only reasonbly be done by submitting more feedback (i.e. breaking the boycott).
I've personally stopped providing feedback via forms on cloud providers' websites due to similar unacknowledgement and general disinterest in improving developer experience, but haven't tried to organize anything about it.
It's kind of a "everybody sucks" situation and there's no real winners.
Archive.[whatever] setup a server system to give you access from a country not your own, so that abusers have a harder time of archiving illegal content, then instantly reporting it to get the entire archive taken down. He uses EDNS to do this, but CF doesn't provide EDNS since it's a privacy issue to them.
So archive.[whatever] doesn't work for CF DNS because he doesn't want to risk bad actors being able to take down the archive.
Sensible reasons on both sides, especially for a service like archive.[whatever], and the real losers in this situation are the users.
I was the creator of the OG Popurls which at the time was the #1 traffic driver for Reddit and Digg; and also created Twidroid the very first Android Twitter client which became one of the reasons for shutting down 3rd party apps after its acquisition. Since I'm a sucker for anything old-school Web, I've been working on a Digg 1.0 rehash for a while now so if any of you wants to beta test let me know.
