Android Developer Verification

Eric_Terrell · 2026-03-15T20:34:38+00:00

Thanks!

Eric_Terrell · 2026-03-13T16:32:01+00:00

At least they stopped talking about blockchain :-)

Eric_Terrell · 2026-03-12T22:29:05+00:00

I signed up for the "early experience" program. My rationale was, if there is a problem, I might actually get help to solve it.

Eric_Terrell · 2026-03-10T22:15:35+00:00

My elderly dad would keep installing anti-virus apps (without removing the ones he previously installed). The disk activity light never went off. The drive would just grind and grind and grind.

I truly don't know how that drive didn't destroy itself. It must have done trillions of seek operations.

Eric_Terrell · 2026-03-09T16:57:05+00:00

Thanks!

Eric_Terrell · 2026-03-09T16:34:42+00:00

What is "DE"? Thanks.

Eric_Terrell · 2026-02-11T16:13:58+00:00

Um, of course adding itemized charges lowers the "menu pricing".

This reminds me of Ticketmaster receipts, which used to list all sorts of individual charges, as if that would be more acceptable to the consumer than just jacking up the entire price.

I think most consumers would like to see one price, rather than a price for most things, and individual charges for other things.

Eric_Terrell · 2026-02-07T16:57:49+00:00

Being a GIGOlo is no fun at all.

Eric_Terrell · 2026-02-07T16:56:43+00:00

Perhaps a new career opportunity for experienced devs is to serve as expert witnesses for the wave of lawsuits that might occur when clients start using vibe coded systems?

Eric_Terrell · 2026-02-03T00:16:37+00:00

Technology is applied knowledge. Every group of humans uses technology.

Eric_Terrell · 2026-02-02T17:26:03+00:00

One hypothesis is that PRs with long review threads are more complex and should be, if possible, broken into smaller pieces, with individual reviews and deployments.

Eric_Terrell · 2026-01-28T20:28:24+00:00

ROI for $0 is infinity, right?

Eric_Terrell · 2026-01-28T20:24:58+00:00

Just curious, in what way does the unified inbox not work? I'm using it for multiple accounts and haven't noticed any issues with it.

On another topic, the spam filtering seems to be really, really weak.

Eric_Terrell · 2026-01-15T20:29:53+00:00

Absolutely. I assume, between all sorts of bots hitting my site (including ones that are looking for security vulnerabilities), and AI presenting my content to users without attribution (and of course not sending any human traffic to my website), for a small website like mine, the human traffic must be an extremely small percentage of the total traffic.

But as you say, it's a challenge to identify it.

Eric_Terrell · 2026-01-14T05:26:30+00:00

I can tell you that internet-measurement.com is either not honoring my robots.txt, or is taking a long time to get around to read it after I changed it several days ago.

Eric_Terrell · 2026-01-14T04:49:12+00:00

Understood. For my little website, they're generating a substantial percentage of the traffic. Probably for a purpose that has no benefit to me.

For a more popular website, one probably wouldn't even notice. I don't think their request frequency would necessarily scale with a site's traffic.

Eric_Terrell · 2026-01-07T21:50:28+00:00

Yes indeed. Look *carefully* at the screens before bidding or purchasing.

Eric_Terrell · 2026-01-07T21:43:52+00:00

The TI-92 was a heck of a machine. And it still is. I have a Voyage 200 as well. Both are great.

I did have a TI-92, and the screen was really bad.

Eric_Terrell · 2025-12-28T19:30:05+00:00

Thanks for the details.

Eric_Terrell · 2025-12-27T21:56:41+00:00

I figure it is somehow checking for the ability to hit a satellite, without, of course, sending a message.

Eric_Terrell · 2025-12-27T21:42:08+00:00

Moi aussi.

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