I've worked on teams of various sizes and skills writing OO applications and trying to use inheritance and OO to get code reuse is always a nightmare. I currently work on large project with hundreds of Scala engineers of various abilities, and structuring our code in functional ways has bought us a ton of reuse and prevented a lot of technical debt.
We primarily write libraries, and our 'applications' are more or less throw away code because of how small they end up being (because they can leverage many of our libraries). Testing is easier in functional land (for various reasons), which means regressions are much harder to introduce, which means refactoring can happen faster, which means less technical debt.
I would suggest trying ng2 before dismissing it over experiences with ng1. I was having huge issues with ng1 with updating scope and simillar things and then I tried ng2 first for a hobby project then a bigger collab one and if theres one thing I can say it's that Google did serious damage to the project by reusing the branding for two different frameworks for both searching/googling purpouses and by reusing branding from a framework which isn't similar and has been dismissed by many already. I hear too often how people say react is better than angular without trying ng2. It's like saying python is better than c# 1.0. Maybe it is but youre not making a fair comparison
And make sure at least two of them have egress policies so you can get your data back. Regardless, keep you own backup somewhere unless you don't care about losing the data.
I think it's more that the port of Windows to phones was so broken that they saw that there is no way they will get the platform into a stable state in the next year. It..just..so..broken.
I had a lumia 950 and with the crashes, lack of apps and UX horror I bought a OnePlus after 2 months amd never regreted it.
I heard that Windows Phone 7 was nice and everything went downhill with WP8 but I wouldnt know personally
WP10 is great these days. Switched from Android a few months back, to a Lumia 650, and will never go back to the bloated, resource heavy battery eater which is Android.
Fewer apps, turns out to be a pro, I've found. I'm realizing how much less distracted I am without every app and its dog installed. Also I'm realizing how well most things work via the web anyway (such as youtube), without requiring me to be logged in and sending rich tracking data to Google all the time.
Windows 10 Mobile is more stable than any version of Android I've ever used, and I carried Android from 2009 to 2016. Sure, it lacks apps, but it's just inherently a better written OS.
I use it because it just works with any tool I use for development and any game I want to play. The only time it doesn't work is when someone doesn't even try to test their libs on windows. I admit I am rather young so I have none of this old school hate towards Msft that it used to be. The only Msft I know is open-sourcey, student license giving, Linux supporty one.
Companies aren't people. Companie are made or people. People come and go. I suppose a lot of the changes started happening when new people joined Msft and started pushing changes. #givemsftachance
Linux Distros are always behind, and in the case of Ubuntu / Debian Python is locked into whatever they release because the OS actually relies on whatever version of Python they released the OS with, if you upgrade to latest and greatest on Debian Wheezy e.g. you might find your OS has bugs that Ubuntu 16.04 doesn't see (both use similar packages).
I guess it's mostly for interpreted languages. Try installing (not that I use it) Eclipse the Java IDE as another example, it's usually dated enough. This is probably why people use bleeding edge distributions. I guess in the case of compilers it's not as bad, though you can't usually get the latest and greatest Go compiler either, you have to grab the .deb off the website or use other tools. At least Rust just hands you rustup so I don't need to worry about this in the case of Rust, but with other languages like Python it's a concern of mine.
I really don't understand why anyone would expect private browsing to be completely anonymous. I suppose they could change the name to something better but seeing as how I only use it to browse khm websites which I don't want in my browsing history and I know other people use it only for the same reason as whell. In any case I suppose that anyone who really needs anonymity is aware what browsers mean by "private browsing". I even have to block Firefoxes tracking protection to browse my favorite "website"
Of course you understand, you know as well as any of us that the average user knows next to nothing about how the Internet, their computer, or their browser works, either physically or conceptually.
It's not unreasonable for a user to take Google or Mozilla or whoever at their word when they call the feature "incognito mode", or "private browsing" etc. They don't know the first thing about how their privacy is breached in the first place, so why would they know how their browser mitigates potential breaches?
