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- Usefulness of visualizing the codebase, interconnections, memory layouts - all of these are attempts of an overview of the things that aren't immediately clear. It's an attempt for an outside-of-the-box view, which becomes necessary in larger codebases/environments/companies. This is very useful for, say, an architect of a system (or systems), and even for individual contributors that are not comfortable in the current view (they may be struggling, or they may achieve better performance, of either the app or themselves with the insight gained from these visualizations).
- Actual visual programming only offers "boxes" of functionality and makes you frame everything the way it was initially imagined. It's limiting expressiveness and makes your mental model adopt the framework's way of thinking. Everyone I know has abandoned any visual programming only because they feel it is limiting them ("It's a nice toy, but it's too difficult for me to create something more complex" is a common thing I hear).
Yet, those kind of bad decisions are made every day, by people all around the world. I wouldn't give benefit of the doubt to anyone these days.
And then he included the email too, so the backend could look up the user and make a custom password blacklist for this specific case (eg: no personal details allowed).
I actually don't disagree with doing a POST of a password to check password strength server-side. It might be "cheaper" a bit in some cases.
But sending on every keypress and including the email - that's just silly.
In any way, as someone already had said, we're a bit late for the show now.
Also, my country is in southern Europe, not part of the EU yet.
> The vast majority of people will be using this to watch movies they don't feel like paying for.
I think this is highly biased towards your own ideas of how someone could use such service. You are, in fact, projecting[0] your own probable scenarios to large group of people you have never met, living in countries you've only heard of in the news. That, sir, is unfair. You should not stick with generalized opinions and prejudice, mkay?
The thing that made me think this way is that they claim everything's in order on their end, but they still only sent me the bare package, without the extra controler I've ordered. In a customer service ticket reply, they, however, claim they had to send the console without the extra controler in order to send at least something, and that I'll get the controler in a future shipment.
Bottom line - they can be pissed all they want. They still didn't deliver on their promises.