Agreed, also:

>> The article began:

>>"Last year we upleveled our Private Browsing mode."

>> Sorry, "upleveled" is not a verb I've ever heard of, in decades of using the Web. Why are you beginning articles with made-up verbs that you know people aren't going to understand? Why not use standard, plain, clear English?

Just because the person ranting had never heard of it doesn't mean that uplevel isn't a verb; and I am not sure how their amount of time spent using the web would correlate to their grasp on the English language.

I checked for "upleveled" in Google Ngram Viewer ( https://books.google.com/ngrams/ )

Although the word alone is found, there are zero matches for it combined with various articles and determiners:

>Ngrams not found: upleveled a, upleveled the, upleveled fewer, upleveled less, upleveled more, upleveled fewest, upleveled least

>Ngrams not found: upleveled most, upleveled this, upleveled that, upleveled these, upleveled those, upleveled each, upleveled every

>Ngrams not found: upleveled any, upleveled some, upleveled either, upleveled neither, upleveled enough, upleveled sufficient

>Ngrams not found: upleveled what, upleveled which, upleveled you, upleveled all, upleveled both, upleveled certain, upleveled several

>Ngrams not found: upleveled various, upleveled few, upleveled little, upleveled many, upleveled much

>Ngrams not found: upleveled my, upleveled his, upleveled her, upleveled its, upleveled our, upleveled their, upleveled your

This suggests all the supposed matches for the word alone could be OCR errors or typos. If "upleveled" is a real word it's so rare that it has no place in any writing that you expect to be broadly understood.

Just checked for "footgun" and... surprise surprise, doesn't appear either. Should we stop inventing new words then?

We should stop inventing useless words. "Footgun" has some use because it's shorter than the alternatives. "Upleveled" is just a worse version of "improved".

Or even just "leveled up".

quick, do startup and upstart next

It is V8.

> Each night, workers cover the "buffets" (credenzas) with sheets of leather. In the morning the library is cleaned of bat guano [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblioteca_Joanina#cite_note-W...

I wonder if the next step for AI companies (those in control of search, at least) will be to start refusing to index content from companies that have opted out, in an effort to sway their decisions.

> those in control of search

So basically just google? I don't think other search engines matter that much. I've never heard people specifically doing SEO for anything that's not google.

That would probably be very effective so I think there's a good chance Google does take that step at some point. The only reason they might not is that it looks extremely anti-competitive to leverage their search monopoly in that way, but we all know how lax enforcement is in that area these days so I would be surprised if that stopped them.

That would be a great (and extremely justified) way to bring antitrust actions against those 'in control of search'.

That seems to be how a lot of politicians across the world tend to see the issues they cause, unfortunately.

It doesn't scroll at all, the body has overflow hidden by design.

What exactly is his aversion? Did he ever say? It seems like an inane hill for him to choose to die on.

He was never able to explain his reasons nor did he want to be told it made no sense. I saw similar behaviour in other orgs.

Ain't dead yet.

> Sharon Kisluk is the lead product manager at Apono

All that you need to know about this post.

In the UK, you can be let go for essentially any reason (excluding protected statuses) for the first two years (first one year in Northern Ireland).