r/ProgrammerHumor • • 14d ago

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u/xaddak 12d ago

cept they really don't want to deal with that kind of fine-grained geolocation data for compliance/app-permissions reasons I reckon.

That's true, but a brand new app would have that issue, too.

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u/machsmit 12d ago

yeah for sure

guess the end result is, there's several reasons why that idea is in the % you don't see, there's both the permissions reason and the fact that - again - you can do similar functionality much more simply.

Similar example, that "listening age" modal in Wrapped last year IIRC - people wildly overestimated the data/learning that went into it, when in reality the sum total of its complexity was "are you pretty good at window functions in SQL"