I would like to also specifically respond and clarify: we killed the "team" version of product that allowed for such abuse 5 years ago. We hated that use case and were no longer interested in having it be possible to have an abuse case of the product. Since that time, we have evolved a single user model, and the organization tools were for consolidated billing purposes, not shared data. This latest version further moves away from being a measuring tool and more toward a coach. Thank you for your post.

My experience is, yes you have your ups and downs and you go through a lot (births and deaths even), but it is a product engine family we have built with heart, and we found the wherewithal, with an extra boost from Tony (thank you!) to basically start from scratch and re-imagine what we would want-- so in some ways it was like starting a new company, with people you trust.

Same experience at RescueTime. I don't understand why Apple is able to have humans interact with developers, but Google is not.

If you have RescueTime window titles / details enabled for your terminal app, and have configured your terminal app (if it supports it) to promote active shell command to window title, you get this details, regardless of where you are ssh'd to. Works for me at least on macOS + iTerm2.

This is network level, and it's taking the name lookups, which are done before picking the connecting endpoints, so SSL doesn't matter. It's not rewriting the stream, it's just saying, someone is trying to get an endpoint at this particular name and I am going to give it a different IP than the "world" would. Nothing of that is happening inside the https link. Eg, you get https://whatever.com/whateverelse... it will see the DNS lookup for whatever.com regardless of procotol.

I believe rhexs's point is that it's using the same domains for video data and ad data - i.e. you're seeing hxxps://youtube.com/video_data, hxxps://youtube.com/ad_data, hxxps://youtube.com/video_data..., so filtering at the DNS level doesn't work.

Actually, RescueTime does know and report on what file / project you have open inside the text editor, as long as the info is in the window title (which both these apps do). And it's keyword-searchable by whatever is in that data point-- usually filename, project name, directory tree etc. It works this way with just about all text editors.

The key word search method is how people usually accomplish the idea of project reporting-- but is admittedly not perfect, like you could get if we actually could consume that meta data.

However, the "document" level details are only exposed to you in the premium version-- in the free version you just get an open document count, so that is a significant difference.

I've always thought the long term path for an enriched time measurement experience would involve plugins like this one. Great to see someone working on it.

Disclosure: I'm a RescueTime employee.

Ah, I am a premium member, so that makes sense that I saw that in my dashboard.

That's exactly the kind of interruptive behavior that worsens productive. Communication should be batch, considered, and efficient.

The "Hello???" kind of attitude toward peer engineer communication is akin to a mobile phone notification or a blinking chat icon, all enemies of organized thought that leeds to maximum quality output in minimum time.

I thought this was supposed to be a moment of silence. Hacker News posting is not silence, despite requiring no audible speech.

Seems to me this is really ATT's customer abuse than Apple's. I suppose Apple's main fault here is not putting more pressure back on ATT.

Albeit, downgrade seems like a reasonable request to me, although they may have security reputation concerns to be considered.

It's not an AT&T-specific problem. Lots of carriers in other countries do this too. That's why unlockit.co.nz exists in the first place.

It's my phone. Let me take my own security risks.

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