This book "Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World" may shed some light https://www.amazon.com/Range-Generalists-Triumph-Specialized...

^this. refactoring into React or any tech stack does not correlate directly to user engagement or revenue. It sure does have impact; but perhaps it's more relevant to state something like improving page load time, developer productivity, time to market (or MTTR, etc) because of cleaner architecture that enables to iterate faster and so on

perhaps this can be a potential airbnb opportunity?

Large estates rented for extended family holidays or events are not uncommon in France and Spain. A few years ago, we had a family holiday/celebration in a four-storey French mansion in the middle of nowhere and it was fantastic. That slept 22, though looks like this castle is a couple of notches up from that!

or put an extra $100/mo in an investment with the growth rate great than mortgage rate

The moment you have your data in the hand of a cloud based service, it's no longer under your control. isn't it?

1. why not? 2. start building

Not sure if this is specific to your ask but I've been enjoying this class. It covers many fundamental concepts.

https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/schedule.html

Thanks, will look into this

incognito mode does not prevent your search from being tracked.

Any evidence to backup your claims that they track incognito searches? They promised not to track and I don't see anything that suggests they do track me when I am incognito.

Incognito is "private" in the sense that it doesn't leave a trace locally, on your computer.

From https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95464?co=GENIE.Plat... :

> - Chrome won't save your browsing history, cookies and site data, or information entered in forms. > - Files you download and bookmarks you create will be kept. >- Your activity isn’t hidden from websites you visit, your employer or school, or your internet service provider.

Your IP, referrers etc are still visible. The only thing is you're perhaps not logged in. It doesn't do much to protect you at all.

it's actually more than just a chatting tool.