I'm sorry but "Smartphones, led by iPhone"? Bit presumptuous.

Elegant. Thank you! Is there a way to extend it to override DND?

Is that a good idea? You don't necessarily want to wake up the entire team with an alert if there's a dedicated on-call person.

That's a great idea. But I didn't find any docs that explain how to override DND. I opened a feature request instead, so we'll see how it goes :)

That kind of gets you into this sort of problem: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20110310-00/?p=...

If you start overriding DND, now the user is going to want super-DND. Which somebody will then want to override, and so on. The correct solution is that your users need to not set DND when they in fact need to be disturbed, and your systems shouldn't be disturbing unnecessarily, and to the extent that's a really hard problem, well, yes, it very much is, but an unboundedly-large hierarchy of "bother that person, no don't bother me, SUPER bother that person, no SUPER don't bother me, SUPER MEGA bother that person" isn't part of the solution set.

The biggest problem with DND in my book is that when first introduced it was enabled automatically, and not super obvious that it was enabled.

This caused more than a few missed announcements and made escalation hard for a bit.

Awesome, thank you!

If I click on the link in HN, it takes me to a "To Read the Full Story, Subscribe or Sign In", but going from google seems to set a cookie allowing you to view the full article.

So frustrating.

Click "Web" under the title of the story, then click the first link.

Agreed that it is annoying to go through that extra step.

..and now it's not letting me see it whatever I do.

Yeah, that is a shame. Live data would be so much more useful!

Timetables can change, 'live' data does not. But, if it's 'calculated' then you're right, and it's pretty much a visual timetable.

Also, I know you were joking, but let's not generalise and say middle east shall we? :)

Maybe I inferred too much from gp's comment and replied very tongue-in-cheek. Obviously I could have also said "accessible from Saxony (for the neo-nazis there), Cologne (for remnants of the red army faction) or Uganda (in case Josef Kony ever decides to turn up in Berlin)". Hope I now covered all major political and religious extremes.

Back to the topic: Munich had something for the S-Bahn, the commuter train system, in their app for several years already. I really doubt that it's a security risk and find it sad that this is the first reaction something as nice as this gets.

Haha, are you sure you covered all extremism there?

I didn't mean it to come off so paranoid actually, I was just interested in starting a discussion about it, hence the "Isn't this" vs "THIS IS DEFINITELY"! I agree it's awesome tech, especially as it loads instantly on coffee shop internet, but all the comments here already reflect that.