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by xp84 3d ago
What? Is that not their whole business?
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by xp84 4d ago
It's always funny to watch people project today's dogma onto a time period when it was wildly inapplicable. "Where's the diversity!?!?!!"
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by xp84 4d ago
Do you think it's that low? I would have assumed 7 figures in bandwidth.
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by xp84 4d ago
> I’m not willing to participate Nah, you're participating by watching. You'd have 100% of my respect and 100% moral high ground with your stance just by avoiding youtube.com.
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by xp84 5d ago
So would human downloads, too. Mass audiences do not buy apps. They sometimes buy in-app purchases after installing them, but in terms of games, it's mostly the 'casino games for children' genre that make 90% of that kind of
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by xp84 5d ago
The bot farm is a profit center, not a cost center. A corrupt 'publisher' (someone who agrees to show ads on their site/in their app) is having the bots bring up their own site, view the ads and install OP's app, which t
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by xp84 5d ago
That's definitely a core principle of crapware that's widely done. Put that ad 0px away from the "mash here like crazy" button, PROFIT!
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by xp84 5d ago
Serious question: Do you watch a lot of YouTube? Why not just cough up the $16 for YouTube Premium? Creators actually do get paid more for Premium users' views than they do from adsense. You get to see none of these ads that piss you o
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by xp84 5d ago
ehh, subvert is a stretch. But yes, you too can be a minor accessory to scams run by thieves to rob advertisers, with enriching the world's largest ad company as a side-effect. Not exactly a Robin Hood situation given that tons of the
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by xp84 5d ago
I have to admit, as a former JW, the linked article is actually not proselytizing, instead it's actually got worthwhile advice. We are each here for a reason and we all touch many lives. We may not ever know, while we're on this
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by xp84 5d ago
As someone who has spent my currently almost 20-year career building stuff in companies - and whole verticals - I don't care about at all, I agree mostly. As long as they're still going to pay me (GIANT hopeful assumption there)
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by xp84 5d ago
Super optimistic take, unfortunately. Even I as an economic conservative, have serious reservations about our economic system going into this revolution. It's not that capitalism, money, etc. is a broken system or something. But I thin
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by xp84 5d ago
Relatable. I've taken advantage, in my career, of my aptitude to learn how moderately-complex systems are put together and my problem-solving instincts which are honestly nothing genius level. Just methodical and grounded. Someone crea
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by xp84 5d ago
I didn't remember/realize this so I went searching [1] and found multiple sources e.g. [2] 1. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1483401600&dateRange=custom&... 2. https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2F
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by xp84 5d ago
Having just switched from Google Workspace + Mac to all-Microsoft + Windows, it's been so difficult adjusting. I can choose between two desktop versions of Outlook or the Web, and I just use the Web because it's the least weird an
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by xp84 6d ago
I assure you, developing for competing platforms is also a fucking nightmare... that's something Microsoft has no monopoly on!
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by xp84 6d ago
Yikes. What apps have they been doing this with?
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by xp84 6d ago
Hard agree. Day by day, I become more exhausted with "apps" as they are currently delivered, with native being slightly better than cross-plaform, but not good. Apps in 2026 deliver all the disadvantages of a plain ol' websit
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by xp84 6d ago
As relevant today as it was 26 years ago: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-... See also: Chesterton's Fence
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by xp84 6d ago
Yeah - he's more likely the guy that would be giving that kind of permission to someone more junior.
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by xp84 6d ago
I'm not calling you a liar or anything, I get that yeah, no apps really survive today that are laid out statically for each resolution. I'm just saying that they don't release a new version of Uber, Instagram, etc. without ch
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by xp84 6d ago
Sure. But it's the exception. Most of my conversations are incredibly boring work stuff, where the records are extremely helpful to me too, or incredibly boring logistics discussion with family. Maybe you guys just have a lot more shoc
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by xp84 6d ago
> Brands I have never heard of that can't make a call, send messages or add a reminder The fact that these are your top 3 reasons to consider Apple Watch as the only brand to own speaks volumes about why monopolists shouldn't b
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by xp84 7d ago
I have a $20 smart fitness watch from Amazon which I use for sleep tracking, though it's a pretty capable watch. Much smaller than an Apple Watch and the battery lasts like 10 days on a charge. It connects to Apple Health and puts the
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by xp84 7d ago
Looking forward to it!
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by xp84 7d ago
I think the times someone has something to say that is so sensitive they don't want a record of any kind kept, are rare unless you are a clandestine agent or military - and it's probably worth just asking those in literal earshot
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by xp84 7d ago
If you don't want any one to write down or remember what you said, maybe don't say it to them?
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by xp84 7d ago
5 years ago, after a work retreat, I photoshopped the couple of team members who couldn't attend into a team photo we took so that we could use the photo to represent our team. This is just that, but without the hour of tedious photo e
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by xp84 7d ago
It'd be suspect, if SO was a nonprofit, and SU was a budding commercial enterprise owned in part by Mr. Overflow personally, and Mr. Overflow had used his influence over SO rules to farm content for SU so that he could sell SU to PE an
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by xp84 7d ago
^^This. Despite all the responsive design tools and declarative layouts to ensure a great layout even on an oddball resolution... the fact is that in practice it's nontrivial, and remember that the companies that make most of the app

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