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by gkoberger 1y ago
I have it but most of my docs aren’t in it. They can only be accessed via direct link. The folder is also not accessible from paper.dropbox.com on mobile, which is more important now that the app is gone. I wrote to support and they told me
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by gkoberger 1y ago
What Dropbox has been doing to Paper has been so sad to me. I've been a daily user for almost a decade (and Hackpad before that), and their recent move into combining it into Dropbox itself has caused me to almost completely stop. I ge
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by gkoberger 1y ago
I imagine they likely have insurance for things like this. Or at least I would, if my business model was largely based on libel.
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ReadMe (YC W15) Is Hiring a Developer Experience PM(readme.com)
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by gkoberger 1y ago
Yeah, this is sorta what's already happening. They stopped new links years ago, and are only removing "inactive" links now.
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by gkoberger 1y ago
I'm against link rot and I hate how Google doesn't maintain old projects. But this is one shutdown I 100% agree with. Having an official Google domain that anyone can hijack is dangerous, given that many people's main interne
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by gkoberger 1y ago
For what it's worth, there's 1.7bn posts on Bluesky according to this: https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats The dictionary site has only checked 4,920,000 posts, which is 0.28% of all messages.
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by gkoberger 1y ago
I used to work at Mozilla. Safari isn't Chromium (it's the opposite, Google forked WebKit and they've diverged). But that's not really your point. There's a lot of reason to use Chrome: deep integration with Google
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by gkoberger 1y ago
So then you know, more than anyone else, that "bombastic language" isn't really that much of a turnoff because it didn't seem to stop you.
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by gkoberger 1y ago
I think there's a meta-ness in their point. They're currently the top comment, and their point was that many people vote for Trump/Republicans because of the "bombastic language" since Dems are seen as boring.
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by gkoberger 1y ago
You don't start and run StackOverflow because of the money. You do it because you really care. Running niche communities isn't a lucrative path, and (as we're seeing now) they can be quite fickle. Additionally, it's not
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by gkoberger 1y ago
Yeah, I totally understand it!
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by gkoberger 1y ago
The no-reply is an interesting decision. I get how difficult it is to run a company like Coinbase (their biggest strength, centralized + customer support, is also what enables this social engineering), but feels like an odd choice.
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by gkoberger 1y ago
EDIT: I was wrong, he was quite down the list! He only appears in the chart because he ultimately won, so higher contenders dropped off. -- He seemed to hover around 1%, which was the second highest behind Tagle (~20%) https://po
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by gkoberger 1y ago
Why 85% and not 80%? It’s an arbitrary cutoff that happens to benefit Elon. Ford will quickly get to 85%, but you can’t deny this is yet again a move that is touted as “pro-America” yet somehow mainly benefits Musk (or Trump or someone in t
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by gkoberger 1y ago
Okay, we disagree then! I hope you take the time to reflect on how weird and aggressive you've made this whole conversation, but it seems this is where we part ways.
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by gkoberger 1y ago
No, because Saffron is a physical commodity with inherent production costs, supply chain logistics, and a finite supply. A better analogy would be that if you bought a saffron crocus, you shouldn't have to pay a monthly fee to harvest
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by gkoberger 1y ago
I'm not going to argue with you, but I just want to point out that the person I was responding to specifically used the phrase "system supported fonts". That's why I mentioned Calibri.
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by gkoberger 1y ago
Then we aren't disagreeing. I never said anything about stealing or piracy; I agree with you that not being able to afford something doesn't give you the right to take it. I think we're responding to different things. You&#x2
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by gkoberger 1y ago
I respect you a ton (genuinely, I think you're the most interesting writer in the tech space), but you have a profound misunderstanding of the importance of typography if you think the only reason you'd need a paid typeface is the
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by gkoberger 1y ago
I think there's some confusion in who is responding to whom, then. I never said anything about piracy, but the person responding to me may have confused me with the top-level comment. All I have done is defend the importance of typogra
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by gkoberger 1y ago
No, I think we're just looking at it from different perspectives. Yes, most people are fine choosing from the fonts available on their computer when writing a document. But that's not what me nor OP are talking about. We're t
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by gkoberger 1y ago
The OP didn't say they didn't want to pay, they're saying there's been a shift toward per-impression pricing which is often unsustainable for even the most lucrative apps.
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by gkoberger 1y ago
No, I'm saying a Michelin chef can complain about a 50x increase in the cost of truffles without negating the fact that a lot of people happily survive on ramen.
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by gkoberger 1y ago
I guess it comes down to how you view the concept of "the medium is the message". Should the tone be set by the creator of the software / writer of the blog post / etc, or should the end user choose one typeface for ever
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by gkoberger 1y ago
Arial v Helvetica is an interesting example, because Arial was designed basically as a cost-efficient alternative to Helvetica. So, the reason you'd choose between the two is exactly the thing the original comment was complaining about
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by gkoberger 1y ago
They updated it for the sequel, and one example doesn't nullify thousands of years of design. But to go down that path from a logical standpoint... Papyrus isn't on my computer (OSX) for whatever reason, and it doesn't come o
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by gkoberger 1y ago
That's not true at all. You think games would feel as immersive if everything was Calibri? Magazine-style articles would feel as tactile if they all used the same system fonts? Etc. You may not care about fonts, but to say they don&#x2
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by gkoberger 1y ago
I agree the average person is likely fine with the fonts on their computer, but this is profoundly misunderstanding the importance of design. Typefaces are incredibly important, and have been for centuries. I'd argue that complaining a
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by gkoberger 1y ago
If you hire someone full time, you can do the math that way. But the market rate for a freelance midlevel US-based engineer would be about double per hour what you'd pay a full-time employee of the same level, to account for taxes&#x2F

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