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by rchaud 1y ago
> What Apple may be guilty of here is focusing on short term growth at the expense of the long term. Wall St growthbros do not draw these sorts of distinctions. If the focus on short-term growth ends up tanking a company, there will simp
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by rchaud 1y ago
Why not just use the mobile website then? An app icon is itself equivalent to having a billboard on your homescreen. What is the app providing besides notifications that necessitates its use?
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by rchaud 1y ago
On forums you can search by username, by topic alone, inside of a subforum, or by text inside of a thread. That level of search granularity is by design so you aren't querying the entire database unnecessarily. As a result it's fa
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by rchaud 1y ago
On a forum, "you" is an anonymous username, so ridicule is meaningless. It doesn't follow you into the real world.
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by rchaud 1y ago
The fix is to not use an app for making payments. Say what you will about Visa/MC but they can't show ads on the piece of plastic I tap to make payments. And they pay me $500 in cash back annually for the privilege of seeing what
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by rchaud 1y ago
"I did not pay $1000+ to be advertised to" says one of the tweets. It doesn't matter what you paid. The whole point of a software "ecosystem" is to drop the user into a food chain, with "shareholder value"
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by rchaud 1y ago
Apps need a local server to work (especially if it writes to a local database), or be shipped in some kind of executable file format for the OS. As someone who can't code native apps but is decent enough in PHP, I've discovered th
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by rchaud 1y ago
US TV channels are inundated with Whatsapp ads claiming the same. Not surprising considering that it's been considered the "foreigners" messaging app for a long time, and the US government is now doing its very best to make t
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by rchaud 1y ago
Have you considered that you may be making the surface-level analysis? I paid $3 for Whatsapp in 2010 on the Blackberry app store. They had a staff of ~20 people handling messages across almost 200 countries.It became the defacto global m
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by rchaud 1y ago
Plenty of people use a walking pad underneath their standing desk while working. I think you may be overestimating your ability to balance both these activities, especially as you see yourself navigating the outside world while looking at s
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by rchaud 1y ago
They have reported losing $60 billion in Reality Labs since 2020: https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-q1-2025-earnings-realit...
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by rchaud 1y ago
Websites today exist to sell things. Awwwards websites are pretty much exclusively web design agency sites. These are selling the services of those agencies, which lean towards art direction, graphic design and video production. Nobody is h
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by rchaud 1y ago
> but it might not quite be the same path that led the USSR to ruin. The end of the Soviet Union as a political and geographic entity was not its ruin. What ruined it and opened the door for a strongman ruler was: a) an inexperienced Pre
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by rchaud 1y ago
I think he has an extremely long horizon. What we are seeing in the US today, the accelerated pace of institutional destruction (science and technology funding crushed, regulatory bodies hollowed out, constant division qnd threats of civil
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by rchaud 1y ago
A lot of these flyover country bigots you speak of have no clue who is part of the Jewish faith and who is not. Most American Jews do not have accents or wear religious garb that would make them stand out, as may have been the case in the w
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by rchaud 1y ago
Indeed it is. Posting something means it is out there and "complete", can't be changed retroactively. It is a set of ideas that stands on its own and will be judged for it is, good or bad. It frees you up mentally to move on
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by rchaud 1y ago
The "Slide Sorter" view in PowerPoint/Keynote/Libre works similarly. High level thumbnail view of your slides, double click to "zoom in" (aka go to the actual slide).
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by rchaud 1y ago
Funny enough, you can export a Keynote presentation in HTML and it will work as a local website, with anchor links and everything. The only thing that didn't work when I tried it were animations in Firefox. Chrome and Safari handled th
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by rchaud 1y ago
Presentations were a solved problem 40 years ago with Hypercard. Regardless of what you use today (PPT, Keynote, LibreOffice Impress), they all do the exact same thing. Figma is following the Dropbox blueprint of building vendor lock-in (wh
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by rchaud 1y ago
If you've been to SaaS product conferences, they are ALL doing the Steve Jobs thing of presenting slide decks that are basically advertisements of new features. All fluff and stock images, very little substance. The implementation deta
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by rchaud 1y ago
> Normally this would never fly, but nowadays it's kind of OK? We started down this path ever since obvious bugs were reframed as "hallucinations".
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by rchaud 1y ago
Of course it can't admit it gets things wrong. That would signal to the user that it can't provide what you want. That's Product Design 101. Would you expect Netflix or Prime to simply show "No results" when you loo
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by rchaud 1y ago
I don't think the OP comment was about women, I read it discriminatory in terms of social class and "culture fit".
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by rchaud 1y ago
How would that apply in a real life setting? You're assuming that busy people would take time out of their day to attend a social event in person to nitpick the demographic makeup of said event instead of making friendly banter. How of
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by rchaud 1y ago
But high status guys by definition wouldn't be seen dead in clubs like these to begin with. They are socially successful ladder climbers already, that's part and parcel of being high status.
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by rchaud 1y ago
The 800lb elephant in the room about this whole idea - some people have trouble building friendships because they can't stop themselves from bringing up fringe topics with people they just met, and insisting on having conversations abo
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by rchaud 1y ago
What sort of behaviors are you referring to?
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by rchaud 1y ago
No, but just like everywhere else, you can engineer a byzantine set of hoops to jump through so that the only people who "qualify" end up being the "preferred" sort of clientele.
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by rchaud 1y ago
In economics, this is known as the problem of adverse selection.
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15 years ago is 2010, socially inept men were absolutely spending time alone at home. They had videogames, internet and MMA/wrestling back then too.

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