DeusExMachina

While it's the best we could create, but that does not mean that it's anywhere close to being perfect and deserves to be trusted automatically.

Skepticism is exactly what makes democracy working. Blind trust is what allows bad actors to transform a democracy into a dictatorship.

You speak as if past dictators were not democratically elected or journalists never uncovered corruption in government and institutions.

The Big Five model statistically shows that extroversion/introversion is one of the five axis over which personality varies. So studies already showed that there are introverts and extroverts.

The only thing you could say is wrong is the supposed dichotomy. Instead, we have a gaussian distribution along the axis.

While I agree with your point, I wonder why that does not seem to be the case with programming languages.

For example, in iOS development (and, more in general, on Apple platforms), there has been a huge shift from Objective-C to Swift.

The same arguments should apply there. Swift is much better, but Objective-C got the work done, and many codebases were written in it, especially at Apple. And yet, the whole community switched pretty quickly.

One could argue that Swift was easier to pick up for newcomers. While that's true, I would then expect the argument to apply also to SQL alternatives.

So, what is the difference here?

Is it that risky? Talking, at least, as a somewhat knowledgeable person, which is the target of such web tools.

I usually have no problem using my email address to sign up for things. And yes, I do know that emails will come.

Sometimes they are actually useful and I keep them. Often, I don't care and I just unsubscribe. I some not-so-common cases, it is spam, in which case I mark it as such and I am never bothered by it again.

Sure, it's a bit of extra work. But I would not classify it as risky business.

It's not that unusual actually. Think of all the Saas apps that charge you by tier based on some arbitrary limits.

Sure, in those cases you consume more resources, but those are probably negligible compared to the increase in price. The reality is that they charge you more because you make more money from the service, hence you are willing to pay.

It's not precisely the same, obviously. For one, you can chose the services you want, while you must go through Apple's App Store. And since they don't charge a percentage of revenue but charge for resources, you don't see the correlation.

But the final effect is the same. The more money you make, the more you pay.

And what prevents the checker from taking screenshots or recording the screen to harvest the data later?

> I think you are in Germany, and COVID-19 numbers are going down. It's spreading a lot less these days, largely because people around you have started getting the vaccine

The official position of the government here in The Netherlands is that you can still spread the virus after being vaccinated [1]. If I recall correctly, this has been the official position internationally since the beginning.

Also, cases went down sharply during the same period last year in all Europe thanks to the weather and without vaccines. In the UK, which has a much higher vaccination rate than the EU, cases are currently rising.

Correlation is not causation.

[1] https://www.government.nl/topics/coronavirus-covid-19/visiti...

Also, I don't see what other information was needed here. He was the CEO, he was not supposed to get into implementation details. He gave a green light and left them to do their job.

I don't think it is.

I belong to a group that has several connections in countries all around Europe due to frequent traveling to dance events. Most of these people post on Facebook in their own language and attend local events.

Outside of this bubble, things are very different. The majority of people never move from where they are born, speak poor English and never travel.

While the people with international connections are surely a relevant amount, and even adding expats that keep contact with friends and family, it's the group with not international connections that I would define as "widespread" and "normal".

Is It though? I would imagine that there is some marginal utility if it's done in such volumes.

I get the occasional friend request from profiles with links to porn sites. Even if I report it, the fact that I saw it implies others might have seen it already and more will see it before Facebook removes it.

You can search online for exercises to speed up your reading skills. With the correct techniques, you can double your reading speed.

An alternative is audiobooks. You can listen to them while commuting, cleaning, cooking, etc. All time you would not be able to spend reading. And you can also speed up the playback in most/all players.

It's not clear from the article, but my reading is that while the bug was introduced 12 years ago, it was discovered and fixed only now.

Which is different from knowing about it but ignoring it for 12 years.

I guess the point is that if lockdowns are ineffective, you are going to reach the overload point regardless. The fact that it did not happen means that I would not have happened anyway.

They surely get analytics on how well a sponsorship works since they use dedicated URLs. And if a sponsorship does not produce a return on the investment, the sponsor will stop giving money to the content creator.

That's a too simplistic view and not how sponsorships work. The sponsor expects a return on the investment. If a sponsorship does not generate revenue, that content creator will stop getting sponsorships because their audience is worthless.

Once you decide you need a color to mark new accounts, the same reasoning can be applied to pretty much any color. Probably the solution is to add a [new] tag like it happens already to dead, flagged, and banned entries or accounts.

"To be green" is an idiom that means "to be immature in age or judgment; untrained; inexperienced."

So it's not completely misplaced.

There is something more than that. I noticed that the few highly-voted submissions I have didn't add the whole amount to my karma.

He also mentions a couple of times that he was ghosted after interviews, even at Home Depot. So I would add also add to this already great list: role-play interviews with friends and get their feedback on how you present yourself (dress, tone of voice, behavior, etc.) and what kind of blunders you make.

Their resources don't have to be the same ones you need. They might have technology to produce everything they need and disregard any other ecosystem, especially ours.

You are again just projecting what you/we need on them, like the parent comment.

Mine isn't either of those, or any other variation. The point is that since you are not them, you can't know what they would do.

Your "interpretation" is just making them after your self image, thinking that that is what it means to be "advanced".

Would it? How do you know?

You are just projecting what you think on this hypothetical advanced species. They might find, instead, that they don't need or care for any of that and just wipe it out faster.

> So… arguably the best chef in the entire world. On YouTube. Showing you how he cooks. How he thinks.

> Yet his videos only get 10-20k views. That might sound like a lot on the surface, but pay attention to view counts on YouTube and you’ll find random housewives consistently getting hundreds of thousands of views for their cooking videos.

Most people don't want to cook at chef level. They want to learn easy recipes to cook home, often with little time investment.

Even now that I know this guy exists, I have no interest in watching his videos. But be sure that when I am looking for an answer to an easy cooking question, I'll be finding one of those "random housewives".

> My core point is that there are people like DHH, like Massimo, who should be getting way more views on their videos, given the quality of the content they’re producing and what they’ve done to promote that content. Do you disagree with that?

Yes.

The Massimo Bottura has a total of 13 videos from months ago, with random titles that mean nothing like "Let's burn the house down". DHH has 12 videos published years ago, and they are not even all about software. Why should I watch those? Because he is famous?

Most of Bottura's videos are live, produced with a hand held phone and no preparation. I'm not disputing his knowledge, but is presentation is dismal. Where is the quality of the content? Where is the effort in promoting? I see very little of both.

It's also quite ironic that the two people he takes as examples raised at the top of their respective professions, invalidating his point. They are just not the best teachers/presenters, which is not their core skill, and that's why they are not at the top of that hierarchy. Being good at something does not automatically grant you the right to be revered in every other field.

He does not say anywhere he is British. He only says he works in central London.

That still poses the question: why did Apple do it? I believe the reasons are the ones explained by the parent comment.

Also, I don't think Google mindlessly copies anything Apple does. Sure, part of it is pure competition. But I'm sure they also evaluated the reasons behind Apple's decision.

It's once per year. Source: I have a paid developer account.

FWIW, I have been hiring freelancers on UpWork for some years and I never looked at those work diaries even once. I only check the output of each person.

The problem though is that it might be a hobby, a secondary source of income, or the owner is not that skilled at business. The same idea might (or might not) get much more revenue with different circumstances.

All of it? Probably as much as I spent to learn it, which is well over $30K at this point (over 6-7 years). And I can tell you some of that money was a great investment while other was completely wasted, but I know that only in hindsight.

I would not do the teaching since I am already swamped with things to do in my business. I might do something targeted at iOS developers later this year, but it would be specific and I would not be able to teach everything I know.

But there are people that teach these things. I learned mainly from Jay Abraham and Ramit Sethi.

At the moment, I am part of a program with jay that costs $5K because it's in beta. The final version will cost three times as much. It's still a bargain considering that he charges $150K PER DAY plus a profit share for consulting. It's a great program, but I would recommend it only to people that already have a profitable business. Not for beginners. He has a couple of $10 books though that are definitely worth many time their price.

For beginners, Ramit is a better option. He has a course called Earnable that is pretty good. His copywriting course, Call to Action, is also good. Here we are talking about $2K per course. He has some other good ones, but some of his courses are definitely not worth it.

For SEO, I recommend Brian Dean. His courses cost around the same.

Edit: I want to add that taking an SEO course makes sense only for some people. Web searches are only one channel to get customers and SEO takes a ton of time. Paid advertising in the right places might make more sense for some other businesses. Then there are referral strategies, partnerships, etc. How do you pick? We get back at the beginning. You need to learn the basics of businesses and then take the road that makes more sense for you.

They are obviously better since at least they give you some explanation of some of what they have done.

I sometimes read them and I might find a good tactic here and there. The problem is that you need strategy, not tactic. There are so many, so which one should you pick? And more importantly, why do they work in their case?

Case in point. I can create a new product now and make $100K-$200K in a single launch. It's simple math based on my list subscribers, my average conversion rate and my average price.

I can show you those numbers. I can explain you what I do. You would still not be able to benefit. Why? Because it took me six years to reach those numbers, to understand what my specific audience wants, how to address their problems and how to write copy that resonates. I could hand you my entire list and you would not be able to make the same numbers.