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If my Mac only allowed downloads from the Apple store, it would essentially render it useless (for me)

Likewise, I like to think that opening up my phone could make it more useful

I think the article is written in a over-sensationalistic way and I would take it with a grain of salt, but also possible that he's really into finding bugs. Based on the reddit post, he's definitely really into racing on Zwift

As a casual Zwift enjoyer, I'm just vaguely familiar with the story, but now I ended up digging the initial (now deleted) article: https://web.archive.org/web/20220223133105/https://zweight24...

And some reddit post from him, explaining why the article was deleted and his disappointment in Zwift as a company: https://old.reddit.com/r/Zwift/comments/t0n5be/the_article_z...

> It seems really hard to get this 100% fair

It is, for all the reasons you mentioned, and nobody is aiming for that. He just found and demonstrated a cheat (bug) that the platform itself should have no issue detecting - changing weight mid race

Zwift uploads race results to ZwiftPower and removes any cyclists that are outliers and it assumes are cheating. 8w/kg would be a big outlier. But it looks like the platform calculates w/kg based on the cyclists' ending weight. So if you change your weight to 25kg right after the race begins and back to 65kg before the end - while cycling at 200w, then Zwift's cheat detection system calculates your w/kg as ~3w/kg, which is completely reasonable and would not get caught. But cycling at 8w/kg is far far faster than 3w/kg

The article is overblown. He's not trying to end cheating altogether. He found a bug and demonstrated it

I think people are overblowing his investment in making it competitive

It's quite easy to cheat in Zwift as you can put any weight on your profile (and the metric for measuring speed is generally W/kg). As well as different trainers have different power measurement accuracy, etc

But to some degree Zwift and other 3rd party Zwift race-tracking platform find the cheaters based on outliers and other factors and remove them from the list

All he did is figure out a way to cheat which should be simple to detect by the platform itself (changing weight mid-ride -> ie make yourself lighter uphill and heavier downhill) and demonstrated it. And he got banned for it

The way I see it, it's the same as someone demonstrating an LLM prompt injection or a cheat in a video game. A geek hacking a thing they like and showcasing it

I think the argument is that whatever search option you choose to use will inherently have the same problems

Noise isn't just the paid ads, it's the websites gaming SEO for valuable searches. And that is not isolated to Google

> more valuable the related search is per amount spent on advertising, the more the noise and as result, more resources user will need to spend to enhance the signal

Sums it quite well really

Act III describes this risk and Act IV addresses how they dealt with it

None of these are monopolies. Twitch and AWS are biggest players in their fields, but both have healthy competition

I think it would be way easier to make a case that Microsoft shouldn't be able to buy Activision. It seems like major gaming studios are slowly getting acquired by either Tencent or Microsoft

Same here. Super convenient and works flawlessly with my connection

The mentioned queries provide quite good search results for me

The first link clearly explains how to fix a tire and right underneath the first link, there's a link to Youtube video with described sections which you can click on immediately

The sites are full of tracking and ads, but that's hardly Google's fault imo

I think it's change in leadership.

Sergei and Larry seemed to enjoy supporting wild ideas and were happy to put money up for ideas that would very likely never be profitable. They had their run with these bets, none of them particularly worked out and they stepped away (as running the ad business is far less fun than coming up with a breakthrough search algorithm when they started).

Sundar and Ruth are just closer to what you would expect from a normal publicly traded company leadership (a lot like other 2nd+ generation big-tech CEOs). Focus on revenue, profit and cutting loss-making bets. Clearly very good at focusing on profitability, but at the expense of crazy bets, which I very much used to appreciate about Google

In what way are they a dividend stock?

They don't pay dividends and despite share buyback stock is down since IPO

> The new story is that a bunch less people are willing to spend on ads at all, specifically citing broad market constrained budgets due to inflation and supply chain issues

To be fair, Alphabet had a solid top and bottom beat attributed to ads revenue, citing increased spending on ads (mostly in retail, finance, travel)

> Is there anything that PHP is developing or adopting that can not be had at other established languages?

I think for the vast majority of projects, this is not a question you'll be asking yourself when picking the language.

I think PHP is one of the best languages to pick when you want a quick MVP for an online service (one that doesn't require specific things PHP is not good at). The community is one of the largest, there are more developers than nearly any other backend language and Laravel is probably the most complete all-in-one backend framework out there.

So the question is often, is PHP good enough to develop a maintainable app with decent performance, where developers won't hate every minute spent on it. And the answer is pretty much yes with PHP 7+

Games with your personal high scores. Is the one that would affect me

Plus a local note-taking app I created a while ago

26, but a similar story here. Not having a degree hasn't held me back in job opportunities.

Where it has held me back is getting a permanent residency in Canada. I spent the last 2 years working as a backend developer in Canada just to see I'm not eligible for express entry PR due to lack of education.

Battery swelling on my XPS 15 is so bad that it completely detached the touchpad and made the keys at the center of the keyboard very hard to press

Getting customer support is damn near impossible for 2 reasons. 1. The serial number of my XPS comes up as Precision Tower in their systems 2. I moved continents since purchase and I'd have to transfer the ownership to myself here in NA, except turns out the owner, in Dell's database, is still the Amazon reseller I bought it from 3years ago

Terrible terrible experience with Dell. Switched to a Pixelbook which I love and handles my Sublime-based environment well enough

Say that a bug occurs in the code that I wrote and I'm more familiar with than anyone else on my team. I'll gladly say "I wrote this, I'll fix it".

In a perfect world, we'd all understand every part of the project as well as the next coder. But in my world shipping features on time is often more important.

I do not consider my work environment toxic at all. Just an agile startup

Never mind, it works flawlessly. A Chrome addon was causing the problems.

D key doesn't work on my Pixelbook. W and S work as expected, moving up and down, but D does nothing.

Can't report the invisible ones if we can't see them

This is a very stripped down version of a platform I'm currently creating with a friend. I love the idea, obviously. And I like the implementation. Simple (no registration too!) and understandable.

And unlike many others here I think something like this is very much missing and could, in fact, bring a lot of interesting projects to life. Yes, like everyone else mentioned, there are a ton of problems with finding a co-founder like this. But not every project needs to be a company and not every project needs to make money. Especially on the web.

Which is why the platform I'm building tries to focus on non-profit projects. Or rather, projects you want to build/help build because you want the project to exist, rather than to make money off of it.

An example project that I wanted to make some time ago: I want(ed) to create a platform with all hip-hop artists, where anyone could write an opinionated, subjective, hopefully positive introduction to an artist they admire. The idea behind it is that there's plenty of artists that get bad reviews/critics but have a huge fanbase - so the fans could write what they like about the artist so much, rather than just seeing the "industry-respected" reviews and critics. Basically, get introduced to a new artist through someone who loves him already, rather than from someone who mainly critics him.

Now I'm very confident in my web development (and hip-hop) knowledge. But I have no eye for design whatsoever. I couldn't make a beautiful interface to save my life. And the project is not start-up material since there's no business model around it and it's hard to get someone you know interested who can design and is interested in hip hop (or at least my project idea). In my circle that left me with 0 people. But I think a platform like poster's, if popular enough, could bring projects like these to life.

My understanding is that this tweet https://twitter.com/taylorotwell/status/590281695581982720?l... kickstarted the Vue popularity. Taylor Otwell is the creator of Laravel.

Here's Evan You (creator of Vue) https://youtu.be/D_z-RAweP1k?t=3m9s talking about the tweet.

Do you know you have 99/100 Google Page Speed score? Fix "Compressing http://mez.cl/a/ could save 1.4KiB (59% reduction)." and you're good.

Due to a personal project I've been quite obsessed with Google Page Speed lately and this could be the 2nd website I've come across in the wild to have a 100/100. Shoutouts to https://principles.design/ being the first one.

How is dressing well, using sophisticated language and acting like higher class at all relevant to the job? Your description (of everything you hate) pretty much describes me (24 year old web developer). There's several reasons to why I'm like that, but mostly it's that I deeply hate pretentiousness. It doesn't take clothes, sophisticated language and acting like higher class citizen to be good at your job.

That being said, I might not be the best person to suggest you one way or another. But if you hate the business, do something about it. If that's changing your career path, go for it. If you hate these 3 things specifically I'd assume medicine might be exactly what you're looking for.

Now back to development. Web development is by far the easiest to get into (think wordpress, frameworks like RoR, Laravel, Django) and chances are that just changing from web development to some other more challenging field withing development might work out for you. If you enjoy the problem solving development offers that is.

For me personally, that's exactly what I love about the IT business. It's extremely easy to show what you know/what you're good at (unlike for example most social studies). And the rest doesn't really matter.