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Pilottwaveon Some among America's military allies believe Trump deliberately attempted a coup

Boring articles don't get shared. Outrageous ones do. It's just businesses

Pilottwaveon Wikipedia is getting a new look

I have tried max line length readying on wikipedia and even speed reading apps (single lines flashing the whole text before your eyes).

I honestly like the current line length which scales with your monitor the best.

Pilottwaveon Reddit app got 50M downloads by making mobile web experience miserable

Adding to this reddit is centralizing themselves. Classically they were a link aggregator, a place pointing to other content. Now if you upload something there reddit is the place its pointing to. A video on reddit is hard to download, and a link to a video is always opened with a full reddit view with comments and everything.

I dont like the way they are going and have sought alternatives 2 years ago. Thats where i found hackernews and tildes.net which are pretty good. However not a good alternative to the niche subreddits we all love.

Pilottwaveon Alcohol as a social technology to check the trustworthiness of others (2014)

While you dont have to explain yourself for not drinking. I am intrigued as to why you chose this no drinking rule for yourself. Care to share?

Pilottwaveon What is a Product Roadmap?

Gant charts can be used as a "living document" presenting the latest estimates. While individual task can deviate from the estimations the bigger picture view can be a nice rough estimate. I dont get the hate of the "YOU CANT PREDICT ANYTHING!1!1!" agile crowd subset. Getting good at predictions and dealing with deviations is what project management is all about, using tools that help you in this process is much advised.