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Is there a name for this economic phenomenon where actors rather destroy goods than give it away or manage it in another, less wasteful way?

> Thirdly . . you'll need patience. Because the magical under-2-seconds launch requires time for the car to be ready. With "Drag Strip Mode" turned on, you'll need anywhere between 8 to 15 minutes before launch, so the motors and the batteries will be at the right temperature. And when you're finally done and itching on the line - you have to wait 9 more seconds with your feet on the brake and the accelerator for the car to take the "cheetah stance" for optimal launch.

15 minutes might just be the slowest under-2-seconds launch ever.

This is actual supported by Fitts' law, one of the very few laws in UX design [0]:

"Placing layout elements on the four edges of the screen allows for infinitely large targets in one dimension and therefore present ideal scenarios. As the user's pointer will always stop at the edge, they can move the mouse with the greatest possible speed and still hit the target. The target area is effectively infinitely long along the movement axis. Therefore, this guideline is called “Rule of the infinite edges”. The use of this rule can be seen for example in MacOS, which places the menu bar always on the top left edge of the screen instead of the current program's windowframe."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts%27s_law#Implications_for...

The biggest surprise to me is that Dreamweaver is still alive and kicking.

You have to be utterly delusional to make this comparison as a positive in the first place.

It's the only async channel that works with all people as long as you have their phone number. Anything else requires that you use a specific app or network. Email is too formal for most people and, I've discovered, some people don't have it set up on their phones, so it can become too async/slow.

Link is dead.

Imaging all the telemetry, a/b testing, user research, design and dev work that went into this change only for it to not matter at all. We think of FAANGs as infallible but surprisingly often they fail at the basics.

That's like making major code updates on a Friday afternoon after a really long and hectic dev cycle.

I don't get the mindset where you finally ship but botch the launch marketing. The window of opportunity is so small and rarely comes back, that you really need to get the basics right, e.g. closely monitor launch posts, answer within minutes, be truthful, thank people if they provide useful feedback, etc.

At this point, Apple isn't just 12 years behind industry leader Waymo, they might be chasing a tech that's still decades away.

I think it's infinitely more likely that Apple creates a non-self driving car that millions will buy than creating a self-driving car beyond level 2.

How long before employers start renting WeWork-alike spaces for their employees only to realize that they could cut out the middle men and run their own office spaces...

Weird, I don't know a single country on the planet where customers are forced to buy electric cars.

Thing is, shared hosting providers have offered web app installers like Installatron, Softaculous and Fantastico for many years. They allow users to visually install web apps but are still difficult to use and require lots of maintenance.

I think a radically different approach is needed, one that emphasizes real end-user value and data over APIs and tech. Something that's driven by deep UX design and can follow ordinary people throughout their lives without requiring them to become admins or worry too much about security and privacy.

> Discover several new blocks and expressive tools, including blocks for Page Lists, Site Title, Logo, and Tagline. A powerful Query Loop block offers multiple ways for displaying lists of posts and comes with new block patterns that take advantage of its flexibility and creative possibilities.

This release really highlights that the next big step for WordPress is making Gutenberg a site-wide editor, not just a content editor. This means being able to control all aspects of a site's design using Gutenberg's visual blocks and being less dependent on theme capabilities.

I love when news like this penetrates through the HN echo chamber where people legit believe that static site generators are going to take over WP any day now. It's a reminder that we all have blind spots.

This is a tangent, but has any noticed just how terrible Netflix subtitles can be? Occasionally, when watching with family members, I will enable Swedish subtitles for English movies and sometimes it's as if they have worked on a different material than what the actors on screen are saying. It's bizarre to see this low quality effort in movie after movie, show after show.

> But there will be ways around it. And suddenly with over half your email data at stake this is what both marketers and publishers will start working on in the coming months. Until emails are wholly plaintext there's always something you can make uniquely identifiable.

TLDR We don't give a shit about privacy and are actively working on combating this pro-privacy measure.

> A smaller publisher, a local newspaper, a solo freelancer, a small blog; all these will lose data on a significant part of their audience. A likely valuable part of their audience. And it may stifle or slow their growth or opportunities.

I seriously doubt that "solo freelancers" and "small blogs" are going to be affected by this. They have real businesses to run, email is just a marketing channel for them and not their source of income.

> Where previously you could unsubscribe readers who hadn't opened your newsletter to save money, now you don't know if they're loyal or not. You'll have to find other ways to entice them to let you know they are reading. A larger publisher can afford to keep 20,000 recipients on a list that never open an email. A smaller outfit cannot.

This is so delusional it hurts my brain. I have never in my life been unsubscribed by any newsletter, but I've been auto subscribed to hundreds of them by asshole marketers. If thousands of people don't want to read your shitty newsletter - that's a YOU PROBLEM easily fixed by allowing subscribers to unsub in a fast and reliable manner.

I can't think of a single case. Most company websites can barely support the needs of their own organizations, often resulting in employees using SaaS to circumvent IT. Sharing a domain with a totally different corporate entity? Unimaginable. Domains are so cheap, so crucial and burden with so much bureaucracy that it just doesn't make sense.

How about the insane entitlement that many devs have when it comes to open source? Getting bombarded with requests and angry emails from people who demand free support and bug fixes can burn anyone out.

I think Github can be a positive force for change here. Redesign the UI to encourage donations, to encourage people to get involved in project work, to write less hostile issues, etc. If devs and designers can weaponize UI to create addiction, anxiety and FOMO, maybe we can use the same tools for good for once.

One thing I think N++ could do better is plugin support. The current UI feels very outdated and overall plugins lack the community that, say, Visual Studio Code has.

I love Notepad++, it's the app I use most after Firefox. It's super fast, convenient and open source.

V. 8 introduces dark mode, distraction free mode and many other things [0].

[0] https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/v8/

Maybe you are getting a/b trapped?

"We use AI & ML, combined with human intelligence, to gather and analyze lots of data and information on your competitions."

How do you use AI/ML if you don't mind me asking?

Because it wasn't more important than any other thousands of decisions that Jobs and Apple executives made over many many years. This is just hack writing where the author tries to sell a made-up narrative instead of doing actual research.

I'm so sorry to hear that, really. It's a shame you didn't find a better therapist, sometimes it takes a couple of tries before you find one that gets you.

I hope you find a path forward where you have health and happiness.

Have you had therapy?

Just give it a smack, jiggle it a bit. Stand a few feet to the left, raise your arms and jump a few times.

App link is broken.

I'm thinking of studying mobile app dev but my god does it sound tedious and heavy with bureaucracy. It sounds miserable if you are an indie or just like to mess around with your stack. Or am I wrong?

Not having Senior Frontend Developer on your future resume and being underpaid is far worse than having to code in jQuery. Senior dev means senior dev pay so they are effectively robbing you of not only present salary but future salary too.