ericwooley

I'm not sure the outcomes are equally probable.

Boats and cars depreciate in value pretty hard, so those are most likely sunk costs. Now mark has a cool boat and car, but that doesn't guarantee you a social network, much less a social network of professionals.

A doctor wanting to start a practice in the slip over would be quite a stroke of luck. An even bigger stroke that he would be any good, and yet even bigger stroke that he would want to start his practice with some random dude on a boat. All that for a shot at putting in the hard work so you can maybe have a successful practice.

In your scenario, it seems likely that Mark is actually pretty charming, and that's what would lead another boat doctor to want to start a practice with Mark. If so, then Mark probably doesn't need the boat or car to charm a peer from his existing network. Which would almost certainly be better ROI.

Additionally, even if everything went wrong for Sam, as you describe, he would have learned a ton for future cash flowing assets, and can probably sell them for what he purchased them for, possibly more if he improved the numbers. Between the knowledge, and the intermittent cash, Sam almost certainly has a much better ROI.

I would like to point out though, that I don't fully agree with the goal of the article. Sam seems like he is going to wake up one day and wonder where his life went. Doesn't sound like he is making any great new memories. Mark, on the other hand, probably won't be retiring in the Hamptons, but he will probably look back on his life and have made some awesome memories.

I've been using https://reviewmeta.com/ for a while now.

It removes reviews from most products, and shows you what it thinks the most trustworthy, and least trust worthy reviews are.

It's pretty inexcusable that Amazon hasn't implemented a similar approach. They certainly have enough resources.

> Google's Play Store or w/e it is on Android is the fox in the hen house. Google is one of the offenders that Apple is making disclose data collection practices! I don't think they situation is exactly comparable and it's different enough that the prior precedent may not be applicable.

You don't think that it's a a good comparison to compare the only other large scale play store which implements the exact behavior I'm talking about?

And googles bad behaviors, and Google does have bad behaviors, is irrelevant to this conversation.

> Yea until that becomes anti-competitive.

How would that be anti competitive?

> If you're sophisticated enough to want to side load apps, you're sophisticated enough to jailbreak your iPhone and get what you want.

Jailbreaking your phone is a huge pita, even if you are technical, and it forces you to always be several versions behind. Not to mention very few companies will be making apps for jailbroken phones. This isn't a realistic alternative. If jailbreaking your phone were allowed by apple, then maybe it would be a reasonable compromise.

> Failures like this aren't indicative of overall policy so I don't really see the point here.

It is very indicative of the over all policy. It's very clear that the app review process is a tool for stifling competition, and that apple is abusing it.

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The big argument I see is that the app store provides value, so the 30 percent is justified. If that's true, let apps side load, and keep the 30 percent fee, and let people side load.

If it's truly worth the 30 percent, very few apps would switch away from the app store. If it's not worth 30 percent, then we have introduced a mechanism for competition and it's healthier for the whole ecosystem.

> (also hey there fellow Eric :) )

Spelled the same and everything

You can sideload on Android and yet there are stories all the time about Google removing some app and destroying some ones whole business. It's false to say that multiple avenues for app installation destroys apples leverage over app makers. The tyranny of the default is very real. Facebook is not about to move to the epic store so it can violate your privacy more.

Besides, there doesn't need to necessarily be a competing store. Even the ability to install from a website would be enough IMO. Apple can put up a scary message before you install a non app store app, and epic can side load their app. If you want the benefit of the app store, you can pay the 30%. I suspect most developers would. Additionally, you still have to get your app signed through apples developer program, so if they revoke your certificate, they could still destroy you.

And I think we can let go of the idea that apple curates it's apps for safety and security. It's been shown repeatedly that they let scams through all the time, while scrutinizing and removing apps over tiny mistakes around phrasing of payment.

While software isn't really the right place for that per se, I can definitely see the temptation. After all, you are providing something absolutely free, and you aren't including ads, tracking people, pestering about payment etc.. all this work has earned you a huge audience, and you want to use it to honor the memory of lives lost. Honoring the dead is pretty universally accepted as good thing.

It's a really big jump to say people who honor the dead with their software are going to insert malware in it next.

Use or don't use whatever you like, it's free and open source, but this seems like a pretty terrible reason to avoid otherwise great software.

I also switched to Linux, and I love it, but only on my desktop machine. I got uhk for key remapping, and that's been great. For email and calendar, I use wavebox, which side steps most of the app issues.

As the article says: The laptop experience is not anywhere near as good. I had a lot of the same issues, even on a system 76.

Eventually I decided to try giving windows wsl2 a shot for my laptop, and I gotta give Microsoft credit. It's been great. All the benefits of windows ecosystem, hardware comparability, games etc.... And the ability to do pretty much everything development wise through wsl2. The keyboard combos are similar enough in Linux and windows that I don't have trouble switching contexts. However, most of my development is still on desktop.

A few years ago, I would probably have described myself as a never Microsofter. Maybe my passion for using as much open source software as possible is dying down, or maybe Microsofts push to embrace open source is paying off. Whichever it is, I've come back around to appreciating windows recently.

I am in my last two weeks at my full time job. I'll be going full time into my project which gamifies the virtual office in order to create culture for remote teams. I'd love to chat with like minded people.

eric@tengable.com

or twitter

@ericwooley

It would be great for a competitive app that commits you're collection in your version control.

Syncing collections is a solved problem that postman resolved so they could charge for it.

I have been using it for a few weeks on a personal react native project, and it has made my life so much better. So I decided to package it up and see if anyone else found it as useful.