Yeah, I get what you mean. I'm doubtful, but.. hopefully this turns out OK.
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I also don't really understand what your last sentence is getting at--I may be daft.
If I understand correctly,in this particular situation, fucking up would cost Apple at least $200M--so it had to be a total success for him.
It’s not quite the same as when Mommy tucks me into bed and turns the lights off, but I still find it helpful.
I thought you were trolling at first, but I realize this may actually be serious. You can lose the tab with my comment. I'm a worthless internet stranger, and if you REALLY feel the need to reply, you'll remember, anyway.
How many of those HN topics actually matter? The "may or may not read" stuff I think you can comfortably file under "does not matter" and discard for your sanity's sake.
I waste a lot of time looking at animal videos, too, but I close the tab after. I don't think that counts as something productive or necessary to revisit...
If you're closing lots of tabs, I'd hope you understand those tabs should've been closed earlier--rather than something nostalgic to revisit that never really mattered in terms of what you actually need to do?
It's fun to abuse technology, but at the end of the day, you should ask yourself... why? Is this really making your life more complete? Are you being more productive?
200+ tabs open for $30+ a month per employee is the hill you decided to take a stand on?
We could also continue to talk about the points we both raised earlier, or that could all get lost in the weeds :)
For at least a decade of my life, I was a 200+ tab person. Paying any amount of money to make my computer slightly more responsive versus the time I lost just clicking through (literally) hundreds of tabs to find something versus logging it--let alone simply searching for the same thing again and hitting the links that float to the top because I've visited them--doesn't make any sense to me.
As I see it, the "problem" here is not that you need to have 200+ tabs open at any given time. The problem is precisely that you have 200+ tabs open at any given time.
If you have the ability to keep track of 200+ tabs, exactly where they're located on your screen, and can switch back and forth between those and your actual work within a matter of seconds then kudos to you. You're actually a genius, and your employer should definitely consider purchasing this ongoing subscription for you.
[edit]: Just looked at your history and realized I'm probably replying to an astroturf account, so joke's on me, I guess.
If this was at a, say, $5 price point, I don't think there'd be that many people putting up a stink.
Once you get above 20 tabs, are you genuinely keeping track of every single one as something to return to later? Or are you just being lazy and lack the personal systems to track what's actually important or needs to be returned to later?
I've been using a 11y/o computer at home for everything--code compilation, VMs, work AND personal life--and this has never been an issue for me.
Maybe I'll give you #3, but if an employee came to me asking for this as a paid subscription, I'd shut the idea down immediately. Seems like another startup trying to fill a space that doesn't need to be occupied.
I'm all about freeing mental bandwidth, but if you can't remember whether or you bought a piece of salmon yesterday, or if you can't be fussed to read the expiration date on a milk carton--adding "extreme attention to minor details" and "tedium" to the mix is not going to help.
The right idea here is optimizing restaurant workflows to minimize food waste/deal with seasonal availability/delivery schedules/etc./etc. Take that and slap a nice frontend + tier 1 tech support on top of that? Baby, you got a stew going.
Personally, as a pedant, I actually find this really useful for my current, home situation. :| thanks
> However, what's perhaps more useful is that the Navy continues to offer a telephone time service (202-762-1401) while NIST does not.
NIST also has a phone # service, but regardless, I'm struggling to think of a scenario where dialing a phone # would be more useful and/or accurate than any other method. I haven't called a number to set my clock since the '90s.
It is a very credible threat facing Radiology residents at the moment.
I'll be quite honest, I don't know what a "good" solution here is, but I really don't think this is it.
The tl;dw version is that gamers, by and large, tend to disparage media outlets for giving poor ratings to games that aren't already widely disliked by the hive mind. It comes from the perspective of someone who does unbiased VG reviews, and I think it raises an interesting point that might otherwise be overlooked. (Of course, payola should certainly not be discounted as a factor.)
Every puzzle here places you in a different unfamiliar situation. The only "outright disqualifying" thing is whether you can figure out something on your own. You essentially failed the first test.