I'm too old to have used Tinder, but I connected with my wife on Friendster.
(shakes fist) those were the good old days!
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(shakes fist) those were the good old days!
I'm afraid I can't relate to this at all. I may a bit older and/or I may have less close friends but I prefer a very different kind of social contact that is more like make plans, meet up, rinse and repeat.
Back in the AIM/ORC days I loathed being pinged all the time for chit chat - this system reminds me of that!
A schizophrenic member of my family argued in divorce court that her husband, a leading physician at one of the most famous medical institutions in the world, was secretly involved in outrageous nefarious activities.
The stories were all fiction but she was so convincing that the judge awarded her a ruling in the divorce that ruined her husband financially and took an emotional toll.
Meanwhile no better computer has been produced.
Be advised that Trello is now $5/mo. It's gonna be hard to compete here.
It doesn't replace the need for me to own things I use all the time (mower, trimmer, drill, sander, circular saw) but it's perfect for once-in-a-while things like a power washer, a table saw, or an air compressor.
In smaller businesses some roles won’t need to be hired anymore.
Meanwhile in big corps, some roles may transition from being the source of presumed expertise to being one neck to choke.
I’d love it not to be true, but the truth is Jira is to projects what Slack/Teams are to messaging. When everybody is a project manager Jira gets paid more, not less.
That is a funny way to not mention that he is a hard-core climate change denialist.
I was in the offices of WNET/Channel 13 in Manhattan the day the news began moving among insiders that an invasion of Iraq was imminent. All these middle aged producers were stoked. If that was PBS you can only imagine what the vibe was like everywhere else.
Of course within a week people like this and their reporters were basically competing to get “embedded” with invading troops and tell an approved story. Wild times.
See, save, read later - I’m sorted.
I'd wager walking down Main Street USA and asking people in their 30s and 40s what stocks they own and what an ETF is would be get you a lot of blank stares.
Instagram (and YouTube) have engineered their search experiences to be as distracting as possible and to provoke the user into abandoning their search and to follow suggested content.
I can't tell you how many times I set out to find something and literally forget what that intention was, after being induced to click on the tantalizing promise of some other image or video thumbnail.
Basically, combine what Britbox does today in some countries and what TheBox used to do for BitTorrent.
First and foremost, be the only place current British tv can be seen. On top of that, have a deep, exhaustive archive of past British content.
NYTimes.com is a good model. If you want what they got, you subscribe, no matter who or where you are. The model works.
I find it fascinating and frustrating that the taboo around examining DEI critically was so strong it took an autocrat to break it.
Airbnb had novelty, inventory, and savings as its special sauce.
Nowadays we all know what a sub-par, overpriced Airbnb is like and it’s worse than a hotel because it’s usually far more inconvenient.
So we’re back to a hotel like experienced as the desire: convenience, available, and competitively priced.
Not at all. Basically all reviews on Airbnb are positive bc of the threat of retaliation. Your reviews are like your social credit score, not worth threatening to post a negative but honest review.
Make no mistake, soap and friction at required, just like in a larger shower - especially under the circumstances a bidet is designed to address.
A decade ago 'docs like code' was an exciting invitation to work alongside developers, adopt their practices, and get closer to how the sausage was being made.
Today anything 'like code', but particularly prose, is right in the crosshairs of AI.
While people who can leverage AI are a bigger threat to your job than AI alone, in this case those people are developers. When developers, who hold all of the context of software functionality in their head, can interact with an LLM to draft docs, test them against validation and style rules, and publish them, they just will.
That said, the “AI all the things” mandates could be the lever that ultimately accomplishes what 100+ PjMs couldn’t - making people write issues as if they really mattered. Because garbage in, garbage out.
What is more convenient than placing some delicious tuna or egg and a bit of heese between two slices of bread? Surely not driving to McDonalds.