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When I tried using the app nothing felt like it was meant for me.. just a sea of random people with uninteresting shit to say, no substance.

Massive alarm bells in my head for this..

I would say right from the beginning, even before MS bought it, it was always at the very best second tier

more like 30, def not 18

So expensive!

We can't just shut down everything that is inconvenient.. this is a step forward and should be respected like that..

america's next corporate cash-in campaign

When I worked as a inbound call centre operator in the early 2000s they used to measure your "productivity".

Productivity was the percentage of your work day that you were busy on an inbound call. The problem with this was that when you call a client back, that call wouldn't be counted towards you productivity. The other problem which is relevant to this is that when you do a large number of calls (keeping your calls short and concise) the time gaps between the one call ending and the next one starting added up quicker for fast workers translating to a lower productivity. (I should mention that a large part of your bonus was calculated from this "productivity").

So if you answer a call and you can keep that call going for as long as possible, your productivity would skyrocket. On average the number of calls per person dropped on average from roughly 150 calls per day to 90-100. (anecdotal, but I observed my teammates)

This is how I got fired. (greatest thing to ever happen to me btw) I didn't like talking to people, but I was a dumb 20 something and had no other options, so I would answer the call, with a double tap, that would put the caller on hold immediately and I would just hang on to the call for as long as they stayed on the line. The other way was to start the call, get the info of the client and then tell then you will check with whoever and then just leave them on hold. For the case that got me fired the guy was sitting and holding for more than 7 hours.

How would they turn that into usable currency over there?

My biggest issue is algorithm that gets used for the user's landing page, a quarter to a third of that is things Ive seen before (with red bar at the bottom and not music), then at some point at the bottom of the page it just fills in another 2-3 rows with just a bunch from the same channel. There should be a consistent and easy way to watch things outside of your "bubble", e.g. they can fill that bottom section to show random "new" videos..

not tech news

honestly, I may just be uninformed, but what has he done that is so bad? It's like something switched in major media 6 months ago and now suddenly he's public enemy no. 1

To use and update designs in CAD

I love how when you want to watch something specific, you proceed to search all 5 services I subscribe to and none of them have it.. what am I supposed to do if not pirate..

Once you start using it with a real team and external users etc it costs the same as trello

Corporate virtue signalling

Thanks for taking the time :) Much appreciated!

The same thing that happened when we got flash the 1st time.. account/project managers see thing can move so they they make everything move...

Same, so over Adobe's last generation software clogging up work computers

No, They can't seem to guarantee that the new tech I start learning today will still be around in a year... the rate at which they kill products and services is just frustrating and I'll skip, thanks.

linkedin, a few times now

Please do, that will help getting rid of it completely in the future..

I've unsubscribed from all podcasts on Spotify almost 6 months ago now, and switched back to apple podcasts for some of the reasons above. I only use spotify for music. On the "Home" page of the app about 50% of my recommended content is still podcasts. I'm now considering going back to apple music too..

Personally, I would just start working for myself and hire an account/project manager to be client facing.

Howe about fixing the losing of pinned tabs bug that seems to plague this browser. I switched back to chrome after a couple of months of firefox. I was just done with starting over every morning.

This is why I don't sign up for new Google things anymore..

I like the idea, but the signup is awful, just give me a download link..

Since when is it Github's job to lock others repos at all?

How does this affect the value of the Dollar? (Taking the oil/dollar into consideration.)

Yeh this whole thing seems like Germans are just unhappy with every solution, but I have a feeling it's media engine that decides this and not actual Germans.