tommiegannert

2 lata temudiscuss

The "discounted" bundle is such an anti-pattern. I'm saving the price of one fitting, out of 20. So if the bundle has even one fitting that I have no use for, the whole deal falls apart, and I should have bought them individually instead. Anyone with the volume to make use of all connectors would probably want to negotiate a better deal anyway.

tommiegannert

3 lata temudiscuss

Perhaps part of the problem is that even the pro-copying side keeps calling it "piracy." I'm pretty sure it's meant to induce negative feelings in the listener.

tommiegannert

3 lata temudiscuss

The tooling around CSS has evolved quite a bit since we started the "one-rule-one-class" approach to styling (Bootstrap released in 2011.) When the best web frameworks can deal with attributes, but not with CSS rules, it makes sense that's where we go.

But then you see a fork in the ecosystem, where some continue working on the semantical side, and some just want "Bootstrap, but with X and Y, so I can finish my project". I think the article argues against continuing down this latter branch.

With CSS preprocessors, variables, media queries, calc(), transitions, animations, layers, no IE, etc. we're in a very different position today. Everyone's now used to using JS bundlers, i.e. a build step. Webpack was released in 2014. Accepting that source and distribution are separate makes it much easier to motivate going for a preprocessor and being able to write nice CSS.

tommiegannert

4 lata temudiscuss

Numbers for context:

$30B revenue, $16B current assets in 2021.

$4.8B profit on $47B revenue in 2019.

tommiegannert

4 lata temudiscuss

Tangentially related: I just got a letter from my Visa card supplier here in Switzerland saying they've changed the Priority Pass (airport lounges) benefit to be unlimited. Previously it was only four free visits per year. I thought for sure they would make it worse when I opened it, but I guess last year was a great time to re-negotiate group discounts for travel.

tommiegannert

5 lat temudiscuss

I think this is a big thing. If everyone defaults at the same time, the property market just vanishes as everyone force-liquidates to manage the defaults. If that affects collateralization levels, it's even a positive feedback loop.

The RE companies that have good balance sheets will have great opportunities in the coming years.

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