I guess because the more it looks and feels like a public service, the more it feels like a tax. Or the more it feels like a non-profit, the more it feels like charity.
Each of those concepts has had a long time to become embedded, but the kind of globalised, "net-good" non-profit that still gives you as an individual benefits, has barely even reached the corners of HN yet (would assume there's people here who haven't yet discovered LetsEncrypt, for example).
> LastPass on the other hand is a tool you use because the world sucks
I feel like this gets missed a lot when questions about price/value come up.
Just because something's useful doesn't mean you want to buy it, and things you don't want to buy, but need, are likely to be thought of more harshly when it comes to price.
London. Everyone likes to bemoan it usually, but you have connections via metro, train, tram, bus, boat or cycle to pretty much every major location in and around.
Alongside that you also have (putting aside the longstanding battle between them) a plethora of on-demand taxi services.
There are decent (although not high speed) train connections to most other major cities in the UK and even to continental Europe, there's an airport literally 10 minute car ride from the financial district, and two major European airports under 30 mins train ride away (obviously all dependent on your starting location within the metro area).
As an integrated system it's not perfect, but I'd certainly argue it's a viable aspiration for many cities to hit "good".
My work iPhone 11 Pro I use as a glorified RSA token, monitoring Slack when needed, and use it to browse Instagram for about 30 mins a day. At the moment I'm getting basically a working week out of it (essentially standby).
Am guessing that will get worse over time, but am thoroughly impressed with where it is for battery life right now.
Completely agree - but for such a well funded company, surely they could have continued to try and sell unicorn tears on the front end, but spent some real time and effort to nail something on the backend.
This "pivot" seems like a play they should have been running in parallel regardless, considering they've had actual hardware on the go for a few years so far.
For different definitions of "very far away". We're only talking about 15 years since we started getting proper video recording in phones, and only about 4 since the big players started focusing on software enhancements.
Absolutely hate having cases on my phones. Almost all make it hard to slide into a pocket, make it far too thick for my hands, and take away the elegance of the design and the "hand feel" (I know that last point will get short shrift here, but enjoying using a device is important).
I've cleared it out a few times, but I think stuff in there's gotten damaged now. It's a slight inconvenience when my headphones aren't charged or I can't use them, but again as anecdata, losing the headphone jack having one in the device hasn't exactly changed my world.
On the flip side, my phone does have a headphone jack and it's been a perennial weak spot. Debris gets in there far too easily to the extent that it doesn't even allow me to use a standard headphone cable.
I'm not an audiophile, so wireless headphones and streamed music is more than good enough for me - but as someone who has a headphone jack and would be more than willing to use it, it's not exactly been a bed of roses after a couple of years of use.
Am sure a manufacturer with better QA than OnePlus might be better, or if I'd have wrapped my phone in bubble-wrap every time I place it in a pocket it wouldn't have got stuff in there. But that's the anecdata from someone with one.
Multiple teams working on different features rolling their local commits into release branches - and rather than feature related deploys they do time-boxed ones by the looks of it so that they have dedicated support on hand to spot issues and rollback immediately (guessing from what I can see based on the screenshot).
Easy to get that many deploys out the door if you have a managed process like this - fast iteration, lots of different feature bumps and tweaks, different locales, updating even 1/2 links or words in a hardcoded page...
Was at a startup that was super low-overhead (and as dysfunctional as a 4 person team could be), we used Zapier to automatically create Gmail drafts as replies to new lead enquiries on the website and follow-up responses as needed. We could then spice up the response if needed, or just bulk run through and hit "Send".
Appears personal to all email systems and spam filters, but actually was semi-automatic marketing automation.
Have the same problem for my own local Zumba class, will have to investigate whether we can automate it vs just setting an alarm for when they release booking (also at 10pm)
I'm glad I work somewhere where the humour of "do I want to and can I are two different questions" goes unchallenged. I've found that that sentence alone helps clear up the confusion and helps higher ups (with a bit of jest) think about the prioritisation.
I mean "quality time" as in the cop out from lots of parents whereby they ignore their children apart from "freeing up Saturday afternoon to spend quality time with the kids". As if they can schedule their bonding time like they would their fortnightly KPI meeting.
I keep running across this sentiment, and although I don't have kids yet, is one I intend to take to heart.
"Quality time" is largely BS - making time for a piano recital is pointless and can barely make up for the time if you miss the fun and general bonding the rest of the time.
I remember the times sat eating dinner on the sofa in front the TV having a laugh with my parents more than the "hero" events like sports days or plays.
If you care about your kids and you're pretty stable (obviously, if you don't have money for clothes and food things will be different), just be there.
One of the few benefits of the terrible school I went to was that we never received homework. The teacher's rationale was that 75% of the class wasn't going to do it, so they couldn't rely on that as a learning mechanism.
We were probably years behind other schools by the time we left, but that meant from 2:30 every day we had free reign. Obviously some kids went down the dealing/thieving route, but I learnt a lot about finding my own entertainment. I honestly think homework is the scourge of childhood, even more so than testing and exams.
In some places this a growth hacking/marketing tactic (that works), in others it isn't the marketing team but someone up high demanding it because they've seen it. Am still a marketer, but I've been in the latter and trying to fight the good fight.
Somewhat related - I'll charge for analysis and a briefing doc as well before speccing the actual project. Sometimes in marketing clients don't know what the outcome they want is (other than, "make moar £££s"), so reviewing what they're doing is also another good funnel into a larger gig.
Again, this helps clarify the intent and scope when you launch into a larger engagement.
Each of those concepts has had a long time to become embedded, but the kind of globalised, "net-good" non-profit that still gives you as an individual benefits, has barely even reached the corners of HN yet (would assume there's people here who haven't yet discovered LetsEncrypt, for example).