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Summary: Product person - these days primarily in PM positions, background consists of over a decade of hands on UX and front-end dev work. Prefer to work with smaller teams and by extension love the startup hustle. Tend to be very hands on and work very closely with all teams within the company.
We have gone a full circle from having cable with a bunch of separate overpriced packages which you buy for the sake of having access to one or two shows, to having the internet where you're signing up for equally as expensive packages and services all for the sake of having access to one or two shows on their platform.
As long as the content providers continue to make it so difficult, piracy will win, if nothing else when it comes to convenience.
When Photos just came out and Apple was making the claims about how they've taken everything good from Aperture and stuck it into Photos I was pretty optimistic considering how solid of an app Aperture became over the years.
Now, few days down the road, pretty clear that Photos is just a marginally better iPhoto with the vast majority of features that were useful for professionals such as Stacks, never coming back.
The dumbification of professional apps to the lowest common denominator continues ...
No-one is advocating for people to be full of shit. All that is being said is that mass censorship of "offensive" words/ideas is the stupidest, most counter-productive way to do it.
> people deliberately say misleading things for purpose of influencing an election
Well there goes every political campaign ever.
All jokes aside, these days it doesn't matter if it's the media, the campaigns themselves, the supporters - it's not about the facts, it's not about anything real, it's just about spreading misleading shit faster than it can be fact checked.
It's an issue on the right, it's an issue on the left. One may be worse than the other, but it doesn't mean it's better, it's just marginally less shitty.
Not unpopular opinion at all. Reckon most here would agree.
Used to be you could come here to at least slightly escape from all that shit and artificial outrage. Now I can barely tell the difference between HN and Vox.
I'm referring to it catching on in a political sense and becoming such a major part of the 2016 election cycle while neither the crying Jordan, the spongebob caveman, the sad ben Affleck and all else that was popular at that time didn't.
And this is really at the root of the entire culture war.
It used to be 'hey, that person said something stupid', lol ok what an idiot, anyway moving on to what we were doing'
Now instead it's 'hey that person said something stupid, I need to share it to 5000 followers to show just how stupid they are and how virtuous I am for pointing out that it's stupid, hey hey hey people look look look I'm resisting the stupid look look there's a stupid person'.
What we have is a large group of people who can only be described as professional offence takers. They wake up in the morning, and go out of their way to look though twitter what to be outraged by. They proactively seek out conflict purely for the sake of virtue signalling.
And when these people engage so consistently, after a while you get people who just post shit just for the sake of getting that emotional response out of the other side.
You're completely correct. Don't feed the trolls is exactly right. And yet every single time that the right throws out some more bait, no matter how silly, no matter how stupid, the left looses it's shit.
Take this NPC thing, it's a damn joke, just like every single meme - it may be funny, it may not be depending on your own preferences, but when it gets posted and in response you have 50 articles the next day about how it 'dehumanises' something or other ... before it even gets to NYT, the trolls are more than fed.
Originally yes, that was the joke, people just repeating the same buzzwords and catch phrases in response to anything as game NPCs do.
However as with all the memes over the last few days, it quickly turns from that into 'well those people are reacting exactly how we thought they would, just keep posting it if it triggers them'.
e.g. take Pepe - the only reason it caught on was because the left took the bait and lost their shit over it. The only reason this NPC thing took off was because the same people took the bait and are loosing their shit over it. It doesn't matter what the meme is, what it's about, or what it represents. The right keeps making jokes, the left keeps taking the bait, the right sees that and keeps feeding them more and more.
Summary: Product person - these days primarily in PM positions, background consists of over a decade of hands on UX and front-end dev work. Prefer to work with smaller teams and by extension love the startup hustle. Tend to be very hands on and work very closely with all teams within the company.