relaxatorium

Nah, AI's gonna let them ship more and more features you don't use so they can keep jacking the price up.

It never fails. If someone mentions “selling courses” as one of the best examples of a business they can think of, their line of business is “self-help guru/grifter”.

He even has the “how to have better sex” book out there for you to buy.

This is a thing someone says if they think Silicon Valley was built in 2005. Semiconductor development built Silicon Valley, and it was not by my relatively limited understanding a "move fast and break things" process.

Incentivizing publishers to load massive amounts of third party JavaScript was an industry mistake and the people who write JavaScript for ads are profoundly irresponsible and unprofessional.

Unless I have missed something (always a real possibility to be fair) there are also no clear details about what DOGE is, what its powers or lack thereof are, what its staffing is, or what its actual processes will be.

We’ll find out more when the actual Trump administration starts I guess, but so far it seems like a broad concept that two guys can use for tweets.

Not really, that's why I'm reviewing other providers as per the second half of the sentence.

As a small business running like 30 Linode instances, this isn’t “hit the ejector seat button” stuff but it is absolutely “move up the schedule to check-in with all other cloud providers RE: pricing” stuff.

It’s already slimy that social networks, Meta’s most prominently, cut users off from the people who choose to follow them unless they pay for these sorts of things, so this is just slime on top of slime. All our most valuable companies, rolling around in nasty slop.

The word “fun” doesn’t show up until paragraph 19 and that’s the problem with these kinds of games in a nutshell.

It's a gamble, because as of now they're not even the most popular soccer league in America let alone the world.

Liga MX (Mexican soccer) ratings destroy them for the obvious reasons (the league the US's largest most passionate soccer fanbase is most passionate about), EPL ratings beat them pretty handily as well (English Premier League, the highest profile and probably best of the European leagues).

Given the money and momentum behind MLS though, there is at least a chance by the end of this deal that they have become one of the top soccer leagues in the world and Apple looks extremely clever, which is not something you can really say for a lot of leagues with actual better soccer than MLS has right now.

It is weird that Apple, one of the biggest companies in the world, now has a vested interest in globally promoting a specific soccer league. MLS is probably thrilled with this compared to their current situation where ESPN+ does dump pretty much all the games onto streaming as content, but is generally disinterested in promoting it too heavily because of their vast prtfolio of already more popular sports.

That these are worldwide rights is also interesting, that almost never happens for sports deals because there's usually more money to be had chopping up broadcast rights and selling them per country.

I'm sympathetic to the extremely legitimate security concerns here, but it's pretty rich for the "open, we're so open" company to be running a classic 90s Microsoft Embrace Extend Extinguish playbook on SMTP/IMAP which, for all its faults, is one of the more important open protocols undergirding the internet.

Because it’s at least partially, if not mostly, a publicity play and “bitcoin” is the word most regular people know when it comes to crypto stuff.

If I remember correctly, their method for “annotate the world” was less expand the types of content on genius.com and more some sort of extension or standard for slapping their annotations onto other people’s sites which never really took off and also pissed people off.

In my own experience, it's a solid but outdatedly old-school code editor, but it shines spectacularly in text processing.

I always tend to use other editors as my daily driver (TextMate, Atom, VSCode, whatever the new flavor is), but I always keep BBEDit around and updated for this reason. Eventually I am going to need to open an enormous CSV or logfile and do things to it and BBEdit is there for me. It happily opens the thing where other apps scream and choke and die, and it has great text processing tools to do things with that data.

Another thing that's not my reason for liking it but is very real is it's incredible Macness. Unsurprisingly given its 30+ year history on the platform, it's an extremely well behaved Mac application that adheres very cleanly to Mac user expectations of behavior. Doesn't matter that much to me personally, but you'll find a lot of the old-school "fondly reminiscing about Mac SE/30s" types really appreciate that it just feels more like a Mac application than probably even a lot of the built in MacOS applications these days.

It's hard to sell in an article because all their releases say Performance Improvements, but this version actually appears to be noticeably snappier in a way that makes a difference in my day to day usage, which is great.

The page mentions 89% of the features available in Starter being available in the free tier. Is there a good enumeration anywhere of what those features are and what they 11% that would be lost is?

I'll need to evaluate this for my company in the next year and that would be extremely helpful, as the new pricing grid of course does not include the phased out tier for comparison, which is the specific direct comparison I actually need to make here.

Always a good reminder to see what parts of your infrastructure are more dependent on Github being up than they should be.

Are most if not all of GitLab's future CI and CD improvements going to be focused on using Kubernetes and/or containers exclusively?

We're not using that method of either hosting GitLab or deploying our software at my company for various historical reasons, and while GitLab has been good for us overall in its basic workflow, it's a bummer how much of the future roadmap and CD/Devops improvement seems not to apply to our setup.

This reminds me of the recent American Airlines story where they raised employee wages and institutional investors hammered them for it

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-american-airlines-rais...

I wonder how much the two switches in ad teams correlate to the weird period of time when the ads on Tumblr were about 100% for a weird choose your own adventure cartoon thing?

It was available in 2009 in a fairly cheap Ford sedan.

Microsoft Sync got a lot of shit because from what I've heard, the touchscreen version was a total mess, but the voice only version before that in my car's been pretty solid.

So by this logic are we also removing Augustine, Aquinus, Decartes, Kant and the dozens of other canonical western philosophers whose arguments were substantially religious in nature?

I suppose we could, but this leaves a pretty thin curriculum.

The example they're trying to use to show you that prices aren't crazy quotes a $30+ surcharge for having groceries delivered.

and now getting server errors & timeouts when I try to get to the manager to change my passwords.

this has been a hellaciously thorough attack.

The thing that's craziest about the MAS to me is how bad the actual application is.

It's super slow, constantly hangs, and is just such a bad experience from the consumer side that it undermines the (very real) benefits of having a centralized store of applications you've purchased and installed.

It'd be one thing (and a fairly standard Apple move) if the customer experience was good and they didn't care about trampling developers to get it that way, but the actual customer facing software that is the App Store is a shockingly bad piece of software.

This seems to be a service that costs more than all other ad-blocking services and blocks vastly fewer ads than those services.

Additionally, it is run by the company that people who would be concerned about ad trackers are probably the most concerned about.

I would be shocked if it gained any traction ever.

If your friends, such as they are, don't have more motivation than the average person to not kill you with ill-prepared food, then you should think about getting better friends.

At the risk of being "cites articles about cognitive biases guy", it's worth remembering that the reason that the old machines you know today still work is because people have generally gotten rid of all the old machines that are broken (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias)

I've been using it recently and as a user it feels like a negative synthesis as much as a positive one.

Its memory footprint bloats with tabs much like a web-browser does and now my machine just lives in swap in a way that it doesn't with more traditional text editors.