The video goes into slightly more depth, and at about 1:30 into the video they acknowledge that the participants were not representative and that they would like to conduct further research.
> Is only 10 people representative of the population of thunderbird users? For very narrow studies it is possible to get representative data with fewer than a dozen interviews, but in this case it is explicitly not…
To be honest it's also a little bit of rose-colored glasses. In the 2000s I probably spent the equivalent of thousands of dollars purchasing one-time commercial software licenses and I appreciate not having to save up…
As evidenced by Rent-a-Center and automobile leases there are plenty of non-software businesses that cater to customers who would rather pay a subscription than a one-time transaction. > Why is software development any…
At least in my case, when I lament the fact that everything is becoming a subscription I'm not judging independent developers who charge a subscription for their mobile or web apps. They need to stay abreast of an…
I once worked at a startup that did just that. Developed a system that was significantly better and cheaper than an existing legacy solution. One of the generals who saw the DARPA demonstration overrode the whole…
> There is no such price, because there is no way to sustainably develop a product without subscriptions Such a price clearly exists -- in an extreme case you could charge 50x your annual subscription price and invest…
> What software companies need to do is sell versions, where the life time of the version usefulness is actually limited... Can the same not be found for many software products? Some of the enterprise software I've…
A majority of the parents I know are extremely concerned about the internet and social media and want tech companies to provide them with better parental controls. True, no one I know has lobbied for age verification…
Agreed. Many parents I've spoken to want operating systems to provide a standard set of age and/or content flags that app stores and websites are required to respect. But various groups are deliberately conflating that…
> It’s not for the kids. That’s just the excuse. Is is an excuse for some, sure. But we will fail at pushing back if we ignore that there are a meaningful number of concerned parents who support solutions like this…
> Have apps and websites declare the objectionable content they have, and let the device decide if it will show it or not according to parental controls. That would have been nice. The RSAC (Recreational Software…
> No one sets the thing. Based on the surveys from the wikipedia page it appears that 15-20% of parents used the v-chip feature on their TV. For an optional feature that has to be manually configured that seems like an…
> kids will always find circumvention pathways I'd consider this a feature. I'd be proud if my kids find a way to circumvent the parental controls on the family computer or use their own money to build their own…
I've lived in a few US cities, but the example of NYC comes to mind. New Yorkers are happy to lend a hand if you're lost, struggling with a stroller on the stairs, or something falls out of your bag. And they're happy…
That is my experience as well -- most people are basically good. But my personal experience has also been that the sort of people who ignore social cues and try and chat someone up who is wearing headphones while riding…
> It's fine to start a conversation with a women wearing headphones, just take it in stride and don't be weird about it if she isn't interested in talking. I do this (with men and women) a lot. Not sure where you're…
Different public spaces have wildly different expectations with regard to social interaction. Most people know better than to strike up a conversation with a stranger who is watching a theater performance, reading in a…
Scientific progress is typically the result of outliers at the upper end of the normal distribution which doesn't inherently contradict a decrease in average knowledge. (i.e. a larger standard deviation could overcome a…
Whether it's reasonable depends on the distribution, not just the duration. A 2 hour onsite with the candidate being rapid-fire interviewed by six different different teams and a 20 minute call every couple weeks for…
Making interviews efficient and making them easy are orthogonal. It depends on what attributes your organization is trying to select for. To select for people who are willing to commit to a slow bureaucratic…
> designing interfaces that keep pointing-device-free users in mind. Agreed. Using keyboard keys to emulate a mouse cursor seems like it ought to be a last resort for graphical applications that lack proper…
> Content creating is not maintenance. Technical maintenance isn't the only kind of website maintenance. Unless you're ready to put a site into hibernation, maintaining the content is an ongoing cost. For example, Ian…
> It costs him almost nothing to run > Maintenance cost is effectively zero... His estimates[1] of ongoing costs seem different: > I spend probably 60 hours a week continuously improving this website, answering…
Sure, authors can adopt Gemini-like restrictions on their own simple HTML pages to gain some of the benefits of publishing with Gemini. But this ignores the benefit for readers. Simple HTML pages are one link, search,…
The video goes into slightly more depth, and at about 1:30 into the video they acknowledge that the participants were not representative and that they would like to conduct further research.
> Is only 10 people representative of the population of thunderbird users? For very narrow studies it is possible to get representative data with fewer than a dozen interviews, but in this case it is explicitly not…
To be honest it's also a little bit of rose-colored glasses. In the 2000s I probably spent the equivalent of thousands of dollars purchasing one-time commercial software licenses and I appreciate not having to save up…
As evidenced by Rent-a-Center and automobile leases there are plenty of non-software businesses that cater to customers who would rather pay a subscription than a one-time transaction. > Why is software development any…
At least in my case, when I lament the fact that everything is becoming a subscription I'm not judging independent developers who charge a subscription for their mobile or web apps. They need to stay abreast of an…
I once worked at a startup that did just that. Developed a system that was significantly better and cheaper than an existing legacy solution. One of the generals who saw the DARPA demonstration overrode the whole…
> There is no such price, because there is no way to sustainably develop a product without subscriptions Such a price clearly exists -- in an extreme case you could charge 50x your annual subscription price and invest…
> What software companies need to do is sell versions, where the life time of the version usefulness is actually limited... Can the same not be found for many software products? Some of the enterprise software I've…
A majority of the parents I know are extremely concerned about the internet and social media and want tech companies to provide them with better parental controls. True, no one I know has lobbied for age verification…
Agreed. Many parents I've spoken to want operating systems to provide a standard set of age and/or content flags that app stores and websites are required to respect. But various groups are deliberately conflating that…
> It’s not for the kids. That’s just the excuse. Is is an excuse for some, sure. But we will fail at pushing back if we ignore that there are a meaningful number of concerned parents who support solutions like this…
> Have apps and websites declare the objectionable content they have, and let the device decide if it will show it or not according to parental controls. That would have been nice. The RSAC (Recreational Software…
> No one sets the thing. Based on the surveys from the wikipedia page it appears that 15-20% of parents used the v-chip feature on their TV. For an optional feature that has to be manually configured that seems like an…
> kids will always find circumvention pathways I'd consider this a feature. I'd be proud if my kids find a way to circumvent the parental controls on the family computer or use their own money to build their own…
I've lived in a few US cities, but the example of NYC comes to mind. New Yorkers are happy to lend a hand if you're lost, struggling with a stroller on the stairs, or something falls out of your bag. And they're happy…
That is my experience as well -- most people are basically good. But my personal experience has also been that the sort of people who ignore social cues and try and chat someone up who is wearing headphones while riding…
> It's fine to start a conversation with a women wearing headphones, just take it in stride and don't be weird about it if she isn't interested in talking. I do this (with men and women) a lot. Not sure where you're…
Different public spaces have wildly different expectations with regard to social interaction. Most people know better than to strike up a conversation with a stranger who is watching a theater performance, reading in a…
Scientific progress is typically the result of outliers at the upper end of the normal distribution which doesn't inherently contradict a decrease in average knowledge. (i.e. a larger standard deviation could overcome a…
Whether it's reasonable depends on the distribution, not just the duration. A 2 hour onsite with the candidate being rapid-fire interviewed by six different different teams and a 20 minute call every couple weeks for…
Making interviews efficient and making them easy are orthogonal. It depends on what attributes your organization is trying to select for. To select for people who are willing to commit to a slow bureaucratic…
> designing interfaces that keep pointing-device-free users in mind. Agreed. Using keyboard keys to emulate a mouse cursor seems like it ought to be a last resort for graphical applications that lack proper…
> Content creating is not maintenance. Technical maintenance isn't the only kind of website maintenance. Unless you're ready to put a site into hibernation, maintaining the content is an ongoing cost. For example, Ian…
> It costs him almost nothing to run > Maintenance cost is effectively zero... His estimates[1] of ongoing costs seem different: > I spend probably 60 hours a week continuously improving this website, answering…
Sure, authors can adopt Gemini-like restrictions on their own simple HTML pages to gain some of the benefits of publishing with Gemini. But this ignores the benefit for readers. Simple HTML pages are one link, search,…