What? Is that not their whole business?
It's always funny to watch people project today's dogma onto a time period when it was wildly inapplicable. "Where's the diversity!?!?!!"
Do you think it's that low? I would have assumed 7 figures in bandwidth.
> I’m not willing to participate Nah, you're participating by watching. You'd have 100% of my respect and 100% moral high ground with your stance just by avoiding youtube.com.
So would human downloads, too. Mass audiences do not buy apps. They sometimes buy in-app purchases after installing them, but in terms of games, it's mostly the 'casino games for children' genre that make 90% of that…
The bot farm is a profit center, not a cost center. A corrupt 'publisher' (someone who agrees to show ads on their site/in their app) is having the bots bring up their own site, view the ads and install OP's app, which…
That's definitely a core principle of crapware that's widely done. Put that ad 0px away from the "mash here like crazy" button, PROFIT!
Serious question: Do you watch a lot of YouTube? Why not just cough up the $16 for YouTube Premium? Creators actually do get paid more for Premium users' views than they do from adsense. You get to see none of these ads…
ehh, subvert is a stretch. But yes, you too can be a minor accessory to scams run by thieves to rob advertisers, with enriching the world's largest ad company as a side-effect. Not exactly a Robin Hood situation given…
I have to admit, as a former JW, the linked article is actually not proselytizing, instead it's actually got worthwhile advice. We are each here for a reason and we all touch many lives. We may not ever know, while…
As someone who has spent my currently almost 20-year career building stuff in companies - and whole verticals - I don't care about at all, I agree mostly. As long as they're still going to pay me (GIANT hopeful…
Super optimistic take, unfortunately. Even I as an economic conservative, have serious reservations about our economic system going into this revolution. It's not that capitalism, money, etc. is a broken system or…
Relatable. I've taken advantage, in my career, of my aptitude to learn how moderately-complex systems are put together and my problem-solving instincts which are honestly nothing genius level. Just methodical and…
I didn't remember/realize this so I went searching [1] and found multiple sources e.g. [2] 1. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1483401600&dateRange=custom&... 2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13207552
Having just switched from Google Workspace + Mac to all-Microsoft + Windows, it's been so difficult adjusting. I can choose between two desktop versions of Outlook or the Web, and I just use the Web because it's the…
I assure you, developing for competing platforms is also a fucking nightmare... that's something Microsoft has no monopoly on!
Yikes. What apps have they been doing this with?
Hard agree. Day by day, I become more exhausted with "apps" as they are currently delivered, with native being slightly better than cross-plaform, but not good. Apps in 2026 deliver all the disadvantages of a plain ol'…
As relevant today as it was 26 years ago: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-... See also: Chesterton's Fence
Yeah - he's more likely the guy that would be giving that kind of permission to someone more junior.
I'm not calling you a liar or anything, I get that yeah, no apps really survive today that are laid out statically for each resolution. I'm just saying that they don't release a new version of Uber, Instagram, etc.…
Sure. But it's the exception. Most of my conversations are incredibly boring work stuff, where the records are extremely helpful to me too, or incredibly boring logistics discussion with family. Maybe you guys just have…
> Brands I have never heard of that can't make a call, send messages or add a reminder The fact that these are your top 3 reasons to consider Apple Watch as the only brand to own speaks volumes about why monopolists…
I have a $20 smart fitness watch from Amazon which I use for sleep tracking, though it's a pretty capable watch. Much smaller than an Apple Watch and the battery lasts like 10 days on a charge. It connects to Apple…
Looking forward to it!
What? Is that not their whole business?
It's always funny to watch people project today's dogma onto a time period when it was wildly inapplicable. "Where's the diversity!?!?!!"
Do you think it's that low? I would have assumed 7 figures in bandwidth.
> I’m not willing to participate Nah, you're participating by watching. You'd have 100% of my respect and 100% moral high ground with your stance just by avoiding youtube.com.
So would human downloads, too. Mass audiences do not buy apps. They sometimes buy in-app purchases after installing them, but in terms of games, it's mostly the 'casino games for children' genre that make 90% of that…
The bot farm is a profit center, not a cost center. A corrupt 'publisher' (someone who agrees to show ads on their site/in their app) is having the bots bring up their own site, view the ads and install OP's app, which…
That's definitely a core principle of crapware that's widely done. Put that ad 0px away from the "mash here like crazy" button, PROFIT!
Serious question: Do you watch a lot of YouTube? Why not just cough up the $16 for YouTube Premium? Creators actually do get paid more for Premium users' views than they do from adsense. You get to see none of these ads…
ehh, subvert is a stretch. But yes, you too can be a minor accessory to scams run by thieves to rob advertisers, with enriching the world's largest ad company as a side-effect. Not exactly a Robin Hood situation given…
I have to admit, as a former JW, the linked article is actually not proselytizing, instead it's actually got worthwhile advice. We are each here for a reason and we all touch many lives. We may not ever know, while…
As someone who has spent my currently almost 20-year career building stuff in companies - and whole verticals - I don't care about at all, I agree mostly. As long as they're still going to pay me (GIANT hopeful…
Super optimistic take, unfortunately. Even I as an economic conservative, have serious reservations about our economic system going into this revolution. It's not that capitalism, money, etc. is a broken system or…
Relatable. I've taken advantage, in my career, of my aptitude to learn how moderately-complex systems are put together and my problem-solving instincts which are honestly nothing genius level. Just methodical and…
I didn't remember/realize this so I went searching [1] and found multiple sources e.g. [2] 1. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1483401600&dateRange=custom&... 2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13207552
Having just switched from Google Workspace + Mac to all-Microsoft + Windows, it's been so difficult adjusting. I can choose between two desktop versions of Outlook or the Web, and I just use the Web because it's the…
I assure you, developing for competing platforms is also a fucking nightmare... that's something Microsoft has no monopoly on!
Yikes. What apps have they been doing this with?
Hard agree. Day by day, I become more exhausted with "apps" as they are currently delivered, with native being slightly better than cross-plaform, but not good. Apps in 2026 deliver all the disadvantages of a plain ol'…
As relevant today as it was 26 years ago: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-... See also: Chesterton's Fence
Yeah - he's more likely the guy that would be giving that kind of permission to someone more junior.
I'm not calling you a liar or anything, I get that yeah, no apps really survive today that are laid out statically for each resolution. I'm just saying that they don't release a new version of Uber, Instagram, etc.…
Sure. But it's the exception. Most of my conversations are incredibly boring work stuff, where the records are extremely helpful to me too, or incredibly boring logistics discussion with family. Maybe you guys just have…
> Brands I have never heard of that can't make a call, send messages or add a reminder The fact that these are your top 3 reasons to consider Apple Watch as the only brand to own speaks volumes about why monopolists…
I have a $20 smart fitness watch from Amazon which I use for sleep tracking, though it's a pretty capable watch. Much smaller than an Apple Watch and the battery lasts like 10 days on a charge. It connects to Apple…
Looking forward to it!