Tagged “tech”

If capital is not invested in providing a good service via a profitable business, it will never sustain things that are societally useful.

hopefully this doesn't imply that things need to be profitable to be societally useful

Interesting that substuck gets mentioned for this - that maybe the main selling point is the subscription part rather than the publishing part. Maybe this is obvious but I had previously thought they were more about editing experience and hosting text.

surprising(?) amount of biased claims in there. "I have had great luck with phone x", some hating on google for login screens, etc.

please fewer underground car tubes

I don't know about this theory, but damn all the giant screens are annoying when looking for a new phone

unsurprisingly, issues facing twitter:
a) have been considered by people who spend years working on it
b) are more complicated to solve than a pithy phrase would have you believe

Too much trash and sponsored noisy content

Rise of holograms, deepfakes, so more ongoing fame for existing artists. Decline of labels, consolidation of the remaining power/profit in that business to fewer and fewer people.

The “official industry figures” will show that the music business is growing, but these numbers will be highly misleading. A huge portion of “music profits” will actually go to tech companies (Apple, Google, etc.), who have no interest in reinvesting this cash into the music ecosystem. For example, Spotify will take the cash flow generated by music and use it to acquire rights to podcasts, etc.—and, in general, the music culture will be starved of funds because it now must pay the bills for other businesses

Mostly sensible looking predictions, interesting set of topcs: Enterprise software, phone form factor, SF / NYC tech rivalry apparently, Crypto as dissident tech, fall of grad school, biotech bubble, microplastics health fears, campaign growth hacking, and SV startup scam.

A long-awaited product - laptop with upgradable parts! And decent specs! The internal adapters might be too late (USB-C is almost now widely used enough), but at least having the choice of ports is cool.

Sensible writeup. The trashing and attacks over gd frameworks is terrible and unnecessary. Use whatever tech you want!

Started off sounding so ambitious and friendly; the goals and incentives probably shifted fairly early.

They never delivered on this "strong goal" to make web search an academic endeavour.

Great little explainers for some important concepts. Learned a lot from /proc one!

That squares with my experience of software development. It's like being a furniture maker but spending 80% of your time fixing your goddamn hammer because it keeps breaking and no better hammers exist, or consulting glue-drying tables because they keep changing your glue on you every hour or two and for no good reason every single glue performs differently while accomplishing the same thing.

I noticed this as well. Went from wanting to code all the time, to wanting to do something not web related in spare time. Hobbies are important!