Telegram is profitable through semi-pushing some cryptocurrency and selling premium. Various free-to-play games are profitable through the sale of optional content.

There are alternatives in offering delayed or optional monetary costs.

What makes me a moron?

What do you base this on?

Lemmy seem quite heavily skewed towards non-apple users.

What specifically makes me like a Hispanic Trump voter? Where’s the equivalence of self-sabotage?

In what way do I help the wrong side win?

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I have a great dislike for Apple, and have never bought or used any of their products. I still downvoted the comment because it’s wrong (use doesn’t define general intelligence), toxic, and misguided (attacks those that we would prefer to change).

You thinking downvotes are (mainly? fully?) apple fans speaks volumes.

What makes you think the ICEBlock app removal is about the law or following the law?

You see them as desperate? Above anything, I see them as opposites.

The actions seem similar, but their intentions are very different. They’re not scared or anxious. They’re enabled, demanding, and oppressive.

TikTok is a short video social platform. People post only videos. The two you mentioned are short public messaging social platforms, with the capability to post/include videos.

That’s not really what this is about, though. TikTok was not under their control, so they’re trying to take control and follow their script of media and social control.

Would be interesting to see how the numbers compare to today.

A study of studies is a better source than a single study.

If every performer took that approach, alternatives would become viable, and they could perform in those.

You have to design for scalability. Bottlenecks may be wherever. Even if their virtual server CPU and RAM can scale up, other stuff may be bottlenecks. Maybe the connection to the DB. Maybe the DB is elsewhere and doesn’t scale. Can’t really reasonably guess from the outside.

Mass cancellation is not usually a thing they would design around bottle-necks. It also doesn’t add value to them.

I was surprised to see Fox, looked into it on Wikipedia, and now I’m even more confused between Fox Entertainment, Fox Corporation, 21st Century Fox, Fox News [Channel], …

Depends on what you see as “the job”. I would prefer many projects to be better than they currently are, both from the end user and the developer side.

When I think about the projects I have seen, you need very good people to clean up technical debt in a viable and sustainable way, as well as develop in a way that is sustainable and maintainable in a good way long term.

If you don’t have very good people, code quality devolves quickly, whereas the negative impact is felt a bit later, and at that point, it’ll be hard for most people to clean up and improve the project in a reasonable fashion, and it usually never happens.

The skill, experience, and being able to grasp what needs to be grasped gap is one thing, the time people are in a project or firm is another.

In the end, it depends on what the job is. Sure, most apps work. But there are so many applications that annoy and hinder me as a user. Even as a user, it’s a mess. I’m sure the dev team doesn’t have it much better on those projects.

With very good people acting as mentors and guidance, others can certainly get the job done, and contribute in productive ways. Most importantly, they learn and improve significantly.

I guess overall it’s not really about the big gap, but more of a continuum of skill. There’s certainly a weighted spread though.

It’s great because it’s audible when the lecturer can continue or when not takers are still catching up.

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