My favorite American joke: what do you call someone who you think doesn't deserve healthcare, doesn't deserve happiness, and should die so that you can maintain your standard of living?
Don't worry, Time Magazine will declare "The Essential Worker" as Person of the Year 2020, and that will make up for all the minimum wage and unsafe working conditions.
Beat Saber really seems to be the closest thing to a Killer App for VR right now. I'm introducing it to people who have never really been interested in video games and they fall in love immediately. It's also the only VR game I've played that has felt like a complete, novel, and interesting experience that I keep coming back to.
Can confirm. I'm currently pretty addicted to Beat Saber. Let my (non-gamer) mom try it some time ago and now everytime they visit she asks if she can play a bit.
I'm not sure exactly what point this article is trying to make. Being rich and powerful is stressful? Yes, we all knew that.
Zuckerberg could retire at any point and do the exact same thing Tom is doing. It's clear he wants to continue to be the CEO of Facebook, that it's something he values more than traveling and taking pretty photos for instagram. Seems to me like being one of the most powerful people in the world is a more interesting prospect for him.
> Being rich and powerful is stressful? Yes, we all knew that.
Uh, that's not the point at all.
Maybe it's overly simplistic, but the point of the article is that Tom went from being on top to having his company become a punchline. But in retrospect, having $650 million dollars and not a care in the world is quite possibly a better place to be in than the guy who's worth tens of billions, but it is spearheading one of the most socially destructive organizations on the planet.
It's obviously arguable, but in my opinion, Facebook, and Mark Zuckerberg's legacy so far, is a big fat net negative on the world.
At it's best Facebook offers me a paltry and superficial insight into the lives of people that I don't really care about enough to talk to on a regular basis.
At it's worst, Facebook feeds social insecurity and anxiety; builds and sells terrifyingly accurate personality profiles of people; deepens partisanship and tribal tendencies; and has become one of the premier conduits for falsehoods and propaganda.
I won't demonize Zuckerberg because I can't presume to understand his motives; and I will give him the benefit of the doubt that what he wants to do is make the world a better place. But so far, like giving a time machine to a chimpanzee, he's really making a fucking mess of things.
Facebook isn't solving a real-world problem. Before Messenger, I could have easily just kept in touch with those I care about via text message. Without the ad targeting, echo chambers, and anxiety that social platforms create with "keeping up with the joneses".
There's a bunch of negative externalities. I don't want to be a user anymore. I will share things I care enough to share with my friends directly, not through an abstraction of a "wall" where an opaque algorithm decides who sees what. It's incredibly impersonal. It is by no means "connecting" us. Facebook sows far more division than connection.
I disagree. Facebook solves a real problem - finding real people on the internet. Especially at university when you are meeting lots of new people it was really useful and I remember before it existed wishing there was some website where I could look people up.
They've lost their way, sure. But I think they could fix things fairly easily - reduce the amount of advertising, provide a way to hide all "shared" posts and "someone tagged you", "remember this day 5 years ago" etc.
Amazon is great for common household items that I don't want to make a trip to the store for (cleaning supplies, loofahs, notebooks, pens and paper, etc.). If I want to buy, for example, a Samsung or Apple phone charger, I'm going to buy it from the manufacturer's website.
You shouldn't buy sex toys on amazon precisely because of reason number 3. Shit is straight up dangerous and someone is going to get hurt before long, it'll be a huge lawsuit and a PR disaster for Amazon and they'll finally crackdown on all the counterfeit chinese bullshit.
That's part of snapchat's brand, they make all their shit unintuitive, obscure, hard to discover and use. It's supposed to make it so that you feel hip and in the know when you finally discover how to make that mustache appear on your face or make text float in the background of your video.
But of course that doesn't seem to transfer that well to selling hardware.
There is a clear reasoning for this strategy. People and especially press talk more about the product.
Btw, I think Snapchat is quite intuitive. Some features might not be easy to find or to know about. But once you know it is very intuitive and fast to use them. I think it is similar to Vim, if you don't know anything about Vim you cannot even quit Vim but once you know all the stuff Vim is one of the most intuitive editors because UI and most commands are well designed.
You are clearly using a different definition of intuitive from anyone else.
VIM is the least intuitive editor that I know.
Even you are saying that people don't even know how to quit it, how in the world is that intuitive???
If you need to know all the stuff to use it that is by definition not intuitive.
"adjective: intuitive
using or based on what one feels to be true even without conscious reasoning; instinctive.
(chiefly of computer software) easy to use and understand."
I think you are referring to stickiness - which doesn't infer that the product is intuitive.
If you can't use a product right away without help then it is not intuitive by definition. However it doesn't mean you won't like it if taught how to extract value.
For instance it's not intuitive to deep fry a banana and then put salt on it before eating it, but I'm quite certain you will finish the plate once you try it.
Unless they form a contract with their employers saying they will take 49,999 for 2 years with a guaranteed raise to 60k at the end. Employer saves money, employee saves money, school gets screwed...
Sure, run after a speeding car flying into traffic, leave your other bags behind, risk your life so that you can stop a corrupt uber driver from robbing you. And if he refuses to give you your bag back, just fist fight him. Man up and take some responsibility!
Every day I hear something so ridiculous from Uber I can't believe it. Seems like Lyft's biggest advertisement should be "Lyft: we're not uber"
I do. Track down whoever at spotify controls those playlists and offer them money.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payola