JoeNr76

I never said that you should prefer 3 star restaurant. I was responding to the specific claim that home cooked meals are always better than eating out.

What you find regrettable is your problem, not mine.

If I invite people, I do it for the people, if I go out to eat I do it for the food. I don't see why this regrettable just because you think it is.

> I think nobody in my country would say going out to eat is better than eating at home.

You haven't eaten at a 2 or 3 star restaurant then. They use ingredients you don't have access too, using techniques you can't use at home and pair them with wines or juices you haven't heard about.

However good you think your home cooking is (I think I'm a fairly good cook), you don't come to the knees of a chef with such a restaurant.

Yes, they are not cheap. But neither is buying a bigger house.

And if it's about getting together, who cooked the food doesn't matter. Or even get together without food, that works too.

Completely anecdotally:

I am 46yo. And I was in a reading slump for most of my fourties. I used to be an avid reader until I became a father and my 3 children began taking up more of my time. And I got a shorter attention span too.

I signed up for TT because my eldest child wanted an account and I wanted to see what he was sharing and seeing. He abandoned his account quite quickly, but I found fantasy booktok. And the Tiktokers' youthful enthusiasm was a big part of what got me out of my years-long reading slump.

I doubt if this happens often enough to be industry changing, but it does happen, even for someone very much outside the Tiktok demographic.

As an aside: where it does seem to have an influence is more people in the Dutch language zone reading books in English. I have been reading in English since I was 12 and at the time many people thought that was crazy. But nowadays every bookshop has a wall full of English Fantasy en YA books.

You can use verbs passively to do something on something else. Or you can have your program or process do it. Logically, I see no difference between:

"The HandlerCreationFactory created a Handler based on the Request." (oop)

"A Handler is created based on the Request." (passive) or "The program (or process) creates a Handler based on the Request. "

Only that the first one needs a lot more nouns, even when they look silly.

It only targets big "platform providers" not startups. It even levels the playing field for those startups. People get so ideologically tangled that they just knee jerk.

In the case of iMessage, Apple has a competitive advantage that stifles competition, not enhances it.

Setting a baseline for interoperability is not the same as requiring them all to be the same.

Not just that, it's removing barriers for competition. Which is what good regulations is all about. (and, technically it more than just bubble color, it's also including everyone in group chats)

Even after all these years, people still have this misconception about TTD. No idea where it came from.

No, it was earlier. I was subscribed to this Dogbert newsletter and it was increasingly obvious that he was not as logical as he thought he was. Like really believing in positive affirmations because he did a good exam after doing them.

translated: Never complain, proles, just be glad you get some scraps from that ever-growing economy. Even if it's less than your parents.

The only questionable part is end-to-end encryption. I don't see how you can make your messaging apps interoperable and have E2E encryption.

Most of the other things: mostly good. Apple and Google need to be taken down a peg or 10.

yes. When I get called in as a senior consultant for some business app, it's always for the same reason: development speed has crawled to an almost stop. And it is always caused by unnecessary complexity.

I blame the fact that design patterns and specific architectures are being taught to people who don't understand the problem those things are trying to solve and just apply them everywhere.

Any senior dev or architect should always live by this maxim: make it as simple as possible.