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Weak arguments. Labor exploitation is nothing special in regards to AI, neither is environmental impact. It's like everything else. You can say the same thing about Uber, Zara, Supermarkets, any tech company. This isn't really a valid argument against AI. And whether it's real intelligence or not is just ridiculous. Nobody cares. It's useful, it's all that matters.

I barely made any changes and resulted in 430K

I'm having a hard time taking anything new from Google seriously. In 2 years they might just sunset both of these for yet another iteration of a work collaboration and messaging app.

Your criticism is fair, except the camera access. It's a video chat tool, of course it's going to ask you to use your camera. What do you expect?

Begging is a form of request, or lead someone to do something. So it's like it requests/leads to a question.

Watched about 20 minutes. Maybe there's a point hidden somewhere in between his rantings, buts it's quite hard to grasp it. He moves back and forth between actual criticism of the Windows UI and just stuff that he personally likes as an advanced user.

I agree that Windows is far from perfect (I'm mostly a Mac user) but IMO the biggest issue is complexity. For tech savvy users all these are non issues, but for my Mom it would be impossible.

OTOH she can operate an iPhone just fine.

How come it has a very similar aesthetic to Splitwise? Is that from the same developer or just using the same UI theme?

What I meant is that the closer you get to a delivery date, the more stress there is on you to "just make stuff work".

Most software projects that: 1) create business value, 2) are not trivial, and 3) have time constraints, reach a point where you have to just finish it, no matter the cost to code quality. I see it where I work. We have pretty good programmers, but sometimes we have to create debt intentionally because we know that's the way we'll make the deadline, and therefore impress customers, and therefore buy more time to write new features, and fix that debt.

In many cases, especially in the early days of a startup, you can't even afford the 1/2 weeks to increase code quality, because you might not have a business by then. If you have a demo for a customer the next day, at that point software quality does not matter at all.

True, but a counter argument could be that Apple has created the ability of your phone to have apps installed on it. And I’m theory you could jailbreak your phone and install any app you’d want.

I was getting depressed towards the end of the event list, and the last one cheered me up. Everything is circular.

I don't fully get it. What does the "edge" here means? How is it like a CDN? How is this different than Heroku/GCloud?

It's not only color. Can you imagine any of the latest Apple products in colors other than variations of white and black (ok, and "gold")?

I absolutely loath Booking.com's UX.

Whenever it's possible, I use something else, like HostelWorld. Their interface is clean, to the point, and the reviews and ratings can actually be trusted.

I'm happy someone did this website. I just came back from a long trip and every time somebody asked me why I hate Booking.com, I pointed exactly to some of the points that were made there. The fake sense of urgency, the cluttered UI. And the cherry on top: The fact they display the "total cost of all nights" in the results, instead of the per-night cost. That's not a misleading UX, it's just a bad UX decision.

But because of it's popularity amongst accommodation owners and travelers, its fall is unlikely.