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+1 and there's a lot of good solutions. FoundryVTT, Roll20, FantasyGrounds and Owlbear Rodeo all work well too

Women are livestock to him.

Read the article.

In a statement announcing his resignation, DeWit said he had planned to fight to keep his job until Lake’s team gave him an ultimatum to resign or she would release another, more damaging recording.

“I am truly unsure of its contents, but considering our numerous past open conversations as friends, I have decided not to take the risk,” DeWit said.

Lake’s senior advisers, Garrett Ventry and Caroline Wren, said in a statement that “no one from the Kari Lake campaign threatened or blackmailed DeWit.”

Imagine actually reading the article /s

I remeber when this piece of shit did a reddit AMA a few years ago and got thousands of upvotes. People still support him and he thinks he did nothing wrong.

I've worked in the industry for the last 11 years, and my experience is that the industry has changed dramatically.

In 2012, there were still huge niches in smartphone software that has not yet been filled. There were also almost no barriers to entry - a team of <10 people rapidly expanding didn't have to think about Cookie Banners or Google Play store delisting. Finally, there was the promise of a huge payout - the win condition for a startup was to BE the next Google.

In 2023, dominant players have captured all aspects of the software experience and when a new idea becomes popular (Snapchat in 2016 is a good early example), big tech has the lawyers and developers to simply clone it with a higher budget (e.g. Insta & FB Stories, Youtube Shorts). Because of scale, big companies can more easily afford to deal with regulation and can even sometimes regulate their competitors (Play Store). Finally, big tech is guaranteed high payout for developers - these days, the win condition for a startup isn't to BE the next Google, its to be acquired by Google.

The eventual end of all this is Google continuing to strangle open & free Android by buying/shutting down any new ideas and extracting more and more rent from its platform.

The only way to opt out is to move to non-Play AOSP alternatives.

They will pay him off and keep doing it.

You should check out this episode of the podcast 99% Invisible. Its fascinating how valuable sand is to humans.

I would love to be a person* in my late 20s - early 30s in 1920-1930 traveling amongst Western European cities.

Art Deco, The Jazz Age, surrealism and cubism in art, the birth of radio, electricity and cars, Albert Einstein and Nicolai Tesla expanding the scientific consciousness of the human race while Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin. Women get the vote while Egypt and spiritualism grip popular imagination. Monarchies crumble and democracies rise.

It would have been an incredible experience to live through.

Of course, a lot of people were unfairly treated during this time too. Its easy romanticize the good and ignore the awful.

I'd like to know which 12 users upvoted this so that I can block them all.

They are Christians - is this the choice Jesus would make?

Learning about long term index fund investing in my early 20s.

I ride the public bus every day, and I can tell you its basically all social media, messaging, YouTube and phone/video calls.

But you don't have to do the same thing everyone else does. You can play digital card games, chess, read a book, or put your phone in your pocket and listen to podcasts or music. And if you're not commuting, you can plug your phone in and do actual stuff.

Have you heard of banning the vapes but not the drug thats in them?

Do you have experience in big tech? Because its completely normal for each of these app teams to have 3-5 developers at minimum, plus a manager, a product person and likely a QA as well. Even when not working on brand new features, these teams are all running A/B tests, working on marketing campaigns, keeping the SDKs and service frameworks up to date, responding to help requests etc. Every time there's "new bits", for example, its because a team of people made that.

You don't have to believe me but I've personally worked in systems like this and there's more copmlexity than you're imagining.

Twitch actually has minimal IT - they host on AWS because they're owned by Amazon. They pay a discounted rate but otherwise don't maintain their own server farms or hardware.

A minute after posting this, I can think of way more necessary roles. Let's start by mentioning that all this infra needs to run 24/7 with 100% uptime so that some 30 year old can jerk off to a VOD of Amouranth at 3am without a single frame drop.

And all of this is just core product people.

Then you need HR, managers to hire, fire & promote all these people, lawyers, customer service reps, content moderators, executive assistants, and the facilities maintenance people who refill their snack closets.

Its hard to run a huge online service like Twitch.

Twitch builds and maintains the following infrastructure:

• Website + web video player
• iOS App
• Android App
• Fire TV app
• Playstation 4 app
• Xbox One app
• Chromecast app
• Apple TV app
• Real-time chat backend
• Search services
• Distributed video storage backend services (VODs)
• Content recommendation services
• Account services (streamer accounts and viewer accounts)
• Monetization services (subscriptions, bits)
• Twitch Studio + Soundtrack apps for creators

All of this has to run at Twitch scale (140 million MAUs)

And these are just the technical teams. Then add on UX designers, marketing, product and business development, not to mention Business Intelligence data scientists.

Its been a few years since I checked, but Reddit traditionally has not required an email. You can just leave the field blank and click next and it'll let you create an account anyway. The UX is a dark pattern.