What if we added a social component like "Stories" to this calculator app?

That isn’t there so people use it. That is there so that Facebook can track where you go

No man. That is a brilliant feature that has caught out many "anti-gay" politician's.

Wanted to prove people used those buttons, but maybe not (need to use better/unblocked terms I suppose):

Low Stakes Conspiracies: that share button is there to get users banned. Activist admins or funded by Musk himself?

(Yeah, they pulled a permanent Twitter Taylor Swift on Pornhub.)

Proof 404 (2003)

If you're ever depressed about building useless software just remember - leveraged buyouts are a thing. You could buy your company for nothing by just putting massive debt in the company account and actually manage it right.

Well, in theory, in actuality this piece of accounting bullshit is reserved for vulture capitalists that will destroy the value of the company and asshats (see: Elon Musk) that will destroy the value of the company.

Capitalism destroys everything that we build!

The great thing is that you can simply uninstall it and leave an inspiring review.

wow pulse used to be great. did luke sell? i remember he open sourced it in 2020 but the repo seems to be gone: https://github.com/klinker-apps/pulse-sms-android

edit: huh looks like they got bought in oct. 2020. https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/10/29/it-looks-like-pulse-sms-has-been-bought-by-maple-media-get-ready-for-intrusive-ads/

(there is another repo here https://github.com/jarvanh/pulse-sms-android but i'm not sure how official it is)

The UNIX Tools Philosophy is that tools should do one thing, and they should do it well.
I wish more things followed this philosophy.

We've created an economy where that is not sustainable.

This fact is bad imo, but it's where we are.

Uaers need a $39.99p/m subscription to Calcly Pro.

The actual problem is if you don't add new features, there's nothing for people to do beyond maintenance and you aren't going to keep good developers to only stick around for that.

So your option is new features or a new app entirely, but coming up with other good apps isn't easy and is a huge risk.

So if you actually did good market research and spoke to users, you could find new features to add.

Beyond a tiny company or sole developer, it doesn't really work.

Please tell me this is a real world example because that's hilariously awful.

The board's job is to hire the CEO and demand good value for shareholders. The CEO's job is to make the big decisions to achieve that goal quickly and then usually leave before their short term thinking falls apart. The manager's job is to enforce whatever decisions the CEO makes, even if it is stupid or cruel. And the employee's job is to suffer so that each layer above can look good to the layer above them.

Not to say there's no good people in the system. My manager for most of my time there was actually a good manager who felt that his primary job was to deflect away the shit that rolled down from above so we could focus on our work, but then he got laid off along with half my coworkers.

I do miss writing software, but I really don't miss working in the corporate world.

democracy ftw!

We already have tinder like for vscode: https://github.com/benawad/vsinder

I don't know if the game is the best example of busineses making top-down design decisions, since that game was an obvious scam from the start.

A feature so useless that I use VS Code almost daily and had no idea this existed

That banana's name? Albert Einstein.

What are you talking about? David kicked kinda good while having hair, and Victoria was in a band called the Spice Girls despite being a set square haunted by the ghost of a rice cracker.