Facebook, just like Youtube and all behavior-based content platforms, gets stuck in local minimums where they try to always show you things you seem to like, both for you and GP. But what we like is not “more of the same thing”, but diversity and surprises...
> 4. Never give advice unless specifically asked for it.
As an employee, I’ve quit a job notably because my team lead didn’t give me much advice. I didn’t know you had to “unlock it” by asking first “please give me advice”.
Seriously you’re in 1-1 as a specific help for communication. If you refrain from communicating because a specific keyword wasn’t said, then it’s culture enforcement at its best.
I’d pay 200$ per year for each desktop of my company if I could have an OSS alternative to macOS. PC are half price, but still with half-baked OS. If I pay $250 per IntelliJ, how much is a good open-source OS?
Heck, even Dell would decuple their XPS sales if they had a nice open-source OS for it.
Or pick none at all, because they should sort their exclusivity problems, meanwhile piracy proves a better service. And also, pay the artist so they get onto the platform, because mine (JJGoldman, quite big in France) doesn’t like online platforms because they don’t pay enough.
Privacy is a driver for opinion leaders. It’s only 10% but... they’re opinion leaders.
Also, I’ve founded a product. How do I justify an iPhone to my tax office, given I rarely call? Well I use the phone to fix production issues while away from a computer, and I couldn’t use an Android because security is shit.
What is difficult with ffmpeg is the sub-language in each argument, which depends on the filter you’re using. I can learn to lookup the manual, but if I have to go to the internet to learn the syntax of the filter, I’m better off googling my usecas.
Amazon doesn’t have a foot in social networks yet. It could complete their home offer, between Alexa and Prime, what better termination of a supply chain than an entire platform for product placement.
Musk is fired by his own board, sells his stock, goes to create a 3D music company, Tesla falls in dismay, BMW takes ownership of the electric car market and is under monopoly action, to the point that BMW has to invest $150m in Tesla to prevent competition from falling, Tesla board implores Musk to come back, Musk buys all his stock back for A SINGLE DOLLAR (good job Steve), and entirely transforms the electric car market by conflating 3 products in one: a music device, an electric car device, and a planet, named the tPod, and in the end Musk is king of the world and makes billions.
We use colons for the same reason as in English, but there is a space before colons in French (Microsoft Word inserts it automatically for you in French), and no uppercase after the colon.
There are studies that the larger the bed (at home) and the fancier the reception, the shorter the marriage. But more friends means longer marriage. Basically a barbecue with heaps of mates predicts the longest marriages.
Of course the stats above are the land of correlations-not-causations; larger bed may mean financially more stable therefore more independant and less dependent on the partner’s income, or similar. Still fun ;)
In French, no space before a comma or a period (unless want to explicitly communicate your disdain for computery things or you’re above 60) but we do put a space before : ? !
Example: « Pas de palais : pas de palais ! »
(^Quote from the Asterix movie that will be way more useful to you for making French friends in a bar than saying « I can’t speak French » in French)
Atlassian has always forbidden to talk about the performance of their products in their ToS and in their previous EULA. We all know why, but we don’t talk about it.
One of my customers even raised the issue with them, saying it would cause harm to the company if it came to be known, but they dodgeball’ed it with legal.