I'm with you. Everything government that at least still pretended to serve the public interested and greater good has been openly captured by individuals and movements concerned with some more selfish agenda.

People have jobs and lives, let them make things quick with the tools available if its for fun.

I'm making a program to build Magic: The Gathering decks from first principles of card data, no reliance on user-posted deck aggregation or EDHREC, and no AI. A slew of internal knobs exposed.

The most insane response I've ever read here, so far.

Dumb question, can you explain the benefits of IOS? I've only tried using an iPhone ~10 years ago before I got into tech

It's unbelievably useful within its own walled garden. There are lots of instances where commands, tabs, and other pieces of data transfer seamlessly between your phone and computer. You can bring your phone up as a digital version ON your laptop so you can call, text, etc. straight from it while your phone sits in the bedroom charging or whatever. Everything works really, really well. Their walled garden has always been pretty top-tier.

So would you say that the value of Apple products increases as you have more of them (higher than just the linear benefit of more products)? I've used them, but always as one offs.

For example, Ive had a Mac(book? The one that you connect periphery to use) as a work computer at a previous software job, the iPhone because of a girl I dated who wouldn't be with a green bubble man, and iPad also in a previous job, so never together or actually adopted in personal life, so I didn't get sold.

Yes, significantly. That’s a great way to put it. My dad is all-in, and I’m pretty surprised at how nice things can be.

Still, it’s like a credit card with a fee. It’s great so long as you can pay, but oftentimes it’s a nightmare to get out of if times are tough.

You went to great lengths to make this seem more convoluted than it is. An article about a book detailing a man responsible for shaping how we read is pretty straightforward

Not a theist myself, but I can certainly imagine a believer seeing god in all the wonders of nature.

"The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you."

No company has ever gained users by forcing emails on users.

Every fashion brand on the planet reengages their customers this way and it works.

I learned about the Analogue 64 from a marketing email, and I bought it.

I see emails showing me new API features are available. Sometimes that's useful.

I see Font Awesome has new fonts. Useful.

I see a16z wrote an article that seems interesting to me. Useful.

I filter out the 95% of stuff I don't want. I'm not seeing ads for clothing, but my wife might and she might find that useful.

You're thinking that because you don't like it the practice should end entirely across the board?

You very rarely make it in this world without trying.

And if you don't like it, there's "unsubscribe".

Not everyone is lucky enough to be Apple. And even they send lots of marketing emails.

Engineers complain too much. The reality on the ground is much more steep and treacherous.

> Every fashion brand on the planet reengages their customers this way and it works.

I often receive emails from (among other things) fashion brands to which I never subscribed. There are clearly multiple people worldwide who, mistakenly or intentionally, are giving my `firstname.lastname@gmail.com` at checkout or whatever rather than their own.

Every time I receive one of those emails I do two things:

1. Use their unsubscribe link on a private window, connecting with a VPN exit point in their country (or nearby). If asked, I select the "I never subscribed" or "This is spam" option.

2. Mark the email as spam on GMail, rejecting GMail's proposal to unsubscribe instead (as I already did).

I have no mercy and feel no guilt at reducing their email server's reputation. The only exceptions I make are the rare emails that ask me to confirm "my" subscription before sending "me" their stuff. That I respect, and I just ignore and delete.

Reengaging customers is not gaining customers. I haven't been an engineer all my life, but I've been "on the ground" that entire time and I sure have gained a lot of disdain for a lot of companies because they won't stop emailing me.

If a company sends me mail and I don't remember allowing them to, I will not trust them and will not use the unsubscribe button, because using it signals to the sender that my address is valid. I will mark as spam.

The onus for clearly communicating that you are going to mail me anything other than transaction updates is with the sender, not the receiver.