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Personally I refuse to die for anything short of an antimatter explosion.

Hyperbole is a thing.

In other the news it’s still too expensive for basically anyone to buy which was my fundamental point which I feel like you’re ignoring

If we have a discover aliens the first thing we’re going to do if they have computers is try and run Doom on it.

fiddly little interfaces for gadgets

You can already do that with an app.

The technology is definitely cool but unless they can significantly reduce the price it’s just not worth it

It wasn’t lack of interest it was a lack of money. It was an interesting product that I would have probably bought but was ludicrously expensive. I can practically pay off my mortgage for the amount they wanted

People keep telling me it’s useful but I literally cannot think of a single use for it.

I wish, but most people don’t know / care about this stuff, it’s not going to really percolate into the public consciousness .

According to the dealership my car isn’t worth it’s weight grass clippings because it’s too old.

From an international perspective it does seem to be the only way you guys get any progressive laws implemented. Perhaps you should move the capital

No they’re clever they only agree to arbitration if you’re suing them not the other way around. They are very careful to make that explicitly clear

You buy the license to be able to view the media as many times as you wish. If I bought a copy of the Titanic on Google movies, or whatever it’s called, I’ve bought a license to view that movie for however many times I wish for as long as I wish. If Google decides to remove that movie then they need to either pay me back, or give me the right to download the movie.

As long as I don’t share that download or make a torrent of it, then it’s not piracy.

Shopify seems like it was purposely designed to be as dreadful as possible. They seemed to go out of their way to make dumb decisions.

That’s a great analogy actually. You can do almost anything with it but what the vast majority of people choose to do with it is wrong.

Just like how people insist on using Excel as a database or Excel as a form.

Wordpress is not a good fit for virtually any modern application. It’s designed as a blogging platform and basically no one makes blogs anymore. That functionality kind of got eaten up by Facebook and Twitter and LinkedIn, so no one needs blogs.

Instead of letting WordPress die the death it most definitely deserves they shoehorned in functionality, which would be fine if it wasn’t such a bodge job.

Personally I recommend Ms paint

Wix and Squarespace managed to be even worse options anyway.

Anyway who cares what the client thinks, they don’t know anything that’s why they’re hiring a professional. The professional thing to do would be to convince them of the advantages of one of the listed options.

Anytime I’ve ever had to deal with WordPress I’ve always run up against the fact that it has limitations that the client doesn’t understand, and then at some point you end up redesigning it custom anyway. May as well save time and start out custom.

I get what you’re saying but you cannot disagree with someone’s personal experience.

Yes but those people also use vim, so we don’t talk to them.

What on Earth would that look like?

Your statement doesn’t even make sense it’s like saying it’s not intelligent it’s just a magic pen. Eh?

When I was in school in the early 2000s we just wrote formulas down on the blank bits, after we printed off the rest of the document.

I find it bizarre that someone would refuse to accept a typed document especially because it would probably make it easier to read in the case of students with bad handwriting

I work alongside people that went to Cambridge, and even they don’t use cursive. No one uses cursive in the real world, it’s just this made-up thing you get taught in school just to waste some time.