Somewhat related, Monster bev has a 'no nerds' policy. Just tongue in cheek I emailed them about sponsorship for an OSS project that was practically built by Monster Ultra Fiesta and the email response spelled it out in no uncertain terms, no nerds.
So we're just editorializing titles now? The title of the article is "No coach, no agent, no ego: the incredible story of the ‘Lionel Messi of cliff diving’"
That is, we specifically don't use the original title when it is misleading or linkbait, as the original title in this case was.
When we do edit a title, we try to use representative language from the article itself wherever possible—e.g. a subtitle, a phrase from the text, or something else where the article says neutrally what it is actually about. That's what I did in this case; the language came from the subheading.
Tell me the price, make the host and tennant have a singular universal set of expectations. It's not hard. Holiday Inn Express has been getting my business lately. Everything is labeled, no wild sudden items after checkin like "don't forget to put the back door mat on the balcony railing so the racoons don't run off with it".
Everything that made AirBNB cool at first eventually made it bad inevitably. Glad to have made friends with hosts along the way before it went sour.
Im seeing a pattern of tech companies going public the shitting the bed every time. Digitalocean, Rackspace, the list goes on.
Folks, stop doing this. This is squarely the fault of the VC-Startup overleveraged model where the public listing or SalesForce acquisition is the end goal but its about the most disingenuous and disrespectful thing you can do to the user these days because it's so tried and true what happens next.
Haha, sorry, where are my manners.. ahem.. Blood for the blood god!
Don't let the jaded nobodies make you think you're burned out when you're not. There's lots of people in this industry and you'll hear from complainers and those who have a romanticized vision of the tortured creator the most.
Lemme break it to you, there's only one Hemmingway and he died.
MacPorts makes no effort to not look abandoned. It's very much 'the old way' of doing things from the look of the website to the terseness of the syntax. Before you take offense, I say this as a member of that generation.
These days if you have an ugly website, and opaque syntax, you're considered to be an abandoned project. Agree with it or not, your website sends a signal to the user and MacPort's signal says "it'll work till it doesn't and that's fine"
What are the odds that an Apple user finds that site attractive? I come from the linux world, so fine by me, but I'm no dummy, this site looks like it's going to tell me it runs better in a modern browser like IE6.
Completely agree, I'm a brew user myself but find the site of MacPorts rather clean and modern. It's responsive and doesn't feel abandoned at all (particularly https://ports.macports.org which support Dark mode). Plus, using brew, I never go to the website so I don't think this is really important.
I recognise the quote every time. But I do not plan on learning the individual numbers of any of the xkcd strips. Recognising the quotes is enough for me.
(Un)fortunately for you, human memory and cognition is weird.
927.
So by the time you reach this sentence in comment, the number 900, which is Yoda's age in the original Star Wars, plus the number 27, which is 3 cubed, as well as the name of the "27-club", will have appeared three times if you count my previous comment.
That number, 927, should stick out in your brain as being the number for the XKCD strip about standards.
It's possible that the mnemonic, and the repetition is enough for that number to permanently lodge itself in your brain. Or not.
