In other words, company is promoting its own product on its own platform. Some people don’t like it.
Stop shopping at Amazon. they are no longer consumer friendly like they were a few years ago.
Readit NewshelpPeople commented on The best Cyber Monday deals according to Alexa: any Amazon-owned brand vox.com/recode/2019/12/3/... · Posted by u/luu
I don't browse Amazon, but when I was ordering something their "Cyber Monday Deals" caught my eye. Oh, okay, I'll bite. Every single item under "Electronics" was an Amazon device. Really? Because, for example, $150 off an iPad Pro seems worth a mention (I bought one). Surely there was something that was a deal that didn't have Amazon's logo on it.
I know, I know, smack 'em on the nose. I don't really care about that so much as the fact that Amazon isn't dead to me just yet, but they're on life support and every little niggle such as this gets me closer to pulling the plug.
Hope this doesn't get flagged, hn weirdly hides posts that mention-
Apple marketing.
They likely bought themselves into the top spot. Now that you are in the Apple ecosystem, you will be buying Apple stuff.
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Since we are comparing in this thread, why are computer science grads often afraid of math based solutions?
For example, I had a physics problem and a computer science buddy was opposed to solving it ourselves. He insisted we needed an expert. When at worst it needed differential equations that ended up cancelling out. It wasn't a hard problem, it just took some effort.
Is this a rare experience? Or have other people found a reluctance of math in comp sci?
I’d hardly call it inflammatory. It’s merely a humorous story about over-complication in engineering problems.
Wait... The computer scientist is not an engineer.
helpPeople commented on The world needs more search engines 0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-01/... · Posted by u/kkm
Google is getting bad, but I want a decent competitor to Windows/Android.
Apple is not competition. They serve a lax customer base.
helpPeople commented on The world needs more search engines 0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-01/... · Posted by u/kkm
It is impressive what they built. The results are quite good! The UI shows innovative elements like trackers used on the page.
I see two problems with their approach:
1. The product is not built with the 'grandma test' mindset.
More sliders and widgets is not what your grandma wants in a search engine. This is why building a search engine is hard. You have to guess with very little information what the user wants and get it in front of them at first try, without the user having to tweak anything.
2. Google must not fall because it is a monopoly. If it was to fall it should be because someone built a better product.
Similar to how ICE cars had "monopoly" over transportation and the time for change has thankfully come. Not because monopolies are bad, but because electric cars are so freaking awesome.
Google perfected what the 'best search engine' is to 99% of population. This comes at an expense of really annoying 1% of users but it is the price they are willing to pay. To de-throne Google you really need to cater to broad population with a product that will be better both at capturing intent and delivering and presenting relevant results. This may or not come with a different business model.
The search results have gotten noticably worse in the last year.
When a Wikipedia/encyclopedia article is what I'm looking for, why is Google showing articles?
Wikipedia used to be the top result.
helpPeople commented on Cybersyn and Allende’s Semi-Automated Luxury Socialism scottlocklin.wordpress.co... · Posted by u/jashkenas
Well, modern capitalism is socialism (the US for example or EU are hardly "free markets", there are all sorts of protections, interventions, tarrifs - hardly a Trump novelty -, things like copyright (another artificial government given restriction on trade and manufacturing, central monetary policy, huge armies and postcolonial negotiations to secure favorable deals, mass surveillance, and so on.
And modern socialism (whether what the US calls as such in the nordic countries or France, or what they have in China) is also a whole lotta of capitalism, so there's that too.
Many believe those protections you describe is the cause of inequality.
For example,when only 300k/yr physicians can give you access to medicine, it's not capitalism.
helpPeople commented on Cybersyn and Allende’s Semi-Automated Luxury Socialism scottlocklin.wordpress.co... · Posted by u/jashkenas
I don't think that's the precise way people feel. Socialism/etc HAS "failed", and capitalism HAS "succeeded", for certain definitions of failed and succeeded. What people assume is that socialism today would fail (and I agree). But if presented with new facts, e.g. here is a robot that can produce food, gather solar power, and manufacture goods for you, and there is one per household, suddenly the literal definition of socialism can become much more pallatable.
The literal definition of socialism is an impossibility, power always gets concentrated among the few.
"This time will be different" crowd hadn't been compelling. Human nature hadn't changed.