How long ago? I haven't been rejected in 6 months or so. It's possible they've improved recently.
It was some time within the last month.
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I started playing chess regularly a few years ago, in my late 30s. One thing that's helped me probably the most is lichess's puzzle storm. If I'm clear minded, I can hit 25. Out of curiosity I looked up 'puzzle storm gm' just to get a sense for what a gm can do with that, and it's seriously mindblowing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1arZ7pHspDo
This really shows how much of chess is subconscious recognition of patterns. Training that is much easier when you're young. Learning chess is a fascinating way of getting in touch with that kind of training.
I'm middle aged and I'm lucky if I get to 5 on puzzle storm. It takes me several times longer than it probably should to solve puzzles, and even then I get about half wrong. Dunno what it is.
Folks say you should spend time studying past games to learn weaknesses but I feel like that's as bad advice as is asking children to grade their own homework -- it will simply reinforce bad ideas.
Still, I enjoy it. Mostly the self-paced puzzles. I'm hovering around 1200-1300 there (on lichess).
I've never received an email like that. They always just say "To view or reply to the message, go to Resolution Center in App Store Connect."
Interesting. This was with a minor app that has no users and no name brand. Thus I assumed it was standard. Sorry about that, maybe it's more arbitrary than I thought.
> They certainly offer the option.
No, they do not.
Do you contend that they are lying when they include this in their rejection emails:
> If you have a question about your app's review, send us a message in Resolution Center. If you would prefer to speak over the phone, just let us know in your message, and we'll schedule a call.
> How does Apple manage to have human reviewers and engineers you can talk with on the phone about App Store issues?
You can't talk to reviewers on the phone.
They certainly offer the option.
> Google makes boatloads of money
Because they have businesses that scale: dominated by fixed costs with very small unit costs, where twice as many units have very much less than twice as much total cost to deliver.
> "But that doesn't scale", I hear you say. They could simply hire more people, that scales fine.
No, it doesn't. Hiring more people with any given skill set has superlinear costs very quickly (because of supervision heirarchies and increased quantity even before that increasing the clearing price).
Cost scaling worse than linearly is pretty much what people mean when they say, “Doesn’t scale".
How does Apple manage to have human reviewers and engineers you can talk with on the phone about App Store issues? It seems like it scales just fine for them.
Every time I've seen it tried (over and over again in the span of a 30-year career), the "goals" are based on whatever the priority/flavor-of-the month happens to be when goal-setting is announced. I've never seen those priorities last an entire year, but I have been called to account for why I didn't personally meet the goals that I was pressured into setting "for myself" even though the priorities shifted over the course of the year.
> called to account for why I didn't personally meet the goals that I was pressured into setting "for myself"
This is one of the most hostile things an employer can do to a person. I don't want them involved in my personal growth -- fuck allllll of that. I will grow when and how I want to, if I even want to.
IME this never-ending push for continual improvement discourages me when I inevitably fail to meet goals they want me to want.
I want to say "just leave me alone I'm speedrunning to early retirement" but that'll just get me in more trouble.
Businesses have been forced to bake cakes. Precedents have been set.
I'm pretty sure that's not true. If it's the case I'm thinking of the result was exactly the opposite. Do you have more details on what case you're referring to?
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Sorry if this is too political but we should consider Tucker Carlson's take:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGb748VOcYU
In videos like this, he's not being conservative but simply making an observation or asking a question that liberals don't like. The theory basically is that minority traffic deaths are increasing because the police are less willing to enforce traffic law with them.
> In videos like this, he's not being conservative but simply making an observation or asking a question that liberals don't like.
Isn't that his whole thing? Asking weasely questions instead of making statements?
I've played SC on and off. I've gotten my money's worth for sure.
The dogfighting module is pretty polished, it's fun to run on the flight simulator and VR headset. It's my go to space sim as there's nothing that compares even though it's not done.
The persistence module is fun to dick around with, the seamless landing on a planet and exploring is cool as shit.
I don't have a rig to power the FPS module very well so I can't give a fair review, but the mechanics and controls seem fine.
Love the immersion and I follow it asynchronously. They're still going at it and I applaud the effort. Would rather have a great game eventually than a shit dead game a year ago.
My favorite part of the flight sim is how ships take damage. You can lose various RCS thrusters and still fly, but obviously it's more difficult. Landing can be a fun ordeal without thrusters in every direction.