Pokémon is also a high volume business but is reaching 30 years in 2026. Keeping alive a trend for so long is impressive.
Jean-Claude Biver (watch personality) famously said: « people want exclusivity, so you must always keep the customer hungry and frustrated ».
I see them doing with the Internet industry what they have done with the Financial industry.
- What are they doing: force smaller companies to die or be bought by bigger ones.
- How are they doing that: They keep adding regulation so that fix costs and complexity to manage a company increase.
- Why are they doing that: having a lot of smaller companies is difficult and expensive to control. Usually it is impossible. Having a few big companies is easier and cheaper to control (you only need to book a room and invite a few ceos to regulate everything).
The fun part is that companies like Google, Apple, etc fake a fight against the regulators, but are actually the 2nd beneficiaries (1st being the regulators).
If you speak with seniors in the financial industry, they will talk about it with passion and anger because they can provide countless practical examples which killed their industry and the "joy" to wake up in the morning.
As an exemple, you can see how JP Morgan seems to fight regulation and make it appear to be a victim of regulation, but finally is always the winner.
Thank you! Actually, they could also take this strategy to protect kids from adult/violent/sensitive content. I suspect their strategy is to replicate, with Internet, what they have done with the Financial industry. So it should not be considered as incompetence... on the contrary. (See my other comment for further details
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37457745#37461669 )
these comparisons to whatsapp are really tiring, twitter is a totally different product. twitter is more similar to facebook than whatsapp from an engineering requirement's perspective, messaging is a minor feature of twitter's. even from a non-tech perspective, the presence of public data & the moderation requirements that entails alone makes it operationally different enough to not be a good comparison...
The problem is not the position but the length working in the same position. Whatever position.
If you stand the whole day, your legs will suffer (ask people working in shops); in the long run you will have "heavy legs" issue. You may lower the effects with a proper setup of your bed (feet should be 2-4 cm higher).
The only real solution:
* A good physical activity: cardio + strengthening the muscle for "body protection".
* Streching all the muscle groups.
The real dev hates Internet Explorer (especially 6) because of all the designers who:
- have no clue what KISS means
- invent CSS, DOM and JS hacks
- sum a collection of hacks in their code
- do not read the technical papers about their environment (the browser)
Please complete the list if I am missing some. ;)
A browser is like a girl, you should take it as is and not force it to do what you want to. :)
