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You need screenshots on the front page. Put one front and center next to your hero text so it's right there above the fold.

Great thought! We're fixing this right now.

Screenshots and gifs or something like your Loom, you need a little trailer thing that showcases the app, and its top use cases with minimal noise (minimal chat windows for demo purposes). Heck, start with a few messages, then flood in, and showcase how it helps to keep you organized, that sort of thing.

Yes, pictures of the user interface will help a lot. Thanks!

Best of luck on your work, it does look solid!

The conventional wisdom of investing the maximum into your 401(k) beyond employer contributions is a dangerous tip if you fully intend to retire early, because you are penalized so heavily on withdrawing too young and then further taxed on it.

It’s such bad advice and people parrot it all the time, probably because so many people are so bad with finances to begin with. It’s almost always a bad idea in this specific case.

If you intend to retire in your late 60s, then the conventional wisdom is fine.


The reputation cost will be higher than not recalling for sure.

Their reputation is absolutely shot. It's not just the P320 either, the XM7 and XM5 were also poor choices.

Yeah, I had at least a couple of standard issue Sig Sauer civilian equivalents on my wish list, and now I would never buy anything from them ever.

I had a 365 and traded it in. Wasn't even a good pistol, just small and light. Got a S&W CSX and it's fantastic.

P226 P365 are still excellent

Love my P365, but I'm not buying another product from Sig after the P320. I can't trust them to make a dangerous tool in a safe and reliable manner.


A lot of people doing cat-and-mouse threat detection development are keeping their work outside of public LLMs right now, so it sounds like you’re in the same boat as a lot of us.

I looked into buying one a while back, and the spec sheet said it was using a 9 year old processor, and PinePhone uses a 13 year old processor.

It wasn't "discontinued," no one was working on it for years, and it was pointless to purchase.

The PinePhone is an outdated ripoff.


"No one was working on it for year" is both untrue and unfair. There have been continued improvements (both PinePhone and PinePhone Pro), and I know that there are people who have put in the midnight oil to make them happen.

What that work was not is 'paid for by PINE64'. It's also not been enough to raise the bar enough to make the phone work well enough; but if you consider what's involved there, it makes sense.

You don't just need to write/fix a driver, you need upstream (or at least a distribution) to accept it and include it for that work to make a meaningful difference for anyone else.


> It wasn't "discontinued," no one was working on it for years, and it was pointless to purchase.

If it was being made and sold and now it's not, then it was discontinued. You may point out reasons why it was discontinued, but that is in fact what happened.


I disagree with that one, too, because it shows a lack of understanding.

Electronics black boxes are a common item that allows one to enclose systems, hiding the way they are wired or networked, which is where the term originated from.

I struggle to understand how one would replace "ownership" in memory ownership. Memory responsibility? I would hope that it is still OK to be responsible for something, but this is still a form of "owning."

I suspect some of these will receive push back and fail to be adopted in the future, while a majority of them most people would not be able to find meaningful objections with.


I think I understand the idea behind not wanting to use the term housekeeping, but that one in particular is a little funny to me. Everyone needs to do housekeeping.

Except maybe sweaty gamers on Twitch whose identities revolve around being smelly gamers.


It's also a Southern US term, not a coastal one, so I agree. Using it in place as an inclusive term comes off as pretentious and inauthentic.

I think "guys" is one of the few ones I disagree with, along with man hours, as in man meaning human, not man meaning male individuals. We don't stop using the term mankind because the word man is in it. It's not gendered.


Is the implication that “hung” threads refers to a hanging? Like someone hung for murder, versus hanging a coat up on a wall?

Because I always assumed a hung process was one that “hung up its boots” and retired, as in, the process has stopped working. It’s not dead, it’s no longer doing meaningful work or proceeding with a task.

I hope this has been an innocent, naïve understanding.


I don't think it is macabre at all. "Hang" just means suspended. A ball on a string is hanging instead of falling. Laundry can be hung out to dry. It's about something that would normally move that is not doing so. Also see "hung jury".

Hung explicitly refers to every usage of the word but a hanging. Meat is hung, people are hanged.

I have been collecting stories like these at https://github.com/andrewmcwattersandco/app-store-rejections and will probably add this one, too.

However, this is beyond Apple’s own App Store, which is sort of interesting. I think it still highlights the dangers of App stores, though.


The dream would be Apple letting https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium (a decentralized app store 4 Android) on IOS

It highlights the fact that regulators are scamming the tax payers. They take money to protect us from such predatory behaviour and then sit on their hands and maybe do a token "fine" from time to time.

Appaling.


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