I’ve delivered simple, clear and easy-to-use services for 20 years, for startups, scaleups and government. I write about the nerdy bits here.
— @joahua
| Credits | Amount | Amount/credit |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 5 | 1 |
| 10 | 10 | 1 |
| 20 | 18 | 1.11 |
| 50 | 40 | 1.25 |
| 100 | 80 | 1.25 |
| 200 | 160 | 1.25 |
| 500 | 400 | 1.25 |
Yes, exactly the same pricing for 50 and 500 unit pricing. Guess who’s not going to be buying 500 units in a hurry? *eye rolling* The site is great, but it seems like the people running haven’t got too much of a clue in other departments.
So I’ve had this PC for however long I’ve had it now, and still haven’t installed Quicktime. As in, I haven’t been putting it off, and I’ve been watching plenty of Quicktime content, but I just haven’t seen the need to. As in, it didn’t cross my mind. Because I can install VLC in a matter of seconds with out worrying about annoying “upgrade to pro” prompts or battling the website to let me download a version without full-of-DRM-style-crap music library player wossit. Whatever happened to Nullsoft/Winamp, anyway? I’ve been stuck on a little island called “open-source” (it has penguins but is strangely not that uncomfortable) for a couple of years… then this massive cruise liner came along and picked me up and offered to take me home for about $200. I didn’t get a glossy brochure about the cruise but it’s functionally the same, and now I’m back home wondering what transpired in my absence. Do people still use that thing? Anyway, whatever. Quicktime in the official sense seems kinda redundant with the exception of good/easy browser integration. The end.
Hahaha. I just rang a font company to enquire after a product. They told me that it’d been stuck in customs for two weeks and they couldn’t do anything about it yet (this is a 3KG, ~1,800 page, hardcover book. You’d think it’d make more sense to print here, but whatever!)
Terrorists fonts, perhaps.
So stop pretending it is. If you’re going to try and slip it past heuristics (machine or me) by including human humour, how about just trying it once. Your humour will not slip past me because I find it more amusing on twenty-seventh reading. My default moderate action is delete all, then approve if it looks human (and then I check to see if it actually makes sense). I’ve thus-far refrained from using Akismet, but think I’m probably producing more false-positives than it would. Then again, absolutely nothing is getting through that shouldn’t, so in a way that’s a good thing.
Not in the mood for jokes, today, especially where they’re jokes unleashed upon the world by the rotting claws of rats resting upon keyboards.
I know I bitch about this every few months, but that’s because it hasn’t gone away yet. And because I get to dance a small victory, because it hasn’t become effective yet, either. Propulsion by small things.
Is that there’s too much bloody writing saying not enough. Extrapolate this.