I feel compelled to point out that “back door man” was already a common expression in blues lyrics.

I assume that’s what was being referred to.

Which is a pitfall for anyone conversing in a language that isn’t their first, I’d say.

I’ll just write thousands of lines of code inside a global object… I’m sure I won’t put a semicolon where a comma should be…

Can I teach you a lesson?

Yep. But I refuse to use their damn app. And they deliberately make the interface on the mobile site cumbersome. It’s tons of fun.

I remember in the mid-aughts my brother hacked his iPod — the wheel kind, this was pre-iPhone — to hold the entirety of the text of English Wikipedia at the time.

Unless they are themselves Jewish…

Philosoraptor.jpg

A similar phenomenon is knowing you’re going to need to go back and update some older section of code and when you finally get around to it, it turns out you wrote it that way to begin with. It’s like… I didn’t think I knew about this approach before…

Yeah but it’s not some big mystery why Margaritaville sucks. The lyrics are asinine and empty. What’s worse: it’s catchy.

“I am gonna get you so many lizards!” Whenever my wife has already done a chore/task I was intending to do.

Yes! I remember when they first introduced it and I had to make sure I wasn’t hallucinating that the cursor was blowing up.

You must mean plane-et.

Y’all know this is photoshopped right? The actual truck probably has half the number of light bars. Totally reasonable.

Metallica.

Edit It’s more like a Zeppelin - Black Sabbath - Metallica gradient.

It really is. With a dash of cognitive dissonance thrown in.

And I only subscribed because the one-time purchase was not available at that moment, so I assumed no such option existed. But honestly, I’ll continue to pay the subscription. It’s still less than a year’s worth of my monthly donations to the developer of Tasker.

Ain’t that the truth. People act like charging for software is evil no matter what. There’s a huge difference between a lone dev trying to earn a living and a huge corporation trying to wring every last ounce of profit out of their users. And there’s probably degrees of nuance between those.

Especially if they seem like a reasonable person, wanting reasonable amounts for good work.

And that’s the important context in this discussion. You’ve got a dev who’s active in the community and who builds an app not only with great features and UI but with stability too. And he has a not insignificant user base that is familiar not just with his work but essentially with this exact app… It’s reasonable for him to assume we’ll see the value and be willing to pay. And he is correct.

I’m personally averse to subscription models, but again context matters. Reasonable rate and you know what you’re getting. And I say this as a huge fan of both FOSS and socialism. I could have easily just let my DNS continue to filter out the ads, but I appreciate quality and believe it should be appropriately compensated.

14 years myself. More than a third of my life. Your bad relationship analogy is a pretty good one (the analogy, that is). I was in a real life one of those about the same time I joined reddit. Glad that one didn’t last nearly as long!

There’s also the fact that there isn’t an algorithm trying to keep you doomscrolling by promoting commercial content.