How to convince management that they need to invest in a non-trivial technical project
How to convince management to stop throwing money at a dead end plan
HairHeel
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That would look way too much like partisan coercion and would absolutely blow up in Biden and the Democrats' faces. They need to have a real iron-clad case if they're going to make this work, which means they'll need to prove it in court.
Reddit has every right to charge for their API, but the amount they wanted to charge was too high.
Other use cases aren’t relevant here either. They could have come to an agreement with Apollo etc that would have charged them reasonable rates while charging more to data scrapers. They could have done ads and dev share on the mobile apps. Most people wouldn’t have objected to that.
That part’s not a Reddit-specific problem though. I’ve seen a similar pattern play out at several companies I work for:
- charge extra for a new premium feature
- a new client with deep pockets comes along and wants part of that feature, but doesn’t want all of it, so doesn’t want to pay for it
- sales really wants to catch this big fish
- sales promises to build a new feature that does the same thing as the existing feature
- the company loses more money than they would have by just giving the feature away for free, since now they’re also paying engineers to build the free version.
you changed the result of the race by measuring it!
Even in contexts where it doesn’t make sense. That was my favorite bit.
the key is to do a new cringey thing every couple years and dwell on that instead.
Solo so far. Gotta at least learn the basics (and find some friends who are interested) before trying coop.
What awful timing to run this experiment.
Now include links to their preferred lemmy alternatives
Still lots to do in TOTK. I’ve also picked up Project Zomboid and am terrible at it.
I’m not exactly an expert on GDPR, but doesn’t reddit basically have to delete your content if you ask them?
“As president I could have declassified it,” Trump told them, according to an audio recording of that July 2021 comment which is quoted in the indictment.
“Now I can’t, you know, but this is still a secret,” he added.
Hard to backtrack and say you declassified everything on the way out, lol
Does this mean there’s going to be a volume 2? With MGS4? I tried to play that one recently but couldn’t get a PS3 emulator working properly.