My first job I spent 3 years working on a variety of projects that never shipped. It was frustrating at the time, but the experience was good for me. Now I have fun writing code and working with my teammates and if my code doesn't ship, well it's not as bad as not having anything ship for 3 years.
The difference would just be how you think of the process. I sometimes shuffle around the numbers to make math easier, but the shortcut for adding 9s just feels different. Instead of 9+7 = 10 + 6, it's more like 9+7 = 17-1. It feels less like solving it with math and more like using a cool trick, since you didn't really use addition to solve the addition problem.
They are running a 2004 week, looking back at tech from that era.
I was just reading about the Red Bull case the other day. It seems like they settled in order to make the stories all about how they 'lost' the 'red bull gives you wings' case, which sound like a stupid lawsuit, rather than go to court and have the media write about how Red Bull doesn't do anything that a cup of coffee won't do. They even still use the 'gives you wings' slogan.
It's a play on a format of post that goes:
I asked my crush out on a date x years ago.
Last night I just asked them to marry me.
They said yes both times and I'm so glad I had the courage to speak up.
As you read the story, you generally assume that they were dating and eventually got engaged. The picture shows a couple that you assume is them before you finish reading. Then you get to the line about how they said no both times and realize it's not the typical boring engagement post, but a joke about being a creep.
The poorly designed feature itself isn't about showing ads, it's just showing the top item of the news feed. The news feed can have ads, depending on what the developer publishes to it, which is why I never scroll down to that section.
This was a survey. They weren't gathering data without consent.
Luckily builders would set aside space in buildings just in case someone had an idea for how to move between floors without a ladder. Made retrofitting stairs a breeze. You can't even tell that they were added later most of the time.
By drop-off, they mean the top two countries have over a billion people and the third country only has 330 million.
There are benefits to them being enchantments. They are permanents, so can bounce it back to hand and replay. They can also be flickered and there are creatures that can relock/reunlock the rooms. Being an enchantment instead of something new allows you to interact with them with spells like disenchant and you can splash them into enchantment decks instead of them being stuck to one Room deck forever.
I've always felt like people were overblowing the pocket lint thing, since I've never had it happen to me. Just realized that it's because my pockets are too small, so the only pocket I can use is my back pocket with the port sticking out.