Literally 1984. Literally!

Meanwhile in reality: soory, out services are not available anymore because your goverment did a hecking bad thing and we don't like it. And we are taking the rest of your money btw

Google for quick searches (as a doorway to reddit and SO)

Perplexity for anything complex

Yandex for pics (Google pics got ridiculously bad)

Why? Do share, please

It may or may not be a YC company. They have a really good video model.

Is that Stability?

You are filtering for the most desperate candidates, not the most suitable ones

A candidate who had applied for jobs before knows that his chances for getting a reply are in the low single digits. Now you are offering them to waste some time for probably the same. Only the most desperate will go through with this

This feels like bingo to me. The optional ”creative questions” will be filled by those who have more free time (ie not currently employed), and those who can use LLMs. If you want genuinely mission-passionate applicants you’ll need to talk to them, which means spending your time too, not just theirs.

>You are filtering for the most desperate candidates, not the most suitable ones

Maybe. I'd say "motivated" rather than desperate. Desperation might motivate, but another motivation might be that this is a job that is a really good fit for me, or is a company I really want to work with. As opposed to a job I could do but isn't a good fit.

You seem to operate solely in terms of propaganda: iranian, russian, israeli. The inability to see beyond a few narratives and denying agency to other people make it impossible to have a conversation

It's like talking to a finite state machine that emits duckspeak

I feel like the obligatory comment about Dropbox is coming your way

No, he is about to invest in longevity research, like all other cool non-NPC billionaires do

They have been promoted to pets. Oh wait..

No, it's the opposite. Apple has reasonable process with human support

Google Play is full of trip wires, you trigger one and your account is gone, your career of independent developer is over

I think the concept of lifetime bans from big tech platforms needs to be reevaluated, but there is not much difference between Google's "trip wires" and Apple's "red lines": your app is not allowed to exist either way.

Patreon faces an existential crisis right now: use in-app purchases or the app will be removed. Game streaming wasn't banned right up until it was. No amount of support has helped with these red lines - not even the committee they allegedly created for developers to challenge the rules. Their support has only helped in the absurd cases, like demanding WordPress implement IAPs or rejecting dictionaries for containing swear words.