I'm "I don't know what Xbox is" years old.

It's a music app. I thought that much was obvious.

Can I pair it with my Zune?

yes, directly through the Windows Phone using a Silverlight 1.0-enabled appliance

Seeing the name Silverlight in the wild did untold psychic damage. Excuse me while I crumble to dust.

I think it’s an Adobe Flex app now.

Pretty sure you can just ask Cortana to pair Xbox Music with your Zune.

Do you mean Xbox One? Or Xbox One X? Or Xbox Series X? Or maybe Xbox Series S?

Seriously, how?

About a year ago I had to buy a new Xbox. It took me time to figure out what model I had and what the new models are. It’s the least intuitive marketing on the market.

ROG Xbox Ally X.

But I actually had in mind the Windows app named "Xbox".

Don't forget Xbox 360, which precluded everything 365.

Well, it is a smaller number. I can't wait for the Xbox 370, just to one-up office.

I disagree. They need an Xbox 180... get it?

It's the successor to IXBox

Something I've noticed is that companies don't really promote intelligent people up the chain of command. Socialism failed because it was a less effective economic system than capitalism, and lots of its issues are neatly replicated within capitalist companies:

- having friends is more important than making output, which means that people above certain level just play politics instead of actually managing the company

- managers who miss targets get more people assigned which makes them climb the hierarchy, which means all levels below top level have the incentive to be inefficient

- saying "no" to the ruling party, no matter how stupid the idea is, is the second-easiest way to get replaced. The easiest is to offend the wrong person

- planning periods misaligned with the economic reality

An intelligent person will either be optimized out of the system, or will learn how to game it to their own advantage.

See recent discussion on why senior devs left projects crash.

It is easier to let it all crash and burn, and try to leave with less scars as possible than try to fight the system.

You get to lose more for the visibility to fight back than letting it go down in flames.

> This effectively leads to a situation where smaller company employees are able to be so much more productive than the equivalent at an enterprise. It often used to be that people at small companies really envied the resources & teams that their larger competitors had access to - but increasingly I think the pendulum is swinging the other way.

Small companies are more agile and innovative while corporations often just shuffle papers around. Wow, what a bold claim, never seen before in the entire history of economics.

One of the reasons why I want to move out from the city and have a house far away from everyone else. Nobody disturbing my peace. Nobody complaining about my noise.

Frogs and crickets want a word.

Classic example: people say they'd rather pay $12 upfront and then no extra fees but they actually prefer $10 base price + $2 fees. If it didn't work then this pricing model wouldn't be so widespread.

wow, framing. "people say they prefer quitting smoking, but actually they prefer to relapse when emotionally manipulated."

The most commonly taken action does not imply people wanted to do it more, or felt happiest doing it. Unless you optimize profit only.

The problem with CLI colors is that they operate on the wrong abstraction layer. Individual program shouldn't send "this text is red" but "this text signals failure" and then terminal interprets "failure" as "red". Until this change happens (never) colors in CLI will remain a hot mess.

I guess this is why reading things other than technical documentation remains important.

Or it's a reason why literary devices should only be employed when they aren't distractingly wrong.

or to not jump to conclusions from reading a single sentence of a multi page article

I guess dune should be totally different given how distractingly wrong it is…

This is a valid point that often gets missed. What is good for an individual isn't necessarily good for species as a whole.

It's easy to blame the welfare state but IMO the problem is the general culture of being extremely risk-averse beyond reason. Same reason why big US companies lose the ability to innovate. Europeans just hate doing things the new way even if it's better.