>But a cold approach on the street based on nothing but appearance has got to be the worst choice ever.
all of the dating apps are based purely on appearance. This is not by mistake, but because we people judge by appearance first of all.
>higher chance of approaching someone who isn't available
so what? 70% someone isn't available but the 30% that are available you still have higher chance of getting the date than on the dating apps.
> you also signal that ... you are incredibly socially inept...
right... because being charming and speaking to someone in real life with good body language and flirting skills is going to signal you are socially inept.
All I hear are bunch of excuses to be honest.
Approaching on the street has been a game changer for me, I know have a long term girlfriend from street approach
Yeah, Tesla being a tech company instead of a car company is a con, all the publicity stunts - boring company, Hyperloop, Mars are all cons to attract attention. The crypto stuff is all a con. Elon is very good at getting a hype flywheel going, particularly in this age of man children.
There are already dozens of blogging applications out there to have you blogging in minutes. Wordpress is so far beyond 'blogging' that there will never be a 'wp killer'.
It's used for ecommerce, employee management systems, LMS/education platforms, membership/login sites (affinity groups, etc).
Whether it should be used for those use cases - building on top of something that wasn't really designed to be explicitly supportive of any of those use cases - that's another question.
There will be - and are - dozens of 'wp killers' - ecommerce systems, blogging platforms, etc - that will cover specific use cases. But there won't likely be anything generic/flexible enough like wordpress any time soon. And that's probably an overall good thing, but that's also a different argument to make.
The blogging engine is easy. The collection of third party themes and plugins is the hard part; and nobody wants to do that.
The code quality for many of those themes and plugins is also what a FAANG engineer would describe as “abysmal,” an “affront to the industry,” a “I can’t believe people use this,” a “this should be illegal,” whatever epithet you want. Huge surprise, no backwards compatibility coming to anywhere else, anytime soon.
90% of computer code in this world is crap. Crap that seniors would berate or fire people for. We don’t all live in the FAANG bubble; WordPress sadly is the biggest sign of that. The world runs on crap code built on crap architectures, outside of a few niche companies in a few niche geographies who congregate on a few niche forums (like this one). If you’re in one of them, count your blessings. If you’re not, don’t despair, you’ll be a senior-equivalent on a global level in no time.
At the same time many people’s livelihood can be made with a WP instance and some plugins for subscriptions or similar. Similarly much of the world’s engineering is also done by poor farmers. Part of me relishes it.
Oh, I agree - Just ask Apple’s little known IT department - IS&T.
The Apple engineers even here on HN who work at Apple, and criticize the mistakes of junior devs or other senior devs, have no clue about the trash that exists in the less important parts of the organization. For many of them, just doing some research on how even Apple accepts atrocities would be quite humbling.
The reason WP was so successful isn't because it's the best CMS, or even the one with the easiest API to learn for non programmers.
The reason WP was so successful is that, for a significant amount of time. it had VERY BASIC php requirements to run, but first and foremost, its API was very STABLE, allowing the creation of a gigantic plugin ecosystem that were still compatible after a decade, when JOOMLA, Drupal and co kept breaking API all the time, or decided to bump their minimum requirements way too often.
so there can't really be a wordpress killer, if you have specific need, use a more specialized CMS.
API stability is one of the most under-rated feature when it comes to open source projects.
I am not that familiar with them, and they may not allow blogging in minutes, but I believe systems like Drupal, TYPO3, and Joomla are in the ballpark of providing platforms as flexible as Wordpress.
I'd be very happy to hear from folks more familiar with these tools.
I would imagine there are many superior products but it's the inertia of Wordpress that can't be defeated. Same with Reddit, etc. When network effects reach their highest level they really work against us.
Superior products; that cost more money or require a programmer.
WordPress is $5 in a VPS, click a theme, add a few plugins, it’s an insecure mess but it was cheap. Need a designer? A few thousand bucks is cheaper than a programmer.
It’s not the network effects. It’s about doing things cheap and fast, for which WordPress has no parallel.
And no, this is not a problem with capitalism. Every social structure ever devised has done this. Even if you’re McDonalds and you want new marketing pages in 2 weeks for a 1 week campaign, WordPress is fine. What else are you going to do? Build a CI/CD pipeline for a 1 week website?
Right, there's an ecosystem of tooling around Wordpress because of its long standing inertia, if a superior product was able to compete and grow it could produce the same or better level of tooling.
WordPress is for people who don’t work at FAANG. If this is the best they can do so far, there is no reason to believe they’ll do better next time. And that’s okay - we can’t all be FAANG. FAANG standards would be considered delusional compared to most code out there.
Remember that WordPress is the way it is, and it still has a multi-billion dollar company behind it. This is the best a normal, non-FAANG, billionaire organization could do. Which shows, in my opinion, how much of a bubble the code quality purists actually live in.
I don't think the bar is as high as you're saying. It's a hacked together PHP product with 20 years of cruft after that. It was simply the first to become successful. Anything built today would evolve to meet the same demand of ease of use by non technical people, if the momentum of Wordpress wasn't there preventing competition.
Not even a $5 VPS - my first WP site was shared hosting. Less relevant these days, but as barriers to entry go, wordpress was only one step higher than notepad.
The WP killer is really a WP Extensions and WP Easy Setup killer. You must make something as good as those to defeat it. That makes the scale of the job more clear.
People gonna people. I don’t ever recommend taking downvotes or upvotes too seriously. Asking for verification is often seen as criticism of the original source, and in some cases it is. Personally I’m at the point where I doublecheck most things, especially those which confirm my opinions… but nobody here knows me so hey!
I heard listenship jumped 1000% (not surprising, it was rather unknown radio, but gained nationwide popularity) - I wonder if it's going to have some sticky listenship
One formula for getting a publisher interested in your book is claiming new data that intuitively makes sense. Consultants will list things that many people believe that contradict established science or wisdom, and then there is a search for data that can be gathered into a counter-argument to find a book topic that a publisher will put marketing dollars into.
Pontzer contends “[exercise] just won’t do much for your weight" because "we naturally compensate for exercise by reducing non-exercise activity expenditure (NEAT) and resting metabolic rate (RMR)". That excercisers exercise less when they're not specifically exercising.
Ward says Pontzer underestimates exercise's role, misinterprets energy compensation and overemphasis anecdotal evidence, and cherry-picks data by choosing studies that primarily show minimal changes in Total Daily Energy Expenditure (TDEE) and weight loss with increased physical activity.
Ward points to a broader range of studies that demonstrate significant increases in TDEE and weight loss in individuals who engage in moderate to high levels of exercise, arguing that this evidence indicates exercise can be a substantial factor in energy expenditure and weight management.
Ward specifically points out
Pontzer told me “the distinction between confounders and mediators is largely conceptual” and “They would be treated the same in stats analysis such as the one used”, but any statistician would argue the differences are defined and vitally important. Confounders interfere with the causal pathway we’re interested in; mediators are part of the causal pathway we’re interested in. Hence, when statistically adjusting and removing the effect of different variables, we do this for confounders, not mediators – thus removing the interference.
I enjoyed reading both books, but especially Herman Pontzer's stories in Burn about his time with the Hadza people in Africa. The study is based in part on his research (Pontzer, 2018, Pontzer et al., 2021). His hypothesis does seem to be controversial and counter-intuitive.
Thank you for the link to the nutritionist's article. I'll read it with interest.
all of the dating apps are based purely on appearance. This is not by mistake, but because we people judge by appearance first of all.
>higher chance of approaching someone who isn't available
so what? 70% someone isn't available but the 30% that are available you still have higher chance of getting the date than on the dating apps.
> you also signal that ... you are incredibly socially inept...
right... because being charming and speaking to someone in real life with good body language and flirting skills is going to signal you are socially inept.
All I hear are bunch of excuses to be honest.
Approaching on the street has been a game changer for me, I know have a long term girlfriend from street approach