Gerben Paul

@rupertmanfredi @geoffreylitt Yeah the meetings sections feels so needlessly complicated. Finding meetings, changing meetings, renaming them. It’s all just not that intuitive

Hey Geoffrey! So, originally, the Notion app felt minimalist and calm, a refreshing counterpoint to bloated apps (Evernote, OneNote, etc). That was good. However now, the default starting point for the sidebar is to overlap features with different mental models (not just notes – but also meetings, transcripts, agents, marketplace, tasks, etc.) alongside up-selling and promotion. There are also 3 other modal sidebars within this sidebar, which are not shown. I find that overwhelming. As a user, I can reduce the amount of sections here manually, but that seems backwards – I would rather add things as I start using them incrementally. I think this is a challenge with any app that attempts to do many things at once within the same space/fabric (as opposed to OS-like platforms which leave it up to developers to extend functionality within isolated windows, and users to pick what they want to install).

I hate to say it – but Notion trying to be the "everything app" is giving me late 2010s decline of Evernote vibes...

@demo_demo_nl @wierdduk Nu helpt het ook niet mee dat het westen decennia lang desastreuze oorlogen heeft gevoerd in het MO voor olie, de dollar, en vergelding voor 9/11. Daardoor is het eenvoudig in een slachtofferrol te kruipen en het eigen falen en eeuwige in-fighting over het hoofd te zien

Voor wie rekent op het spontaan ontstaan van een ‘moderne, Westerse versie van de Islam’👇

@__Sabs @GermanSimply_ You’re right!

@Gerbanuspaulus @GermanSimply_ No, the Dutch equivalent is simply 'wel'.

There is a German word with no direct English translation. And Germans use it constantly. 𝗗𝗼𝗰𝗵. It does one specific thing: It contradicts a negative statement. Someone says: 𝘋𝘶 𝘬𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘴𝘵 𝘬𝘦𝘪𝘯 𝘋𝘦𝘶𝘵𝘴𝘤𝘩. (You can't speak German.) You answer: 𝗗𝗼𝗰𝗵! (Yes I can!) Not "Ja" which directly means "yes" to a positive statement. Doch specifically means "yes" in response to something negative. 𝘋𝘶 𝘩𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘶𝘧𝘦𝘯. (You didn't call.) 𝗗𝗼𝗰𝗵, 𝗵𝗮𝗯𝗲 𝗶𝗰𝗵! (Yes I did!) More like a refutation and insistence at the same time. English needs a full sentence. German uses just one word. 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻 𝗚𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗦𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝘆 🇩🇪

@safecooks What an awful reaction

@tajjackson3 so prove that nigga wrong, or at least try. all them niggas tucked their tail and lived off the legend. it is what it is. Janet had bigger balls than all of them.

I’ll answer since this is a very sensitive subject to me. Imagine since you were a teenager being told by everyone that you are worthless without your younger brother and you should thank him for everything you have. That’s exactly what my dad had to deal with his whole life. He told me that personally on multiple occasions. What do you think that does to your self esteem and life?

@Nirmal4G @GeekyVaishnavi @Windows @Apple @WindowsUI Not really. Windows Aero was inspired by Apples Aqua. This implementing software s inspired by Liquid Glass (Windows looks better imo)

@GeekyVaishnavi @Windows @Apple Technically, it was other way around.

.@Windows got that @Apple skincare routine.

@durreadan01 This is about one particularly weird Spotify icon. It doesn’t represent an entire design philosophy

Something hypocritical: - People swear that pre iOS 7 skeuomorphic UI was so much better than the flat lifeless UI we have these days. - Spotify gave us a temporary skeuomorphic app icon with a disco ball, and I’m seeing so many posts of people hating it. Where’s the love for skeuomorphism now? The thing is, people don’t actually want skeuomorphism back. They’re just stuck in nostalgia.

@Joepackapunch Guess what, that’s how all religion works! Doesn’t mean that it’s not true though

@Gerbanuspaulus No, you made that religion up

How can light be both a wave and a particle simultaneously, yet the particle is not a wave and a wave is not a particle?

@Joepackapunch There is actually one God that exists in infinite persons but chooses to present itself in three distinct ways (in th Bible, that is)

Let’s explain this again for the trillionth time. We are not saying that three people are one person or that one person are three people. There is one God who exists in three persons. They are one in essence. All three of them are made up of the same stuff whatever that is. All three of them are made of God sauce. Each have the same amount of God sauce. But they are distinct persons who live in perfect love and Fidelity. They are jealous for the glory of the other. They call each other God.

This holds true today more than ever. The lack of gratitude for all the good men do and have done throughout history is very depressing to me. I believe we would move more towards harmony if we, as a society, had more respect for men.

@kotecinho Nice MacBook clone!

Google announces its Chromebook successor: the Googlebook

@aakashgupta You can argue that both usability and visibility are attributes of the user experience. Even then, the trade-off you describe works in Apples perspective

Let me explain exactly why Apple ships the Magic Mouse charging port on the bottom, because no one seems to get it. This is not an oversight. Apple has shipped this exact design since 2015. They updated the mouse in October 2024 to USB-C and kept the port on the bottom anyway. They actively block the mouse from working when it receives power, which kills every third-party case that tries to move the port to the side. Apple watcher John Gruber has said Apple designers tried front-port versions and rejected all of them because every one looked worse. Ten years of memes. A decade of competitor mockery. An entire cottage industry of accessory makers trying to fix this. Apple held the line on every single attempt. The reason is the entire Apple thesis. Every other hardware company asks "is it usable?" Apple asks "is anything visible that I wouldn't put on a museum shelf?" When usability and visibility collide, they hide the usability. iMac power button on the back since 1998. Headphone jack deleted in 2016. Every port stripped from the MacBook Pro for five years before they admitted defeat. Touch Bar replaced function keys for a cleaner look and died after five years. The Magic Mouse is the purest version of the discipline. The cost is a few minutes of charging downtime every couple of months. The benefit is the mouse looks beautiful 100% of the time it is in your hand. Apple ran that trade in 2015 and has refused every chance to renegotiate it. Run the math on what this aesthetic discipline buys them. Apple sells a $99 mouse that has to be flipped on its back to charge. Logitech sells better mice for $40 with the port in the right place. Apple is worth $4.3 trillion. Logitech is worth $15 billion. A 280x gap on the same category of product. The trade was never even close.

@jayvanbavel No, it suggests that once the evolutionary preferences for have sustainable resources have been obtained, women do no longer require a man to fulfill that need, and therefor the cultural preferences disappears.

Are women more attracted to men with resources? It depends. Romantic preferences for people with economic resources are stronger for the sex that is poorer and individuals who are poorer. When women earn more money, this preference goes away. This suggests that economic preferences are cultural, rather than evolutionary. However, romantic preferences based on physical attractiveness and age are largely unaffected. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

@Katauroraaa Final shot switching to Viktor Orban sitting down at the end of the rally, mocking at first but then smiling because he is already over it and he got ice cream (he will become a grumbly good guy in the sequel)

Hungary is having the ending of a 2000s family movie.

"Hij discrimineert!" riepen ze. Maar wie nam het daadwerkelijk op voor de onderdrukte islamitische vrouw in de achterstandswijken? Pim Fortuyn. Hij was niet de hater, hij was degene die opkwam voor de mensen die door links in de steek werden gelaten. 🕊️ #PimFortuyn #integratie

@wduyck De Scandinavian paradox!

Nog een voorbeeld van de gender equality paradox: hoe meer gendergelijkheid, hoe groter verschillen in persoonlijkheid tussen mannen en vrouwen. Als nurture de ultieme gelijkheid probeert te creëren domineert de biologie

@OliverJia1014 The prequels had problematic elements but they were sincere, had a defined vision and told a coherent story in line with earlier movies. The sequels lacked all of that and we're just visually stunning theme park rides that went nowhere at it best and were insulting at its worst

No they don’t. The average person IRL has given up on Star Wars *because* of the sequel trilogy. Even the prequels are spoken of more fondly. The minority of ST fans are online and they live in a bubble. It’s fine if you enjoyed them, but the majority of people didn’t.

@danielvanderree Jammer van het goedkope beton. Verder is het netjes en best aardig!

Erg goed geslaagd wat mij betreft: bebouwing rond Bella Vistapark in Amstelkwartier, Amsterdam Oost

@mkobach You started off so well and ended so chaotic

The Gregorian calendar is broken. We should fix it: • 13 month year • 28 days each month • Every month starts on Monday • Every month ends on Sunday Add a new month between June and July called “Sol.” Add “Year Day” after Dec 28 where everyone has the day off. Then fix the holidays: New Year’s Day: January 1 MLK Day: Jan 15 Super Bowl Monday: February 8 Christmas: February 25–26 Easter Monday: April 8 Valentine’s Day: April 23 Memorial Day: May 22 Juneteenth: June 19 Independence Day: Sol 11–12 Labor Day: July 22 Halloween: October 26 Election Day: November 8 Thanksgiving: November 25–26 Year Day You’re welcome.

@CVT1986 Welk programma was dit? Ben benieuwd of ik het terug kan vinden om te herkijken

Pim Fortuyn, door links totaal verkeerd begrepen omdat de linksdraaiers liever blind met aannames rondstrooien dan dat ze daadwerkelijk luisteren.