For monetization we'd like to keep the editor free for people to use and may monetize through add-on services like hosting. The way I like to think about it is that we may monetize on convenience points but keep things open-source so if you wanted to do things custom, then you can if you'd like.
On the video – thanks for the note there! We can certainly show it to do something more detailed as well than just a background color change. The good thing is that any designs done with Onlook still go through the usual code review process for any project, so hopefully people won't accept non-compliant design changes. In the event that they do, it'll be easier to fix things with Onlook.
On the lines of keeping things compliant with design systems, I'm excited about our ability to surface design tokens from a codebase, so users can always be sure they are selecting the right colors in the right scopes. That's something we still have yet to tackle, but have an open issue for:
I've used Braintree extensively with their subscriptions, and would not recommend using them.
Their documentation is spotty, they don't inform customers about required changes to an implementation, and most importantly their failed transaction rate is much much higher than other processors I've worked with.
A while back I had an issue with Lastpass settings not being properly enabled on my account. I discovered that all settings were rendered, and in order to disable them they used 'display: none' rather than not rendering them on the dashboard at all.
The fix was for me to disable Display: none and it gave me access to the feature in a limited way.
After reaching out to support with screenshots, they fixed the issue and I gained full access, but it is clear to me that Lastpass uses 'display: none' as feature gating and that their software is absolute garbage.
Yeah, it's probably some homie in engineering maliciously compiling with the directions of some wannabe MBA who hates their customers and couldn't keep a business running if it was handed to them on a silver platter.
There's thousands of bots with obviously recognizable pictures from Thisdoesnotexist on both LinkedIn and Quora. Quora is arguably more insidious as these are ranked and spreading huge amounts of disinformation. Someone should really step in and create a neural network to recognize and flag artificially generated profiles
I interviewed a young man who was doing this kind of work for about six months in Ireland a while back for a completely different role. It was quite clearly mentally taxing and he broke down crying mid-interview.
I ended up canceling my following meeting and talking through things with him.
He was close to suicide, had cut contact with most people in his life and said that he hadn't been able to sleep or think straight since he started the work.
Unfortunately I couldn't offer him any work, only a shoulder to cry on and a promise that there was beauty in the world as well.
I never thought a job could do so much mental damage to someone, but these jobs are horrible.
No, these companies the people that upload/make the stuff are horrible, the jobs are merely a symptom.
Any company, large or small, that allows uploads of image content without strict identity verification of the uploader is going to be a vehicle for this junk. I had a super popular website in this space, as soon as I figured out what was going on I shut it down, I am of the opinion that it is not possible to run a service like that in a responsible way without causing damage somewhere.
Then, assuming those kinds of images are against your TOS, then you ban them. This drastically reduces the number of images of that nature that are uploaded not only by ensuring they can't do it again but also by heavily disincentivizing them from doing it in the first place.
Not entirely illogical, if something is expected to generate a lot of media attention, the case may be kept private to prevent the 'court of public opinion' to influence the outcome. Everything is still documented and shared afterwards regardless of the outcome.
I've had the exact some happen (It's rare, but here I am), including a transient ischemic stroke while having virtually no platelets.
There is no real understanding for the cause of immune thrombocytopenia in the first place, but the combination of low platelets and clotting happens in quite a few cases.
Platelets take on a lot of roles beyond clotting (for example they transport serotonin, which itself has been linked to clotting) and clotting itself is about more than just platelet counts (which would need a few pages to even start to explain).
Once the immune system targets platelets though, unexpected things tend to happen beyond just uncontrolled bleeding, none of which are particularly well understood due to the low number of cases. The cause of idiopathic thrombocytopenia is most commonly attributed to an immune response, although it can have several other causes.
What I can say is that thrombocytopenia following a viral infection is more common than it appears to be following this vaccine. I believe this would be a more fair comparison than to compare it against the general population.
The percentage of people who would have this same stroke when having COVID-19 would in all probability be much much higher.
That would cause systemic problems for the person and almost certain death.
Platelets are filtered out of the blood by the spleen and then stored or cleaned up there. The spleen likely just cleans them up as per instructions from the immune system. On the other side are production problems where your bone marrow stops producing platelets, but that is more commonly due to cancers or cancer treatments.
Negotiate for converting your equity into debt that needs to be paid off at certain events. Easiest way to get the most money out of him. Lawyers can help you set that up in a contract, you just have to negotiate on the value of the debt.
Interestingly, the damages can be calculated and definitely add up.
Restaurants spend a lot of time and effort to build up loyal, lifetime customers that are created by giving them three exceptional experiences in a row. There is a lot of research on getting to three exceptional experiences in return for a lifetime customer. Those exceptional experiences require investments in staff and training and take a long time to pay off.
Having GrubHub break that effort through misrepresentation they are destroying the lifetime value of those customers. If you apply that math to slightly more premium venues, GrubHub is easily costing restaurants hundreds of thousands in revenue through lost lifetime value.
Restaurants are complex, fragile businesses, and this practice damages them at the core of their business.
Will be interesting to see how this plays out in court.
Companies aren't valued on features. They're valued on how much money investors think they can make, which is usually a function of how fast they can acquire users, which is often greatly affected by their execution on simple features.
The video needs work; the main risk perceived will be to have bad design applied and not be caught. The video is basically a demo of that scenario.