Douglas Johnson

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24 quotes curated by Douglas Johnson:

“Talkin' 'bout quantum futurism but ain’t got spaceships. Ain’t got schematics. Ain’t got personnel training or catering. No defense budget.”
— R.A.P. Ferreira, DUST UP
“You heard what I said.
Likes and views will never get you fed.
Payment is the only arrangement.
You can give me exposure when I'm dead.”
— Count Bass D, Break Bread
“Rappers always say that they hungry, so they can eat a dick.”
— Apathy, Marvalyss, The Ed Lover Dance
“Now you went from writing bad code to building bad infrastructure that you deploy the bad code on top of.”
— Kelsey Hightower, Monoliths are the future
“I like to think search ranking algorithms are not as complex and machine-intelligent as they’re made out to be. They just bubble up the most gossiped links. Search Engines need some kind of validation to decide what’s popular. What better validation than gossip.

And that’s what the internet has become. Full of gossip, junk content, paid posts, con articles, click bait links, sock-puppetry, spam, regurgitated spam, free e-books, self aggrandizement, fake followers, fake news, - all designed to achieve one thing - con the Search Engine - and you.”
— Send with SES, The internet is an SEO landfill
“I spent years terrified that website builders, automation, and machine learning would replace me. And I stuck it out long enough to be sitting her begging for website builders, automation, and machine learning to replace me”
— breich, I am a Web Dev. And I am Burnt The F#*K Out.
Tagged: Burnout
“You can tell them who sent you, it might help to get you above. You can say that he laughed, and walked like Saint Francis, with love.”
— Scott Walker, Angels Of Ashes
“"pow-pow-pow-pow-pow," one neighbor said”
— Benjamin Weiser, Michael Wilson, Frank Cali, the Slain Gambino Boss, Was a ‘Ghost’ Who Avoided the Limelight
Tagged: Gambino, Mafia
“Apple connects Spotify to our users. We provide the platform by which users download and update their app. We share critical software development tools to support Spotify’s app building. And we built a secure payment system — no small undertaking — which allows users to have faith in in-app transactions. Spotify is asking to keep all those benefits while also retaining 100 percent of the revenue.”
— Apple, Apple Addressing Spotify’s Claims
Tagged: Apple, Spotify
“Apple eliminates payment system choice and imposes a 30% fee on content-based apps like Spotify...But at the same time, Apple prohibits us from showing customers how to upgrade any other way”
— Spotify, Spotify's Message To Apple: "Time to Play Fair"