Speaking of Bollywood stars, one of our tenants look like a Bollywood star - he must be a good catch in India - being hot & working in IT for an tech giant. But then again for some reasons, we tend to end up with more than our fair share of handsome tenants. There was this carpenter years ago & according to a few people, he was exceptionally hot. And then there is this guy working in a school & another ex-tenant, when I took fiji air flight, some stewards look like older version of him ...

But they are/were all in married/in stable relationships. Probably because all of our properties are 3 bedroom/2 bedroom + study houses/villas, and people who choose those kind of properties tend to be families. Working parents with kids are likely to be the good tenants.

In the unlikely event of WWIII, I will get a boat and camp out on Albatross Island ... imagine surrounding yourself with those cute, fluffy birdies a few months out of a year ...

@bjb568 that's the whole point - if it's safe enough for baby birds, it should be safe enough for me ... fluffy albatross chicks are just bonus ...

Ride the elk instead?

I saw elk & I call them deer, I spotted albatross and I thought they were seagulls. I must admit my profound ignorance ...

Area 51 now has sites with "3k days in beta"

However it's rounded to nearest integer, not rounded down as SE tends to do with time intervals elsewhere. Those sites went over 2500 days in beta recently.

In a few days, Board & Card Games will become the first site to spend 7 years in beta stage.

also ... what's with the increasing amount of socks?

you are saying people use socks to protect themselves? who would have thought >_<

As a rule of thumb - it's easier to make money from other businesses than individual users.

Business generally buy genuine software because they don't want to get sued

tabacco companies generate billions of dollars of profits by selling cancerogenic products - that's life

@Catija just another way of saying whether succeeding in hardware business has a lot to do with succeeding as a business

This year, OpenSignal counted more than 24,000 unique Android devices—both smartphones and tablets—on which its app has been installed. That is six times as many as in 2012.Aug 5, 2015

it's impossible to have 1 update version fit all

Personally I am suspicious that pixel will do too well - pixel tries to compete with iphone and high end of samsung, both apple and samsung have way more experience in phone manufacturing than google

it will be windows phone again

you think google has way more money to throw into smart phone market than microsoft?

I have an early version of windows phone, it's not too bad

Company like microsoft or google will not throw gigantic amount of money into a product that does not generate certain amount of profit. So that means, unless pixel can capture at least 5% of the smart phone market in the next 2 years, it will end up like windows phone ...

Ask yourself: will myself buy a pixel phone?

trust me, windows did probably even more, such as rolling out new OS version ...

I also had a windows phone app on their store at one stage

@JourneymanGeek like windows phone, which is made by nokia

I find your question tricky ... surely you can get reminded somewhere else

if I only knew where the preference page was ...

@ShadowWizard This was going on for a while, but the trend intensified since Joe Quora became a PM.

Hm indeed. Search results from Quora do look better.

Well. Not to say that account acquisition for Jobs is the only thing driving the SO interface, but it apparently is more powerful than anything else.

Facebook and LinkedIn hide much of the content from anonymous users, but perhaps for social networks this is expected.

> Even though I work for @StackOverflow, I agree with this: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/357858/… … -- as i lay bryan at 12:01 PM - 15 Oct 2017

Tangentially, this reminded me of

And now, open on load is that SO uses for non-logged in.

Chasing clicks.