Hubris, laziness, time, cost, (flawed) tools, (flawed) requirements, (cultural) assumptions...

The sooner you accept and take these reasons seriously the sooner you can spend a little bit of time getting fluent in using the least amount of time/energy in addressing these issues.

The data suggests that all markets are.

If this is part of a regular dynamic DCA strategy it might be forgivable, but I don't think it is... Otherwise it really seems like they are buying in a rapidly falling market. Not smart. Better off waiting for stabilisation and even an upturn of the market and taking 90% of the gains for much less risk.

As an open source developer I would never hire someone who pulled a stunt such as what Marak Squires did because it indicates they don't have a shred of professionalism and there's no way you can reasonably work with them.

If you are upset that big companies are using your code you need to realise that you are the one that chose to license your work as open source and own that decision. Just post a notice that the library is no-longer maintained, walk away, and find an employment/lifestyle arrangement that works for you. Basic rational person stuff.

Years ago there was a product in development called the noteslate. I really liked how (the design, at least) had everything you could want for a well-focused writing/drawing experince. It was like paper + digitised features, not paper + a-whole-fucking-operating-system. I believe despite a lot of promises the noteslate has ultimately been vapourware.

The hardware seems like massive overkill in terms of processing and memory - which I think will unfortunately encourage development in a direction that does not encourage simplicity... Though, it might be nice to have a few bells and whistles such as a music player/library that I don't think will subtract from the experience.

Am I alone in this line of thinking?

Blind faith or just greed and foolishness?

I completely agree.

Any honest project should have security and decentralisation as primary concerns. The crypto space could invest in teaching their community how to protect themselves by simply setting up a DAO to help fund a small team full-time to produce education and maybe some security certifications... But the majority of projects don't care.

(Except Cardano which is apparently seeking proposals for exactly this via Catalyst).

As a side note, there are ways to avoid gas such as using another network such as a layer 2 like Polygon, or a sidechain like xDAI (which POAP uses), and many more coming over the next year or so.

State backed media... Also known as propaganda. That's what makes the difference in the narrative.

(Your username is a little ironic in this context.)

Electricity is a scam. All email scams use electricity! That's all you should need to know!

No, the promises of getting rich off these jpeg "art" projects are scams - not the underlying tech which has some excellent applications.

Though a state-backed blockchain does sound like a scam (of sorts) to me. With that sort of centralisation there's no point to use it over a state-run SQL database except to give the illusion of security and innovation.

Because it's about the IP, not the tech.
There's a certain nostalgia factor of these big commercial IPs that simply will not be present even if you were to make a very well made clone. Was Tuxemon on every morning before school? Were they trading Tuxemon cards at school?
It's also why non-official merchandise is rarely an actual threat to IPs... The vast majority of people want the *real* deal, not an imitation when it comes to an entertainment IP. It's not the same situation as with technology IPs such as 3D printer hardware (eg. E3D extruders) where consumers tend to be more concerned with the price than anything else and so clones have a large market.

It sounds to me like she is just leaving when the real work begins. Is it because she knows she's not up for the fight and she needs to make way for someone who is? Or is it because she's just not interested in working for the money? Or is it some sort of braindead resignation-in-protest? The article doesn't seem to make that clear (though I only skimmed it).

Fastmail. The product already exists, and it's better.

Although I run my own primary email, I chose to pay for Fastmail as my secondary/backup/place where I get emails for my primary services sent so that way I can recover them when they go down.

If you're looking for a high-quality, run by people who give a damn, and (in my opinion) trustworthy service then Fastmail is the way to go. It's not the cheapest and doesn't have massive limits though.

Imagine trying to test all the different types of hardware the code is to be deployed on... I mean, how could a small company like Apple afford to pay enough testers perform tests across a DOZEN (!!!) different pieces of hardware! Insane! It might even cost a million dollars a year!

Bending over backwards isn't enough apparently.