Nicolas Linde

Epicurean entrepreneur with a penchant for turning nothing into something alongside bright minds.

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Fifteen years after his passing, more people ought to embrace their inner Steve Jobs.
— Stay hungry, stay foolish.

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@bitplane @sentry_fka Elements aren’t skeuomorphic simply because they have depth or texture.

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@11walzu @sentry_fka No, that is not what skeuomorphism means.

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@vanschneider @jlax @gt Oh wow, that took me straight down a pixelated memory lane.

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@bitplane @sentry_fka By that logic, every single Liquid Glass element would be skeuomorphic.

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Just to be clear, I don’t think this interaction is over the top or heavy handed, as iOS became towards the end of Forstall’s tenure. I just don’t think it’s accurate to call it skeuomorphic. It’s clearly delightful to use, but doesn’t help anyone understand the opening mechanism.

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@AngelLamuno @sentry_fka Sure, and it might be the most delightful interaction I’ve seen in a long time. But to me, it feels like something Apple might have done towards the end of Forstall’s tenure, by introducing things like a leather-bound map to show your friends’ location.

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@AxelMtbr @sentry_fka It might make the interaction more enjoyable, but not necessarily more intuitive, which is what skeuomorphism is meant to do. These days, people seem to conflate realistic behaviour with skeuomorphism. Wrapping apps in Corinthian leather was form over function and superfluous.

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@MartinoPooch Leão will never again reach the heights of ’22 and ’23. He has lost much of his mobility, he is older, and he has completely failed to build on the potential he showed back then. He might dazzle in Turkey, but he will be utterly exposed in the PL, where the pace is far higher.

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@SempreMilanCom The days of buying players who can’t hack it at the top of the Premier League must end if the club is to reach new heights. There is no untapped potential in this guy, just another inconsistent player who can shine every once in a while, and we already have RLC for that.

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He is also incredibly one dimensional, lazy and borderline stupid. Increasingly, the team has had to compensate for his flaws, while he has failed to develop accordingly. A Leão with a sound mind and Cristiano’s work ethic would have been a beast. Now he is just a poor man’s Arjen Robben.

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@MartinoPooch I’m quite certain there would have been more potential suitors, perhaps even a few outside Italy, had they tried to offload him earlier in the window. If Amorim has decided not to play him, it’s better to let him go elsewhere than risk having him stay with the other rejects.

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Leao is on a constant and rapid downward trajectory, and was so even before Allegri. Injuries have robbed him of much of his former agility, and he can no longer make those runs at breakneck speed. Combine that with his shambolic work rate and downright miserable attitude, laid bare for all to see in his statements at the end of the season, and he is emblematic of a bygone era. It is clear that Amorim wants players who put the collective above their own egos, and that certainly is not Leao. Time is running out for this once promising player, and it is no accident that barely any club will touch him these days. We should consider ourselves lucky to get good money for him this summer, as he’ll be worth very little in 12 months.

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@adityafinal_psd Most of them look like some you’d make to give the illusion of a process with multiple routes. Very few seem polished enough to have been in serious contention.

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@tempestaRN I’d keep Athekame for sure. Ricci could be loaned out, but I’d do my utmost to get rid of the rest permanently. Unfortunately, I suspect we’ll be stuck with most of them when the window closes. It’s a buyer’s market, and we have no one on staff who knows how to sell.

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I disagree. If you loan him out, it would have to be to one of the very few clubs playing at a suitable level that won’t resort to benching him the moment they find themselves in a relegation battle, like Catanzaro. Loaning him to Lecce was a huge mistake. Keeping him as Ramos’ understudy and letting him start in the Coppa and Europa League would be far better. If you loan him out, the club also needs to find a new reserve for Ramos, as I assume you don’t think Giménez should fill that role? And if so, what happens to that player when Camarda returns? Let him stay and give him a proper chance here. He is ready.

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Very well put, and in large part that is exactly how it is. Those employees will never understand what it took for the company to reach a stage where they can ask for these kinds of benefits, and the founders can never truly forget that time, because it is the best part of building any company. The rest is just slow disintegration and feeling beholden to people who weren’t part of the rise and are therefore quite rightly focused on getting as much out of their employment as possible.

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@aleksliving It was Jony Ive at his worst. His proclivity for putting form over function came out more and more as his time at Apple drew to a close.