+1. Our kids' experience watching sports on TV is so much more cynical for it.

You'd think it would be relatively easy for the leagues to provide separate streams that omit gambling ads (and maybe sell that ad space to others).

Congrats, maghfoor. But the lack of price transparency is a real turn-off. Nothing on the website or in the App Store — you have to download the app to find out how much it will cost you.

For what it’s worth, in the iOS App Store, you can scroll down to look at the “In-App Purchases” drop down menu, and all of the prices are shown there.

This is true for every app with IAP. It’s how I typically decide if I’ll download an app with IAP.

That's helpful, thank you.

But I'm not even going to bother looking if an app can't clearly advertise its price.

It just feels like a dark pattern, like they're intentionally trying to trick me from the very start.

Maybe the price will turn out to be fine, but it's sure not building trust from the start.

That is the standard way to advertise your price in the App Store. What is more transparent than.. clearly posting your price?

I'm talking about the website that has been posted.

Making the app cost X amount makes it immediately obvious how much it costs. IAP do not share this, even if they are posted publicly off in some corner.

Wild. I've been using iPhones for 17 years and it took until today for me to learn this. Thanks j_bum.

There is no free option, so hiding it under IAPs is kinda shady too.

So how much is it for those of us non iOS people?

Anyone should be able to view it, even without an Apple account: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/three-cells-your-life-system/i... (bottom right):

> Three Cells Weekly $2.99

> Lifetime Access to Three Cells $29.99

> Three Cells Weekly $2.99

The ratio here feels a bit off, $155.48/y or $29.99 for life screams "trying to push you to pay a lot for an app I know you won't stick with" rather than "we've got great value options for any type of user". There is a 7 day trial as well, so even more confusing as to which kind of user is supposed to want the weekly payment.

Insanely expensive weekly subscriptions are the new (scammy) meta in B2C apps. I find it off-putting as well.

People are just hoping they can skip from "hobby project" all the way to a project that funds a couple salaries just by overcharging for subscriptions. Apps that are meant to cater towards unorganized people are the worst for this because they know you won't stick with it. A week trial is just short of how long you'll likely use it before you forget or realize it's not working for you.

My guess is it’s unavailable since it’s an iOS app

I meant how much is it since I can't install it to find out

In the US government, take a look at https://www.usds.gov/apply and https://join.tts.gsa.gov/ — and there are many more opportunities emerging as the USG gets better at all of this.

More generally for federal and state/local government opportunities to use your technology expertise to make a difference, these folks are excellent: https://techtalentproject.org/tech-talent/

The problem with working in the government/nonprofit sphere is that you will always be treated as second fiddle/grunt work to the real movers and shakers.

I mean just look at the breakdown of who runs that “tech talent project” to see what I mean. In the industry, ideally, decisions are being made and executed by other technical people. It’s part of what has made Silicon Valley so uber successful.

And the US: https://designsystem.digital.gov/

And Norway: https://www.designsystemet.no/

This 18F blog post talks about the different types of roles people play on our team: https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/02/25/We-Are-Hiring/ . The application form for the Presidential Innovation Fellowship program also calls out specific skills and domain expertise they're looking for: https://pif.gsa.gov/ . Cheers!

Abrams: I love you. Kasdan: I know.

This deck is really hard to flip through on an iPhone. Nothing a little JavaScript couldn't fix.

I've often thought touchscreen devices would be complemented well by a set of arrow keys. (On a desktop, you can flip through the slides with the left and right arrow keys.)

The punch line is that after the in-person interview, they'll take more than a month to get back to you -- and then invite you back for another all-day.

1 kids. 2 dog. If you can make your alarm clock jump up and down on my bed and/or lick my face, it's a winner.

I wonder how the results of this poll break down for non-parents vs. parents (or those actively planning to have kids). I'm guessing the latter have significantly higher targets.