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A lot of people like Apple because it was built on Jobs’ taste and they liked Jobs’ taste. With Jobs gone, it still has a taste but it someone else’s taste. That said, I think some…

I don’t have ADHD but I did the test. My answers would vary with amount of sleep: 4 hours/night - Poor executive function, can’t figure out what order to do things in, lose keys an…

I agree. It doesn’t matter if you give an inexperienced person a hammer or a saw — they’ll still screw it up. My biggest pet peeve is they NO ONE ever does failure modeling. I swea…

You know, planning isn't something that is necessarily required or necessarily not required. You plan as much as a situation demands. Presumably in a smaller society with abundant …

There’s very few candidates in that region for good allies so Israel has a stronghold in US politics. If we had made Iraq a powerful ally, it would have weakened support for Israel…

The problems with DSLs is usually poor ass documentation. Throwing a full programming language in place of a DSL means now you deal with everyone and their mom inventing their own …

I grew up in the early 2000s and us and other kids in middle school were watching beheading videos and/or porn. Shit, I talk to other functioning adults in their 20s and 30s and th…

Afaik a ton of companies use Watson. IBM doesn’t market services… they market solutions. You contract with them and they figure out how they build something for you. And it may inc…

It seems a lot of people make a product but don’t use it themselves enough to tell how to make it better so it always feels like v1. Or they do but they’re not very observant idk?

This is where experience comes in. Someone experienced will know how much work a certain approach will take and its capacity. Sometimes there are quick wins to give like 100x capac…

I mean you can design a filesystem to handle a million files extremely quickly... it just has to be in the requirements up front. But there will be some trade-off. And I don't thin…

In this case, the limitation is more on developers of iPad apps than users. It’s making developers more creative but I don’t think it’s making users more creative.

Don't know about New York but California has lost plenty of firms over decades. Aerospace used to be all in California, for example. But California's GDP rises faster than most sta…

Even every significant website built 15 years ago not in JavaScript involved a framework. In Java, you got Spring. In Python, you got Django. In Ruby, you got RoR. In PHP, you got …

I mean everything has a cost but quadrupling the number of users is the benefit. There’s no reason why an app can’t work as well either via command line or via GUI. The whole point…

I mean iPhones do it purposely to make people buy iPhones. And it works. Apple is full of marketing geniuses. They’re maybe using a lot of dark patterns but they’re raking in profi…

Tools and ecosystem really make a product. Microsoft knew this when they invested so much in tooling. Java has some of the best tool chains of any language. Macromedia and to some …

Not from my experience. I’ve used Wirecutter top picks. They suck and actually do break

There’s also the Power Query add-in for Excel that’s super steezy. It’s like a light Power BI. Honestly even thought I can make interactive report webapps, that stuff needs to be b…

That’s true but for a lot of these products, they were negative ones like “broke after a few uses.” Super sus when Wirecutter is promoting something as a top pick. But it also make…

I used to think they were good but I think they were only good on paper, even before they were bought by NYT. I checked out a lot of their top picks and a lot of them had like 2/5 …

Being truthful doesn’t mean much. Actions are worth much more than words. What trust is seeing how a product has evolved over 5-10 years. I think you’re missing my point. My point …

This is going to sound maybe insensitive but I've noticed driving drunk is a cultural thing. I've been with certain groups of people and pretty much it seems everyone and their cou…

With all due respect, a project being open source means nothing for trust. There's a litany of open source projects that I have used that have been completely abandoned. Trust come…

Web dev frontend has a thousand quirks but has a billion more hours of human hours development time spent on it. CSS is annoying but way better than trying to jiggle random attribu…