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Yes, it was a disappointment. It lacked color (something the Apple II already had), had buggy software, and all at a price that rivaled the Apple II.

$1,298 for the Apple II $2,495 for the Macintosh

It completely destroyed the progress they'd made. Jobs took this project opportunistically at a time when Steve Wozniak was recovering from a plane crash. If he'd approached the project more strategically, it could have positioned Apple to take a place in the market share of cheaper PC's of the time.

Steve Jobs single handidly killed Apple's presence in the early PC market by taking his project (handling the development and launch of the first Macintosh) and commandeering it into a monster project.

What was meant to be an affordable alternative to the Apple II, became under Job's supervision a method to take control of the Apple line of computers. He ended up making a less feature-rich Apple II, which rivaled it in price, killing the idea that the computer could compete with other cheaper computers on the market.

All to stroke his own ego.

Despite high turnover, and lots of complaints, my last company had one of the highest Glassdoor ratings I'd ever seen> How? Simple, they'd pay their employees to do so.

I hesitate to suggest that this may indicate there aren't that many 4.5+ star Japanese food restaurants. Even great resaurants in my area struggle to break the 4.5 barrier.

very cool, I'll remember this for my next project in the CLI

"and be sure not to use the word 'overall'"

Agreed. People lie to me all of the time. Heck, half the time my anecdotal stories are probably riddled with confident inaccuracies. We are socially trained to take information from people critically and weight it based on all kinds of factors.

We should treat Chat GPT the exact same way.

Come on, 5AM is at least a little early.

Inspired by this, I may just start that 5km walk at 5AM.

When do you get to sleep to allow for that early start?

The gallery or the showcased websites?

I remember this happening. The 20 some sites we ran went down as they were supported by cloudflare. I spent a panicked 30 minutes trying to figure out what I had done wrong, to eventually find out it was on CF's end.

I remember voicing at our team meeting "boy, they must be panicking at CloudFlare."

Cloudflare works so spectacularly we just wrote it off as a one time thing.

To hoard liquid cash for buying opportunities. If the prices of commodities goes way up, individuals and companies need cash in hand more than the long term assets. Cash is king.

Unrelated: I really love the mix of fonts on this blog. Really readable and enjoyable to look at.

Yes, and, I think he outlines some serious issues with discourse on Reddit. I think if you strip away some of his biases you get one singular complaint:

Reddit strips nuance from conversation.

Adding nuance introduces attack vectors, complicates your argument and requires that the group as a whole be more informed in order to create compelling arguments.

It's so much easier to throw out quips and one-liners that help your world view, and obliterate comments that present constructive criticism.